Operation Gadget

Category: Mobile Phones

  • CDMA and GSM Versions of Treo 650 Compared by Treocentral

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJames Hromadka of TreoCentral.com outlined the differences between the unlocked GSM version of the Treo 650 and the CDMA version that he refers to as the PCS version. This is because Sprint PCS is the carrier where that phone can be used. I’m not keeping score, but that’s two technology bloggers…

  • SplashBlog Has Treo Photobloggers Buzzing

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSplashBlog is a new photoblogging application for the palmOS that hit my RADAR screen a couple of days ago when Josh Rubin metioned it on Cool Hunting. It was mentioned again yesterday on PalmInfoCenter. When I first looked at SplashBlog, I was concerned it was a “walled garden,” meaning that the…

  • Student Mobile Phone Create New Campus Management Issues

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently a couple of interesting stories have illustrated the major changes that student mobile phone use has brought to school campuses across the country: In Chelmsford, Massachusetts, parents jammed phone lines at the local high school moments after a security lockdown began. Security personnel were looking for a suspicious man in…

  • Unlocked Treo 650 Impresses Josh Rubin

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJosh Rubin of Cool Hunting published his first impressions of working with an unlocked Treo 650. He talks about the contacts application, email, instant messaging, and SMS/MMS, and why he thinks the Treo 650 is a huge improvement over the 600. I exchanged emails with him and asked how he got…

  • Article Compares the Wireless Data Plans from the Major U.S Mobile Carriers

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLevi Wallach published a good comparison of wireless data plans from the major U.S. mobile phone carriers. If you want to know what the cost and features of the wireless data offerings from T-Mobile, Cingular / AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint PCS, this article is a good place to start.…

  • KeyCaps600 and KBLightsOff Recommended Add-ons for Treo 650

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreonauts pointed out two inexpensive utilities that help streamline keyboard use on the Treo 650. KeyCaps600 helps Treo 600 and 650 users to type faster by providing alternate ways to enter capital letters, punctuation, and symbols. KBLightsOff provides a mechanism to toggle the keyboard backlight on and off. This is an…

  • Data Plan Inconsistency Plagues Initial Cingular Treo 650 Purchasers

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI spent a long time today lurking on mobile phone bulletin boards and talking to people who work for Cingular. I’ve come to the conclusion that people trying to buy the Treo 650 are getting dramatically different advice about which data plan to subscribe to. If you don’t talk to anyone, and…

  • Cingular Formally Announces Treo 650 Availability

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt Midnight Eastern Time, Operation Gadget received the formal announcement that Cingular is taking orders for the palmOne Treo 650. So far, it has appeared for sale on-line in the palmOne Treo Store. There is information available about the Treo 650 on the Cingular website, but the link to order the…

  • H-P iPAQ h6315 is Here for Review

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOur friends at T-Mobile just sent me a H-P iPAQ h6315 PDA Phone for review. This is a Windows Mobile 2003 PDA with a quad-band GSM/GPRS mobile phone, WiFi, Bluetooth 1.1, IrDA, and USB connectivity. Supposedly, I have two weeks to test this feature-laden device, which means I won’t be able…