Operation Gadget

Category: Mobile Phones

  • Cory Doctorow on Why You Should Buy a Smartphone

    Reading Time: 2 minutesBoing Boing pointed out a great article by Cory Doctorow in Popular Science that makes a strong case for buying a Smartphone. He says that Smartphones like the Sony Ericsson P900, the Nokia 6620, and the palmOne Treo 650 are worth buying because owners can install their own software on them. This…

  • Are You Sure That Cingular Really Wants to Deactivate the Treo 650 DUN Profile?

    Reading Time: 2 minutesRumors are flying all over the place that Cingular will ship the Treo 650 with its DUN (Dial-Up Networking) Bluetooth profile deactivated. My question is, why are people so quick to blame Cingular? Isn’t it possible that there’s a reason that the U.S. wireless carriers have elected to have the DUN profile…

  • Treonauts Obtains First-Known GSM Version of Treo 650 for Review

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe folks at Treonauts published an article with the first photos of a working GSM/GRPS version of the Treo 650. The photos were shot in Paris, where Andrew Carton has been speaking at a SixApart-related blogging conference. Andrew wrote: At long last we have a unit that we can hold, work…

  • palmOne Website Reflects Impending Release of Treo 650 for GSM/GPRS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreoCentral reported over the weekend that palmOne Updated their website to emphasize that the Treo 650 for GSM/GPRS is “coming soon”. This is the the third hint that palmOne or Cingular has given that a release is imminent. It can’t come soon enough for many of us Treo fans.

  • Customers Sue Verizon Wireless Over Motorola V710 Bluetooth Feature Removal

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJohn McCarthy pointed out that The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Verizon Wireless in California, “charging the nation’s second-largest cellular carrier with deceit for disabling certain features of a new high-end Motorola Inc. phone called the V710.” The article continues: The main…

  • Young Customers Screwed by Mobile Phone Carriers’ Text Messaging Billing Policies

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago, The New York Times pointed out that many young mobile phone customers are receiving bills for hundreds of dollars as a result of intense use of text messaging. The article says that many of these customers are cancelling their service when they receive their first bill that contains…

  • Motorola V710 Features Intentionally Removed by U.S. Mobile Carrier

    Reading Time: 2 minutesJonathan Zdziarski wrote an excellent article on the Motorola v710 and the features that Verizon Wireless deleted before putting it on sale. Zdziarski, who writes for Pen Computing Magazine as well as his own site, says that the key features that have been deleted are Bluetooth profiles: OBEX (Object Exchange), OPP (Object…

  • Cingular to Release Treo 650 Soon

    Reading Time: 2 minutesSeems like everyone who spent the money to go to CES came up with the same story today: Cingular will make the Treo 650 available on their GSM 850 network in the next few weeks. Here’s how some of the blogs presented the news: Gizmodo, Cingular Treo 650 Soon “Cingular’s rebate form…

  • How Do I Replace a GSM Phone Inexpensively?

    Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a mobile phone question that came in yesterday that I don’t have a great answer for. Maybe some of you Operation Gadget readers can offer some suggestions? Randy Stevens wrote: Dave, May be you can help me, I�m a bit desperate at this point. My daughter dropped her Cingular phone in…