Category: Mobile Phones

Reading Time: < 1 minuteForbes reported that Apple Computer and Motorola are likely to announce a mobile phone that can play music from the iTunes Music Store. The phone may ship sometime in the first half of 2005. The source of this information is reportedly Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of applications. Such an announcement…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Nokia 6600 is still available at a great price considering its features. Slate just published an excellent review of the 6600 by Paul Boutin where he touts it as almost the antithesis of the Motorola RAZR V3: So, why am I telling you to rush out and get a cheap,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMike Langberg of The San Jose Mercury News just finished reviewing the Motorola A630 for his Tech Test Drive column and he likes it. He says that the A630 will amaze your friends primarily because of its size and the fact that Motorola has crammed so many state-of-the-art features into such…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago, Operation Gadget pointed out that T-Mobile USA will not roll out high speed wireless data services for about two years. This flies in the face of strategies being pursued by competitors Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint PCS who are each commiting major resources to a deployment effort. An…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com has started selling a variety of unlocked mobile phones including the following models: palmOne Treo 600, Nokia 7610, Sony Ericsson K700i, and Motorola V400. These phones represent an opportunity to trade up in terms of features without making an additional commitment to your current mobile phone carrier. If I can…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBusinessWeek has an interesting article about Research in Motion‘s effort to grow through selling software and services to other manufacturers of mobile handsets. The company has reached agreement with 70 mobile carriers around the world to provide BlackBerry email service to some of their customers. The article also mentions that RIM…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteReuters reports that T-Mobile USA’s CEO said that it will not deploy UMTS data service for at least two years. Deployment of broadband-speed wireless data service is already underway at Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint PCS. Buried in the article is an indication that T-Mobile doesn’t think that it has the capacity…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you read a lot of technology blogs, you know that most of them have been talking about the introduction of a Non Volatile File System (NVFS) on the palmOne Treo 650 and how the memory allocation scheme in the current NVFS implementation has reduced the amount of data that can be…