Operation Gadget

Category: Mobile Phones

  • Statistics Quoted in Wall Street Journal Article on Mobile Phone Safety Don’t Ring True to Me

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, The Wall Street Journal published an article saying that the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration considers use of mobile phones with hands-free accessories to be just as dangerous for drivers as using the phone without the hands-free accessories. Steve Mushero pointed out the estimate of the number of…

  • Alteraxion Publishes Useful Summaries of Software Categories for the Treo 600

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Alteraxion weblog has published several articles that summarize the Treo 600 application software available in some important application categories. The best articles I’ve found there are: Treo 600 is Great but does it do Entertainment? Movies and Video on Your Treo 600 In addition, the site has links to an…

  • Blackberries to Get Bluetooth Support, According to RIM

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrighthand reports that Research in Motion is planning to add Bluetooth networking to future Blackberry models. This will allow users to employ Bluetooth wireless headsets. Brighthand rightly points out that some smartphone / mobile communicator users feel that the size of these devices makes it impractical to put them against an…

  • J.D. Power: T-Mobile Leading in Customer Service Satisfaction

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreoCentral pointed out that T-Mobile USA is the highest ranking major mobile carrier in terms of customer service satisfaction. According to their new 2004 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study, the carriers rank as follows: T- Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless, ALLTEL, Nextel, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, and Sprint PCS. The ratings indicate that…

  • Sharp to Produce Symbian OS Handsets

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTechJapan reports that Sharp plans to produce mobile phones running the Symbian OS for use on the NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone networks in Japan. This is an important development because Sharp handsets have used the ITRON operating system until now. Currently Sharp USA markets camcorders, handhelds, portable audio players, and laptops.…

  • Hexlet Releases HBlogger Weblogging Client for PalmOS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHexlet LLC recently announced HBlogger, a weblogging client for PalmOS version 3.5 and higher. HBlogger supports the following blogging tools: MovableType, LiveJournal, and Blogger. I wish that my Treo 180 were working, because I’d love to download a product like this and give it a try. When I first started Operation…

  • Confirmation of Cingular Handset Unlock Policy for “World Phones”

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDavid Efron wrote to confirm the Cingular handset unlock policy that we documented back in April: I had an exasperating set of phone calls with Cingular which finally ended in confirming what you posted regarding the unlock policy. Domestic-only phones have locks, to prevent abuse of the carrier. They claim that…

  • Verizon Reportedly Planning to Roll Out palmOne Treo 600

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of the other gadget-oriented blogs are reporting that Verizon Wireless is planning to release the palmOne Treo 600 for use on its network. It looks like the consensus is that an announcement from Verizon is probably going to take place soon. The way some people talk about this handheld…

  • Motorola Provides More Details on A630

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMotorola released further details on its forthcoming A630 mobile phone. According to its press release, the A630 includes: a traditional phone keypad on the outside and a separate full alphanumeric keyboard inside a sideways clamshell, a traditional phone display on the outside and a 176 x 220 pixel color display in…