Operation Gadget

Category: Mobile Phones

  • Nokia Sales Flat Because It Focused on Smartphones– Wall Street Journal

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Wall Street Journal reported that Nokia‘s focus on smartphones has hurt the company in terms of its market share and profit margins. The article attributes the decision to focus intently on smartphones to a concern that Microsoft might succeed in establishing itself as the technological platform for future high-end mobile phones…

  • Cingular Reportedly Starting a 3G Trial in Atlanta

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Register reported yesterday that Cingular will be running a small 3G technology trial in Atlanta this summer using 3G gear from Lucent. The article says that the testers will all be Cingular staff members and that the test will focus on high speed data and multimedia application use. This is…

  • T-Mobile Acquiring 1900 mHz Mobile System in California and Nevada from Cingular

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a major step toward completing the expected GSM mobile realignment in the USA, T-Mobile USA agreed to pay $2.3 billion for Cingular’s 1900 mHz mobile systems in Nevada and California. Cingular will lease back capacity from T-Mobile for use by Cingular’s legacy 1900 mHz customers who have not yet converted…

  • Brighthand Editor Calls for Low Cost Treo

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrighthand’s editor Ed Hardy published an editorial today, calling on palmOne to release a low cost Treo smartphone as soon as possible. I agree that the world needs a Treo somewhere near the palmOne Zire 72 price point, but I think Ed Hardy misses several points about why competing Microsoft-based smartphones…

  • Connecting the Nokia 6600 to a Late Model PC Using Bluetooth

    Reading Time: 2 minutesRegular Operation Gadget readers know that I recently picked up a Nokia 6600 to do a long term evaluation. One of the things I discovered after receiving the 6600 is that it syncs to a PC like other smartphones, but it does it without wires. You need to use infa-red or Bluetooth…

  • China Unicom to Begin Selling GSM/CDMA Phones in July

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Chinese People’s Daily reports that China Unicom will begin shipping dual technology GSM/CDMA phones in July. The phones are said to be manufactured by Samsung, LG and Motorola. Following up on this report, Smartphone Thoughts said: … wouldn’t it be great if they used the technology in Smartphones? Smartphones with…

  • palmOne to Update Treo 600 Firmware, No Confirmation of Treo 610

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Register’s Tony Smith reportedly interviewed Ed Colligan of palmOne. Smith’s article about the interview, published yesterday, revealed a number of useful pieces of information about palmOne’s future plans. The most immediate news to come out was that palmOne intends to issue a Treo 600 firmware update this week that will…

  • Got a Nokia 6600 for Long-Term Review Purposes

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou may remember that I said that I was working on getting a Nokia 6600 to do a full-fledged review. Thanks to my friends at T-Mobile I received a 6600 today. I’ll have it for several weeks, so you can expect a number of articles about it in the near future.…

  • MPx200 Reviewed by ExtremeMhz

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteExtremeMhz recently published an extensive review of the Motorola MPx200. The point of this review seems to be to illustrate the ways that the MPx200 can be configured to allow it to substitute for a Pocket PC. The review includes an extensive discussion of third-party software for the MPx200 that adds…