Operation Gadget

Category: Mobile Phones

  • Om Malik: Only Way to Profits is to Have Cool Phones

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOm Malik believes that mobile phone handset manufacturers that make cool phones are going to be most profitable over time. The evidence he cites is Sony Ericsson’s year-over-year profit increase. Handset manufacturers with the greatest recent sales increases are Sony Ericsson and Samsung. They are apparently taking share away from Nokia,…

  • AT&T Wireless Self-Destruction Largely Blamed On IT Strategy

    Reading Time: 2 minutesCIO Magazine published an outstanding article called AT&T Wireless Self-Destructs. The article blames much of the recent bloodletting at AT&T Wireless on a streak of strategic Information Technology policy mistakes. It points to the botched upgrade of AT&T Wireless’ Siebel customer relationship management system as the major reason that customers ended up…

  • Why Camera Phones Are Cannibalizing the Digital Camera Market

    Reading Time: 2 minutesInfoSync World reported on a new Datacomm Research report that predicts that a new generation of mobile phones with advanced features is pushing older models further downmarket. The features that the report cites as being most sought-after are integrated cameras and push-to-talk, although voice call quality remains paramount. One aspect of the…

  • Run Away from the Motorola MPx200 on AT&T Wireless

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI feel like laughing at the fact that people are still talking about the Motorola MPx200 as a viable option for people choosing a smart phone at the moment. The only mobile phone carrier that I can find offering the phone in the USA at the moment is AT&T Wireless. The MPx200…

  • Mobile RSS Tools Discussed by Daily Wireless

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDaily Wireless put together an excellent article about RSS use on mobile devices. The article includes a list of RSS aggregators for platforms from the PC and Macintosh all the way down to the iPod. [ via MobileWhack ] One suggestion that the author, Phillip Torreone, makes is Syndigator, a Perl-based…

  • T-Mobile USA’s Handset Unlocking Policy

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLate last month, I decided to do some research into mobile phone carriers’ handset unlocking policies. I did this because I keep hearing from Operation Gadget readers who are frustrated by their inability to take their phones with them when they switch carriers. In many cases, it’s because their handsets have been…

  • Handset Unlocking Policy of AT&T Wireless

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLate last month, I decided to do some research into mobile phone carriers’ handset unlocking policies. I did this because I keep hearing from Operation Gadget readers who are frustrated by their inability to take their phones with them when they switch carriers. In many cases, it’s because their handsets have been…

  • Cingular Delivering Account Info via SMS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier this week, Cingular rolled out Star Services, a simple mechanism to allow its customers to get account information sent to them via SMS. With Star Services, Cingular customers can check their: account balance by dialing *BAL# and minutes used by dialing *MIN#. They can also make one time account payments…

  • Verizon Wireless Reportedly Will Make the Treo 600 Available on its Network

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreoCentral.com has the best screenshot from verizonwireless.com saying: Coming Soon: Treo™ 600 Smartphone But, by the time I got to http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/index.jsp, that link was gone. Treo rumor sites: should we believe you this time? After all, the Treo 610 still hasn’t happened. Update: I did a little further research and found…