Category: Mobile Phones
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Brighthand Previews Motorola MPx Phone on Display at CTIA
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrighthand Editor-in-Chief Ed Hardy had the opportunity to take a look at working prototypes of the forthcoming Motorola MPx Smartphone that were on display at the CTIA Wireless 2004 tradeshow that is closing today in Atlanta. The MPx’s most striking feature is a dual-hinged design that allows it to be opened…
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T-Mobile Offering Free Windows Mobile 2003 Update for Pocket PC Phone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBargainPDA reports that T-Mobile has released a free Windows Mobile 2003 upgrade for its PocketPC Phone units. T-Mobile says that the upgrade will be available for free until June 30, 2004, afterwhich they will presumably charge $30.00 for it. Features of the upgrade include: enhanced Pocket Inbox wireless email application, new…
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Using Mobile Wireless Data Services in Lieu of WiFi
Reading Time: 2 minutesMartin O’Donnell has been talking to me about getting mobile phone service exclusively for connecting his laptop to the Internet while he’s out of the office. He wants access in lots of different locations, so simply signing up for a public access WiFi service like T-Mobile HotSpot will not be sufficient for…
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Handy Summary of U.S. GSM Mobile Carriers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome Operation Gadget readers may already know that AT&T Wireless has decided to rebuild its U.S. mobile phone networks that run on the 850-megahertz radio frequencies to use the GSM protocol. The so-called GSM 850 system is not compatible with most GSM phones already on the market here. O’Grady’s PowerPage published…
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Intercarrier Picture Swapping Coming Soon According to Forbes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteForbes Magazine points out the complexities associated with sending pictures from mobile phone cameras between carriers. They report that IDC believes that “{by} the end of 2004, consumers will have sent 3.8 billion multimedia messages, which are mostly photographs”. That’s amazing because camera phones didn’t really become widely available in the…
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Motorola V300 Hits Number 1 on Amazon’s Early Adopter List
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was just reviewing Amazon.com’s Mobile Phone Early Adopter Product List where I noted that the Motorola V300 has reached number 1. This is a phone that I haven’t seen in the wild yet, although it’s been available since around the beginning of the year. People are picking up this phone because…
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Camera-less Treo 600 May be Shipped by Sprint PCS in April
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMobileTracker and a number of other websites have reported that Sprint PCS will ship a version of the Treo 600 without a camera. According to these reports, the option will be available as early as April 21. Everyone I know who has a Treo 600 loves it. But, the presence of…
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Nokia Preparing Personal Journaling Software
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe BBC reported that Nokia intends to release Lifeblog, a journal composition software product that will run on its newer Series 60 mobile phones. Apparently, this software does not represent a complete moblogging solution– it simply allows people to collect and organize text messages, photos, video clips, and sounds. Lifeblog needs…
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Other Weblogs Discover the AT&T Wireless Downgrade Program
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the weekend, two of the media’s favorite gadget weblogs (I’ll let you guess which two) discovered that AT&T Wireless was offering free downgrades for many of their customers’ high end phones. One of the weblogs even suggested that their story was an “exclusive,” despite the fact that Operation Gadget published…