Category: Mobile Phones

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRael Dornfest wrote an article for MobileWhack explaining how to make your Nokia 60 Series phone fully utilize MMC expansion memory. As Dornfest says: You need to be sure that your phone is using the MMC card rather than its onboard storage for about anything it’s installing or saving. The Series…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve gotten several requests for reviews of simple mobile phones that have wireless data capability. It appears that there are a number of phones available in this category, and you can get some of them with substantial rebates, if you choose the right service contract. One good choice is the Motorola…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLinuxDevices.com reports that Samsung has released a smartphone based on the Linux operating system in China. The new phone is called the Samsung SCH-i519 and reportedly works on the CDMA2000-based network operated by Unicom. If I’m not mistaken, this means that it could work on Verizon Wireless or Sprint PCS, if…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been all over the place this weekend (to the garden center to choose a Christmas Tree, to the hockey rink, to Washington DC in a snowstorm), but I wanted to point out an excellent review of the Sony Ericsson T610 “image and entertainment” phone that was published on the O’Reilly…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday, Walter Mossberg reviewed the Motorola MPx200 and the Samsung i600— phones that are based on the Windows Mobile smartphone operating system. Mossberg is a big Handspring Treo fan, as am I, so it is not surprising that he said of these phones, “Neither phone is anywhere near as good as…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTechworthy has just published a head-to-head comparison of the Samsung SCH-i600 and the Motorola MPx200. These are the first two Windows Mobile phones to become available in the United States. Techworthy likes the MPx200 slightly more than the SCH-i600, but the purchase price advantage that the MPx200 has right now has…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast Thursday, I mentioned the IDC study that categorized users of mobile technology into four groups. One of those groups was voice and text fanatics who IDC thinks are a “… communications-centric group of individuals who tend to be focused on text-based data and messaging.” Nokia has developed a unique mobile…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBargainPDA found yet another incentive to purchase a Motorola MPx200 Smartphone for use on AT&T Wireless. If you purchase this phone with a qualifying AT&T Wireless service contract, you can receive a 32-megabyte MMC memory expansion card as well as Westtek ClearVue Document and Westtek ClearVue Worksheet software. The Westtek Clearvue…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRob Pegoraro did a nice review of the Motorola MPx200 Smartphone that was published in the Washington Post on Sunday. He likes the MPx200 for its minimalist user interface, saying “The awkward truth about handheld organizers is that many people operate them in read-only mode: They ignore the handwriting-recognition software or…