Category: Mobile Phones

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAny questions about limited availability of Handspring / PalmOne Treo 600s must be reconsidered in light of the following news: AT&T Wireless began running radio ads this morning on Infinity Radio stations in the New York City market promoting the availability of the Treo 600 and the RIM Blackberry 7210 on…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you are looking for the same sort of functionality present in the Handspring Treo 600, but you want the Pocket PC platform, may I suggest the Hitachi G1000 mobile phone available with Sprint PCS service? It has a 3.5 inch color display that produces 64k colors and a resolution of…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn looking at the current crop of mobile phones, it’s getting hard to find models that don’t have cameras. So, the new Samsung E105 Mobile Phone is somewhat unique. It has a bright, 64k color display, supports the 900 and 1900 mHz bands so it can be used internationally, and has…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnother thing that MobileTracker discussed recently is the NEC 525, the electronics company’s first camera phone to become available in the United States. This looks like a good option those of you who are AT&T Wireless customers looking to move to the new GSM network (referred to by AT&T as the…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday, MobileTracker reported that AT&T Wireless is issuing credits to new GSM customers who experienced problems with automatic phone activation. Many sources have previously reported that AT&T was dealing with a pervasive problem in their GSM customer on-boarding process. The problem began at the beginning of this month and lasted for…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLeonard Lin of the random($foo) weblog has posted a lot of information about his experience with his brand new Handspring / PalmOne Treo 600. I haven’t yet figured out how to link directly to a specific entry on his site, so you’ll have to scroll down the home page in order…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday is the first day of mobile phone number portability in the major markets of the United States. My advice to Operation Gadget readers is to watch and see what happens. Callers to customer service departments at mobile phone carriers today may have a simiar experience to calling the Butterball Turkey…

Reading Time: 2 minutesOver on ZDNet, David Coursey wrote an article called Why Camera Phones are So Darned Popular where he picked up on the idea, floated by the mobile phone industry, that camera phones are the fastest growing segment in the history of the technology product market. Through his piece, Coursey wonders why this…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRCR Wireless News reported yesterday that Sprint PCS is readying an implementation of Short Messaging Service (SMS) for deployment on its nationwide network. Currently, they employ a WAP-based application for text messaging. I’m not currently a Sprint customer, so when I read this it shocked me. I guess this shows how…