Operation Gadget

Category: Mobile Phones

  • Reviewing the Nokia N91

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy friends at Nokia sent me a Nokia N91 Multimedia Phone several weeks ago. I’m a late in putting it through its paces because I’ve been spending so much time taking care of my son, Jimmy. If you’re a regular reader of Operation Gadget, you probably already realize this. I took…

  • Cleaning Up My Inbox to Solve Mobile IMAP Performance Problems

    Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the past couple of months I’ve noticed that my Treo 650 has more and more trouble opening the IMAP Inbox for my main email account. The reason for this is obvious: I’m an email pack rat. At the height of my madness, I had over 25,000 messages in my main email…

  • BusinessWeek Provides Manufacturing Cost Comparison Between Motorola Q and BlackBerry 8700

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday BusinessWeek published an article that provides a manufacturing cost comparison between the Motorola Q and BlackBerry 8700 handheld communicators. According to the article, the Motorola Q costs about $158 to make. Some of the key components in the Q are: LCD display, $25 XScale microprocessor, $19 Digital baseband processor, $14…

  • Mobile Broadband Services Only Being Used by a Select Few Notebook Users at the Moment

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday Martin O’Donnell sent me an article that reported wireless broadband services offered by Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint Nextel are being adopted by some road warriors, but that adoption has been mainly limited to outside sales people, building contractors, insurance claims adjustors, and first responders. There are a lot of other businesses…

  • LeTour 2006 Version 2.0 Adds Rider and Team Lists, Fixes Treo Problems

    Reading Time: 2 minutesDeepweb has fixed problems in LeTour 2006 that made it incompatible with the Treo 650 and 700p Datebook. [ Image: Deepweb Internet Solutions ] Our friend Ad de Vries and his coworkers at Deepweb in The Netherlands have released Version 2.0 of LeTour 2006. The major new feature of this release is the inclusion…

  • T-Mobile Sidekick 3 Reviews Say It Isn’t As Big An Improvement over the Sidekick II as Expected

    Reading Time: 2 minutesMartin O’Donnell has been sending me reviews of the new T-Mobile Sidekick III, the long-awaited successor to the T-Mobile Sidekick II. Operation Gadget has covered the Sidekick II since it debuted in 2004, and we’ve always been pretty impressed with it. Martin uses a Sidekick II on an everyday basis, in the…

  • Dutch Developer Releases PalmOS-based Guide to the 2006 Tour de France

    Reading Time: 2 minutesDeepweb has released LeTour 2006 to help Palm users follow the 2006 Tour de France. [ Image: Deepweb Internet Solutions ] Frank Steele at TDFblog.com recently pointed out that Deepweb has published Le Tour 2006 a PalmOS application that provides stage profiles and distances, as well as intermediate Sprint and King-of-the-Mountains points. An update…

  • Personal Electronics Power Station is a Good Central Point for Charging Most Handheld Gadgets

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe other day, my brother Scott Aiello tipped me off to a device that can be used as a convenient one-stop place to charge all of your handheld devices. It’s called the Personal Electronics Power Station and it’s available from several vendors on Amazon.com. The Personal Electronics Power Station is an…

  • Palm Finally Announces Treo 700p for Verizon and Sprint Networks

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePalm, Inc. just announced the release of the Treo 700p for the Sprint and Verizon networks. This Treo brings EvDO wireless networking speed to the PalmOS platform. Check out the Treo model comparison chart for a feature comparison between the 700p, 700w, and 650. According to Palm’s Treo 700p announcement press…