Operation Gadget

Category: PDAs

  • Filing a Claim to Recover Part of the DRAM Settlement

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Back in the late 1990s and the first few years of the 2000s, I bought thousands of dollars of desktop computers, printers, servers, and handheld electronics. So I am one of the people who should be able to claim a share of the settlement in the DRAM Antitrust Litigation. If…

  • BlueLounge SpaceStation Organizes Cables for Laptop Users

    Reading Time: < 1 minute The BlueLounge SpaceStation is a desk organizer for laptop users that acts as a USB hub for all peripheral devices. BlueLounge SpaceStation [ Photo courtesy of the manufacturer. ] The photo I’ve chosen shows the bottom of the SpaceStation. The rubber feet set the SpaceStation 5mm above the surface of the desk.…

  • Treo 755p Demonstrates How Far The Mighty Palm, Inc. Has Fallen

    Reading Time: < 1 minute I used to love Palm Treo personal communicators like the Treo 755p. My wife and I had his and hers Treo 650s until June when I bought my iPhone. However in 2008, I cannot recommend a Treo in good conscience to anyone who does not work in an industry where…

  • Three-Part Article on Writing a Webcam Application for the Nokia N800

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I got a Nokia N800 through the Nokia Blogger Relations Program several months ago. I found this device quite interesting, but I never had the opportunity to dig into it as deeply as I had wanted to. I started to think about it again about a week ago, when I was…

  • Handhelds from Palm Still Make Sense in Medicine

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Last night I solved the syncing problem that had limited Kathleen’s ability to use her Treo 650 with her new MacBook. I owe a lot of credit to the book Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition, which explained the details of the interaction between Palm Desktop for…

  • Nokia N93: The Swiss Army Knife of GSM / UMTS Multimedia Phones

    Reading Time: 2 minutes The Nokia N93 produces DVD-quality video, has a terrific MP3 player, and includes wireless broadband and WiFi capability. It’s great for people who want a phone that can be used in relatively serious video production. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ][ Check out my Nokia N93 photo set on Flickr. ] A friend who works with…

  • Cleaning Up My Inbox to Solve Mobile IMAP Performance Problems

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Over 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…

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

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday 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,…

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

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Deepweb 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…