Category: PDAs
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T-Mobile Sidekick 3 Reviews Say It Isn’t As Big An Improvement over the Sidekick II as Expected
Reading Time: 2 minutes Martin 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…
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Dutch Developer Releases PalmOS-based Guide to the 2006 Tour de France
Reading Time: 2 minutes Deepweb 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…
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Personal Electronics Power Station is a Good Central Point for Charging Most Handheld Gadgets
Reading Time: < 1 minute The 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…
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Marketshare of Treo 650 and 700 Grew as a Result of BlackBerry Patent Concerns
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Wall Street Journal reported that Palm saw marketshare growth for its Treo 650 and 700 series mobile phones as a result of the patent dispute between Research in Motion, the manufacturer of BlackBerry handheld devices, and NTP, Inc., a patent holding company based in Arlington, VA. According to the article:…
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What Color “Screen of Death” Does Your Favorite Gadget Produce?
Reading Time: < 1 minute While researching my article on the White Screen of Death problem my Treo is having, I ran across a recent piece by Stewart Alsop where he asks “Do the vendors choose the color of the death screen intentionally?” He says that the screens of death for his favorite gadgets are:…
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Things I Wish I’d Known Before Attempting the Treo 650 1.17 Firmware Update for Cingular
Reading Time: 2 minutes After two days of trying, I finally figured out how to run the Treo 650 1.17 Update for Cingular Wireless on my Treo 650. I still have to repeat the process on Kathleen’s Treo 650 before my upgrading is done. Here are a couple of things that would have really helped…
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Palm Releases Treo 650 Updater 1.17 for Cingular Subscribers
Reading Time: < 1 minute I missed this in the run up to Thanksgiving, but Palm released Treo 650 Updater 1.17 for Cingular Wireless customers on November 21. This update supercedes the one that was released in July and adds the following improvements: Includes Versamail 3.1c, Gmail attachment downloads, Optimizes Bluetooth performance for some Motorola…
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Motorola HS850 Bluetooth Headset Successfully Re-paired with My Treo 650
Reading Time: < 1 minute I just resolved a bizzare problem that kept me from using my Motorola HS850 Bluetooth Headset with my Palm Treo 650 for a while. When my Motorola HS850 successfully connected with a Treo 650 to which it has already been paired, the HS850 would play a very quick set of…