Operation Gadget

Category: PDAs

  • InfoSync World Provides One of the First Looks at the H-P iPAQ hw6500 Series

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI bought a palmOne Treo 650 after reviewing the RIM BlackBerry 7230 and the H-P iPAQ h6315 integrated communication devices. This doesn’t make me a PalmOS zealot. In fact, I’d love to have a Pocket PC that I could recommend as strongly as I recommend the Treo 650. I was hoping that…

  • Which Email Client Should I Use on the Treo 650?

    Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I mentioned on Monday, Beth Seliga, a freelance photographer who covers pro cycling, asked me which email client to use on her new palmOne Treo 650. I had strong opinions ready when she asked this question, so I’m going to repeat them and enhance them with links for the benefit of…

  • How Can I Use My Pocket PC with a GPS to Get Driving Directions?

    Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I mentioned in an earlier article, Sammarye Lewis, co-author of the new book Tour de France for Dummies asked me how to make her H-P iPAQ h6315 work smoothly with a Garmin GPS 10 Deluxe or another handheld GPS, so that she can get directions to places along the Tour de…

  • LifeDrive Formally Announced by palmOne

    Reading Time: 2 minutespalmOne LifeDrive orders are being taken by Amazon.com. Initial deliveries may take up to two weeks. [ Photo: Amazon.com ]. Congratulations to palmOne for finally taking the official wraps off the LifeDrive Mobile Manager. This is clearly an organizational tool for people who have a lot of media (digital files) that they…

  • Treo 650 Saves the Day During the Tour de Georgia

    Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve written a couple of stories about gadgets that I wish I had when I was covering the 2005 Dodge Tour de Georgia. One gadget that I’m proud to say I had with me for the all six stages was my palmOne Treo 650. The Treo 650 has quickly become the key…

  • PalmSource Chooses SyncML for Future Handheld Synchronisation

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrighthand reports that PalmSource is developing new synchronisation tools for the PalmOS based on SyncML, an XML-based vendor-independent standard. This is a smart move by PalmSource because it: begins the process of getting them out of the desktop organizer business, gives the customer more personal information management application choices (including PC…

  • SplashBlog Has Treo Photobloggers Buzzing

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSplashBlog is a new photoblogging application for the palmOS that hit my RADAR screen a couple of days ago when Josh Rubin metioned it on Cool Hunting. It was mentioned again yesterday on PalmInfoCenter. When I first looked at SplashBlog, I was concerned it was a “walled garden,” meaning that the…

  • 10 Wierdest PalmOS Programs List Compiled by CanalPDA

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteCanalPDA.com, a Spanish-language PDA site, has developed this interesting list of the 10 wierdest palmOS programs available today. (The list is written in English.) Included are things like a virtual voodoo doll, a program that lets you create a fake call on a Treo so you can end an appointment early,…

  • Doctors to Receive Cancer Info Tools from American Cancer Society

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGizmodo pointed out that the American Cancer Society has released a PDA application suite called C-Tools 2.0. C-Tools provides reference materials and recent news about cancer in a PDA-delivered format that’s compatible with PalmOS and Windows Mobile operating systems. Many Operation Gadget readers know that my wife Kathleen is a pediatric…