Operation Gadget

Category: PDAs

  • KeyCaps600 and KBLightsOff Recommended Add-ons for Treo 650

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreonauts pointed out two inexpensive utilities that help streamline keyboard use on the Treo 650. KeyCaps600 helps Treo 600 and 650 users to type faster by providing alternate ways to enter capital letters, punctuation, and symbols. KBLightsOff provides a mechanism to toggle the keyboard backlight on and off. This is an…

  • palmOne Website Reflects Impending Release of Treo 650 for GSM/GPRS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreoCentral reported over the weekend that palmOne Updated their website to emphasize that the Treo 650 for GSM/GPRS is “coming soon”. This is the the third hint that palmOne or Cingular has given that a release is imminent. It can’t come soon enough for many of us Treo fans.

  • Dan Washburn Reports on Electronic Gadgets He Used While Traveling Through China

    Reading Time: 2 minutesDan Washburn of ShanghaiDiaries.com visited 18 Chinese provinces on a single trip recently. Now he’s reported on how each of his electronic gadgets fared during the trip. Included in his report are evaluations of the: 40-Gigabyte iPod from Apple, Media Reader for iPod from Belkin, Backup Battery Pack for iPod from Belkin,…

  • PocketFactory Laments “The Sad State Of The Palm Economy”

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteKent Pribbernow of PocketFactory gave a severe tongue-lashing to palmOne and palmSource in his editorial, The Sad State Of The Palm Economy, And Other PDA Ramblings. He argues that most of the current palmOne PDAs are poor competitors to Pocket PCs at the same price points. The Treo 650 is spared…

  • Tungsten T5 is Not What “Palm OS Enthusiasts” Expected

    Reading Time: 2 minutesBrighthand does a wonderful job of reviewing the palmOne Tungsten T5— the company’s latest pure Personal Digital Assistant. Although there are several innovations in this device, including the incorporation of internal flash memory and a virtual disk capability that allows you to use 160 Megabytes of the built-in memory as a flash…

  • Taiwanese Manufacturer of Treo 650 Reportedly Begins Shipments

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Register reports that Taiwanese contract-manufacturer HTC will build the Treo 650 for palmOne and cites a Digitimes article indicating that shipments of a new PDA phone to palmOne began recently. This has led many sites to conclude that the Treo 650 will go on sale in North America in October.…

  • Hexlet Releases HBlogger 2.0

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHexlet LLC just released HBlogger Version 2.0, a weblogging client for PalmOS version 3.5 and higher. The new version has come out quickly after the initial release, and includes the following new features. Support for weblogs based on TypePad, UJournal, DeadJournal, Blurty, NeedlessPanic, Plogs, Caledia, and GreatestJournal, Upload of images, Better…

  • Hexlet Releases HBlogger Weblogging Client for PalmOS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHexlet LLC recently announced HBlogger, a weblogging client for PalmOS version 3.5 and higher. HBlogger supports the following blogging tools: MovableType, LiveJournal, and Blogger. I wish that my Treo 180 were working, because I’d love to download a product like this and give it a try. When I first started Operation…

  • BrailleNote Handhelds Help the Blind Increase their Productivity

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe BrailleNote series of handheld computers, including the BrailleNote PK, are handhelds for the blind and visually impaired. The PK is Windows CE-based and includes: Bluetooth, USB, WiFi, Internet Explorer, POP3 email, and office productivity applications. The unit is 6.8 x 3.6 x 1.3 inches, a bit larger than a large…