Operation Gadget
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Intercarrier Picture Swapping Coming Soon According to Forbes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteForbes Magazine points out the complexities associated with sending pictures from mobile phone cameras between carriers. They report that IDC believes that “{by} the end of 2004, consumers will have sent 3.8 billion multimedia messages, which are mostly photographs”. That’s amazing because camera phones didn’t really become widely available in the…
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Motorola V300 Hits Number 1 on Amazon’s Early Adopter List
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was just reviewing Amazon.com’s Mobile Phone Early Adopter Product List where I noted that the Motorola V300 has reached number 1. This is a phone that I haven’t seen in the wild yet, although it’s been available since around the beginning of the year. People are picking up this phone because…
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Camera-less Treo 600 May be Shipped by Sprint PCS in April
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMobileTracker and a number of other websites have reported that Sprint PCS will ship a version of the Treo 600 without a camera. According to these reports, the option will be available as early as April 21. Everyone I know who has a Treo 600 loves it. But, the presence of…
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Target.com Reportedly Offering a 10-Percent Discount on iPod Minis Through March 31
Reading Time: < 1 minuteiPodlounge reports that Target.com is offering the iPod mini for $230, including shipping, through March 31, 2004. If you want to do the math, that’s a 10 percent discount off the regular $249.00 price, plus $5.00 shipping. See the iPodlounge article for further details.
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March 8-14, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the 11th week of 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism for…
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Nokia Preparing Personal Journaling Software
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe BBC reported that Nokia intends to release Lifeblog, a journal composition software product that will run on its newer Series 60 mobile phones. Apparently, this software does not represent a complete moblogging solution– it simply allows people to collect and organize text messages, photos, video clips, and sounds. Lifeblog needs…
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This Site Has Been Transplanted
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI had to take a couple of hours today to shift Operation Gadget from one server to another on the network where it is hosted. That’s why the site was down for part of the day. I haven’t been posting much on the site this week (as I’ve mentioned), but I…
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Other Things Have Priority at the Moment
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have been unable to devote much time to Operation Gadget for the past few days due to a death in my family. Things should return to normal by Monday.
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SSH Client for Palm OS 5 Under Development
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSealie Software is developing pssh, an OpenSource SSH2 client for Palm OS 5. This is an important application for Linux system administrators on-the-move. Pssh is meant for fast Palm PDAs with high resolution screens, like the palmOne Tungsten C. Pssh is not currently for devices like the palmOne Treo 600 (lower…