Operation Gadget
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MobileWhack Offers Tips to Maximize Value of Your Gadgets
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRael Dornfest has started MobileWhack, a site that’s “about squeezing every last ounce of mobility out of your mobile device.” He is joined by Brian Jepson, Nat Torkington, and Emory Lundberg, and Marc Hedlund in this effort. It seems like they are trying to do a website devoted to the content…
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MobileTracker Points Out Biggest Problems with Number Portability
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMobileTracker published an article about the fact that consumers typically want to keep their phones and their numbers when they switch carriers. They go on to point out that the biggest impediments to continuing to use the same handset are differing network technologies and SIM locking. This article tends to support…
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Get In Touch With Operation Gadget via AIM
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve just opened up a new AIM screen name that I’m planning to use to talk to people about Operation Gadget. The screen name is OperGadget. Upper or lowercase doesn’t matter. If you have any tips, comments, questions, suggestions, complaints, you can pass them along that way. Email still works. Send…
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Article on O’Reilly Network Discusses Unlocking the Nokia 3650
Reading Time: 2 minutesSchuyler Erle wrote a helpful article… that explains the undocumented procedure for unlocking some Nokia GSM handsets so that that they will accept SIM cards from any carrier. He was able to use the procedures discussed in this article to unlock a Nokia 3650…. It’s clear that SIM cards from different GSM…
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PVRblog Reviews Gateway Connected DVD Player
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMatt Haughey has done a terrific review of the Gateway Connected DVD Player, a device that combines a progressive scan DVD player with a wireless media server…. Haughey has been looking for an alternative to the TiVo Home Media Option since he switched from a TiVo Series 2 DVR to DirecTV…
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Adam Kalsey Reviews Motorola MPx200 Smartphone
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdam Kalsey of the Kalsey Consulting Group wrote a good review of the Motorola MPx200 Smartphone that provides more details about how it integrates with a typical PC. He likes the MPx200’s ability to sync contact information with Microsoft Outlook…. One somewhat troubling aspect of the review is Adam’s experience trying to…
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O’Grady’s Powerpage Does a Comprehensive Nokia 6600 Review
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Nokia 6600 is a very new Symbian-based mobile phone. This phone is not widely available in the United States yet, but stacks up really well against a number of smartphone-style devices. I haven’t pointed to a lot of articles about Symbian OS mobile phones, so I thought I’d include this…
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New York Times Magazine Runs Great Piece on Apple Computer’s iPod
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am surprised that more weblogs have not pointed to the New York Times Magazine article from the November 30, 2003 edition, entitled The Guts of a New Machine. This is an article about the pervasive influence that the iPod has had on popular culture and industrial design. iPods are not…
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Brighthand Publisher Writes of His “Smartphone Epiphany”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStephen G. Bush wrote a succinct piece on Brighthand about his success replacing a separate Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone and PDA with a the Motorola MPx200 Smartphone. Bush says, “The Motorola MPx200 Smartphone has convinced me that a convergent device, one that is more cell phone than PDA, can keep me connected…