Cell / Mobile Phones

When I first heard about the iPhone I thought maybe, just maybe, I’d get one. Then it came out that there would be no 3G / broadband access built into it. Today, I’m looking at the rave reviews for the device and find myself astounded that it’s not getting a big fat "don’t buy" if only because of the lack [...]

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I’m a Windows Mobile phone user. We are few, but we are proud. I saw a number at SES last week, as our numbers are growing. We nod to each other quietly and share tales of rebooting several times per day. But Windows Mobile users, our day has come! We survived when the BlackBerry crowd went down! See, here’s the deal. [...]

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I read today (and here) that Dell is ending its Axim line of Pocket PCs/Windows Mobile devices. I have an Axim X50, the second to last model made, that has been sitting on my desk gathering dust over the past year. Reason for my non-use? My smartphones have replaced it, just as News.com says has [...]

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I got a new

T-Mobile Vario MDA II (HTC Hermes) Windows Mobile 5 smartphone about a week ago that absolutely rocks. Unlike my Verizon XV6700, it’s fast and nimble. Much more on this in a future post. What didn’t rock was trying to sync with Outlook and finding none of my contacts were making it over. Instead, I got [...]

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I’m a dedicated Windows Mobile Phone Edition user. I’ve now had four of the devices, and later this week I’ll get my T-Mobile

MDA Vario II to use in the UK. It’s basically the GSM version of the UTStarcom XV7000 phone I use with Verizon in the US. Over at Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, they’ve just come out with [...]

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Cingular is now offering a new Cingular 2125 Smartphone, a Windows Mobile 5.0 device similar to the SPV C500 that I use in the UK. Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine has a nice review here. The main plus over my existing SPV is that the Cingular phone supports EDGE, high-speed broadband-like connections for GSM phones. My SPV is GPRS, which [...]

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I’ve had my Verizon XV6700 phone for half a year now, and I’m still generally happy with the experience. Using it as a broadband modem has been great, and I love having it as a mini-broadband browser with a keyboard, as well. Still, the hardest adjustment has been not having a dedicated keypad. Firing up an on-screen keypad just isn’t [...]

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First Orange decides that it should charge me 10p per minute if I dare call a freephone / tollfree 800 number. Now in my monthly bill, I learn as of July 1, they want to charge me £1.50 to keep sending me an itemized list of my calls. It gets better. If I do nothing, they’ll just automatically assume [...]

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