Archive for January, 2006
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006i-mate launches new pocket PC - Strategiy
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
| i-mate launches new pocket PC Strategiy, United Arab Emirates - i-mate, the specialists in Microsoft Windows Mobile devices and applications announce the launch of their most compact Windows Mobile 5.0 based Pocket PC, the i … |
phoneAlarm v1.30 Released
Monday, January 30th, 2006
“phoneAlarm - Your complete communication center! Never overlook a missed call, voicemail, email or SMS again. Plus 7 powerful Phone profiles to control all your important settings. Optimised for one-handed and in-car use.”
v1.30 of phoneAlarm has just been released and it includes full Windows Mobile 5.0 support, VGA and square-screen support (including the Treo 700w), improved voicemail support for Verizon and Sprint, speaker-phone support…
WiFiFoFum 2 released - another nice Wi-Fi utility you would not like to miss out on
Monday, January 30th, 2006Mobile Browsing is Hugely Popular Says Survey. Gosh, Who Would Have Thought?
Monday, January 30th, 2006“Simon Judge just pointed out a new presentation from Nokia about Smartphone usage which is really astounding in some of the light it starts to shed about how people with powerful phones on fast networks actually use their devices. . . . [B]rowsing is the number one (by far) mobile application that uses data, and interestingly, carrier decks only account for 50% of the traffic. That’s great! That means people are actually going outside the…
Using Balloons For Cellular Coverage In Rural Areas
Monday, January 30th, 2006
There are places in North America where you can have hundreds and thousands of square miles of sparsely populated areas, and it just doesn’t make financial sense for cell phone providers to erect expensive towers in these areas when only a few people will make use of it. The only reason these people haven landlines is the US government subsidized the cost to run copper out to their houses by having those in urban areas foot the bill.
“To cover…
Assisted GPS (AGPS) for HP iPAQ hw6515 and hw6510 gets better: new version of Gpsct released
Monday, January 30th, 2006VITO PopupClock for MS Smartphone released
Monday, January 30th, 2006Bluetooth crawler for Windows Mobile - btCrawler - released
Monday, January 30th, 2006Freepaq Reviews the i-Blue PS3200 Bluetooth GPS Receiver
Monday, January 30th, 2006
“The i-Blue PS3200 is a Bluetooth GPS with a sleep function I very much appreciated. First off, kudos for a great product presentation thanks to well done packaging and very useful accessories included in the package. Indeed, you’ll find in the nice box: the GPS, a USB cigarette lighter adapter, USB mains adapter, a USB charging cable and a retractable mini USB cabel, a non-slip mat…”
You guys may recall a recent post…
Pricegrabber Secure Digital Card Low Price Search of the Week
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Here’s a list of various Secure Digital cards listed in Pricegrabber’s database, and the lowest price on each model. Clicking through to the vendor selling the product helps support this site, so if you’re interested in learning more about the product, click. Here are the five most popular Secure Digital cards and their prices according to Pricegrabber searches:
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Some Background on the RIM vs NTP Patent Issue
Monday, January 30th, 2006Contrary to popular belief, NTP, Inc. doesn’t appear to be just a band of lawyers intent on patent squatting. In fact, one of the founding members, Thomas Campana Jr., is a long time inventor that has had several start-up companies involved in wireless text delivery, each with varying degrees of success. Mr. Campana died in 2004, but he was fiercely involved in protecting his intellectual property, and the amount he wanted was ridiculously small…
Next-Generation GPS Capabilities Presented to US Chamber of Commerce
Monday, January 30th, 2006“The new signal-known as ‘L2C-was specifically designed with commercial needs in mind,” said Deputy Commerce Secretary David Sampson in remarks prepared for delivery at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce press event this morning. “For example, it is transmitted with a higher effective power, so GPS receivers work better in urban areas and indoors. And it requires less energy to receive the signal, an important feature for battery-powered devices such as…
ATI Announces the Imageon 2380/2388 for Handheld Devices
Monday, January 30th, 2006
“With the explosion in demand for quality visual experiences on the cell phone, ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) has leveraged its extensive experience with video and graphics to deliver the latest in handheld technologies with the ImageonŽ 2380 and the ImageonŽ 2388.”
ATI has just announced the Imageon 2380/2388. The new mobile media processors…
Brando i-mate K-JAM Music Dock Review
Monday, January 30th, 2006
“The Mini S is a superb device, but lacks a charge and sync cradle. Brando is offering a charge and sync cradle to use with the HTC Wizard, the device shipped by O2 as the XDA Mini S, by T-Mobile as the Vario and by Imate as the K-Jam. This cradle is no ordinary cradle though, it boasts stereo speakers. Can it live up to the reputation of the Mini S itself?”
4WinMobile reviews a new dock for the HTC Wizard, which is sold under several names,…
T-Mo On The Grow - Again!
Monday, January 30th, 2006“T-Mobile USA, Inc. has announced a record fourth quarter and full year 2005 customer results. The company is the U.S. operation of T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG, the mobile communications subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG. In the fourth quarter of 2005, T-Mobile USA added 1.39 million net new customers compared to 1.06 million in the third quarter of 2005 and 1.02 million in the fourth quarter of 2004. Net new postpay customer additions…
Astraware’s "Enhance Your Lifestyle" Promotion
Monday, January 30th, 2006“Astraware is excited to announce a special promotion for their popular Lifestyle channel highlighting some of the best lifestyle applications available for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R) handhelds. From Monday 30th January 2006 for just 8 days, ‘Enhance Your Lifestyle’ will feature a different application each day with a special exclusive 24-hour-only discount of up to $10! With many new users looking for applications for their devices and…
Do not settle for less than 802.11g : SDW-821 - SDIO WLAN 11g card coming soon
Monday, January 30th, 2006It’s Official - The i-mate JAMin (HTC Prophet)
Monday, January 30th, 2006The i-mate JAMin (HTC Prophet) is now up on the i-mate web site. On the outside, it is very similar to the i-mate JAM, yet on the inside, it sports a different set of specifications. The JAMin has a TI OMAP 200MHz processor, 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, IrDA, an SDIO/SD/MMC slot, a 2.8″ QVGA (240 x 320) TFT-LCD, a 2.0-megapixel CMOS camera, and Windows Mobile 5.0. No word yet on official…
i-mate JAMin Pocket PC phone now official
Sunday, January 29th, 2006SeV 5 Year Anniversary Sale
Sunday, January 29th, 2006“I just wanted to give you a heads up. We just announced our 5th anniversary sale. Last year we offered 40% off for our 4 year anniversary sale, so we thought this year we had to do one better and are giving 50% off (not everything but lots of items). In addition, we are also giving an additional 10% off with a special coupon code ?NEWS300? for orders over $300, so the actual saving is even higher than 60%! The sale ends on February 1, and if…