Cell Phones Archive

  • Apple iPhone – part 2, questions and concerns

    Apple iPhone – part 2, questions and concerns

    After the initial excitement wore off (see yesterday’s post) I came up with some questions/concerns regarding the iPhone: Will there be an unlocked iPhone? I know that as a Tmobile customer I can purchase a Palm Treo from Palm.com that is unlocked and stick my [...]

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  • Apple iPhone runs OS X, has 2 megapixel camera… will it “change everything”?

    Apple iPhone runs OS X, has 2 megapixel camera… will it “change everything”?

    Apple just announced their iPhone, which as it turns out may be the largest innovation of the year in Consumer Technology (which I find ironic sitting here in my hotel room in Las Vegas at CES). The iPhone, as Steve Jobs announced it, is [...]

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  • Why Vonage sucks

    Why Vonage sucks

    This is a rant that evidentially some of the internet already knows about, but I had to share my first-hand experience of why Vonage sucks. I’m a sales person by trade. My company re-sells internet ad inventory on big sites who may want a little [...]

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  • Samsung phone with Mac OS X graphics

    Samsung phone with Mac OS X graphics

    Reg Hardware, the hardware wing of “The Register” has a story entitled Samsung phone sported Mac OS X graphics. As the article states, it’s kind of ironic that Samsung has recently won the contract to build the iPod Nano. Could we be looking [...]

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  • Spy on your kid with GPS tracking in their cell phone

    Spy on your kid with GPS tracking in their cell phone

    Now parents can use Sprint PCS service to track their kids with GPS (story here) I guess it’s kind of like low-jack for family members. Actually, it seems like this is a move that could hurt Sprint PCS sales. I can hear [...]

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  • Skype for your Treo – sort of

    Skype for your Treo – sort of

    A company called EQO just released a cool product that links data-enabled cell phones with Skype. According to their site: “EQO is a plugin which runs on your computer, connecting your Skypeâ„¢ user account to your mobile phone via our secure, always-on network. [...]

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  • Trouble ahead for VoIP companies?

    Trouble ahead for VoIP companies?

    At the 3GSM show in Barcelona trouble could be brewing for Skype, Vonage and their respective wannabes. Nokia is displaying their new 6136 phone using UMA (unlicensed mobile access). This technology allows the phone to use wifi signals when available seemlessly changing [...]

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  • Motorola SLVR L7

    Motorola SLVR L7

    Further proof that vowels just aren’t cool, Motorola has released second iTunes-enabled phone, the SLVR through Cingular. According to the story at Reuters Motorola hopes the phone’s design will be the central draw for the SLVR. With a 176×220 screen (same a RAZR) [...]

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  • Mobile Phone Use Not Linked to Cancer

    Mobile Phone Use Not Linked to Cancer

    So it seems that maybe we aren’t frying our brains after all (with cell phones anyway). Britain’s Institute of Cancer Research in London released the results of a 4-year study by the Universities of Leeds, Nottingham and Manchester and the Institute of [...]

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