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Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Feature phones

I've now given you a Holiday Guide for smartphones and free cellphones so this Guide presents the best of the devices that are commonly called feature phones. With the power of today's feature phones, the line between a feature phone and smartphone is getting blurred so most people won't see...

Tags: Touch Screen, Samsung Instinct, Phone, Device, Page, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Radio, MicroSD, AT&T Corp., microSD Card, Sprint Communications, Camera, Music, Feature Phone Market, LG Voyager, Bluetooth Radio, Samsung Behold, QWERTY, QWERTY Keyboard, Samsung Rugby, Bluetooth 1.2 Radio, HTML Web Browser, ZN4, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Bluetooth, Hardware, Peripherals, Wireless, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-01

CES: Mobile gadgets at Digital Experience!

CES: Mobile gadgets at Digital Experience!Keep track:Nokia!ntRE: CES: Mobile gadgets at Digital Experience!Personally, I am interested to see improvements in GPS units, with downloaded map capabilities, reliable touch screens and more intuitive abilities to back out of choices made in error, or choices which have led the device to pick...

Tags: Tablets, Advertising & Promotion, Notebooks, Mobile Gadgets, Digital Experience, LG Voyager, Consumer Electronics Show, mobile, LG Electronics Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

New iPhone wannabes: LG Voyager and Blackberry 9k

New iPhone wannabes: LG Voyager and Blackberry 9kVerizon is more abusive to it's customers than AT&T...However the phone does look good, to bad they treat their customers poorly.Haha, I KNEW it wouldn't take long!!!Suddenly the iPhone was the first phone to have a touchscreen. We'll just ignore 4 years of...

Tags: Handhelds, Keyboards, network coverage, Blackberry 9k, NEW IPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Voyager, LG Electronics Inc., phone, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

Additional Resources

Makers offer little help for lost or stolen devices

Credit card number of thiefI assume that the person using a stolen Kindle must have to provide Amazon with a credit card, in order to buy content (assuming the previous owner's credit card was disabled). If so, that means that Amazon even knows who the thief is.I supposeIf the manufacturers...

Tags: Sales channel, Amazon.com Inc., subpoena

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Back to school special: QWERTY messaging phones

Do we have to have a contract?I have a T Mobile account, but mine is the pre-paid variety. because I don't use the cell phone " all that much," this is enormously cheaper. Is it possible to find one of these qwerty machines that does not require the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, QWERTY messaging phone, messaging phone, Back-to-School, QWERTY, Xenon, messaging, LG Electronics Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Senators ask FCC to look into iPhone-AT&T exclusivity

Senators ask FCC to look into iPhone-AT&T exclusivityDuhThe FCC is a little too late in the game. Yes, locking devices with plans impairs innovation. Isn't it obvious? Mobile networks in the U.S. are now years behind Europe and Asia. Many features the iPhone can do were crippled because of the...

Tags: Federal government, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Pre, phone, iPhone-AT&T exclusivity, iPhone-AT&T, carrier, FCC, exclusivity, innovation

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

LG enV Touch (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:LG enV Touch Verizon WirelessThe LG enV Touch was a surprise to us. We thought all of the enV line of phones would be in the style of the LG enV VX9900, the LG enV2, and the more recent LG enV3.Those phones had numeric keypads on the front,...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, display, Verizon Wireless, LG Electronics Inc., LG enV, LG enV Touch, enV Touch, Voyager

Product reviews 2009-06-05

Live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 preview event

Live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 preview eventHere's a list...1) User replaceable battery.2) Carriers OTHER than AT&T.3) Tethering...as I do now with my Verizon LG Voyager...and have done with EVERY cell phone since I got my first Star-Tac!4) Better 3G chip in the thing.5) Let ME decide what apps are...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, PEARL, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3.0, phone

Discussion threads 2009-03-17

Video conferencing coming to iPhone?

Video conferencing coming to iPhone?Apple patenting video conferencing!!Is there no end to the innovation coming from this company!?!? Good thing for the world that Apple was the first to think about transmitting live video and audio from one device to another."would video-conferencing entice you to buy an iPhone?"No...not even close....

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, phone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

CES 2009: First impressions; CES Unveiled [Day 1]

Yes, it's that time of year again. Mere hours after my plane touched the tarmac in a surprisingly chilly Las Vegas, CES 2009 has kicked off with the unofficial opening to the show: CES Unveiled. With consideration to the terrible economic free-fall the world has and continues...

Tags: ASUS, DivXNetworks, Page, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-06

LG Incite CT810 (AT&T)

Photo gallery:LG Incite CT810Despite LG's long history in the U.S. cell phone market, it has yet to introduce a true smartphone here like it has in other countries (For example, the LG KS20 is Europe-only). Sure we've seen high-end LG phones like the LG Voyager and the LG Dare, but...

Tags: Keyboards, Smart phones, Monitors & displays, Cellular phones, Handhelds, AT&T Corp., LG Electronics Inc., LG INCITE

Product reviews 2008-11-25

Sneak Peek: BlackBerry Storm

Apple ignited a firestorm of competition when it announced the iPhone in January of 2007. Since then the touchscreen smartphone segment has been ablaze with competition from all the major OEMs and carriers, including Nokia Tube, RIM (Thunder/Storm), LG Voyager, Samsung Instinct, Sony Ericsson (X1), HTC (G1) and yes, even...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-18

A tough decision: Grab an iPhone or wait for the Storm?

Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion should be thanking one particular customer service rep for stopping at least one customer - me - from defecting to AT&T and the iPhone this week. I had called in to find out about altering my existing family plan and porting my phone over...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Customer Service, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., David, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Handhelds, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-30

A great reason to jailbreak: tethering

A great reason to jailbreak: tetheringNokia: No Jailbreaking Required[url=http://www.opentoanything.com/]Open to Anything.[/url]So much so, in fact Nokia has put Symbian into open source.What kind of smartphone doesn't allow you to tether?If you ask me, that's just dumb.Here's a [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-n95n96-still-the-best-smartphone-of-all.html]link[/url] to one of my articles listing some of the things you can...

Tags: 3G, INTERNET, Engineering, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, great reason, Nokia Corp., Apple iPhone, battery

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Two new apps turn smartphones into Wi-Fi hotspots

Two new apps turn smartphones into Wi-Fi hotspotsEver heard of Bluetooth?I have been using my cell phones for several YEARS to connect my laptops to the Internet....and the software is built right in...FREE.First use was with traditional dial-up with a data cable, then when Bluetooth started appearing on cell phones,...

Tags: Smart phones, 3G, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, smart phone, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi hotspot, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

BlackBerry rumor mill takes a page from Apple

BlackBerry rumor mill takes a page from AppleTo the flip-phone hatersA flip-phone style BB is a great option for many in Corporate America. I know several people who HATE using the BB as a phone because the ergonomics of the form-factor SUCK!!! Many of these same people just want to...

Tags: Handhelds, Apple Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Thunder, Razr2 V9m, phone, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

Verizon launches Visual Voice Mail

One of the iPhone's most compelling features has been commoditized by Verizon Wireless. The Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Verizon Wireless announced that they are now offering the once Apple-only Visual Voice Mail feature on their LG Voyager handset (which I reviewed on 12 December 2007) for an additional US$2.99 per...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Voice, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., Verizon Wireless, VZW, VZW Press Release, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-13

The Kübler-Ross of iPhone

The Kübler-Ross of iPhoneI think Kubler-Ross missed oneActually, there is one that should be added: Apathy. I guess it would start at the same stage as Denial, but never progresses beyond the simple "who cares" level.I won't ever buy an iPhone...why not? Because I don't care about having...

Tags: Web browsers, Apple iPhone, Web browser, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Blackberry steals iPhone's virtual keyboard

Blackberry steals iPhone's virtual keyboardCopying Apple???By stating that RIM is "stealing" iPhone's virtual keyboard, you are assuming that Apple were first to market with said on screen keyboard.Back in the real world, where Apple are lagging behind "big time"... they are one of the last mobile phone manufacturers to use...

Tags: Keyboards, Well Let, Touchscreen tech, keyboard, virtual keyboard, Apple iPhone, touch screen, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

LG Dare (Verizon Wireless)

One of the most notable fallouts of the Apple iPhone launch last year is the ever growing trend of touch-screen phones. LG was one of the first manufacturers out the gate with phones such as the LG Voyager and the LG Vu dazzling us with features that we couldn't get...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, display, Verizon Wireless, LG Dare, LG Electronics Inc., phone, touch-screen phone, touch screen

Product reviews 2008-06-27