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Why mobile synch can stink

Now that I've got my Verizon Wireless-provisioned Windows Mobile 2003-based Audiovox XV6600 smartphone acting like the equivalent of a wireless cable modem for my notebook see My EVDO will beat your WiFi any day, I'm trying to take the XV6600 to the limit for the rest of my lifestyle. ...

Tags: ActiveSync, XV6600

Blog posts 2005-08-10

Will the Moto Q rise to the hype? We'll see

The blogosphere and the tech news sites were all abuzz this week after Motorola and Microsoft officially announced the Moto Q -- a razor thin smartphone based on Windows Mobile 5.0. Currently, the prevailing OS for Pocket PC-based smartphones is Windows Mobile 2003. That's what runs on the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, battery, Moto Q

Blog posts 2005-07-27

Additional Resources

Tech Shakedown #8: Maybe system freezes & cold reboots make smartphones too PC-like

Tech Shakedown #8: Maybe system freezes & cold reboots make smartphones too PC-likeThis is why to avoid windows based phones.Do you really want a bloated broken "os" from microsoft running on your phone of all things?If you value your sanity, you'd avoid windows based "smart" phones. I haven't come across...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Cellular phones, PC, Apple iPhone, phone, smart phone, Tech Shakedown, Tech Shakedown #8, system freeze, cold calling

Discussion threads 2007-09-25

Zune and the uplift wars

One of the leaders of the clan of the Gooksyu-Gubru, in David Brins The Uplift War, is the bureaucrat known as The Suzerain of Cost and Caution. His job is to contain expense during their invasion of a human controlled planet, something he typically expresses in the Gubrus own...

Tags: General, Infrastructure, Sun

Blog posts 2007-03-06

How to address Bluetooth's braindeath: Market it better

The Bluetooth SIG -- the chaperone of Bluetooth Standards -- has come up with a series of icons that could potentially allay some of the confusion over what it takes for two or more devices with Bluetooth radios in them to wirelessly interoperate with each other....

Tags: Bluetooth

Blog posts 2006-06-16

ZDNet readers chime in with own Treo horror stories

Judging by the emails I've been receiving and the discussion thread on yesterday's blog (see Treo 700w, Windows Mobile 5.0 marred by flaws), I guess I'm not alone in feeling as though the device isn't ready for primetime. Via email, MobileTrax's Gerry Purdy forwarded me a copy of his...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm Treo

Blog posts 2006-02-24

Treo 700w, Windows Mobile 5.0 marred by flaws

For about the last month, I've been playing with Palm's new Treo 700w. The PDA phone runs Microsoft's latest greatest Windows Mobile 5.0 mobile operating system and its provisioned by Verizon Wireless' EVDO network. People have been raving about this device but quite frankly, I'm very disappointed and here's...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile

Blog posts 2006-02-23

Another fix for the mobile TV capacity problem

Another fix for the mobile TV capacity problemReally? What about Palm with Verizon Wireless?Should I hold off on getting Palm Treo 700w and wait for a new Palm Treo with Windows Mobile operating system?A lot of technology advancements, but I don't think I would be watching TV in a mobile...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Cellular phones, Handhelds, mobile, Palm Inc., capacity problem, TV, mobile TV

Discussion threads 2006-01-21

As legal woes loom, RIM co-CEO still talks up innovation

For a guy whose legendary mobile messenging network could be forced to shutdown due to a patent battle with NTP, Research in Motion maker of the BlackBerry president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis pictured left seemed incredibly undistracted in his discussion of the company's more recent innovations as I...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry

Blog posts 2005-12-09

Is RIM losing its edge?

There was a time, around three years ago, if you wanted to takeway my Research in Motion RIM BlackBerry from me, you would have had to pry it from my dead hands, or, as reality would have it, shut down my service. I know many other people who...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry

Blog posts 2005-11-08

Thankfully, Moto's iTunes phone is a market dud

In one of his recent postings, ZDNet blogger Jason O'Grady considers the reasons that Motorola's ROCKR -- a recently released handset that's been dubbed as the "iTunes phone" -- is getting a cold shoulder from consumers. From my perspective, while it absolutely deserves the cold shoulder, it's getting it...

Tags: music, telephone, Rockr

Blog posts 2005-10-26

New HP iPAQ hw6500 smartphone is a dud

Here at Gartner Symposium ITxpo, HP held an early morning breakfast to give the press a preview of the Windows Mobile-based smartphone that it announced today: the HP iPAQ hw6500 Mobile Messenger pictured left. You can’t buy such smartphones the way you buy PDAs. They have to be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile

Blog posts 2005-10-18

Cellcos too slow on new smartphone turnaround time

Here at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Florida, HP announced its new iPAQ hw6500 Mobile Messenger smartphone. In a separate blog entry, there's a picture and I've detailed my first impressions of the device. But if you want to skip the movie, my take in that blog entry was to skip...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, smart phone

Blog posts 2005-10-18

Have you done your pre-Fall digital housecleaning yet?

With summer almost over and things already picking up (I'm referring to Intel's Developer Forum taking place last week and Microsoft Professional Developer Conference coming up in two), I'm taking these last couple of week of summer to get ready for the Fall rush. Fall is always the busiest...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Ferrari

Blog posts 2005-08-29

Former Palm founder "nails it" on smartphone culture clash

I just got done listening to a recent DiamondCluster Wavelengths Podcast interview hosted by Dan Bricklin and DiamondCluster vice chairman and global managing director John Sviokla. Their guest interviewee was Palm co-founder Donna Dubinsky. After leaving Palm, Dubinsky went on to co-found Handspring -- originators of...

Tags: palmOne Inc., Donna Dubinsky

Blog posts 2005-08-23

Making heads or tails of 3G acronyms and Cingular's plans

Just when I thought I had 3G third generation wide area wireless networks WWANs figured out (the kind that Cingular, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Sprint run), I found out that I didn't have a clue. I was doing a little homework for "Tellywood"-whip Bob Frankston when I noticed...

Tags: Cingular Wireless, CDMA

Blog posts 2005-08-15

Smartphones: Where the computer and telephony cultures clash

Buried in my recently posted saga of why synch can stink was a comment about how, when using Intellisync to wirelessly (over Verizon Wireless' EVDO network) synchronize email, contacts, appointments, etc. between my PC (an IBM Thinkpad T42) and an Audiovox XV6600 PocketPC phone, I was unable to control...

Tags: Intellisync, wireless carrier

Blog posts 2005-08-11

Why mobile synch can stink

Why mobile synch can stinkMan, brother, got a book in you?War and Peace was a quick write for you, wasn't it?damn that was a long artical ....its late and i am too lazy to read it all.... maybe in the morning.I am posting because you state that Active Sync requires...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Cellular phones, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, mobile

Discussion threads 2005-08-10

My EVDO will beat your WiFi any day (well just about)

My EVDO will beat your WiFi any day well just aboutIf I could only have one you're right, but I want bothIf I could only have one way to access the Internet, you're right. But if I were a routine road warrior, I'd get both iPASS Wi-Fi (enterprise version...

Tags: Cellular phones, EVDO, Sprint Communications, Verizon Communications Inc., Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2005-08-02

My EVDO will beat your WiFi any day (well just about)

In my ongoing coverage/review of Audiovox's XV6600 Bluetooth-enabled, Verizon Wireless provisioned, Windows Mobile 2003-based smartphone, last week, I wrote what I considered to be the missing manual on getting a Bluetooth-equipped notebook computer to use a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone to wirelessly connect to the Internet. Why and when would you...

Tags: telephone, Wi-Fi, HotSpot, specific absorption rate

Blog posts 2005-08-02