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Momail Announces Support for 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia
Momail has announced support for the upcoming 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia releases. For the folks fuzzy on what Momail does, it more or less acts as a super mobile-mail-service in that all the receiving, delivery and sending of mail is optimized around the “mobile device” environment you are on. That includes respecting multiple sender addresses [...]
Continue reading...Samsung L870 – Symbian OS + Safari Mobile Browser
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Details have popped up showing that the Samsung L870 is actually a Symbian S60 smartphone, slider form factor using (get this) the Apple Safari Mobile Browser. Yea… not WebKit, but specifically Safari Mobile… go figure. Here are the specs for anyone waiting on a new slider that want the “real web” on a 2.4″ QVGA screen [...]
Continue reading...Apple iPhone vs BlackBerry Bold
Thursday, May 22, 2008
A detailed, mostly physical comparison between the iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold. If you saw the Bold and were curious how thick, wide, tall, short, heavy it was, this is the article to read. The gist of it is that the BlackBerry Bold is a bit thicker, has almost exactly the same surface form factor and [...]
Continue reading...RIM Offers Free BlackBerry Wallet Private Data Software
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Looks like RIM is offering a free personal-private data management application for all BlackBerry devices called BlackBerry Wallet. It’s not general PIM software, but rather software used to store your more private information like address, passwords, credit card numbers, etc. RIM claims it’s completely safe, so if you trust your BB and RIM completely, have at it. [...]
Continue reading...Edit iPhone Notes on PC Using RemoteNote
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
RemoteNote is PC software that allows you to edit and work with the Notes stored directly on your iPhone using a web-admin interface on your PC. You need to have a JailBroken iPhone or iPod Touch with firmware 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 installed though and also require a wifi connection on the phone to connect to it [...]
Continue reading...SMS Data Costs $732.95 per MB
Monday, May 12, 2008
We covered the “True Cost of SMS” a while ago, but data is surfacing again at the absolutely ridiculous rates that SMS demand. Latest estimations put the “true” cost of SMS messages to be roughly 4x that of the most pessimistic rates estimated to be the cost of transmitting data to/from the Hubble Space telescope. When [...]
Continue reading...BlackBerry 9000 to be Announced May 12th
Friday, May 9, 2008
Super-hotness… BGR is reporting that May 12 at WES 2008 the BlackBerry 9000 series will be announced/unveiled and available to be played with to your hearts content at the conference. If the mockup above is true to the real device, I’m surprised at the flat/glossy look of the keypad after the bubbled buttons on the Curve [...]
Continue reading...Sneak Peak at the BlackBerry 9000 / Niagara
Monday, May 5, 2008
BoyGenius had an article about the upcoming BlackBerry 9000-series (Niagara… which is the code-name for like 27 other corporate products from companies) that everyone was speculating was going to be a giant touch-screen back when the iPhone first dropped and rumors were abound. Well now it looks like it is going to stay with the tried-and-true [...]
Continue reading...Sony Bluetooth Audio Mini
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
I recently picked up the Sony DR-BT21G/B Bluetooth Stereo Headset. My intentions were to use it as hands free for my cell and also to listen to music from my cell. After using it with two devices (Samsung Blackjack II and Sanyo Katayna DLX) I have come to the conclusion that the limiting factor in [...]
Continue reading...iPhone Review (Part 3 of 3)
Saturday, March 8, 2008
iPhone Review, Part 1 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 2 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 3 of 3 Well we have looked at the Gripes and Praise for the iPhone, now let’s wrap this review up… {smartads} Conclusion [8 out of 10] First let’s look at why this wasn’t a 10 out of 10 to get an idea of what [...]
Continue reading...iPhone Review (Part 2 of 3)
Friday, March 7, 2008
iPhone Review, Part 1 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 2 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 3 of 3 Yesterday we tipped off this review with the iPhone Gripes, today we are going to concentrate on making note of only what makes the iPhone awesome to give a good counter balance to it. Let’s dig in… {smartads} My iPhone Praise Safari is [...]
Continue reading...iPhone Review (Part 1 of 3)
Thursday, March 6, 2008
iPhone Review, Part 1 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 2 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 3 of 3 I’ve had my iPhone for 2 weeks or so, and while it’s a really nice device, if I were not a mobile-media guy I would strongly suggest a BlackBerry Curve to you or even a Pearl if you aren’t [...]
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
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