Tag Archives: mobile phones

Christmas Lights and Cell Phones

Engadget has a piece about inferior Christmas lights causing interference that may be effect DSL connections. While I haven’t been having problems with my DSL connection, my Treo 600 cell phone seems to be having issues when I’m at home … Continue reading

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Mobile Phones for the Elderly

Engadget has a piece on cellphone company’s starting to market phones to the elderly. All I can say is, what took them so long??? The article wonders “will they become like so many other markets, one for every type? Will … Continue reading

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TV Phone Musings

Most of the “convergence” devices out there involve the telephone and the computer, but not the TV, or at least not the broadcast part of TV – more just the element of TV as a monitor for playing pre-recorded video. … Continue reading

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Telephony

Gizmodo has a review of the Sidekick II in addition to an accounting of some T-Mobile account problems. The review is ok, although it doesn’t really compare the unit to the previous Sidekick and may have a couple of inaccuracies. … Continue reading

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Cell Phone Reception

Our recent trip to North Carolina was a lot of fun and a great learning experience in a lot of ways, some more obvious than others. One less obvious way was about cell phone reception. I have been a T-Mobile … Continue reading

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T-Mobile Sidekick Vs. Handspring/PalmOne Treo 600

Many of you have read about my love-hate relationship with T-Mobile’s Sidekick and its lack Outlook synch capability. Almost a year ago I had gotten tired of waiting for the ability to synch my contacts, calendar, and task list with … Continue reading

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My brief affair with the Blackberry 7230 and how I came back home to Danger

Being a long-time internet junky and more recently a progressively obsessed cell phone geek, I decided to buy a Sidekick (made by Danger) from Tmobile back last November, just a month or so after it came out. For those who … Continue reading

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Convergence Ramblings

Gizmodo has a few references to phones (from British Telecom, Ericson and Verizon, and Motorola and NEC) that are being developed by various companies that are to have Wifi capability and even designed to do voice over IP. For those … Continue reading

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