Archive for June, 2004

miniSD cards for your MPx220

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

After all the noise generated upon Motorola’s press release of the MPx220, we decided to get practical and sought out the memory cards that future MPx220 users will probably need.

Motorola MPx220 finally shows up

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Motorola has released on its press site detailing its latest and highly anticipated smartphone, the MPx220. Ever since then, gadget websites throughout the world have been fretting over it. It grew feverish after it was also revealed as a centerpiece in the ongoing TechEd 2004 conference by Microsoft in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Treo Ace clam-up: Not palmOne’s doing

Monday, June 28th, 2004

We stand corrected.
In a post by miradu of TreoCentral:
The article was pulled due to threatened legal action from one of the nations largest wireless carriers. While PalmOne did have an early morning discussion with TreoCentral, they were not directly involved in the removal of the article. TreoCentral does not have an NDA with PalmOne.

Scam on Motorola MPx100 smartphone on eBay

Monday, June 28th, 2004

I sure hope folks don’t fall for this one.
Yeah, right.
In the latest twist to an old scam, folks are asked to pay up $20 for a cheap cellphone antenna booster, which will get them on a list of others who do the same. Once the list propagates to 35, these guys will ship a Motorola [...]

Great Web-to-PDA, smartphone service - free

Sunday, June 27th, 2004

What is Evmo?
Evmo® is a specialized wireless service that delivers personalized information through net enabled Smartphone and PDA’s.
A simple enough definition from Evmo itself. We have seen quite a number of similar portal services, only that we find Evmo to be just simpler and elegant to work with. Reminds us of AvantGo in a more [...]

Clam up, says palmOne

Sunday, June 27th, 2004

Looks like palmOne ain’t doing too well in the customer satisfaction department.
Barely 24 hours passed by, and check back with treocentral reveals that its post on the upcoming Treo, codenamed Ace has been removed. A quick browse to its forum shows a well-participated thread giving their all on what they think of palmOne’s latest clam-up [...]

Peeling Zire 72 keeps a-haunting

Sunday, June 27th, 2004

Despite all what’s been written in multiple Palm-centric (and some non-Palm) websites, discusion groups and forums throughout the world about the problem - no news comes about from palmOne itself on a satisfactory resolution.
Sure, we have lots of complaints logged; lots of support “we are looking into it” replies to such complaints. But what about [...]

New Treo leaks out

Friday, June 25th, 2004

treocentral has the scoop in addition to Palminfocenter and engadget on a new Treo due out end-autumn ‘04, as expected from palmOne, which traditionally refreshes its enterprise-driven devices (Tungsten, Treo) every Autumn. It also does the same for its consumer-driven devices (Zire) in Spring, as seen earlier this year by the release of the Zire [...]

Buy.com weekend coupon

Friday, June 25th, 2004

Buy.com has a $10 coupon off every $100 purchase, storewide. Orders must be placed on or before 6/27/2004 11:59:00 PM (Pacific Time). Click here for coupon link; terms and conditions available thereon in the page.

4th. of July handheld specials from eCost

Friday, June 25th, 2004

palmOne Zire 72 Shopping Cart Special $265.82 (regularly $299.00)
Garmin iQUE 3600 Shopping Cart Special $432.95 (regularly $549.99)
HP iPAQ 4150 Shopping Cart Special $426.00 (regularly $426.99)
PalmOne Tungsten E Shopping Cart Special $184.00 (regularly $199.00)
PalmOne Zire 31 Shopping Cart Special $136.05 (regularly $199.00)
HP iPAQ 1940 Shopping Cart Special $259.00 (regularly $259.99)
PalmOne Tungsten T3 Shopping Cart Special $369.00 [...]