Archive for the 'Smartphones' Category

Windows Mobile powered Treo (Treo 670?)

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Ok. We get it, it’s freaking everywhere online. Pics of a rumored Treo 670 running some version of Windows Mobile OS. Here’s one from this post in TreoCentral:

So what? We say, bring it on! palmOne has already stated that they are not averse to using other operating systems for their future Treo models. Anything to [...]

Radio-loaded gadget of the future

Friday, March 11th, 2005

ABI is also reporting that “the number of radios in the cell phone is set to rise exponentially” soon. Instead of just GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS cellular, with some Bluetooth on the side for synching and using a headset, the researchers say it will soon have GPS for location services, various versions of Wi-Fi and [...]

Hard disk smartphone to Asia first?

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

The world’s smartphone/mobile phone enthusiast’s sites are awash with reports and photos of Samsung’s latest tri-band, 3GB hard disk toting, Windows Mobile for Smartphone powered wonder, the SGH-i300. These reports come in the wake of it being spotted on display at the ongoing CeBIT 2005 tradeshow currently running its course in Hannover, Germany.

What’s stoking the [...]

Research company sounds death knell for PDAs

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Not surprising at all this happens, as PalmInfocenter picks up an In-Stat study of PDA shipment and growth rate dropping off in the coming years, as well as the “morphing” of traditional PDAs into more industry-centric tools or smartphones (we say PDA phone):
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular wireless devices will be offered by more traditional PDA [...]

What happened to the iPAQs, PDA-1 predicts again

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Given the hoo-ha on Wall Street and some very nasty remarks for Carly Fiorina quitting as Chairman/CEO of HP earlier this week, one might be forgiven to overlook what’s happening to the latest iPAQ models.

But … the iPAQs hx2755 and hx2715 has been out for months before. Why is there no buzz about them; which [...]

$100 discount for Treo 650 before 2/2/05

Friday, February 4th, 2005

That sounds a whole lot better than palmOne making a “pricing error” in selling the unlocked Treo 650 during Cingular’s/palmOne’s co-launch on Wednesday for $599.
palmOne on the very next day says, oops - our bad: It’s supposed to be $699, folks. But consumers aren’t so sure that it was a pricing error (neither do we). [...]

Forgotten PDAs

Monday, January 24th, 2005

About 314,000 PDAs and other handheld devices are left behind in cabs worldwide every 6 months. That’s over 7 units every hour of the day. What the … well, we are guilty of that too. Only it was in the bus … good grief: That means there are MORE everywhere else, other than cabs!
Anyway, we [...]

Staples $10 coupon

Friday, January 14th, 2005

Here’s a printable coupon which takes $10.00 off in-store purchases $40.00 or more; expires 1/30/05. That’s a 25% discount, not too shabby.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to just click on, print, and stash it into your wallet now instead of holding off - there were too many instances where we unexpectedly needed to pop [...]

Finally in Malaysia: O2 XDA IIs & Xphone II

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

It sure took O2 Malaysia some this time around, but they have finally launched the XDA IIs PDAphone and Xphone II smartphone. Read their press release here (in PDF format.) We like their slate-grey/black outer shell color combo; silver’s getting a bit dull these days.
The newly-redesigned O2 websites are a tad slow, FYI.
The XDA IIs [...]

PiTech’s ready-to-brand Qool QDA-700

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

Seen this smartphone? Looks cool, huh?
This is a Palm OS powered smartphone, manufactured by new Palm OS™ System Development Partner PiTech (Portable Innovation Technology) and is offered up to anyone who’d be willing to buy the whole shebang and lay its brand on that sleek black front fascia.
What Palmsource says about the specs:
The Qool QDA-700 [...]