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2006 October

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Event Based Programming: Taking Events To The Limit

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
Experienced coders get experienced by repeating two things: looking at the code of others and by coding, themselves. There is a lot of good sample code available in Open Source products, however, getting concepts presented in a structured and commented fashion can be very comfortable.
Ted Faison’s Event Based Programming: Taking Events […]

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Proporta Alu-Leather Case For Palm Tungsten T5/TX

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
There are a lot of leather cases from several distributors on the market. Today, I looked at Proporta’s Alu-Leather case on my Palm TX. It is said to work with the Tungsten T5, too!
The case is padded all around, and the flipping part is strengthened with an aluminum piece, and it […]

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Brando Treo 600 Docking Station

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
The Treo 600 does not ship with a cradle. While I’ve written about the weakness of the cradle concept more than once, being the animal of habit that I am, I wanted a cradle for my Treo 600 - and Brando complied. Brando shipped a really good Palm Z22 cradle and […]

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A True x86 Emulator For Palm

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
A few days ago I got a mail from the developer who ported an emulator that lets you use real PC apps on a Palm. It’s the Palm OS port of the well-known DOS emulator DOSBox. It doesn’t only emulate an x86 CPU but also a DOS environment, so you can’t […]

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The Proporta Aluminum Case For Treo 600

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
The Treo 600 is a classic smartphone, and aluminum hard cases are classics, too. This combination would immediately score big in the Retro carnival - but let’s see how Proporta’s aluminum hard case for Palm Treo 600 fares in a TamsPalm review:
The aluminum case ships in a blister labeled in French […]

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GSPDA Launches M70 Smartphone

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
Palm OO Garnet isnt dead yet - at least not for GSPDA. Recently, it announced the new M70 smartphone on its Web site.
The machine is advertised to be supporting push email - one of the reasons the Austrian carrier T-Mobile refused to carry the Treo 600 (met the product manager in […]

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PocketTunes Deluxe

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
Almost every Palm OS5 device can play a variety of audio files. My Treo 600 is no exception… but it lacks a media player. A basic version of NormSoft’s PocketTunes ships with all new handhelds - let’s look at how the Deluxe version fares.
PocketTunes’ main screen can be customized with a […]

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One Billion Served, Now with Music

The global music market is set to all but explode according to some experts. Others however, feel that much of this talk is little more that hype. As for myself, I think that the truth is somewhere in the middle.

The global mobile-phone market is predicted to hit the one-billion mark for annual sales by the […]

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Calling Timeout For Overconnected Execs In The Workplace

Has mobile technology become the beast and whipping boy for all of the mobile exec’s troubles these days? If I didn’t know any better, it could be argued that this is the case.
Call it the wireless leash syndrome.
Mobile phones and handheld devices have made companies more productive. But new findings reveal that those who stay […]

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5 Pantech Cell Phones For Mexico

Pantech has just released some new phone models for Mexico for Telcel. Only the model with the fingerprint recognition was offering much “wow factor” for me personally.
Pantech introduces 5 mobile phones in Mexico available through Telcel.
Pantech is active since 2004 in Mexico. The 5 available phones are: PG-6200, PG-1310V, PG-1610, PG-3810 and PG-1810.
The PG-6200 is […]

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Motorola Quarterly Revenue Misses Expectations

Looks as if Moto is not doing as well as some investors might like to see. Its revenue is just not what it used to be.
Motorola Inc., the world’s second-biggest mobile phone maker, on Tuesday posted lower-than-expected quarterly revenue and missed some analyst estimates on phone sales, sending shares down about 8 percent.
Motorola said its […]

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Skype To Release Symbian Client By Year End

And yet another example of how Symbian seems to always be two steps behind.
Skype software compatible with the Symbian mobile phone operating system will hit the market by the end of the year, despite rumors that Skype had halted development of the product, an executive said during the Symbian Smartphone Show in London.
“Hopefully before Christmas […]

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Now mobile phone users get choice of ‘free’ calls

You have to admit, this is simply a brilliant way to solicit mobile users fed up with their current carrier.
A service that lets users make free mobile phone calls between 3G handsets has been launched this week with a view to replicating the success Skype has had in the fixed-line telecoms market. The service, called […]

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Apple Shipped IPods With Computer Virus

Oh now this simply can’t be good PR for Apple. I mean viruses on iPods, this cannot not be good.
In another example of how mobile gadgets can carry malicious programs, Apple Computer Inc. said a fraction of its iPod players sold in the past month contained a virus that affects Windows systems.
The problem affected less […]

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If A Swiss Army Knife Were A Small, Stylish Phone

You know I have to admit, this new phone looks pretty worthwhile. Possibly one of the “smartest” phones I have seen in quite awhile.
The smartphone era is giving rise to a gaggle of new phones that promise everything from picture sharing to e-mail and messaging. A new entry is the T-Mobile Dash, a phone slim […]

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Skype to release Symbian client by year end

And yet another example of how Symbian seems to always be two steps behind.
Skype software compatible with the Symbian mobile phone operating system will hit the market by the end of the year, despite rumors that Skype had halted development of the product, an executive said during the Symbian Smartphone Show in London.
“Hopefully before Christmas […]

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Cartoons Coming to Nokia Phones

OK, this is just bizarre. Not too sure we are needing to have access to cartoons on our mobiles. Then again, isn’t this something better aimed at another medium altogether?
Cartoon enthusiasts in Europe can now look forward to watching some of their favorite animations on.
Nokia handsets. The mobile giant today inked a deal with […]

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Turning your laptop into HDTV

Some might say it’s too difficult, however turning your notebook into a HDTV is not impossible.
The $179 OnAir GT by start-up AutumnWave is an ashtray-size high-definition tuner that plugs into your laptop, turning it into an HDTV set. I recently tested the device at CNET Networks’ headquarters in San Francisco.
At a time when a […]

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Motorola quarterly revenue misses expectations

Looks as if Moto is not doing as well as some investors might like to see. Their revenue is just not what it used to be.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc (NYSE:MOT - news), the world’s second-biggest mobile phone maker, on Tuesday posted lower-than-expected quarterly revenue and missed some analyst estimates on phone sales, sending […]

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From charms to crystals: Cellphones becoming part of fashion

Boy, these days. It’s not even a matter of function. Now it’s a matter of what looks good.
 
COLUMBUS, Ohio — For Denise Albert, choosing a cellphone has nothing to do with ring tones, instant messages or megapixels.
“To me, it’s what it looks like,” said Albert, a 53-year-old […]