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PDAs: Soft And Hard Resets

A friend of mine bought another PDA when her Zire 22 wouldn’t charge. I asked her why didn’t she tell me as the solution could be an easy one. Nonetheless, I told her to try a soft reset and then a hard reset. She said she was charging the new one and then was going […]

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Cingular Wireless Offers New-Look, $199 Palm Treo 680

Cingular Wireless and Palm, Inc. today introduced the new Palm Treo 680 smart device, whose brand-new look, broad range of features and economical price will appeal to both consumers and business customers - just in time for the holidays. The Treo 680 quad-band world phone on the Palm OS platform - which is available beginning […]

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GM Gives Next Key Fob Brains (and an LCD)

The wonderful key fob. Yes, fob. So many in my family crack up when I tell them the correct name of that black thing attached to their key that locks and unlocks their door as well as creates the all-ignored “panic” alert.
Reports are, GM will be bringing an even better fob in April to […]

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Blackberry going down

Well, if you have been looking at buying a Blackberry, it might be time to rethink that decision based on what I have been hearing…

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Your bus stop wants to chat

Bus stops with talking ads? Eh, it could work. However I do have my doubts as it is a little bit risky I think.

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Teaching cameraphones to read business cards

Oh this has the potential to be so very cool. If we can indeed, have our mobile devices kicking out pictures that would allow for optical character recognition, I know that I would definitely be down for that!

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Medical Tag Catches Up To The New Millennium

MediStick is a USB device that will give doctors critically needed information if you’re unable to give it to a medic or doctor in the time of urgency. Much like the medical tags that are worn around one’s wrist, the MediStick contains vital information that could save your life such as blood group, allergies, […]

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Nokia to offer Google Talk on Web tablet-sources

I’ve mentioned the Nokia 770 once before. This time though, it seems that more people are beginning to understand that having Google Talk as a mobile option might not be so bad after all.

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C|Net Reviews Portable XM Player from Samsung

I’ve been using XM satellite radio pretty much since day one way back to the turn of the century. I’ve loved it and haven’t listened to FM or AM since.
If you find yourself wishing you could take your XM with you when you leave your car, as I do often, then you […]

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MS says phones to dethrone iPod

Never going to happen in their current form. Even though I am not really an iPod fan right now, I have yet to see many mobile phones offering the same sex appeal as the iPod. Having said that, the Moto RAZR came pretty close.

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Sirius Provides More to Boaters Than Just Howard Stern

Sirius is bringing it’s Marine Weather Service to the 48 contiguous states as well as to the extending waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico as well as the Caribbean. With the new service, boaters will be able to get advanced forecast information such as WSI NOWRad weather radar, track storms, […]

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More Ways to Get Cheating Execs in Trouble: Un-eraser for your SMS

Most of those that got busted in the Enron scam thought they were safe since they had deleted all the incriminating evidence. But delete doesn’t mean delete on a hard drive. You’ve got to write something over the space on the hard drive where that data existed for it to really be gone. […]

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Satellite Radio Rocks Cell Phones

Leave it to the hack with the both the time and desire to get the corporation’s attention. While I do not condone ‘back dooring’ anyone like this, I do see the advantage of being able to listen to satellite content on our mobile phones.

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Motorola Q

Right on! Looks as if our old friend QWERTY has decided to join the ranks among the living again. And having access to this on the Smart Phone is almost an expectation these days. Glad to see Moto doing something about this.

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The IceMat Siberia PC Headset

Skype owns - face it. Although Skype still doesn’t exist for Palm OS, a Windows 2000 box makes a nice phone for talking with Palm OS users and developers! IceMat (IceMat Black second edition review on TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog) sent us its Siberia Headset!
The headset arrived in a huge, impressive box. There […]

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The Smart Camera Is Finally Here

Some of you can still remember the editorial on how the PalmOS is ideal for use in digital cameras.
Anyways, Archos apparently reads TamsPalm , and thus it launched its Gmini 402 Camcorder portable media player. The most outstanding feature is the integrated 1.3 megapixel camera. The machine still lacks a touchscreen though, and apparently can’t […]

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Tungsten E2 Versus Tungsten T5

Ever since I’ve had my E2, I’ve been interested in comparing it to the T5. I was out with one of my testers at the local Burger King and here is what we found out.
The Tungsten T5 has a longer stylus than the E2. My friend uses a replacement stylus; the huge plastic area is […]

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A First Look At The HP iPaq hw6900

Apparently, the CNET people got a first look at the HP iPaq hw6900 over at 3GSM. They posted their review of this PocketPC powered phone (it looks somewhat similar to a Treo, but lacks an antenna and runs Windows Mobile) here.
To be honest, I believe that this is a very bad sign for the PalmOS […]

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Keyspan to Put a Dent into Sonos?

Frequent readers of SvenOnTech know just how much we love our Sonos and there really isn’t anything out there that compares to it. Outside of Apple snubbing our favorite Santa Barbra company from getting a FairPlay license (and thus being unable to play iTunes Music Store purchased songs,) there really is no wrong […]

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IBM Working On an OLED Linux Watch

Where Fossil went wrong going with Palm OS for its nifty watch, IBM will try with eMagin to put Linux behind the moving hands of time with its new watch. Judging from the pictures and video on IBM Research’s site, this ain’t a looker and Rolex won’t have to worry about lost market share, […]