Got your new iPhone 3GS? Or your iPhone 3G? Or the original iPhone like I have? On Wednesday June 17th, Apple released the updated iPhone 3.0 operating system for the iPhone and iPhone 3G. This is the same OS that’s on the iPhone 3GS. There are a few features that don’t work without the 3GS, [...]
Killer Applications for PDAs and SmartPhones
As I was looking for a new cellphone, I began to consider the “Smartphone-type phones. These are combinations of cellphone plus other functions. I mentioned last week that I was looking at one of them — the Samsung Blackjack. Other Smartphones include the Blackberry phone/email devices and the Windows Mobile Smartphones. Thanks to the readers [...]
MP3 Players, PDAs and Cell Phones – the Convergence
Have you seen the television ad from Verison, where everyone is walking down the street, shimmying like Shakira’s video? The convergence of handhelds appears to be going full-stream. Last year, Sony announced that it was exiting the PDA market in the U.S. Palm split into an operating system company and a hardware company. Now, the [...]
iPhone Tethering – Waiting on AT&T
I sure could have used "tethering" on my iPhone last Wednesday eveninng. I rushed home from the office so I could watch LSU play Texas in the College World Series final game. As soon as I parked, my neigbor popped out of her house to warn me that the power was off. We’ve had no [...]
Deactivated iPhone is an iTouch
Last year, I upgraded my 1st generation iPhone to the new iPhone GS. What a BIG improvement! Despite all the griping in the news about AT&T’s overloaded 3G network and all the resulting user frustration, that usually hasn’t been a real problem for me. But, then, I don’t live in New York or San Francisco. [...]
MP3 Downloads | Free Music | Free MP3
Free music downloads — The Past “Free mp3 music download!“ ”Peer-to-Peer file sharing!” It sounded great. It brought in millions — of people who wanted to download free music. It brought in nothing to the music companies and the performers whose music was being uploaded and downloaded by those millions of users. The thrill of downloading [...]
ActiveSync Installation Problems
I had a severe problem installing the ActiveSync conduit on the PC. ActiveSync is the program that recognizes the Smartphone and synchronizes its contacts and emails with Outlook. Other programs also link into ActiveSync to handle synchronization, if they have a PC counterpart to their Smartphone program. When I tried to install ActiveSync — when [...]
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