Ever since I first heard about the cell phone being “the” device we’ll all use, I’ve always been sceptical. I’m not comfortable with the form factor for doing things other than making phone calls and, although I use it for Internet and texting, it isn’t easy. John Dvorak has ideas of what it would [...]
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The Perfect Cell Phone by Dvorak
Posted in Handhelds, Trends on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Looking for a Smartphone?
Posted in Handhelds on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Internet.com has posted The Holiday Guide to Smartphones. It looks like it has taken information/articles from a few of their websites to create a single place to find pertinent information concerning the most popular smartphones. They cover 7 phones:
T-Mobile G-1
Palm Treo Pro
Apple iPhone 3G
Nokia E71
Samsung Instinct
Blackberry Curve 8330
Verizon XV6900
It looks like the reviews are fair [...]
Cell Phones Looking for Best Connection?
Posted in Handhelds, Legal Issues, Telecommunications, Wireless Communications on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year, Google submitted a patent that was just published in September. Here’s the abstract:
A method of initiating a telecommunication session for a communication device include submitting to one or more telecommunication carriers a proposal for a telecommunication session, receiving from at least one of the one or more of telecommunication carriers a bid to [...]
Swype
Posted in Accessibility, E-mail, Fun, Handhelds, Software on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you’ve ever tried to type using a cell phone, you’ve probably encountered the T9 system. It’s the predictive typing system. So, when you type a letter, you get a list of words you’ve used before that start with that letter. The more letters you type, the more likely your word will be in the [...]
T-Mobile G1 Phone
Posted in Handhelds, Software, Telecommunications, Trends on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Most people may recognize this as the “Google Phone” — or at least the phone everyone thought Google was going to make. Instead, Google created the operating system — Android — for this phone, called the G1. T-Mobile is the first to use this operating system for a real phone. We should see other cell [...]
Mobile Web Best Practices
Posted in Accessibility, Browsers, Handhelds, Standards, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The World Wide Web Consortium has announced a recommendation that will help us create web pages for mobile devices — Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.
It includes a list of 60 best practices, which are provided at the beginning of the document and discussed further into the document. A definite good read!
[from beSpacific]
Short on time, but you’re still curious about . . . everything? I think that describes almost everyone who works in a library. ;-)
DailyLit will send you installments (about 5 minutes reading time) via either email or RSS on different topics or books. You decide how frequently you want to receive them and, if you [...]
Jack Stows Earbud Cords
Posted in Fun, Handhelds, Security on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tired of having to untangle your earbud cords? Here’s an effective and cute way to deal with them — with earbud Jack! According to a review in the hiptechblog, it’s not only cute, but very easy to use and cheap — only $9.
[from walking paper]
Romance Novels Via Cell Phones
Posted in Fun, Handhelds, Money, Telecommunications on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Harlequin Books now has a series just for busy women — Harlequin On The Go. They send their electronic books to cell phones in small, daily installments — 5-10 minutes each. Each installment takes up about 8 screens of text.
This service is currently available only to Verizon customers, but all national cellular carriers [...]
