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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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Looking for a Smartphone?

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Swype

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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]

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I’ve been working with Second Life off and on for the past few years.  One of the issues I’ve always come up against is the robustness of the system and connection that is needed in order to have a satisfactory experience.  So, you can imagine how surprised I was to see that Second Life has [...]

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DailyLit

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 [...]

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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]

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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 [...]

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