MSNBC’s Gary Krakow says the new quad-band GSM Nokia e62 is the best smartphone ever. The camera-less phone has a QWERTY thumb keyboard and looks like a Motorola Q or stretched out Blackberry. Krakow strikes me as platform agnostic based on past reviews. So, I’m taking his opinion at face value. I wonder, though, how well the phone syncs contacts and calendar data with, say, Microsoft Outlook or Apple’s iCal. The article also doesn’t mention how well its web browser works (probably Opera) or if it has an RSS feed reader.
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Upgrade an HP iPAQ 2215?
Reader I.I.B. asks: I wish to know if my ipaq 2215 can upgrade to windows mobile 5.0?? or windows mobile 2003 2nd Edition????
Unfortunately, HP did not provide any kind of upgrade path for the iPAQ 2215 Pocket PC. However, current generation Pocket PCs (without phone capability) are reasonably priced as they slowly disappear from the product landscape. The 416MHz Dell Axim X51 is currently $224 and the HP iPAQ rx1955 is $299.99.
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Nokia N Series Phones Have Flickr Applications Built-in
According to the Flickr news blog, the new Nokia N Series phones have a Flickr upload application built-in. The Flickr site below provides the details.
The apparent difference between using this built-in application and emailing the photo to Flickr is that the application allows photographs to be uploaded at its full resolution. Some phone email applications (including mine) limits emailed photographs to 640×480 (0.33 megapixels).
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IMI Tech Talk Radio Show Notes for Aug. 13, 2006
Here’s the link to the MobileViews MobileWiki page with links to websites discussed on Tom D’Auria’s IMI TechTalk radio program on KFNX 1100am in Phoenix, AZ.
MobileViews MobileWiki IMI Tech Talk 2006.08.13 Show Notes
The topic Tom and I focused on was running Microsoft Windows on Intel-based Apple Macs using virtualization technology.
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Change in Detecting next version of Internet Explorer Mobile
According to the IEMobile Team blog, the next version of Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Mobile will have a different user-agent string. Read their blog entry for details.
Detecting Internet Explorer Mobile’s User-Agent on the server
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whocalled.us – Track those mysterious calls
You’ve probably gotten those calls (or seen them in your Caller-ID history) with unidentified phone numbers. Some are from telemarketers. Others never say anything or leave a message. This interesting web site might be able to help you figure out who is/are behind those phone calls.
Note that this is a user-contributed information site and that the language is PG-13 sometimes.