Short Version: The $99 Samsung Highnote is a capable music phone with a 3.5mm headphone jack and built-in stereo speakers. If music’s your thing, the Highnote could serve you well. Overview and Features: Candy bar phone with a face that slides up to reveal a numeric keypad and down to reveal integrated stereo speakers Built-in clickwheel for easy navigation of menus and music GPS, Bluetooth, and high-speed EVDO data connections Two-megapixel camera Sprint Music Store and Sprint TV compatible Includes 1GB microSD card and 3.5mm headset w/ microphone MSRP of $99 after two-year agreement and $50 mail-in rebate What’s...
The above image may or may not be a netbook-type computer from Sony. According to some mysterious FCC documents (which, conveniently, I can’t find anywhere) there are two separate model numbers — the PCG-1P1L and the PCG-1P2L – and tests have been performed on Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3G data connections (EVDO and HSPA). If the thing looks tiny, it is. Apparently the label is 128mm wide, which would put the dimensions of the rest of the computer at roughly 9.5 inches wide by 4.5 inches deep. The label mentions Windows, so this machine appears to be a full computer...
Short Version: The $99-after-rebate Quickfire from AT&T is an appealing alternative for the Sidekick crowd, but the promotion of AT&T’s music features without including earbuds or even some sort of adapter for the proprietary connector a real head-scratcher. Overview and Features: 3G handset with a full HTML web browser and a 320×240 touchscreen that slides up to reveal a nice QWERTY keyboard 1.3-megapixel camera Support for subscription music via Napster Mobile, plus support for MP3, AAC, AAC+, AMR, MIDI, and streaming radio formats Built-in AIM, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger along with support for AOL, Windows Live,...
Not wanting to be extremely late to the show like they were with 3G devices for GSM networks (bringing up painful memories, anyone?), the folks over at RIM HQ recently decided to create a work team that’s been specifically entrusted with the task of creating an LTE BlackBerry. The intention of the RIM execs is to have an LTE BlackBerry ready at approximately the same time that LTE begins worldwide deployment, something that could come as early as late 2009 if Motorola has their way. Motorola’s seemingly overly zealous ambitions aside, 2011 is the year when LTE is generally...
Is there such a thing as free will? Author Stephen Baker might answer yes and no. In his new book, “The Numerati,” he sets out to uncover how global number crunchers are able to take the seemingly insignificant details from our daily lives, crunch them and turn them into a complex picture about us that can be used to predict our future behavior and perhaps even influence it. This kind of personal information has been available to anyone who wanted it for a long time, but with the increasing amount of time that we now spend online, the details...
It has been widely reported that iPhone owners use data connections to surf the Internet more often than people whose smartphones have built-in browsers do. Indeed, flat-rate data plans, a bigger screen, a near-desktop quality web browser along with the ability to connect to multiple networks (3G and Wi-Fi) are all contributing to the heavy Internet usage on the part of iPhone owners. Now the very same dynamics are working their magic on all those applications that were made available on the iTunes App Store in July alongside the launch of the 3G iPhone. Demand for iPhone apps is so...
The Russian search giant Yandex, a site of multi-purpose design, has made quite a bit of news as of late. Eight years of growth has allow its revenue to increase from about $400,000 to a reported $167 million in 2007. And as we let known earlier this year, the company, currently comprised of some 1,200 employees, plans to introduce itself on the NASDAQ stock exchange this autumn. The most recent profile of the company comes from the Times of London, which seems to peg it squarely against Google. In short, Times reporter Mark Franchetti, with Yandex co-founder and chief...
CNET’s Tom Krazit and Marguerite Reardon have publishing a lengthy and interesting story reporting on widespread gripes about the iPhone 3G losing its connection. The article provides no definitive conclusions on what the root of the problems might be–or even just how pervasive they are–but theorizes that the iPhone may do a poor job of switching between AT&T’s 3G network and its older and slower EDGE network on the fly. It’s important that a phone be able to do that as seamlessly as possible, since AT&T 3G is so far from universal. It’s always dangerous to come to any conclusions...
Filed under the WTF department, a number of different claims AROUND THE WORLD are being cited regarding the poor 3G reception that Apple’s new flagship device is getting. It seems that the iPhone is having trouble pulling in both 3G AND EDGE signals in countries across the globe, not just here in the USA. Dropped calls, the inability to make calls, bad data connections…if this is happening to you, you’re definitely not alone. … [visit site to read more] ShareThis...
Filed under: HSDPA, HSUPA, Hutchison 3We hate to make you feel like a loser with your 1-point-whatever Mbps upstream data card there, but over in Italy, Ericsson and 3 are doing everything they can to put that card out of business. It appears that through nothing more than a series of software and infrastructure tweaks, the companies have managed to establish uplink data connections at a whopping 5.8Mbps. Oh, and get this -- it's not some fancy, futuristic trial, either, this was all done using 3's existing commercial network. Good news for Italians, and ultimately, good news for anyone that's...
According to recent posts on Apple Discussions, it has been revealed that some users are experiencing low signal strength with the new iPhone 3G. The iPhone 3G automatically switches between 3G to 2G networks for voice and data connections. It should automatically switch to 2G when 3G signals are poor to allow incoming or outgoing calls, but this isn’t the case and it stays on 3G network all the time. Tips To Boost iPhone 3G Signal Strength Here are a few tips according iPhone Atlas that can help you get better signal on your iPhone 3G: Reset iPhone Reset...
The last update to Palm’s genre-defining Treo smart phones was in early 2006. Two years have passed and since then the company hasn’t just sat sedately on the smart phone sidelines. In the fall it released the Palm Centro, a handy, small smart phone for beginners, onto Sprint’s network, and since then has ported the successful little “smart phone that could” over to AT&T and Verizon as well. Now, after selling more than a million Centro handsets, Palm is getting back to its roots with the revitalized Treo 800w, which adds Windows Mobile 6.1 and Wi-Fi capability to a handset...
