Submitted by tuxtops on Sun, 10/16/2005 - 21:37
Here is a quick tutorial on how to connect your Linux laptop to a GPRS service using an infrared-enabled phone. For this article OSNews used a Sony Ericsson K700i phone, a Sony Vaio N505VX laptop (which has an onboard IrDA) running the latest Arch Linux and Cingular's GPRS.
Submitted by tuxtops on Sat, 10/15/2005 - 18:36
Mobile-Review has posted an early preview of the upcoming promising smartphone, the Sony Ericsson P990.
Submitted by tuxtops on Fri, 10/14/2005 - 23:25
The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative Monday to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones.
Submitted by tuxtops on Fri, 10/14/2005 - 18:22
For all you .NET Compact Framework developers out there who are still wondering about what's coming up in the next release of Visual Studio and the .NET CF, here is a list of recent articles at Developer.com.
Submitted by tuxtops on Fri, 10/14/2005 - 02:55
Not so long ago the company of Siemens gave its department of mobile terminals to BenQ, and both approach to marketing and forming a product line has changed since then. The company thought widening its product line it would reach the parity with the leading three makers in the number of terminals, and correspondingly increase its market share soon
Submitted by tuxtops on Thu, 10/13/2005 - 23:14
This guide is for Mac OS X, the US Cingular GPRS service only (other providers might work out of the box with the phone, others might not at all -- you never know with GPRS) and any of the Linux-based Motorola smartphones like the A760, A780, E680/i etc (they are all identical regarding their 'modem' functionality). OSNews will try to get a GPRS internet connection using these phones as modems and route the connection to Mac OS X via Bluetooth.
Submitted by tuxtops on Wed, 10/12/2005 - 17:48
Back with the Palm brand-name (again), the company formerly known as palmOne churns out its latest Palm OS handheld, the highly connected TX; Larry Garfield takes a closer look.
Submitted by tuxtops on Wed, 10/12/2005 - 17:47
Today Nokia launched their latest series of mobile handsets, the enterprise business oriented Eseries models. Comprised of the E60, E61, and E70, the new Eseries devices all support WiFi data connections as well as SIP compliant VOIP clients for linking into WiFi based office PBX phone systems.
Submitted by tuxtops on Wed, 10/12/2005 - 17:47
Symbian's newly crowned CEO, Nigel Clifford, has reiterated his company's commitment to midtier phones and promised to smarten up the market as a whole.
Submitted by tuxtops on Wed, 10/12/2005 - 06:30
Palm updated its low-end and upper-mid range of its PDA line with the Z22 and the TX respectively. The TX features a 312 Mhz CPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, HiRes+ 65k TFT, 100 MBs RAM, SD slot, but no voice recorder. The Z22 sports a 200 Mhz CPU, 24 MBs RAM, 160x160 CSTN 4096 color LCD and no SD slot, headphone jack or IrDA. Reviews here, here, here and here.
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