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Posts Tagged ‘Handhelds’

V551 ACCESS GRANTED

In Computing, General, Technology on 26 April 2005 tagged Computing, General, Handhelds, Hardware with no comments

After some fiddling I was finally able to get my Motorola phone online via Rogers’ EDGE network over bluetooth. I’m entering this now. A speed test showed me as having a 48kbps connection, which ain’t all that bad. The key to this magic was a dialup script I found on this page. The instructions on [...]

V551 Revisited

In Computing, Technology on 25 April 2005 tagged Computing, Handhelds, Hardware with 1 comment

Overall, I’m very pleased with this phone. It’s small, neat and works great. Sound quality is excellent and it seems that its bluetooth support is very good (though I still haven’t been able to get the modem to work – for that I blame Rogers and their inability to give me the information I need [...]

the V dot

In Computing, Technology on 22 April 2005 tagged Apple, Computing, Handhelds, Hardware with no comments

dria and I picked up a couple of new phones yesterday, replacing our Treos with little tiny Moto V551s. There was a minor burning sensation when I tried hooking it up to my powerbook and discovered that it wasn’t supported with iSync, though file transfer seemed to work fine. Looking it up on the Apple [...]

Furthermore

In Computing, Technology on 8 February 2005 tagged Computing, Handhelds with no comments

Why is there No “Mark All Read” option in Treo Mail?

Treo on Linux?

In Computing, Technology on 13 December 2004 tagged Computing, Handhelds with Comments Off

PalmSource announced that they will be releasing the next version of PalmOS as a layer sitting atop a version of Linux tuned for portable devices. This is good news for those of us wishing for a little bit more from our PDA. PalmOS has begun to show its limitations, especially with respect to storage. Currently, [...]