I just recieved an email from a friend which said, “Hey Adam, this is a test of the Jott. Just wanted to show you how it works.” He had just tested out this new service called Jott which will transcribe a phone call into a text message. Here’s how it works. You call Jott’s phone number, you say the name of the person you want to send a message to, then speak your message. Jott’s …
Continue readingCategory: News Archive
Pre-Release Qtek 8500 Sells for $1,710.51
A pre-release version of the Qtek 8500 Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone based on the HTC Star100/Startrek design has sold on eBay for an astounding $1,710.51. I guess this phone is in pretty high demand. It should be released in June and retail for about $500. Originally published on Pocketnow on May 17, 2006. More News Archive articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingBuying Movie Tickets via Pocket PC is Back
Back in the early years of the 21st century there was one mobile-designed website that actually let you purchase movie tickets with your credit card while your dinner date helped choose the movie and time. I did this plenty of times on my old iPAQ H3600 and GSM/GPRS Sleeve. However, Moviefone soon removed the ability to purchase tickets on it’s site and I was forced to either deal with a desktop-designed version on the small …
Continue readingTraffic Updates for GPS Navigation Programs Finally Coming to the USA?
While CoPilot Live has had the capability to re-route based on traffic conditions in Minnesota for a while, most GPS Navigation programs in the U.S.A. didn’t have this type of capability due to the lack of a standard traffic information tracking system that they could access. It sounds like that’s about to change, as Navigon has announced support for TMC capabilities in the US! TMC is a technology used in Europe to broadcast traffic information …
Continue readingPDA France Posts Updated HTC Roadmap
PDA France has posted an updated roadmap of upcoming HTC products that we should see in 2006. The newest addition (in-so-far-as imagery), the HTC Artimes, sports an interesting directional navigation device that we havn’t seen on a PDA before; it uses a track ball. Here’s a sampling of the specs: HTC Prophet Quad-bande: Edge, GPRS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Irda, 2M pixels camera with flash, SDIO, 2.8″ QVGA screen, 128MB ROM, 64 MB RAM HTC Star Trek …
Continue readingOffice 12 for Windows Mobile to Include OneNote
According to Microsoft-Watch.com a version of Office 12 for Windows Mobile is expected to be in production along with the desktop version of Office 12. “Tentatively called “Office 12 for Windows Mobile,” the product will consist of viewers for Word, Excel and PowerPoint (along with some very limited editing capabilities for Word and Excel) — plus a new “OneNote Mobile” version of Microsoft’s OneNote note-taking application. The mobile Office 12 suite is being designed to …
Continue reading