If you’ve been watching Heroes on NBC, you may have noticed something interesting on the season finale this week. Noah Bennet has upgraded his phone to the Sprint Touch Diamond, from the Palm Treo 800w he’s been using. I’m not sure that was a wise decision, since the Touch Diamond doesn’t have a hardware keyboard or quite as much one-handed usability and speed as the Palm Treo 800w, but we also discover that Noah’s adopted …
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Why Would You Buy an Android Netbook?
According to Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine in his article titled Windows 7 Starter Won’t Open Any Doors for Android or Linux, Android has about as much of a chance with competing in the netbook market (and desktop computing market) as Linux does, and that’s a very slim chance. Ulanoff mentions how many people are thinking that Microsoft’s crippled Windows 7 Starter Edition (made for netbooks) will open the doors for Linux and Android to …
Continue readingSpb Mobile Shell 3.0 Now Available
The people at Spb have released some of the best Windows Mobile interfaces in the industry. We saw a preview of the new Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 at Mobile World Congress 2009. Over the past couple of weeks Pocketnow had been given the privilege to test out the prerelease. The only statement we can make is, “Amazing!” Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 incorporates some of the best features around; excellent touch response, smooth animation, very finger …
Continue readingSmart Phone Dumb Economy: Internet Access
Now that we’ve got an extremely inexpensive yet feature-rich smartphone (BenQ E72) and an extremely inexpensive money-saving phone service ($10/year pay as you go), you’re probably going to want to get on the internet. Unlike other “smartphones” that require you to purchase a data plan with your carrier, Windows Mobile phones have a variety of other options for internet access. The most obvious one is that the BenQ E72 includes WiFi support. That means you …
Continue readingSmart Phone, Dumb Economy: $10/year
One of the reasons I got the BenQ E72 without a service contract is because now I have total freedom when choosing a plan. Normally if you get a phone that’s subsidized by the carrier, they tell you which plans you’re allowed to use, and in the case of smartphones, they often require you to get a data plan that will cost you an additonal $20-$60 per month. We’re all about being frugal right now, …
Continue readingLoco 4 Local!
Here’s a fun new site advertising Live Search Mobile for Windows Mobile, T-Mobile Sidekick, and “other phones”. Be sure to check out the video commercials on Loco 4 Local.com. And of course, download Live Search Mobile here: http://wls.live.com. Originally published on Pocketnow on April 9, 2009. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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