INTRODUCTION Many users have axed, I mean "asked", Dell for an upgrade to the Axim X50v. Well, now it’s here! While the most popular Pocket PCs these days include phone functionality, Dell has decided to aim their PDAs more at business and media/gaming markets with their powerful Axim line. You can’t blame them though, who would want to do business with a mobile phone service provider anyway? At first glance, you might think this …
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Car Integration for Portable Media Players
With the release of the latest iPod, Apple is boasting about all the automobile manufacturers that are or will be offering iPod cable integration as an option in their cars. Where’s our Windows Mobile and “PlaysForSure” compatible equvalent? Some one needs to enforce a standard method of integrating portable media players with car stereos. How about USB? Or Bluetooth 2.0? Originally published on Pocketnow on September 8, 2005. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingMio A701 GPS Pocket PC Phone Announced
Mio has announced the second Pocket PC phone with GPS navigation capabilities built in. The Mio A701 will have an Intel PXA270 processor running at 520 MHz, a 2.7-inch touch screen, 192 MB of memory, Bluetooth 1.2, SDIO, and an integrated SirfStar III GPS reciever along with Windows Mobile 5. It also looks like it will be much smaller than the iPAQ hw6500 series (the other GPS Pocket PC Phone available today.) Would you rather …
Continue readingOnCourse Navigator v5
OnCourse Navigator v5 August 25, 2005 Review by: Adam Z Lein, Senior Editor Jump to: PAGE 1 | PAGE 2 (sponsor) INTRODUCTION OnCourse Navigator 5 is the result of a collaboration between EasyPocketNav and Navigon to offer a Navigon software based GPS solution for North America. Earlier this year we reviewed OnCourse Navigator 4, which faired quite well and had the potential to be a great product dispite a couple small issues (such as the …
Continue readingNextlink Invisio Mobile
INTRODUCTION One problem with mobile phone voice communications is that people can be in very noisy environments when they’re out and about. This can make it very difficult for the person on the other end to hear the conversation. Some headset manufacturers have created software based noise canceling headsets that aim to reduce the ambient noise by focusing on the speaker’s voice. Nextlink on the other hand has significantly reduced ambient noise by putting …
Continue readingIt Plays Doom.com
Here’s a new website dedicated to all sorts of gadgets, mobile phones, MP3 players, and anything else that can run Doom. Naturally, you can expect to see some Windows Mobile devices here, but some of the others may surprise you. Originally published on Pocketnow on August 14, 2005. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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