There are some more pictures of the XDA 2 on the german XDA-Zone website. For a translation from altavista, Click here. If you look closely at some of the pictures, you can see a Bluetooth icon on the Today Screen. Originally published on Pocketnow on August 10, 2003. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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Cell Phones, Billboards Play Tag
“Due to be launched in 20 cinemas in mid-July, the Hypertag technology will enable mobile-phone and PDA users one-click access to Web pages by pointing and clicking at advertising posters. ” Mobile content here we come! This new Hypertag technology uses Infrared and/or Bluetooth to allow users to access more information online. The technology opens up alot of other possible uses as well… “For example, it could be used in museums and galleries, where visitors …
Continue readingDreaming: Bluetooth Answering Machine
In the discussion of my review of the Bluetooth 56K Modem, I had another idea… Wouldn’t it be cool if you had a Bluetooth Answering Machine plugged into your home landline… it would record voicemail messages in it’s internal memory or whatnot… but as soon as you got home, your Pocket PC would connect to the answering machine via Bluetooth and the number of voicemail messages for your selected mailbox would pop-up on your screen …
Continue readingBrighthand says “Clamshell Makes A Comeback”
A new article on Brighthand suggests that Microsoft may have abandoned the Handheld PC operating system and clamshell device design a bit too early. I agree that the Handheld PCs were flawed as the hardware capabilities and costs were not viable at the time. I also agree that there is a market for these devices… but I don’t necessarily agree that the “Pocket PC” operating system should be redesigned to accomodate handheld PCs that include …
Continue readingBuyMusic.com off to a rocky start.
Buy.com last week released their answer to Apple’s iTunes Music Store called BuyMusic.com. The service allows you to purchase songs in Windows Media format at low cost. “But in an example of the technological trickiness involved in offering users the freedom they desire while giving music labels the protections they demand, early customers have found they can’t transfer the tunes they buy on BuyMusic.com to digital portables.” – USA Today Here’s another user’s bad experience …
Continue readingNew Multi-mode chipset to offer CDMA and GSM network connectivity.
“The radioOne 6300 chipset is the world’s first true global roaming chipset,” said Don Schrock, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. “It will allow manufacturers to make multimode, multiband devices more cost-effectively and support carriers with handsets designed for the growing number of subscribers who wish to roam across CDMA and GSM networks.” This would greatly increase the coverage for global travellers! I wonder what kind of roaming charges there might be. Originally published on Pocketnow …
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