T-Mobile’s Free WAP GPRS access extended to Prepaid customers by the end of the month!

There’s a rumor going around that T-Mobile will offer free GPRS internet to Prepaid customers by the end of the month. See the thread at Howard Forums. Post-paid T-Mobile customers already do have free unlimited GPRS WAP access which works for web browsing and email. A prepaid account will cost as little as $10 per month. It also already includes free SMS messages and SMS email. Add free WAP access and you’ve got an excellent …

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Club i-mate offers free Exchange accounts to i-mate owners

While Club i-mate started offering free Exchange accounts to it’s members earlier this week, now the Exchange accounts actually work! Syncing via the mobile server still seems to be a bit unstable. Anyone who owns an i-mate device can sign up as a member for free with their IMEI number. Originally published on Pocketnow on March 5, 2004. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.

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MyWindowMobile.com launched today

MyWindowsMobile.com is a new site that offers over-the-air custom configurations for your Windows Mobile Smartphone or Pocket PC Phone. In other words, you can add email accounts and favorites by entering them into the website, and it will send an SMS to your device which will automatically configure everything for you. Originally published on Pocketnow on March 3, 2004. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.

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The Next Windows Mobile version

An article on Mtekk.com.au discusses the current rumors about Windows Mobile 2004 and gives some very logical reasoning that we will not see a new Windows Mobile operating system in time for the release of the Motorola MPx and iPAQ H6300. Instead Matt M suggests that there will be an update to Windows Mobile 2003 perhaps in the form of a service pack which will fix numerous bugs and add a few features. The reasoning …

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Universal Picture Messaging

So you’ve got this great new camera phone and you want to send pictures to your friends? Well, in the US at least, most services only allow sending picture messages to others on the same network. Verizon has a web-based MMS client for you to send picture messages from a desktop computer to phones, and T-Mobile can recieve picture messages via the phone’s [email protected] email address. But that doesn’t help when sending images from network …

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