Android Phone Without Google Voice? Yes, But What a Deal! You Get What You Pay for @ Virgin Mobile.
News of Virgin Mobile starting to sell an Android phone is disruptive, to say the least. Not because of the phone – it’s a dinky little Samsung Intercept – but because of the plans. They are all contract-free, and start at $25. The basic level only gives you 300 minutes to talk, but it includes [...]
NTP is the New SCO
NTP, the shell company whose only business is to extract ransom from real businesses does not sit on the $600 they extorted from RIM. They are now suing just about all the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, HTC, Microsoft, LG and Motorola. Is NTP the new SCO? Related posts: NTP Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others [...]
Simple Phone (for Seniors): when Less is More
There’s hardly a week without a major superphone announcement. Yes, smartphones are so last year, with the iPhone 4, HTC EVO, Samsung Galaxy S..etc we are now in the era of superphones. I just wonder what’s next? Could it be … simple phones? The official terminology for these is feature-phones, but they are anything but… [...]
Your Own (Almost) Ad-Hoc HotSpot
If you’re a frequent traveler, you’re likely better off buying a MiFi or using your late-model cell-phone’s HotSpot capability than paying those outrageous hotel surcharges. If you’re a frequent conference-goer, you’ve already learned they all fail to provide reliable connection(Web 2.0, LeWeb, Gnomedex, Microsoft PDC, Google I/O, just to name a few recent examples), so [...]
US Air Force Forced to Play – by Sony
My new HTC Incredible phone has a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor in it. That’s faster than laptop computers were just a few years ago. That, and reading the US Air Force story (you have to wait for that a little longer…) reminded me of an interesting conversation with Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu two years ago: Given [...]
iPhone? Android? It’s All Irrelevant when you Can’t Get a Signal
Will iPhone users move to Verizon? – goes the speculation, based on a study published @ Fortune showing AT&T drop calls 3 times as frequently as Verizon. From my vantage point even dropped calls would be a luxury – meaning you can get a strong enough signal to place calls in the first place. Apparently [...]
I Stole the HTC Incredible for $99. OMG.
Wow, talk about luck, apparently I caught a discount that barely existed for hours. I’ve long waited for a decent smartphone available @ Verizon, be it the iPhone, Nexus One or whatever else … so raving reviews of the HTC Incredible certainly did not leave me cold. Still somewhat hesitating, I started to look for [...]
Announcing the Space Age Swiss Army iPhone Killer
Just trying to stay competitive here, I am (re)launching my Swiss-Army-Knife-Cellphone combo. Granted it does not follow the latest iPhone-like fashion, but hey, it’s a 2006 model – still with unparalled features, like solar panel, credit card/ id reader, game controller, DVR, laser printer… you name it. Versatile yet rugged, Ben’s company should carry it. [...]
The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC
2008 REDUX Another piece in the 2008 Redux series, originally posted in March 2008. The computing landscape has somewhat changed with the appearance of netbooks, but I am still waiting for the cellphone-aware PC-less PC. Mike Egan @ Computerworld makes the case for PC’s to be smarter, with improved awareness of cell-phones, which means of [...]
What Nokia? Kim Basinger's Lifeline would be an iPhone Today.
The 2004 thriller Cellular features three stars: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, and a Nokia 6660 video-phone. The kidnapped school-teacher played by Kim Basinger pieces together a broken phone and reaches a random dude, Ryan (Chris Evans) on cell-phone – this call literally becomes her lifeline. Ryan effortlessly uses his Nokia miracle-phone in the middle of [...]
