WiFi
Life-hacking the T-Mobile MDA
So for all you T-Mobile owners out there, I’ve found a few fun ways to give your device a new lease on life. It’s true that we are all getting tired of the lack of 3G service by T-Mobile, or maybe the “long in the tooth” look & feel of Windows Mobile 5 and [...]
3 Month free T-Mobile WiFi for Vista Users
Ah, finally have the full skinny on the free T-Mobile WiFi Hotspot offer for new Windows Vista Users. The offer is for 3 months of service only starting this Friday. While the rumor of this news was spreading around the web this morning, there was no additional information on the length of the offer.
Even [...]
Free WiFi Rocks
Almost seems like I’ve started some kind of weird “Rocks” series of posts. Well, ok, yes, but it wasn’t intentional - it just kind of happened.
But we’re at our hotel in Duluth and its nice to be able to catch up on news & post a little on things at “full speed”. Brianna was swimming, [...]
A Quick and Dirty UMA Primer
Looking for a brief technical overview of how UMA works? Oliver over at MobileCrunch has a nice post on the topic.
MobileCrunch: A Quick and Dirty UMA Primer
Technorati tags: UMA, T-Mobile, MobileCrunch
Interesting T-Mobile News
Looks like T-Mobile is miving forward on their VoIP offering, adding the feature to their product mix with specialized phones.
It will be interesting to see how people add this service, or use this service in combination to thier mobile phone. No exact news on how they will be using the new spectrum they purchased.
Read more [...]
Real world EDGE speeds at our new place
So I’ve yet to get the Cable service hooked up yet, and we’ve been using my MDA’s EDGE connection for Internet access. Overall, I’ve been happy with the speeds I get with my EDGE connection, one time peaking at 200kbps - quite fast compared to my old phone’s (Nokia 6600) 40kpbs.
At our new home [...]
T-Mobile to roll out UMA in September?
I have a hard time believing this - they only went into beta a week or two ago.
Still, if its true, this would be the first commercial implementation of Unlicensed Mobile Access. This service allows subscribers to use either cellular service or WiFi service to place & receive phone calls.
With T-Mobile having such an [...]
HTC Excalibur gets FCC nod - Engadget Mobile
Engadget has the good stuff today!
Check this out, the HTC Excalibur is being approved for distribution in the US. This QWERTY equipped Smartphone with landscape QVGA screen is built by HTC, the same company responsible for the HTC Wizard and other fantastic Pocket PC & Smartphone designs.
Rumored to be a Moto Q killer, the [...]
CoolSmartPhone.com - New version of Skype for Pocket PC released
So Skype seems to have released a new version of the Pocket PC interface to their service (though I believe its actually in beta yet). Though they have not worked on reducing the system requirements so all us HTC Wizard users can use the software, they have several new features.
Among the changes:
feature: Multi-chat support
feature: [...]
T-Mobile Begins UMA Trials (Phone Scoop)
So it looks like TMo is getting the UMA (Universal Mobile Access) thing moving! Good to see, they seem to be the first wireless carrier to move in this direction.
Of course with their T-Mobile HotSpot service, this is a natural fit to leverage the investment in both GSM and WiFi networks. At least the information I [...]
