Verizon today issued a press release about the new Samsung SCH-i830 Windows Mobile Smartphone! The device will be available to enterprise customers on January 10th with consumer availablility on January 24th.
The SCH-i830 Windows Mobile 5 based Smartphone combines a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, EVDO services, dual mode CDMA/GSM functionality, and many more unique features. The SCH-i830 will be exclusive to Verizon Wireless, and incorporates international support (i.e. GSM).
The SCH-i830 is based on the Pocket PC stack of the Windows Mobile operating system. Though the device lacks a camera, the EVDO network, international support via GSM, Windows Media Player 10, Wireless Sync, and new push-mail support will be big selling points to highly mobile professionals.
If you are a MS Smartphone user, head on over to SBSH Software and check out the latest release of their Papyrus product! This software is a full-function PIM replacement for the MS Smartphone platform. New features of Papyrus 1.2:
Windows Mobile 5 Support
QVGA (240×320) resolutions
Unlimited MyTexts fields support
New Tasks View redesign, and optional preview pane
Enahnced Scrolling on item view dialogs
I’ve been using SBSH products on my Pocket PC for the last 18 mos. now, and I have been extremely satisfied. SBSH has great support, and a fantastic relationship with its customers. Also check out their excellent forums where you can interact with other users of their software.
While at CES this week, Gizmodo has an article comparing the Samsung i830 to the Treo 700w. Both devices are due out on the Verizon network 1Q of this year, both leverage EVDO, both have a QWERTY keyboard, good amount of RAM, decent processor, etc… It’ll be interesting to see these devices in action! Read Gizmodo’s article for a first-hand impression of the Samsung i830.
PhatWare is wishing everyone a Happy New Year with a sale on all their software products! You can pick up your product of choice for $12.95 each, the sales ends January 4th, 2006 at 12:01am (EST). This is a fantastic opportunity to pick up the software you’ve been putting off – CalliGrapher, PhatNotes, and PhatPad are just a few of the products you can get during this sale.
An article over at Mobile Pipeline is reporting that there will be a ‘large-scale auction of wireless spectrum’ for the US mobile carriers to participate in. This will allow the carriers to expand both footprint, and bandwidth in thier ongoing “high-speed” data offerings. Personally, I believe this will prove to enhance the carriers ability to continue rolling out fast data services for reasonable prices.
Head on over to Smartphone Thoughts where they are asking for your vote of the best smartphone of the year for 2005. I won’t tell which one is leading at the moment, but there may be one or two that you have an opinion on. Check it out – good discussion as well.
John Thune is a giant wiener. He just said that he doesn’t have the votes to end the filibuster.
WHOSE FAULT IS THAT, JOHN???
80% of Americans - Republicans and Democrats - want voter ID. And Thune is just standing there, bragging about getting the Democrats "on record" without
And this is why the left is burning down our cities and assassinating our leaders. Free speech is more powerful than a bullet. Truth lives forever, while assassins decay in the dirt.
