Ok, so yesterday my new little USB GPS receiver shows up and of course I go into full geek mode. I pulled out the IBM X20 (the best thin-client laptop platform ever made IMHO) and plugged it in. I fired up MS AutoRoute 2006 and once I configured the GPS receiver with the software [...]

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you all had a safe and fun New Year’s celebration. I am in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico right now and am writing this post via the wireless connection (via bluetooth) on my Nokia 6620 (Cingular Wireless). I have the unlimited data plan from Cingular, which has been a bit [...]

Ok, I just came across a push email client for Series 60/Symbian OS phones. It is called MailX. MailX is a subscription based push email system designed to work on phones using the Symbian Operating System. I was pretty excited when I first heard there was a push email client for my phone, [...]

For anyone who is looking for them, here is the page where Cingular gives you the smallest data coverage maps that you can find. I guess they really don’t want you to know if they have coverage for their data plans.

Well, I guess you know that the whole mobile phone ringtone and wallpaper craze has made it to the masses when your future mother-in-law has one on her phone. That is right, Cameron has a custom ringtone on her cell phone that is not even on most of the time and I am not even [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, Sparkfun Electronics releases, to my knowledge, the first Rotary GSM mobile phone ever created. This is a fully functional rotary dial telephone that is 100% mobile. It comes with a rechargeable battery, like any mobile phone, and can hold a charge [...]

What is the deal with cell phones and speakers? Every time my cell phone is within a few feet of an amplified speaker, it buzzes and beeps every couple of minutes. If I get a phone call, it is like a Chinese Fire Drill. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It [...]

Some of the new Acuras, BMWs and Jaguars are coming with Bluetooth handsfree systems built into the car. You can transition between phone to car and back to your phone seamlessly via the Bluetooth hands free profile. So, what do you do if you don’t have one of these cars? You buy yourself [...]

Yesterday, Nokia announced a completely new web browser for their Series 60 phones. This was in response to mobile phone carrier data that showed over 50% of the data usage on mobile phones was for web browsing. You can read more about the new Series 60 browser on Yahoo! News.

Seems like a lot of people are making it here looking for information on using Cingular’s MediaNet service. I have the MediaNet unlimited package as when I signed up for the service I was very excited about the prospects of using my Nokia 6620 as a mobile modem for my laptop via Bluetooth. [...]