Posts Tagged Mobile

Kill cell phone speaker buzz

Clever Uses: Magnets Kill the Cell Phone Speaker Buzz — an old but effective idea

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LG Viewty config

Probably crazy but we are trying to coerce an LG Viewty cellphone to work on ATTWireless — good tips here on how to get internet configured — Re: LG KU990 (Viewty) – Setting up Internet? – LG – Wireless Forums from AT&T

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Best Wireless phones

Wirelessinfo.com Selects 2007 – News – WirelessInfo.com – Cell Phone Reviews and Wireless Plan Ratings — one list, we need a new one in the family

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Apple, Starbucks, AT&T, and T-Mobile Suck

OK so I am in the grocery store this AM trying to check college football scores on my iPhone and what do I get? The stupid T-Mobile homepage because there is a Starbucks next door. And to support the iTunes store Apple slams you on to the stupid T-Mobile network, but no other web connectivity is allowed. This sucks. Here in the land of Starbucks, there is a Starbucks T-Mobile Wifi net about every 100 yards, so basically I have to turn off Wifi service continually. Sucks.

Apple — how is this a freaking benefit? You should let all my non-iTunes traffic default to a different wifi provider or edge. Starbucks — this is driving me out of your stores and pissing me off at you even when I am next door! You need to provide free Wifi. AT&T — this is completely screwing with customer perception of the network performance of the device. You need to help Apple get non-iTunes traffic onto your net. T-Mobile — I am never ever going to pay for your stupid service. You had better figure out fast how to shift to a free service business model or you will become completely irrelevant.

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Ignition blog posts of note (or related blog content)

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Turning your blackberry into a google phone

Andy wants a google phone — A Sack of Seattle: Google phone.

You can get a long way there today:

  • Google mail for your domain — navigate to m.google.com/a and install. This is the app for your own domain mail, there is a gmail equivalent at gmail.com/app
  • Google calendar — just go to calendar.google.com, it has a great mobile interface. and a great sms interface too
  • Google reader — www.google.com/reader/m
  • Maps — navigate to www.google.com/gmm/. another great app.

By the way, once you’ve installed all these, your blackberry will probably run out of memory and start autodeleting mail from your blackberry inbox with no warning. if you go to settings…advanced…applications, you can uninstall a bunch of cruft like all the language support you don’t need, all the crappy bberry apps and carrier apps you never use, etc. Love that MSDOS-style memory management

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Ignition blog roundup

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Ignition Blog roundup

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Telenav slammed on my cingular blackberry

A TeleNav! app was slammed on my blackberry today. I didn’t ever install it, it just showed up on the homescreen. Basically a kind of spam from cingular I assume.

Anyway i tried it. It wasn’t terrible, but I can’t see why anyone would bother, the google maps app is so much better. The telenav app is a bit of size/speed pig, it doesn’t show traffic data, no satellite views, no white/yellow pages lookup, an annoying upsell ad on the front page. I deleted it.

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Phil is building a blackberry suite

Berry411 wasn’t enough for him — now he is Announcing BerrySearch Beta: Info on the Go for the Blackberry ? Bogle’s Blog. Nice stuff.

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