Category Archives: mobile carriersI was talking to a co-worker about mobile phones the other day and she revealed something to me that I hadn’t considered: deaf people overwhelmingly have T-Mobile service and overwhelmingly use one of the various Sidekick models. What, you mean deaf people use mobile phones?
Why not? If your deaf, you might not be able […]
My relationship with Creative Weblogging has changed a bit. The long and the short of it that I will be doing a little less blogging and a bit more promoting of a few of their blogs.
I will continue to blog on VoIP Weblog as I have been. I will still blog on Gadgets Weblog, but […]
Here’s something I never thought I’d be doing–giving my 7 year old a cell phone! He went somewhere with a friend on Saturday and he was a bit nervous. My wife asked me to dig up a phone to give him. I do have two SIMs through work, but I’d rather not give him one […]
I got a couple of pieces of email asking me what my opinion was on Verizon opening their network to third party devices. My basic response? Welcome to the real world, Verizon. Of course, you being a CDMA carrier and all that, a open network really doesn’t mean squat beyond the fact you might […]
Man, oh man, I wrote a lot of stuff this week. Let’s get straight on with it:
Charge Your iPod With An Onion And Gatorage (From The Gadgets Weblog)
Use Your Nokia N95 As A Lightsaber (From The Gadgets Weblog)
Defensio Launches Comment Spam Filtering Service (From I Got Spam?!)
Skype 2.0 For Linux Adds Video (From The VoIP […]
I guess when you’ve been losing wireless customers for as long as Sprint has, you have to do something to turn things around. Making more customer-friendly policies? Might be a good start.
Sprint has announced some changes designed to make for a better customer experience. Except where noted, these changes will be effective on 12 November […]
When I was looking to get a EVDO card last month, the Sprint store I went to on Van Ness in San Francisco did not have this guy on display. If they did, I would have bought this guy.
Oh sure, I like my AirCard 595U, but like the folks at CrunchGear say, it’s a fattie. […]
Back when I actually watched football on a regular basis, Steve Largent was a wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks. Despite the fact I live in the area now, I am not a Seahawks fan. My blood bleeds red and gold.
Now Steve Largent is the frontman for the CTIA, the lobbying group representing the mobile […]
One thing I did on this trip was give my boss my Verizon Wireless V620 PC-card, which allows me to get high-speed Internet access anywhere Verizon Wireless had service. A couple of problems with this arrangement: that PC-card wouldn’t work on my Mac and Verizon Wireless has only 1XRTT service in my neck of the […]
Let’s Talk asked through the Techdirt Insight Community about why consumers might want to get a WiFi-enabled mobile phone. From what I can tell, my “insight” was posted more or less un-edited to the Let’s Talk PhoneTalk blog. (It’s ok, they paid for the right to do that.) Meanwhile, check out what I said.
Let’s face […]
This is pure speculation on Ricky Cadden’s part, but I hope he’s right.
This came from Stefan’s post over at IntoMobile where he talks about the lack of operator support for the Nokia N81 in the UK for one simple reason: the competing music store. All the UK operators have their own music offerings and likely […]
The folks at Creative Weblogging–the people behind Gadgets Weblog, VoIP Weblog, and a slew of others, were serving up a “compromised” creative–a ad with malicious intent. In short, what it was doing was redirecting people to a site that, if you were running Internet Explorer and had scripting turned on, would install malware on your […]
Ever since I started seriously blogging, one of my goals was to have people send me cool gadgets to look at and blog about. Maybe I’d keep them, maybe I’d send them back. Of course, I figured once I started advertising who I work for, I thought nobody would send me any devices that might […]
There is an interest thread going on over on Symbian-Guru related to why people are so unhappy with mobile phone service contracts. Basically because, if you actually do the math, you realize you are getting ripped off.
While I was waiting for my son the other day, I wandered into a Radio Shack to look around. […]
Now I don’t mean this in a derogatory way, but when I read Thomas Anglero’s piece on what Google is assembling with their femtocell investments, all that dark fiber they own, and the fact they want that 700Mhz spectrum that’s going on the auction block in a couple of years, I can’t do much more […]
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