Archive for the ‘Wireless & Mobility’ Category

As I noted previously, Sprint 4G modems issued at Sprint’s Open Developers Conference did not work with Windows 7 or Vista SP2.
Fast forward to last week. SmartView 2.28 was released, and I fired it up in hopes that the demo units finally worked.
The result? They do. Download it and finally enjoy your 4G freebie.

I’ve run into a bug, and am having a bit of trouble pinpointing who’s side it’s on.
Here’s the long and the short of it. Take an SD card, format it on your (Snow Leopard) Mac for MS-DOS (FAT32). Now, insert it into a Windows Mobile device.
As I’ve found, Windows Mobile won’t read the card. I’m [...]

That’s right. Unfortunately, Sprint just informed me that Vista SP2 and Windows 7 will not work with the Sprint 4G demo cards handed out at the Open Developers Conference.
The reason is that Vista SP2 and Windows 7 are not compatible with the older Sprint SmartView included on the demo CD. That version of SmartView is [...]

Well, they did ask Engadget to take that number down. It might be a marketing ploy to spread the news better, but still… 80,000 copies x $100 = $800,000 so far.
Not bad considering that Woot sells 4.3-inch GPS units for just $15 more, including shipping. And yes, today’s Woot offering is exactly that… made by [...]

I want to apologize for the delays yesterday and today. People are waiting for their cashback, hearing back on job opportunities, and setting up meetings. Not to mention I’ve been absent from the news… and other projects…
Keeping my car working is important right now, I’ll be driving around considerably over the next few months. So, [...]

Okay, taking a page from the deals at CheapenGadget.com, I’ve written a how-to for getting the Volt for only $28,000. That’s less than the cost of Saturn’s VUE hybrid… which doesn’t happen to be electric. And, it’s only $6,000 more than the Toyota Prius 3G (seriously, they need to stop with the 3G references, it [...]

Sprint has crowned me the first Palm Pre owner on their Relay Data-only plan. Unfortunately, being on the bleeding edge of things isn’t so easy. Sprint didn’t relay (no pun) the activation protocol to the Relay team… so they’re trying to figure out how we’re going to get activated.
Obviously, Sprint wants to keep Relay under [...]

I just ordered my Palm Pre. Yeah, I opted for Sprint Relay instead of SERO long ago. Didn’t need the voice, and the unlimited messaging was more valuable to me. And, thankfully, Sprint woke up and gave Relay Data-Only people the Pre that they deserve. Most people on Relay Data-Only plans are deaf, and I [...]

Believe it or not, but the email ratio to comments is way out of whack on my blog. It seems a lot of you like to email more than comment… not that it’s a big deal. I don’t mind, but please don’t feel afraid to post a comment as well. I don’t bite… much.
So, a [...]

As you may have read already on MechaWorks and on PhoneNews.com… MechaWorks will be launching its first mobile app on Thursday.
I will drop one more tidbit. As I alluded to on PhoneNews.com, it isn’t what you are thinking. We are not launching PhoneNews.com for iPhone. I know we announced that in the past, and I [...]