Prototype: Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap
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Software radio could offer an elegant solution to what a vexing problem: how to have a single handset communicate across multiple networks.
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Internet telephony application balks on IPaq and Axim Pocket PC devices.
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A new startup hopes to draw cell phone users with a service that allows them to design channel lineups for watching videos on their phones.
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âThe phone is so sleek and thin,â reports David Pogue (New York Times) in his review of iPhone, that âit makes Treos and Blackberrys look obese.â And the software transcends. âItâs fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate.â If you need âto answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up.â As for email, itâs âfantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.â And âthe Web browser,â he points out, âis the real dazzler.â No âstripped down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip â much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.â In short, Pogue calls the iPhone, âthe most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years.â
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Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are testing a cellphone system that turns your ordinary phone into a true companion/advisor.
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If you're one of those wireless users who like small handsets but detest small displays, you'll like this: a cellular device with a rollable display.
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One-inch media storage drive marks a step forward for convergence of mobile devices.
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SoonR connects mobile phones with the data on a remote Mac or PC.
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Widgets, or small Web applications that supply useful information direct to the desktop, could soon be appearing on your cell phone screen.
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A new cell phone is loaded with software that turns text on photographed documents into speech
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This week, a company is launching technology that will make it possible for someone to choose what appears on phones that have Caller ID, the feature for displaying identifying information about an incoming call.
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Some recent products are designed to improve cellular reception, and, in some cases, even extend coverage.
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New software from Ribbit could make it easier to stay in touch.
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Someday soon, many cell phones might store as many as 2,000 songs -- or enough map data for a built-in GPS to steer you any place on the planet.
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Satellite-enabled turn-by-turn navigation, whether you're in a car or on foot
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By Rhodri Marsden  Even fairly recently, a personal videophone was some absurdly futuristic sci-fi vision, akin to strapping on a jetpack or having a robot do your ironing. But if you have a newer model of mobile phone and a 3G network connection, it may be within reach.
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Widget makes it a snap to turn photos into cell phone wallpaper or songs into ringtones and even put a price tag on them if you like.