The Cell Phone Junkie Show #114

The Cell Phone Junkie Show #114 1:15:10
Show Notes
China mobile surpasses 600 million subscribers, more news on T-Mobile’s
3G network and finally a good Skype client for Windows Mobile.

Mickey’s Treo 800w review

Joey’s experience with installing WM 6.1 on the Mogul

News
Sprint loses ETF case in CA
China Mobile passes 600 million subscribers
Cell Phones during the LA earthquake
Motorola reorganization
Tracphone getting into unlimited offerings
T-Mobile offers month-to-month contracts
T-Mobile 3G coming to 27 markets on Oct 1
Qwest begins selling Verizon service
Qualcomm makes first HSPA call
AT&T to cut off P2P
NTT DoCaMo users can now use AT&T’s network in Hawaii
Committee approves in-flight cell phone ban
AT&T sole US iPhone carrier into 2010

Devices
Palm sells 2 million Centros
Palm Treo 800w $189 at Best Buy
T-Mobile giving free batteries to Shadow customers
T-Mobile Blackberry Curve Sunset
HTC reports Diamond coming to Sprint this month
Touch Diamond at FCC with US HSDPA spec
Telstra getting Blackberry Bold in September
Garmin Nuvifone delayed till 2009
Verizon Blitz
Nokia dropping hardware prices up to 10%
Nokia N96 release date

Software
Re-activate Internet Sharing on updated Sprint WM6.1 devices
Bluetooth Dialing for the Treo 800w
Blackberry Connect missing from E66 and E71
Samsung Instinct Firmware Update
iPhone Dynolicious car performance meter
Nullriver tethering software for iPhone, then disappears
Netshare reappears
Netshare disappears again
Missing Sync for Symbian
Google Maps gets Transit directions
Skype Client for Windows Mobile 6.1
Test Call from Touch Diamond
LG Voyager gets Visual Voicemail

Questions/Comments
Comment from Ralph
Voicemail from Josh
Comment from Joel
Voicemail from Greg (Sticky Note Man)
Questions from Krys

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Mobile Tech Addicts reviews the Apple iPhone 3G

Most times, it makes sense to do your own review of a device when you’ve been using one.  So, after using the Apple iPhone 3G for the past 2 weeks, i felt it was time to put up a review.  Then I came across this article written by Chris at Mobile Tech Addicts.  Chris has done such a good job writing this review, that I don’t feel it is necessary to do my own.  Kudos to you Chris for a job well done!

Below are a few exerpts of Chris’ review, but make sure you head over to the Mobile Tech Addicts review for the most comprehensive review I have read on the device to date.

What’s all the hype about this 3G then ?

Well as the iPhone is a connected internet phone in all senses, 3G is a major addition to the device, to get the most from the iPhone involves web surfing, email gathering and many other data intensive tasks happening quickly, over Edge or GPRS this was at best slow but mostly painful, over WiFi it was a great experience. Now imagine having a WiFi connection with you all the time and that is what 3G can give you, once you have it, you cannot give it up, its fantastic. I did a few speed tests and I was getting some pretty fast speeds as you can see below, the downside is 3G coverage is by no means brilliant and can be very patchy but when it is available it works great.

What’s all the hype about this 3G then ?

Well as the iPhone is a connected internet phone in all senses, 3G is a major addition to the device, to get the most from the iPhone involves web surfing, email gathering and many other data intensive tasks happening quickly, over Edge or GPRS this was at best slow but mostly painful, over WiFi it was a great experience. Now imagine having a WiFi connection with you all the time and that is what 3G can give you, once you have it, you cannot give it up, its fantastic. I did a few speed tests and I was getting some pretty fast speeds as you can see below, the downside is 3G coverage is by no means brilliant and can be very patchy but when it is available it works great.

Conclusion

The iPhone 3G is a fantastic phone, brilliant user interface, now with the added benefit of 3G speeds, third party applications and GPS but it is still the little things that are letting this phone down badly. Until Apple wake up and listen to what people want then this phone will remain a flawed genius. Potentially brilliant but when will we see the simple boxes ticked off to meet that potential, if we do then this phone is a real winner and will be a keeper for a long time, if it doesn’t happen then Windows Mobile 7 could overtake the iPhone quite easily with the right user interface matched to it’s already superior feature list.

Positives

Multi Touch Interface and usability

3G speeds

Music playback and storage

The App Store

Safari Browser

Email integration

Negatives

Battery Life

GPS functionality

Poor applications at launch

Too many missing simple functions

No copy and paste

No tethering