Archive for the ‘Mobile Topics’ Category

Here’s an excellent video comparing the two phones, side by side.

It seems there are great apps released for the iPhone every day. Whether for personal use or business use, there really does seem to be an app for everything.

Two new apps aimed at business travelers and several new tech and business news apps are among the latest additions to InfoWorld.com’s iPhone business apps catalog — an interactive listing of iPhone apps of use to professionals, businesses, and IT staff. The two travels apps are USPS Mobile, which helps you track packages and find Zip codes and post offices when on the go, and ETA, which helps you plan your route and estimate arrival when traveling in the U.S. and Canada by car or plane.

Now if I could just find an app to find Outer Banks rentals when I am ready to take a vacation. Is there an app for that too?

Microsoft is a competitor in the search engine business? When did this happen and why didn’t I get the memo?

Verizon Communications Inc said it agreed to a mobile search deal with Microsoft Corp and that details will be announced later on Wednesday.

Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is due to announce their deal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Seidenberg, speaking at a Citigroup conference, gave no further details.

Weird. Can you find me now?

I don’t get this. If you want a mobile phone, wouldn’t you buy a mobile phone? Would you buy an mp3 player that could be “transformed” into a mobile phone?

Apple may have a new mobile phone to compete with–one that runs on its iPod Touch.

Truphone’s app turns the iPod Touch into a mobile phone.

The MP3 player can be transformed into a mobile phone with the help of a free app from Internet telephone company Truphone. The new app allows users with a Wi-Fi connection to make and receive phone calls via voice over IP with other iPod Touch owners, users of the Google Talk’s messaging service, and customers of Truphone’s Internet telephone service. The company said it expects to add the ability to handle landline calls.

Would you buy a washing machine that could be transformed into a microwave?

This is too funny. Before the iPhone 3G was released, I sold my T-Mobile Wing to save up enough money to get one. The power company came and took a bite out of my wallet, and here I sit, with no cell phone, let alone an iPhone. Just the other day, I was commenting to the wife that I wish they sold the iPhone at Best Buy, because I have credit with them, and I could get the phone and make payments.

Sure enough, wishes sometimes come true. And I am not talking Leptovox.

Best Buy Co. will start selling the iPhone on Sept. 7, becoming first U.S. chain to do so outside of Apple Inc.’s and AT&T Inc.’s own stores.

Wednesday’s announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple’s vaunted phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores. It’s also a coup for the Minneapolis-based chain, which has been upgrading its cell-phone departments.

Amazing. Now, I just have to decide if I want to give Best Buy my business or not. Ha!

Drivers talking on cell phones are probably making your commute even longer, concludes a new study.

Motorists yakking away, even with handsfree devices, just don’t keep up with the flow of traffic, said study author David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah.

They also crawl about 2 mph slower on commuter-clogged roads than people not on the phone, he said.

They needed a study for this? Don’t we all know that people drive slower when talking on the phone? Don’t we know those people are poster children for highway safety? Heck, they could have done a study on drug rehabilitation and told us that people who enter rehab usually end up back in rehab again. Come on! Let’s study something important, like why alpacas spit or something like that.

I just received an email from Papa John’s letting me know about this really kewl new way to order pizza.

Michelle Kratschmer’s family was craving the usual — a large pepperoni pizza and a small pie with black olives and cheese — but how she entered the phone order was entirely new.

The Godfrey, Illinois, woman ordered dinner by sending a text message to her local Papa John’s restaurant. A half-hour later, the pizzas were delivered to her home.

How cool is that? I think I will try it tonight. Might as well, I was wanting to order pizza anyway.

UPDATE: Well, we ordered the pizza and I hardly had time to look at my Hamilton watch before the delivery guy showed up with our pizza. Awesome man, awesome.