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Pope Gets into Texting (Yes, That's Right)

July 16, 2008

Not to be outdone by technology, Pope Benedict XVI (yes, that Pope) recently sent his first SMS to thousands of World Youth Day pilgrims who signed up to receive divine direction via technology.

And this text messaging will become a daily deed!

As part of the Catholic festival in Australia, Telstra erected eight temporary base stations to allow young pilgrims to send text messages to family and friends.

Four giant digital "prayer wall'' screens have also been erected at the Sydney Opera House, the Domain, Darling Harbour and Randwick Racecourse.

Pilgrims who sign up will also be able to send a message to the giant prayer walls.

Read all about it here.

Posted in Mobile Phones, News, Wireless

Windows Mobile gets 3G VoIP - WiFi not Required!

July 15, 2008

Last year Jajah launched the Windows Mobile 6 native SIP client for the the EM-ONE. Frederik Hermann, Director Global Marketing for Jajah emailed me to say, "Today we launched phase 2 of this project, EMOBILE users can now get their own local DID (Direct Inward Dialing number) and can be called at this number from any regular phone, which turns their device into a fully functioning mobile phone, without a cellular connection." Importantly, it features HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access), also known as 3G. So in other words, the SIP-based EM-ONE becomes a fully-functional inbound & outbound calling device that only needs a 3G data connection. 100% VoIP for inbound & outbound calling.

Posted in Apple, Mobile Phones, TMCnet, Unified Communications, VoIP

iPhone Microsoft Exchange Email Problems

July 15, 2008

Paul Robichaux, is a Microsoft MVP, a Mac user since 1984, an iPhone user since July 8th of last year, and an Exchange admin since 1995. So he's got the technical credentials to know what he's talking about when he blasts the new iPhone's issues with Microsoft Exchange integration.

Here's a teaser:

I should point out that Exchange ActiveSync is a protocol that supports lots of different content types and protocol option. Apple, like most other EAS licensees, has implemented a subset of EAS.

Posted in Apple, Microsoft, Mobile Phones, TMCnet

Palm 800w -- Life Beyond Apple, BlackBerry

July 14, 2008

Palm keeps turning out really solid products, but never seems to be able to recapture the magic of the introduction of the first Palm Pilot.

Now, here's a smart fruit phone (Apple, BlackBerry -- get it?) alternative for you -- the Palm 800w for Sprint.

Here's what CNet had to say about it:

The good: The Palm Treo 800w brings the addition of Wi-Fi and GPS. The Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone also offers EV-DO Rev. A support; a higher resolution touch screen; a slimmer design; and a 2-megapixel camera.

The bad: The Treo 800w can be sluggish at times and call quality could be better. The QWERTY keyboard may also give users some problems.

Check it out at Palm.com.

Posted in Mobile Phones

1 Million iPhones and Counting ...

July 14, 2008

Guess all of the problems haven't stemmed the tide of iPhone sales since the 11th, with Apple announcing sales of 1 million units just a couple of days after launch (see the official press release here).

How about this quote: "iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world."

Seems that all of the problems must start once you have the phone ...

What a wonderful world ...

Posted in Apple, Mobile Phones

Tom writes 'iHate My iPhone Because its iDead'

July 12, 2008

Tom Cross, a TMCnet blogger, is not happy about his iDead iPhone. He's lost all his iPhone songs, contact information, favorites, vmail and everything else. AT&T couldn't even recover his voicemail password, thus he was forced to wipe all of his current voicemails and start from scratch. Ouch!

And don't forget all the iPhone outage issues and activation problems. Maybe it was a good idea I decided to skip the iPhonemania yesterday and wait till things die down a little. iPhone 2.0 can wait till all the kinks are worked out.

Check out his post titled iHate My iPhone Because its iDead

Then check out his follow-up post.

Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Mobile Phones, TMCnet, Wireless

Packet8 MobileTalk on iPhone Adds VoIP Calling

July 11, 2008

8x8, Inc. the provider of the Packet8 VoIP broadband service today announed it has added the Apple iPhone to the list of over 450 mobile handset devices now supported by the Packet8 MobileTalk international calling service. Launched back in November 2007, MobileTalk adds inexpensive calling to the iPhone 2.0 which launched today.

Unlike the truphone iPhone application I blogged earlier today, the Packet8 MobileTalk is web-based interface, so unlike truphone there is no dialer application to download. Instead, it uses a customized web-based dialer, accessible via a standard data plan or WiFi connection, to route calls to a unique local Packet8 access number and then on to the Packet8 digital VoIP network. Once the call has been initiated, the data connection is no longer engaged and the call is carried to completion over the cellular provider's network with only Packet8's low international calling rates applied.

Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Mobile Phones, Packet8, SIP, TMCnet, VoIP, Wireless

Truphone on iPhone Apple Store enables VoIP

July 11, 2008

Want Truphone on your iPhone? Truphone enables you to make VoIP calls on your iPhone over the internet using your WiFi connection (sorry - won't work over your cellular 3G connection)

Truphone's native VoIP client for the iPhone was developed with Apple's own SDK and is available at the online iPhone App Store. Still, I wished it worked over the 3G connection. Wonder how long it will be before someone jailbreaks iPhone 2.0 and allows a truly native VoIP app that works over WiFi AND the 3G cellular data connection. Then life would be good!

Hat tip to Greg Galitzine for the news and image.

Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Mobile Phones, SIP, TMCnet, VoIP, Wireless

Apple Web service outages during iPhone launch

July 11, 2008

As the Apple iPhone ver 2 launches today, Apple had some outage issues with their website.

Late yesterday/last night, Apple users could not access their accounts. Additionally, the TUAW reported today (6:20am Friday) that The Apple Store US is down, though it's up now. The outage last night was a planned outage that was part of the Apple's transition to MobileMe. Essentially, their .Mac accounts' data was being moved to MobileMe, a $99/year service lets people view, update and sync e-mails, calendar appointments & contacts, as well as share files across iPhones, Macs and Windows PCs.

As iPhone mania continues to run rampant today, just take a breather. If you can't access Apple's iPhone web services to download new apps or the Exchange email integration isn't working, just put the iPhone down, go outside, scream at the top of your lungs, "Curses you Steve Jobs for not planning better!", then go back inside look at your precious new newfandangled iPhone and just be glad you own one.

Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Mobile Phones, TMCnet, Wireless

Let the iPhone Sales Begin!

July 11, 2008

Well, do you know what time it is and where your children are?

And friends and family, too?

Maybe they're online waiting to pick up the iPhone 3G.

Oh, you didn't know that it went on sale this morning? Really? (Where have you been???)

Posted in Apple, Mobile Phones

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