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sipgate adds SIP-based VoIP support to iPhone

June 4, 2008

sipgate today announced the a free VoIP application for the iPhone that they claim will allow consumers to use virtually every any VoIP service on the iPhone.

sipgate claims that iPhone users can make and receive VoIP calls from their phones over a Wi-Fi connection using any SIP-based VoIP provider. Unlike Truphone, another iPhone VoIP app, it doesn't appear you need to jailbreak your iPhone to enable SIP-based VoIP support that works with any SIP-based ITSP. In addition it comes with 111 minutes of domestic calling is included if you use sipgate's SIP-based service to test out the service.

Of course, as I have written before, this service will only work over a Wi-Fi connection and not the iPhone's cellular data connection. At the Apple iPhone SDK event, Steve Jobs stated that if someone develops a VoIP program for the iPhone, Apple will allow it if it goes over WiFi and not the cellular network.

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

Moto StarTac Started It All (Flip Phone Frenzy!)

May 30, 2008

Amazing to think back to a decade ago when Motorola introduced its StarTac flip phone -- great design that has been repeated over and over again until this day.

You can't even imagine how big and bulky cell phones were up until that time -- like putting a brick to your ear!

And thank goodness that will great design is timeless battery power has been improved from those days of 60 minute talk time?

Thanks to MotorolaFAQ for the shot.

Posted in Mobile Phones

I Could Use a Good Way to Watch the NBA ...

May 22, 2008

... Too bad mobile phone screen sizes are so small. It would be great to see the Celtics-Pistons and Lakers-Spurs NBA East and West finals while going mobile.

Can't they dream up a way to optimize the network and HD broadcasts so the players aren't so small?

Well, let's get ready for tipoff ...

Posted in Mobile Phones

Dior Getting into Mobile Phones for Fashionistas

May 21, 2008

Don't know how many of us will be picking up one of these, but Dior, the French luxury-goods is reportedly coming out with a line of mobile phones that will be targeted to fashionistas worldwide, particularly in the Russian and Chinese markets. The phones come on the high heels of similar launches by Dior rivals, such as Prada (see the photo above) and Dolce & Gabbana.

Read more about it in the Wall Street Journal.

Posted in Mobile Phones

Palm Ups It to Treo 850

May 21, 2008

Palm keeps on churning out products --ahh, bet they still wish it was the heady days of the Palm Pilot ...

Anyway, now surrounded by relentless competition, the yet-to-be released Treo 850 apparently features a 400 MHz processor and 100 MB of RAM. Check out photos at The Boy Genius Report here.

Posted in Mobile Phones, PDAs & Handhelds

Sprint Capping Data Usage!!!

May 20, 2008

According to this report in BetaNews, Sprint is planning to implement data usage caps on its mobile broadband service. Sprint will put a 5 GB per month overall use cap and 300 MB per month for off-network roaming.

Sprint states that "the use of voice and data roaming by a small minority of customers is generating a disproportionately large level of operating expense for the company. We are enforcing the existing terms and conditions for phone plans. We are placing a limit of 300 MB per month on the amount of data use allowed while roaming off network as well as a 5 GB per month limitation on total wireless data usage for Sprint's connection and phone as modem plans."

Now I don't remember seeing those usage limits in the existing terms and conditions, do you?

Posted in Mobile Phones

Instant Charge for Cell Phones on the Horizon?

May 20, 2008

According to a Reuters report, analog chip maker National Semiconductor is developing technology to charge cell phones in an instant by plugging the phone into a wall oulet and voila! it's charged.

Want this in an instant? Sorry, you have to wait -- seems it's a year away, even with what the company calls "a pretty aggressive R&D campaign."

The end game is for Nat Semi, which gets more than a third of its revenue from wireless, to sell the technology to existing phone charger suppliers rather than go into the phone charger business.

Is this a green move? Really more a matter of convenience rather than an energy saver.

Posted in Mobile Phones

Touch-Screen BlackBerry Coming!?

May 16, 2008

According to reports in today's Wall Street Journal and on CNBC, pesky Research In Motion (RIM) plans to introduce a touch-screen version of its BlackBerry to thwart the challenge posed by the popularity of Apple's iPhone. (And no wonder we are seeing so many RIM TV ads ...)

Apparently dubbed the Thunder, the new BlackBerry is among RIM's strongest moves so far to appeal to the increasing number of consumers jumping for multimedia phones, a market that is increasingly turning to touch-screen devices for their ease of use (and cool factor). Easy integration with iTunes and the iPhone's sophisticated touch-screen were key features that made the iPhone such a big hit.

Posted in Mobile Phones

New Jawbone headset is sexy

May 15, 2008

The new Jawbone, made by Aliph, is 50% smaller than the original Jawbone. This Gen 2 Jawbone Bluetooth headset enhances the original Jawbone's claim-to-fame capability - namely its superb ability to suppress background noise.

Here's some more pics of this sexy Bluetooth headset:

The noise reduction feature was originally called "Noise Shield" but is now called "NoiseAssassin". Jawbone's NoiseAssassin technology feels your speech with its patented Voice Activity Sensor (VAS). The Jawbone headset uses the VAS to distinguish the sound of your voice from ambient noise with incredible accuracy and then uses proprietary Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms to subtract the noise so only the sound of your voice comes through.

The NoiseAssassin technology was originally developed by Aliph for DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which creates and delivers breakthrough technology for the U.S.

Posted in Gadgets, Headsets, Mobile Phones, News, TMCnet, VoIP, Wireless

SkyFire Review

May 8, 2008

Rich Tehrani has a great review on the SkyFire browser that gives Windows Mobile devices the Apple iPhone browsing experience. Well, not quite, but definitely much better than the built-in Windows Mobile browser. It supports easy zooming, Flash support, videos (including YouTube videos) and more. Rich was getting so frustrated with the crappy Windows Mobile browser that he even weighed the pros and cons of switching to the Apple iPhone from his Verizon HTC 6800 Windows Mobile.

But now Rich is giddier than a kid that just got a PS3 for Christmas, or that blogger who just got an iPhone and can't stop blogging about it.

Posted in Microsoft, Mobile Phones, PDAs & Handhelds, Reviews, TMCnet

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