James Alan Miller

Palm has shipped the most eagerly-waited handset of the New Year, the Treo 700w. Introduced back in September, the smartphone is the first handheld from the PDA pioneer to run on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform, and not the Palm operating system (OS). Getting its close-up at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the smartphone […]

Sprint PCS this week launched the first Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone in the United States, the PPC-6700 Pocket PC Phone. This handset is also the first Sprint device to feature EV-DO cellular broadband and Wi-Fi wireless networking, as well as Bluetooth 1.2 personal area networking. EV-DO delivers average data transfer rates of 400 to 700 […]

Voice over IP (VoIP) technology lets you use your Wi-Fi enabled PDA or smartphone to make phone calls over a wireless LAN (WLAN), home or work, or at a hotspot; found at your local Starbucks, Borders, and in some cases, even McDonalds, etc. To many, however, the true benefit of VoIP lays in the promise […]

Wireless-enabler SyChip today announced a drop-in 802.11g Wi-Fi module for use in a variety of mobile devices, including smartphones, cell phones, PDAs, gaming handhelds, and media players. Nearly all current PDAs and smartphones that integrate Wi-Fi or use peripherals to add WLAN connectivity do so through the older 802.11b standard: 54 megabits per second (Mbps) […]

One often-heard gripe about palmOne’s Treo series of smartphones is the lack of integrated 802.11b wireless or a way to add the feature — even palmOne itself hasn’t released a Treo driver yet for its own Wi-Fi enabled Secure Digital card. Enfora, a company known for products that bring wireless functions to a variety of […]

Click to View Samsung set the mobile world abuzz back in November with the demonstration of a new, and particularly small, Pocket PC Phone called the SCH-i730 at its annual showcase in New York City. The i730 is the follow-up to Samsung’s i700 (see Review: Samsung i700 Smartphone Contender… Not Champion). The i730 took an […]

When Asus announced the MyPal A730 Pocket PC with a VGA screen several months ago, the company said versions with (A730) and without Wi-Fi (A730w) would ship. For the last couple of months, however, only the A730 sans an 802.11b radio has been available in the United States. This week, Asus U.S. reseller PROPortable received […]

Click to View Tapwave’s Zodiac is an excellent platform for gaming. Since its introduction last year, however, two omissions—Wi-Fi and e-mail software—have left the powerful handheld lacking as a more general-purpose PDA for some users. The company rectified this state of affairs today with the introduction of a Wi-Fi Secure Digital (SD) card solution and […]

palmOne’s latest PDA, the Tungsten T5, sports a lot of cool features—256MB of non-volatile memory being the most notable. Unfortunately, unlike many of today’s high-end Pocket PCs, the T5 doesn’t integrate Wi-Fi, a major oversight for many. To make matters worse, when the T5 shipped a couple of months back, there was no way to […]

Most handhelds transmit data over Wi-Fi networks at the 11 Mbps supported by 802.11b–even though third-generation 802.11g networks deliver much better performance at 54 Mbps. As a result, many mobile users are missing out on the benefits of faster access, such as smoother multimedia, speedier webpage loading, and maybe even improved IP telephony. With the […]

Click to View Several carriers in Europe, including T-Mobile and Vodafone, either have or plan to release an inventive new Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone called the XDA III (VPA III for Vodafone, MDA III for T-Mobile) — orignally developed by Taiwanese OEM High Tech Computer. Unlike smaller smartphones with thumb-keyboards, this handset’s keyboard is […]

Click to View 802.11b wireless networking has freed many mobile device users from wires and expensive cellular data plans. Yet, while there are many Wi-F-enabled Pocket PCs, only one of the largest Palm licensee’s PDAs — the palmOne Tungsten C — integrates the technology. Fortunately, the company recently released its first Wi-Fi Secure Digital card […]