James Alan Miller

Click to View More people around the world get their wireless service from Vodafone than any other mobile operator. So when it embraces a smartphone platform — as it has with Windows Mobile — the industry takes notice. Today, the carrier giant introduced its latest Windows Mobile smartphone, the VPA III, which looks remarkably similar […]

Click to View Hewlett-Packard’s highly-anticipated smartphone, the iPAQ h6315, can now be bought at retail– both online and at stores like CompUSA. If you’re an iPAQ devotee who wants to purchase the new smartphone soon, however, you’d better act fast. Apparently, demand for the smartphone is so high that stocks are already low. Announced late […]

With the exception of the Tungsten C, all palmOne handhelds lack an important ingredient: Wi-Fi. Without 802.11b wireless networking, these devices can’t use public hotspots or private access points to retrieve e-mail and surf the Web, limiting their appeal for many. That situation is about to change. Though it has been slow in coming, palmOne […]

Hewlett-Packard, the top selling Pocket PC vendor, recently made two ROM updates available to its customers — one for the iPAQ h4150, and the other for the iPAQ h4350. Handheld vendors release software patches known as ROM updates to address bugs and add functionality to their products after release. Since a patch becomes part of […]

Research in Motion (RIM) plans to add Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to future versions of its BlackBerry handheld. At least that’s what the company’s President and co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis, indicated in a recent interview with Laptop Magazine. The popular handsets have featured cellular capabilities for a couple of years now, in addition to RIM’s famous push […]

Hewlett-Packard’s first smartphone, the iPAQ h6300, has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for release in the United States. This confirms months of speculation about the upcoming handheld, which integrates GSM/GPRS with 802.11b Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 1.1 wireless networking. The h6300 should be the first consumer model smartphone with all three wireless technologies […]

PalmSource has licensed Extended Systems XTNDAccess Blue SDK version 2.0, which brings the Bluetooth 1.2 protocol to the Palm operating system. Bluetooth is an increasingly common short-range radio technology aimed at simplifying communications between devices, especially mobile devices, such as handhelds, and peripherals. This protocol is the sequel to the current Bluetooth specification, version 1.1, […]

If you hate writing with a stylus and you’re definitely looking for a Pocket PC, as opposed to a Palm, the Hewlett-Packard’s $499.99 iPAQ h4355 may just be the PDA for you. Building off HP’s successful iPAQ line, the h4355 adds a thumb-keyboard so that you can jot down e-mails and notes with a familiar […]

Wi-Fi updates have been posted by Hewlett-Packard for the iPAQ h5400 and h5500 series of Pocket PCs. The updates fix and enhance a number of Wi-Fi related issues. For instance, the updated WLAN driver and firmware for both the h5400 and h5500 series fix a LEAP authentication issue with the Funk Radius Server, problems with […]

Agere Systems has announced a small-form-factor 802.11g mobile Wi-Fi module for handheld consumer devices. This embedded system-in-package (SiP) delivers 54 megabit-per-second (Mbps) speeds for PDAs, smartphones and other mobile devices. Ratified last year, 802.11g is a high speed (54Mbps) wireless networking technology that is backward compatible with the slower 802.11b that is just about everywhere. […]

Toshiba’s e805 Pocket PC nearly has it all: a fast processor, gobs of memory, easy navigation, Wi-Fi, and a large display. It is, hands down, one of the best Pocket PCs we’ve seen. The only difference between the e805 and another Pocket PC called the e800 is that the former model includes ArcSoft PhotoBase software. […]

Skype Technologies, which offers a P2P (Peer-to-Peer) Voice over IP (VoIP) solution for Windows desktop PCs, has released a beta version of its software for Windows Mobile 2003 handhelds. VoIP enables people to use the Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls instead of standard telephone lines. IP stands for Internet Protocol. The new […]