Forum Topics Tagged [cellphone]

After saying for the last 10 years that I would never own a cell phone (I had enough of that spending many years on call), I finally broke down and got one. It is a Figo (Speak Out) Android (Marshmallow) phone that allows me to buy a block of minutes without having to pay monthly fees. Basically I can use it as much or as little as I want and just pay for what I use. My first complaint was the almost complete lack of documentation. It is a royal pain in the ass figuring out what every little (microscopic, …

In another typical news day we are told that a "Major New Study Reveals Cellphone Radiation Causes Cancer." If, like most people, you react to headlines, your first (perhaps only) thought is "HOLY SHIT!!!". The news story begins with: >The $25 million study, conducted over two and a half years by the U.S. National Toxicology Program, found significantly higher instances of two types of malignant tumors on male rats exposed to the same radio-frequency radiation currently used in the United States. Hmmm. Sounds pretty serious. But track down the sources and you discover that 1. The radiation used in the …

While the News International [phone hacking scandal](http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking) that saw the demise of the News of the World newspaper cannot have escaped your attention in the US or UK, news from India concerning the latest 'tumble and clone' developments could leave the mobile phone calls of more than just celebrities at risk of hacking. If you thought it was bad enough that UK newspapers have apparently been hacking into the mobile telephone conversations of celebrities and others 'in the news' in order to gain a competitive advantage when breaking news stories, then wait until you hear the latest [reports](http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/article3010105.ece) to come …

I want to send the message from my PC to my mobile usnig vb.net...... please help me.... it's urgent...... and if possible please provide the code.... thank you for your help in advance.... :)

i have my motorola and its asking me for a subsidy code , could anyone can help me or kindly give me a free code .Thank you so much for your kindness

[ATTACH=RIGHT]16523[/ATTACH]Skype, the Luxemborg-based internet video phone service, filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on Monday (August 9) to list on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The value was tentatively set at $100 million, a number analysts suggest is merely a rough estimate set to help the Securities and Exchange Commission calculate a filing fee. They have yet to release a sales date or price. The filings reported that in 2010, Skype has already generated more than $406 million from its over 560 million registered users, up 41% year-over-year. These numbers are staggering considering that only 6% of its users actually …

i have a script that sends an email to cellphones: [CODE=html] <form name='celltest' method=post> <input type=hidden name=cellsubmit value=yes> <tr><td rowspan=1>Mobile Phone: <input type='text' class='efield' id='phone' name='phonetest' style='width: 200px;'></td><td style='padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 3px;'>&nbsp;<a href="?ref=ea&dotest=1" class='eap' style='width: 50px;'>Test</a></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style='font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-left: 35px;'>Provider: <select name=provider class=efield style='width:258px;' id='provider'> <option value="0">Select One</option> <option value="1">Alltel <option value="2">AT&T Wireless <option value="4">Boost Mobile <option value="5">Cellular One <option value="6">Centennial Wireless <option value="7">Cingular <option value="8">Cingular Prepaid <option value="9">Cricket <option value="10">MetroPCS <option value="11">Nextel <option value="12">Qwest Wireless <option value="14">Sprint (Nextel) <option value="13">Sprint (PCS) <option value="15">T-Mobile <option value="16">TracFone <option value="17">US Cellular <option value="19">Verizon Wireless <option value="18">Virgin Mobile </select></td></tr> …

[ATTACH=right]14395[/ATTACH]Microsoft [URL="http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/04/13/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-specs-and-perspective/"]released a couple of phones[/URL] on Monday, Kin 1 and Kin 2, supposedly aimed at teens. Kin 1 is shaped like a hockey puck. Kin 2 looks more like a conventional smart phone (but it's not). The only thing these phones appear to have going for them is a nice keyboard. The Kin 1 has an awkward shape. The shared interface is ugly and confusing and as of now (the release announcement), they have no SDK for building additional Apps. It connects to Facebook and MySpace (MySpace? Really?!) and of course connects to Zune music services, but it doesn't …

Feast or famine (probably famine); 2009 should be another interesting year for the tech sector. After all, any industry that can provide sexual performance drugs (Viagra) for the CIA to give to Afghan warlords is always going to find room on the front pages of every news outlet in the world. One technology sector that could suffer more than most is the cell phone industry, especially smart cell phones. I saw where Wal-Mart is going to begin selling iPhones today (Sunday, the 28th of December) making the popular phones even more popular and pervasive for U.S. consumers. The big question, …

Web 2.0 has always been about giving the individual the power to publish without having to beg a media company for access. From blogs to podcasts to services like YouTube ordinary (and extraordinary) citizens have been able to publish their work for the world to see. Now [URL="http://www.flixwagon.com/"]Flixwagon[/URL] lets you broadcast live from your cell phone, assuming of course, it has a built-in video camera, giving the citizen broadcaster the greatest power of all – live video blogging – and the possibilities are quite intriguing. [B]Testing it Out[/B] I was lent a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N95"]Nokia N95[/URL] cell phone recently for the purpose …

Microsoft and Apple haven't had a great time of it recently with mobile consumers. For Microsoft, the market roundly rejected the Kin, which just about anyone who follows the cell phone market knew would happen. Meanwhile, Apple is taking it on the chin about how they are handling the iPhone 4 antenna debacle and there is clearly growing discontent among consumers. The big difference here, however is the sales picture. Apple, for whatever reason, continues to live off its reputation and sell iPhones hand over fist, while Microsoft's mobile strategy continues to flounder. [B]Microsoft's Mobile Woes Continue[/B] Microsoft has pretty …

How many people enjoy their service with AT&T? <Peers out into audience holding hand over his eyes> Not many, not many. And AT&T just seems to keep getting more unfriendly all the time. Recently they announced data caps just before the release of iPhone 4 (see [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story287711.html"]New AT&T Data Plans Make No Sense[/URL]), then there have been rumors of micro cell activity (explained [URL="http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/ATT-Tries-Fails-To-Justify-3G-CapEating-Microcell-108967"]here[/URL]) counting against your data limit. People complain about bad reception in certain major cities, especially New York (which I've experienced myself). So it begs the question, as aggravation with AT&T grows, why does Apple continue its …

The[URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574459380459235704.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular"] Wall Street Journal reported[/URL] yesterday that Dell plans to build its own cell phone running Google's Android operating system, and release it some time next year. It's worth noting that Dell has tried to get into the gadget business before. They made a couple of failed stabs at the MP3 player market. They also tried a PDA back in the day. None of these attempts made much of a dent in the market. That's why I'm wondering why they think they can succeed in the crowded cell phone market. [B]Partnering with AT&T[/B] The announcement includes news that AT&T will …

[ATTACH=right]14585[/ATTACH]Google took an interesting step this week when it [URL="http://googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com/2010/04/update-on-nexus-one-partnerships.html"]announced on its Nexus One blog[/URL] that customers who want to use the Verizon network might be more interested in the [URL="http://phones.verizonwireless.com/htc/incredible/"]HTC Droid Incredible[/URL] instead of its own Nexus One. I've never hidden my disdain for the Google Nexus One strategy (as I wrote in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story250839.html"]Google's Boneheaded Retail Strategy[/URL]). I could never understand why Google, which worked so hard to build up its partner eco-system would then undermine its partners by producing its own branded phone. Further, I couldn't fathom why Google would ever want to get into the retail phone …

[ATTACH=right]14257[/ATTACH]Rumor has it Microsoft will be jumping into the mobile phone market later this month. Much like Google's foray into mobile phones with the Nexus One, I think it's a horrible idea for Microsoft to sell phones, but according to this [URL="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/04/05/microsoft-reportedly-to-unveil-new-mobile-phone-line-april-12/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+barrons/techtraderdaily/feed+(BARRONS.com+Blog:+Tech+Trader+Daily)"]story in Barron's[/URL], that's exactly what they intend to do at a big launch party on April 12th. Like Google, Microsoft has worked hard to build a phone ecosystem around it's Windows Mobile operating system, and like Google (as I recommended in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story250375.html"]Nexus One Could Torpedo Google Android Strategy[/URL]), the idea is to let your partners build phones for …

I was driving down the highway the other day, and it ocurred to me that Facebook sucks. No, really it does. Sure, it lets us connect with friends and we all put up with it, but think about just how bad it is. [LIST] The security features are hard to use. The defaults are often backwards (meaning you have turn them off) and it exposes way too much information even under the "strictest" settings. [/LIST] [LIST]The email tool doesn't even have an attachment feature.[/LIST] [LIST]The interface? It's not exactly intuitive, and every time you begin to understand how it works, …

The other night my son had a homework assignment asking me how technology had changed since I was a child. I started rattling off the the devices and technologies we take for granted today that didn't exist back then. Sounding like my parents talking about the old days, I told him about how we had no cell phones, PCs, MP3 players or flat screen TVs. There was no CD, DVD or Blue Ray. Nobody had a DVR. There weren't even VCRs. Heck we didn't have a color TV in our house until I was in high school in the 1970s. …

There are many interesting new products that get released to the masses at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but few of them are as cheap as the Vodafone 150. Being dubbed the most affordable ultra low cost handset from Vodafone ever, the 150 is intended for those emerging markets where low cost devices can have the most significant and positive of social impacts, namely India, Turkey and across Africa. The intention being to enable millions of people in these markets to have the opportunity of sharing in the benefits of mobile technology for the very first time. And how …

The day that Google announced its Nexus One retail strategy, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story250839.html"]I wrote a post[/URL] pulling no punches that I thought it was a horrible idea. If [URL="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/14/nexus-one-sells-only-20-000-phones-its-first-week/"]first week sales figures[/URL] are any indication, I am being proven right. What's more, Google appears to be cannibalizing their own ad space to prop up the sluggish phone sales. [B]Ads Are Their Bread and Butter[/B] Yesterday as I made my way around the web looking at articles where Adsense buys appear, I noticed a trend. Nexus One phone ads dominated, meaning they are using one of the most profitable parts of their business …

The trend in recent years has been from smartphones to get bigger screens and slimmer profiles, with everyone pretty much following where the Apple iPhone leads them. Until now, that is, with Nokia breaking free from the constraints of a huge touchscreen and apparently opting for a tiny candy-bar design instead. Ladies and gentlemen, presenting what looks like being the world's smallest smartphone: the Nokia C5. The folks over at DailyMobile are claiming something of a scoop with what appear to be a whole bunch of [URL="http://dailymobile.se/2010/02/03/nokia-c5-leaked-pictures-of-a-new-symbian-s60-device-from-nokia/"]leaked photos[/URL] of the as yet unreleased Symbian S60 candy-bar smartphone, the Nokia C5. …

News [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/dec/14/mobilephones-google-nexus-one-gphone"]"leaked"[/URL] this weekend of an unlocked Google-branded phone. On the upside, an unlocked phone means you aren't tied to any particular carrier, nor are you required to sign a contract, but on the downside, you don't get the large provider subsidy on the phone cost in exchange for the contract lock-in. I'm wondering if Google releases a really nice unlocked phone for a reasonable price, if it could mark the beginning of the end of large network domination in the U.S. [B]The Rest of The World Doesn't Operate this Way[/B] If you go to Europe, you'll find network stores …

My son needs a new phone, so yesterday at my suggestion, we took a trip to the local AT&T retail store to get a look at the options up close and personal. Instead of eager sales people trying hard to sell us phones, we found they preferred to send us over to the Mall to retail partners Best Buy and Radio Shack. Seems to me if you are going to spend the capital to keep a brick and mortar operation going, you might want to try to be a bit more enthusiastic about selling phones. [B]Why Are We Here?[/B] The …

According to a new survey of London taxi drivers, an average of 10,000 mobile phones are left behind by customers every single month. If that total is not staggeringly high enough, you can top it up with another 1000 iPods and memory sticks if you like. December is the worse month for losing a mobile phone in a taxi though, most likely down to people having their hands full of bags of Xmas shopping as they rush to jump out. Steve McMenara, a spokesperson for TAXI, which is a magazine published by the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, said: "It’s a …

Verizon made [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NKnDRPFKU"]an ad[/URL] making fun of AT&T's 3G coverage (and it's manliness). AT&T wasn't happy because it suggested their 3G coverage was spotty. So [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/atandt-sues-verizon-over-theres-a-map-for-that-ads/"]they sued[/URL] saying the ads were misleading consumers, and anyway they had way more customers and their customers loved them, and Verizon just couldn't handle that. Verizon counter-sued saying AT&T was just jealous and their network sucks (and its mother dresses it funny). Now word is they are going to have a fight after school on the playground. [B]Playing Legal Mind Games[/B] According to [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/atandt-sues-verizon-over-theres-a-map-for-that-ads/"]Engadget[/URL], AT&T sued first saying: "Verizon's misleading advertising tactics appear to …

Word came out yesterday that [URL="http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/23/news/companies/ATT_earns.reut/"]AT&T didn't have a great quarter[/URL] (which ironically sent the stock price soaring because it wasn't as bad as expected). This loss seemed perplexing to me given that Apple reported its numbers earlier this week (as I wrote in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4560.html"]Lauren's Wrong: People Definitely Want Macs[/URL]), and Apple reported selling more than 5 million iPhones in the quarter. With AT&T as the exclusive distributor of iPhones in the US and the beneficiaries of at least part of those huge numbers, you would think they would have had themselves a nice little quarter too, riding along on …

On June 15th, less than two weeks ago, the [URL="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/15/apples_mac_sales_held_up_in_may_while_ipod_shipments_fell.html"]Apple Insider blog reported[/URL] that Apple sales continued slipping in May. Mac sales were down, perhaps not as much as expected but still down, and more surprising, the previously recession-proof iPod sales were falling. Could it be that the economy was catching up with Apple? But no, because that was May sales and as you no doubt know, Apple released a shiny upgrade to the iPhone called [URL="http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/"]iPhone 3GS[/URL] and sold a cool million of them in the first weekend. Talk about a quick rebound. [B]People Want These Things[/B] One thing …

The iPhone faces a critical test this month with several factors coming together to threaten the dominance of the popular smart phone. First of all there's the Pre, a shiny new comer that threatens to overtake Apple's cool factor when it's released by Sprint this month (as I wrote about in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4356.html"]Are You Ready for a Thing Called Pre[/URL]). RIM and their Blackberry series surpassed the mighty iPhone in first quarter sales figures [URL="http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_090504.html"]according market research firm NPD[/URL]. Not only that, Nokia just opened an App Store and all the players are following suit after the great success of the …

Looks like Google could be in deep water, along with the Open Handset Alliance and some 40 or so companies, over an apparent trademark infringement. Now you might think that there had been some pretty heavyweight due diligence before Google and the OHA determined to call the open source mobile phone operating system. And indeed, it would seem that Google had indeed made all the right noises to the US Patent and Trademark Office but unfortunately the PTO refused the trademark application after it determined the mark had been granted to a software development outfit by the name of Android …

Word emerged this week that Apple was in talks with Verizon and everyone assumed it was it about the iPhone, but buried at the end of a BusinessWeek article, [URL="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc20090429_594307.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech"]AT&T's iPhone Dilemma[/URL], is an interesting nugget: [QUOTE]Apple has also shown Verizon a larger, more computer-like device dubbed by one person as a "media pad."[/QUOTE] That Apple is talking to other carriers seems indisputable at this point and has been widely reported, but what they are talking about is unclear. The natural assumption is that they are negotiating iPhone distribution, competition if you will for the current exclusive carrier, AT&T, but …

I hope I am not the only person who has occasionally thought that his mobile phone bears more than a passing resemblance to something straight out of Star Trek. Not being a Trekkie myself I cannot say whether it is a communicator or one of those handheld medical scanners, a tricorder is it? Anyway, one thing is for sure, and that is that mobile phones are getting a lot more Star Trek these days. And probably none more so than the Nokia 5800 limited edition which is being launched in the UK on May 1st, which should come as no …