Items Tagged With mobile phones

"T-Mobile unveils Wi-Fi PDA-phone - T-Mobile has revealed that it is indeed planning to offer a third incarnation of its MDA (Mobile Digital Assistant) PocketPC-based phone that will feature a QWERTY keyboard and Wi-Fi support...

According to the press release, Vocera have the system up and running in their office, and it , uses VoIP for transmission. You just tap the badge & say the name of the person you want then away you go, until some erects a level 5 force feild, or whatever...

HomeVision users now have the option of controlling their home using there cell phone and WAP..."LinuxHV is now capable of supporting WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) devices using Wireless Markup Language (WML) as well as the standard PC-based HomeVision HTML pages. The HV WML capability allows web access to HV via cell phones and other WAP-enabled devices. The new web server will respond with the proper format (WML or HTML) automatically, depending on the type of device accessing the server...

After initally appearing in the summer of 1996 the (then) Nokia 9000 was priced at around £1,200.00 Thankfully things have moved on and so now it's not such hot news (even though 18 months later there is no competeing product on the market!)...

In a professional capacity, I've been playing with WAP on and off for the last 12 months. For those people who have been shut in a dark room for the last 2 years, WAP was conceived as a low-bandwidth way for people to access the Internet via mobile devices such as mobile phones. I think I'm safe in saying that it hasn't exactly taken off in the way the designers planned. A year ago, it was being pushed as "the next big thing", however it soon became apparent that the limitations of viewing Internet information on a screen not much bigger than a box of matches wasn't what many people wanted...