Submitted By: James Traynor - After the demise of my Nokia 7110 it was time for a new phone. My history of phones included the Nokia 9000 communicator, which was a great device that survived 2 years of very heavy and often rough use. It's main failings were a huge and heavy case, a quirky charger and a slow OS. The phone did it's job and did it well, it had a keyboard, it could send/receive email/faxes/sms, it could browse the internet (not that funny little WAP thing) and the most useful feature was the speakerphone...
"Some things are done simply because they could be. That's been the general marketplace reception of HPC or PDA-based remotes for some time now: a nice idea, but don't expect miracles. UEI's Nevo technology goes far beyond "frill", but still comes across as a secondary function, added value. Despite having the ultimate in pre-designed hardware resources behind them, the Nevo is still too structured and rigid in its remote control capabilities to truly capture the high-end or "hard core" market segment. This limitation has been the burden of other remotes attempting to go up against well-seasoned and established products"...
Microsoft UK (in conjuction with DAT UK) have launched an excellent "Pocket Results Service" for the Commonwealth games...
"PocketGphone is a VoIP based software with voice, chat and file transfer functions for your PDA. Developers of Gphone were able shrink the highest quality IP telephony software into a package suitable for use on PDA's. With Gtony's technological development trait, Pocket Gphone is designed to work well even on low spec PDAs. This makes Pocket Gphone one of the best Mobile VoIP Communication tools available on PDAs"...
