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Latest Mobile Windows News: Sinus WDA: era of distributor-branded Pocket PC PDAs (with Wi-Fi) has arrived January 19, 2004; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] German telco company Deutsche Telecom is offering "Sinus WDA" Pocket PC, with built-in both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. This PDA is offered either separately or in a packages for Internet access through DSL. Similarly like many Microsoft Smartphones, this Pockert PC with Wi-Fi is branded not under the name of the manufacturer (which is in this case: MiTAC), but under the name of the distributor. 
 more... Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Yet Another Voice over IP (VoIP) client available: SIP SoftPhone for Pocket PC January 12, 2004; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] In a distant future, when flat rate high-speed Internet access for cellphones will be available, most people will use VoIP technology to make phonecalls for free worldwide. 
However if you have a Pocket PC PDA with Wi-Fi you can already today use VoIP technology. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) SyChip presents at CES 2004: WLAN6065SD SDIO Wi-Fi card, a successor to WLAN6060SD used by various companies January 08, 2004; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] The SyChip WLAN6065 WLAN SDIO 802.11b card will be demonstrated today, Thursday, January 8, through Sunday, January 11, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center at the SD Card Pavilion (booth 15115). WLAN6060SD SDIO card is used by Socket Communications, Viewsonic, etc. for making their own, branded, SDIO Wi-Fi cards. Please note: SyChip is working now on software development of drivers for their Wi-Fi SD cards for Microsoft Smartphone (!!!). more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Review: Toshiba e800 Wi-Fi December 30, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] Previously we have reviewed the cheapest Pocket PC with built-in Wi-Fi - Dell Axim X3i (click here to read this review). Now we are reviewing Toshiba e800 Wi-Fi - the best Pocket PC with built-in Wi-Fi, and thanks to the high resolution display (480x640 pixels, which is 4 times more than standard Pocket PC - 240x320), this Toshiba is probably the best Pocket PC ever! 
(on picture above: to the left Toshiba e800 Wi-Fi and to the right Dell Axim X3i - both with built-in Wi-Fi) more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Odyssey Client for Pocket PC v1.3 with 802.1x support available December 25, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] Not only Windows Mobile 2003 devices are the best handhelds for Wi-Fi usage for consumer retail customers, but also in the enterprise environment they have no match. This Secure WLAN Client from Funk Software corporation adds 802.1x support. What is 802.1x? more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Review: Toshiba E800 with built-in Wi-Fi December 22, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] Toshiba E800 is the best Pocket PC device of all times, mainly due to the fact that it has a display with resolution of 640x480 pixels (browsing Internet with such resolution is a bliss, compared to all other Pocket PCs that use 320x240)! It also features 128 MB RAM, built-in SDIO and CF slots and graphics accelerator with its own 2MB RAM. 
Please note: now, shortly before Christmas, this Pocket PC is sold out in EU already - despite the decent price of less than 600 Euro! (and users must wait till 2004 to buy it) Just take a look at this picture that shows how much better is the new resolution: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Review: HP iPAQ H4155 - the top notch Pocket PC with built-in Wi-Fi and built-in Bluetooth in one December 18, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] There is no doubt about it: Windows Mobile is the best platform for handheld Wi-Fi usage, and nowadays very small Pocket PC PDAs that have built-in both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are available: I then changed my approach: instead of adding wi-fi to my handheld I decided to go for a new device with built-in wi-fi. But I didnīt want to give up Bluetooth: itīs so useful for ActiveSync, file transfer and mobile connectivity to GPRS networks that I canīt imagine not having it on a PDA. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Wi-Fi in Palm OS PDAs and smartphones difficult or impossible - Windows Mobile still the best handheld platform for Wi-Fi December 11, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] We have been interviewing PalmSource staff, including 2 vice-presidents ourselves lately (click here for details about it), and they claimed that Palm OS based smartphones will be equipped with support for SDIO Wi-Fi cards at the beginning of year 2004! However now it looks like PalmSource and hardware manufacturers, that make Palm OS based devices, are doing little or nothing more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Dell takes on HP and is about to release Pocket PC with both built-in Wi-Fi and built-in Bluetooth November 01, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] When the Wi-Fi in Dell Axim X3 is working, then the left part of the antenna is glowing: 
... but why only the left part? Because the other part is reserved for the Bluetooth, as you can clearly see on this picture: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Dell Axim X3 with built-in Wi-Fi - review October 31, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] Are you sure that there is no Dell Axim Pocket PC, that has both built-in Wi-Fi and built-in Bluetooth? So take a look at this picture of the protruding antenna of Dell Axim X3 that we have been testing: 
... as you can see above, the symbol to the left (on the antenna) is a standard Bluetooth symbol and the one to the right (also on the antenna) is the Wi-Fi symbol. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Video review: new PDAs from HP with integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi October 28, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] 
Here are some excerpts from this interview: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Windows Mobile 2003 with Wi-Fi improves Customer Service in Restaurants and Sports Venues October 27, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC is a leading platform for enterprise PDAs. Improved support for Wi-Fi in Windows Mobile 2003 reassures this position. 
more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)NetFront v3.1 for TOSHIBA e800 series released - the best PDA ever for Wi-Fi usage gets high resolution Internet browser October 24, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] Previously we were writing about the new Toshiba e800 / e805 and some people were complaining that not all applications support the new resolution of 480x640. Well, the Pocket Internet Explorer and other standard applications of Pocket PC platform support it. Now, also another "killer application" for this Toshiba e800/e805 has been released: the NetFront browser that supports the increased resolution, and has many interesting features, Multi-Window Browsing being just one of them. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)The best Pocket PC PDA ever - the Toshiba Pocket PC e800/805 is on sale October 23, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] With built-in W-Fi and high resolution of 480x640 pixels, this is the best PDA on the market for Wi-Fi usage and it costs only 600 USD in USA or 620 Euro in EU.
Although not all Pocket PC aplications support such high resolution, the Pocket Internet Explorer, Microsoft Reader, and other applications from Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC operating system support it. It also supports USB Host connector - so you can connect USB keyboards, etc to it. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Overview of features of ALL Pocket PC PDAs with built-in Wi-Fi October 23, 2003; [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] UPDATED: Loox 610 added [thanks to FirstLoox.org], in total: 9 PDAs listed Pocket PC PDAs are the best devices for mobile Wi-Fi usage and built-in Wi-Fi is a "must have" feature for each PDA nowadays. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Previous page Next page |
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