List of cheapest Optus plans available based on Mobile Internet Data. Customers who connect their iPhone to an eligible Optus iPhone rate plan up until the end of August will get their first month of Mobile Internet Browsing for free.
All prices are in AUD. 1 AUD = 0.953934 USD.
But on Yes Plans you get less worth of calls and text compared to Yes Cap Plans.
With all the hype surrounding iPhone and after reading Apple’s get ready for iPhone page, I thought I will write how disappointed I am with my Windows Mobile phone (i-mate JASJAM running WM5) and Microsoft.
I am using Vista and the program to sync my Vista laptop with my mobile is Windows Mobile Device Center. According to Microsoft,
Windows Mobile Device Center helps you to quickly set up new partnerships, synchronize business-critical information such as e-mail, contacts and calendar appointments, easily manage your synchronization settings, and transfer business documents between your device and PC. #
Lets see how it syncs.
Ok wait, if I install Outlook, I can sync these simple things from my PC to my mobile. But Outlook is not a free program and I don’t care how much it costs. The most expensive Vista already comes with
Why these features exists in Windows Vista, if I cant sync those to my Windows Mobile. Ofcourse I can do these things directly on any phone not just Windows mobile phone. But check how some of these simple things can be done on iPhone using iTunes both on Mac and PC. And did I say iTunes is FREE. Lets see
iPhone syncs with the address book you already use on your computer ? Address Book or Entourage on a Mac, or Outlook or Outlook Express on a PC.#
iTunes already syncs iPod Contacts with Windows Contacts and I guess it will be same for iPhone.
iPhone uses iTunes to sync with the calendar application you already use on your computer ? iCal or Entourage on the Mac, or Outlook on a PC ? just like it does with your contacts.#
iTunes won’t sync iPod calendar with Windows Calendar currently but I wont be surprised if they allow iPhone to sync with Windows Calendar.
iTunes will make email setup on iPhone a breeze by automatically syncing the settings from email accounts stored in Mail on a Mac or Outlook on a PC.#
I am not sure if iTunes supports automatically syncing the settings from email accounts stored in Windows Mail. But I hope Apple will support those Vista features and beat Microsoft to it when iPhone and new iTunes are released on June 29th.
These are just some of the basic things any smartphone users want to sync with their computer and clearly Microsoft fails with their Windows Mobile. Here is a response from someone in Microsoft to a user who asked how to Sync Vista Windows Contacts to PPC in Windows Mobile newsgroups.
Currently, WMDC does not support sycning of Windows Mail and Windows Contacts. It is something that the feature team is considering for future releases. Currently, WMDC only supports syncing of data with Outlook.
Shame on you Microsoft and Windows Mobile team.
When I am not at home, I check my feeds from Bloglines on my mobile and I found this funny message from Bloglines today. BTW have you all checked new OS X skin for Bloglines by Jon Hicks. Its pretty cool.
The Symbian OS™ maker annouced on tuesday that they have shipped their 100th Symbian powered smartphone model. Symbian Ltd., the market-leading open mobile operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones, has shipped in not only 100 different commercial phone models to over 250 major network operators worldwide but also 70.5 million phones to date worldwide since its formation.
“It’s a great milestone for Symbian to reach the shipment of its 100th phone model and 70.5 million Symbian OS phone shipments since we opened for business ” said Nigel Clifford, CEO, Symbian. #.
I am a mobile freak and have used more than 10 mobiles equipped with Symbian OS in the last 3 years and my favourite to date is definetly Sony Ericsson p910i.
Today I picked my new O2 Xda Atom from the nearest Optus dealer, after been waiting for nearly 2 months since I ordered. The Xda Atom is a PDA-phone with Intel PXA272 416MHz processor, 2.7″ TFT LCD display, FM radio, 2-mega-pixel CMOS camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and runs on Windows Mobile 5.0. I will be installing some applications soon and test it completely and will write a full review soon.
Since Mobira Senator car phone introduction in 1982 to the Nokia 2652 introduction on Sep 21, Nokia has introduced around 400 phone models to all major analogue and digital standards.
Nokia’s first iconic product, the Nokia 2100 series that was introduced in 1994, sold nearly 20 million units in its time.
The world’s best-selling phone, the Nokia 3310 / 3330 sold 126 million units from its launch in 2000 until its “retirement” earlier this year. For comparison, the combined total of all Nokia phones sold between 1991 and 1998 is 100 million.
If all the Nokia 3310/3330 phones sold were laid end-to-end, the line would stretch from Helsinki, Finland to Santiago, Chile – over 13,500 kilometers.
In 1991 Nokia sold 800 000 phones. In 2004, it manufactured 207.7 million phones, which equals 6.5 phones per second.
Nokia consumes 100 billion components on annual level. On average, one phone includes up to 400 components.
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