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While mobile e-mail fanatics are discussing the BlackBerry-killer software introduced by Microsoft at the 3GSM mobile-phone conference in Barcelona, I want to talk about an e-mail-ready phone that's just hitting the market - T-Mobile's SDA. The carrier launched it this week, along with a big brother, the MDA Pocket PC. Both phones run versions of Windows Mobile 5.0, though the SDA is no larger than a typical candy-bar phone. Like standard phones, it has no touch screen ? you operate it with buttons; unlike standard phones, it has an HTML browser, can juggle...
...case in point is GPS navigation: I tested ALK's CoPilot Live 6 for Smartphones, which comes with a Bluetooth GPS receiver that sits on your dashboard. You slip a MiniSD card into the phone (annoyingly, under the battery) and after a quick software install, the program runs. It communicates wirelessly with the GPS receiver, and quickly discovers its location. The turn-by-turn navigation experience was fairly positive, although on occasion it did point me in the wrong direction, as if a U-turn was part of the itinerary. It's no Garmin, but it passes the basic tests...
...full reboot. Even when it can't connect to the Internet, because - for instance - it's in Flight Mode (no radio, for use on airplanes), it tries anyway, and then gives you error messages, rather than alerting you to switch modes. Incidentally, during my test I put the phone in Flight Mode, then couldn't figure out how to get it back to a normal calling state...
...example: “Excuse me, what’s that? I only have a minute. You see, I spent half the afternoon on a phone call to Berlin. Well, to the Kolkata cell phone of a friend there. And now I’ll hardly have time to finish this French novel before my boyfriend from Zimbabwe, who also happens to be white and Jewish, comes to pick me up for our Valentine?...
...Vice President's approach resulted in a 20-hour delay in the news getting out. The more normal method takes five minutes. A Bush communications official picks up the phone anywhere in the world and says to the White House operator, "I need to make a wire call." A few minutes later, the operator calls back with Associated Press, Reuters and Bloomberg reporters on the line, ready to flash the news around the world...