HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - BengalBoy’s Motorola V3 Razor …. A Photo Introduction.. Don’t Cut YourSelves!!
User BengalBoy over at HowardForums.com has posted a bunch of photos of the newly announced super thin aluminum (not titanium as previously thought) Moto V3. Check it out if you’re interested in the phone. There are lots of side-by-side comparison shots with other phones, such as the Moto V600, the Sony Ericsson P900, and the upcoming Moto MPx Pocket PC Phone Edition.
I thought this picture was particularly interesting:
That’s the MPx and the V3. Either the V3 is bigger than it looks, or the MPx is smaller than I thought it was going to be.
So many cool phones coming out… My heart still belongs to the MPX220, though. 
Blackberry Connect Solution to Be Enabled in Motorola MPx and MPx220 Mobile Devices
Looks like the upcoming dynamic duo of the MPx and MPX220 from Motorola will support Research in Motion’s popular “Blackberry” push email technology. As I understand it, this would made the devices able to receive pushed email when it arrives, as opposed to a traditional system of the email client polling for new mail every n minutes.
No mention is made in the article (it reads more like a press release, and is light on details) about what a carrier would have to do to support this. Probably because no carriers have revealed whether or not they’re going to carry these phones (T-Mobile, I’m looking at you…). The article just states that the software will be available for download in Q4.
I wonder how hard it would be to make this work with my company’s existing Blackberry Enterprise setup? Lots of manager-types here have Blackberry devices, so I know it’s set up on our Exchange servers. I like the idea of having access to my work email, Blackberry-style, but without having to carry a seperate device. Hopefully, I’ll be able to cobble something together once the MPX220 becomes available.
Anyone else excited about this?
Official Motorola MPx220 Press Release
While details on this phone have been available for months now, including an official product page on Moto’s website and a press release similar to this one, Motorola has “officially” (seriously, we mean it this time) announced the MPX220 Smartphone.
Details are still the same (Bluetooth, 1.23MP camera, etc.), except for one tiny tidbit I noticed in the press release:
“The Motorola MPx220 with Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software enables mobile professionals to easily access their Outlook calendar, contacts, e-mails and tasks,” said Suzan DelBene, corporate vice president of the mobile and embedded devices division at Microsoft.
It wasn’t clear before whether or not the MPX220 would ship with WM2003 Second Edition (the latest OS update from Microsoft). Now, it appears that it will. Yay!
The press release cites Q4 availability, which is kind of ominous, since the rumor mill has been predicting a September release, but as long as it comes out this year, I’ll survive. The sooner the better, though.
engadget.com - Motorola’s ultrathin V3 cameraphone
Wow. Check this out :drool:
That’s Motorola’s upcoming cameraphone, the V3. It’s essentially a V600 (Bluetooth, camera, color internal and external screens, etc.) in a super-thin titanium shell that’s only 14mm thick. Here’s another pic:
Dear Motorola:
I will sign over to you my body and a 51% controlling stake in my everlasting soul if you were to release an MS Smartphone (with all the features of the upcoming MPX220) in this form factor.
kthxbai,
Josh <3
SANS - Internet Storm Center - Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert System - Current Infosec News and Analysis
So it seems the newest MyDoom virus variant searches Google (and other search engines) for email addresses to send itself to. This has resulted in some problems for Google:
I feel like a part of my brain is unavailable. I’m pretty sure this is one of the signs of the Apocalypse, so I’ll be hiding under my desk if you need me…
HPshopping.com - iPAQ Pocket PCs
Today is the day that HP officially makes the new iPAQs available. Check the link above for details on the new rz1700, rz1715, h6315, and hx4705. No listing for the 3400/3700 series yet, but I’m sure they’re not far behind.
I commented on the details of these new models a while back, when they first started showing up at online retailers.
Reviews are starting to pop up at the usual places - I won’t bother to try to keep up with linking them here. If you’re interested, you should be able to find them.
Even though I haven’t laid hands on any of the new models, here are my initial impressions. The h6315 Phone Edition (which is going to be carried by T-Mobile, and cost $499) is a great device, and a step in the right direction for convergence (it has quad band GSM, WiFi, and Bluetooth), but I think that it’s slow 200MHz processor and only 64MB of RAM are going to be limiting factors. The hx4705 seems like a nice device, too, but VGA isn’t all that exciting for me, and there really doesn’t seem to be much else to distinguish it. The touchpad that replaces the D-pad is innovative, but it remains to be seen whether it’s more than a gimmick. Of all the new devices, I’m most tempted by the 3700 series - (seemingly) small form factor, 152MB of memory, 400MHz CPU, WiFi and Bluetooth, and a 1.3 megapixel camera, all for less than $500. If this unit had VGA (about the only “next-gen” feature it’s missing), I might be tempted to upgrade.
We’ll see how my resolve holds out once I get to actually use some of these new devices. I’m not exactly renowned for my ability to resist new Pocket PCs… 
Download details: Lookout V1.2
Well, that didn’t take long. It’s good to know that Microsoft is making this available, instead of just absorbing the technology, to appear (or not) in some future product.
I like the fact that they retained some of the humor and tone of the original site. I’m sure the developer, Mike Belshe, had something to do with this:
You can use Lookout to search your:
* Email messages
* Contacts, calendar, notes, tasks, etc.
* Data from exchange, POP, IMAP, PST files, Public Folders
* Files on your computer or other computers
* … Very soul (okay, not true)
What are you waiting for? Go get it!
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I figured when I posted about Hotmail upgrading my storage to 2GB, it was happening across the board. Turns out that, as far as I can tell, I’m one of the first that got upgraded (neowin.net didn’t post about it until yesterday).
I got linked again from www.glitchnyc.com. I’m wondering how people are finding this site? Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
Post a comment below and tell me how you heard about TinyScreenfuls.com.
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Wow, this is the first time someone outside of family and friends that I’ve told about this site has linked to me. I’m honored.
I’d love to get more readers - if you like what you read here, subscribe to my Atom/RSS feed, and tell your friends about the site!
There’s nothing in it for me, other than a nice little ego boost, and the satisfaction of knowing that people are actually reading what I’m writing here.
palmOne - Products - Meet the Technology Stars of Little Black Book
OK, so it’s a Palm, and not a Pocket PC. Nobody’s perfect.
I just saw the commercial for this movie, and got all excited, because it’s the first movie I’ve ever seen that has a PDA as the “star”. The (somewhat thin) plot is that a guy’s girlfriend finds his “little black book” (a PalmOne Tungsten C) with contact info, photos, etc. of all his ex-girlfriends. Hilarity ensues.
When will we see the first movie starring a Smartphone or Pocket PC? Listen up, Hollywood!
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