To be perfectly honest, the Olympics is something I just don't care about. However, in case you do, and you simply have to know what's going on with the Olympics while you're out and about, Mippin has you covered with a mobile-friendly page that links to all the latest Olympics [...]
As you might understand over the past few weeks, things haven't exactly been stress-free in my household with my son being sick. He's doing much better, thanks, but we're not entirely out of the woods yet. He's currently taking antibiotics by IV and will have to go in in a [...]
I did an interesting experiment the other day-I tried dialing 0 for a number of phones. What does dialing 0 do? In the United States and Canada, dialing zero was how you reached the operator. You needed the operator to even make local calls at first, but as the equipment [...]
Source: WikipediaI got an interesting email from the inbox for The Mobile Technology Weblog about a consortium of companies from the UK coming to the upcoming CTIA conference in Las Vegas. According to the press release, "The companies, which represent a range of British skills and talent, are going to [...]
A recent comment on my wireless service in Indonesia post along with a conversation I had with someone in our local Office Depot reminded me to re-examine the whole prepaid versus contract situation. I tried to come up with simple guidelines I could articulate to someone. What I came up [...]
I went back to the Gig Harbor Costco on Friday to grab a bite to eat and see if they sold any other phones without a contract. There is one phone they sell without a contract, but it's a prepaid low-end Samsung on T-Mobile. Hey, even that's news to me. [...]
A while ago, Luca Filigheddu asked me about prepaid mobile phone options in the U.S.. I wrote up a short email explaining it to him, and I thought a more comprehensive work piece on the subject as in order. I'm only covering the two major GSM carriers in the U.S.: [...]
I was over at my in-laws house this past weekend, and the discussion turned to mobile phones. My father-in-law told me that the T-Mobile prepaid plan I had set them up with several years ago ended up not only being a good fit for them-which I of course knew from [...]
When I was looking for some information on Carterfone rules, I ran across this PDF from the CTIA about how the Carterfone rules should not apply to the wireless industry. I tend to disagree. Let me pick apart their talking points: Requiring wireless networks to support any, generic device would [...]
I was thinking more about the difference between buying a bundle of minutes-at a fixed monthly cost-versus paying for minutes as you go. I'm trying to figure out why such a thing caught on here in North America, but doesn't seem to have caught on so much elsewhere. The only [...]
A reader, whom I've been engaged in many private conversations with about how much the mobile operators here in the U.S. rip us off, sent me information about how much mobile phone service costs in Indonesia, along with some basics about how the service works. For the record, Indonesia is [...]
I was catching up on my viewing of Heroes this evening when I noticed a rather obvious product placement for Sprint. The product placement doesn't bother me so much, it's the fact that anyone who knows anything about mobile phone networks would realize that this product placement is unrealistic. Sprint [...]
A few years ago, AT&T Wireless-back before it was purchased by Cingular and assimilated into AT&T-sold a device called the Ogo. The device was a huge flop, but it offered an interesting proposition: a data-only plan for under $20 a month, which included access to one IM service over SMS. [...]
I was talking to a co-worker about mobile phones the other day and she revealed something to me that I hadn't considered: deaf people overwhelmingly have T-Mobile service and overwhelmingly use one of the various Sidekick models. What, you mean deaf people use mobile phones? Why not? If your deaf, [...]
