I’ve been playing around with CDMA2000 on my laptop, and it’s kinda fun. But the device I’m using, a PCMCIA card from Growell, comes with software that is not exactly the most beautiful or functional: And there’s not much one can do about it, as far as I can work out. I love the idea … Read more
Malaysian company Fifth Media (beware: lots of Flash animation) will this week launch the Axia, a PDA phone that is small, and, at $525, ‘arguably the lowest-priced PDA phone’, according to today’s New Straits Times. The Axia A108 is a GSM tri-band phone using Microsoft Windows CE.NET, with GPRS, MP3 player and 1.3 megapixel camera. There’s no … Read more
This week in the Asian Wall Street Journal/WSJ.com (sub only) I write about keyboards. One little gadget I’ve taken a shine to in this area is the Bluetooth Smart Keyboard, made by an apparently anonymous company somewhere in China: As I mentioned in the column, it’s not great, but it’s surprising what they’ve managed to … Read more
This is a bit old, but I hadn’t noticed, so perhaps some of Loose Wire’s Asia-based readers hadn’t either: j2Global Communications, provider of the eFax Internet fax service, have this year started offering local toll-free numbers in Asia — well at least in Manila and Singapore. It says it’s planning to add numbers in Malaysia … Read more
Further to my last post, miraculously my Skype contacts have been recovered, I have no idea what I did, or whether the newer versions of Skype have solved this lost contact problem. Anyhow, here’s a tool that will at least allow you to save your contacts and call list, courtesy of Ryan Farley. It’s a … Read more