PowerGrid Review
Posted May 20, 2008 6:17 AM by Tadd Rosenfeld
By Perry Gonzalez
I love games. I will admit I’m not that good when it comes to certain types of games. (My eye-hand coordination is not always on the same page, so I’ve “lost” many a Lara and Jedi Knight.) And forget role-playing games! I just look at them and go “Duh….Pretty.” I do like a good racing or flying game. But no complex strategy please! I just want to race or fly…and shoot sometimes.
So I tend to be attracted to games like Text-Twist, Cubis, Shanghai, Farkle (my present favorite), and of course Bejeweled 2. And the thing I’ve learned to appreciate over the years, regardless of super graphics, is the importance of gameplay. Of course, the game pretty much has to grab me immediately.
Could your Centro save your life?
Posted May 12, 2008 5:11 AM by Alli Flowers
Could your phone save your life? Perhaps it could if you have MyRapidMD. I recently spoke to Damien Vallernaud, Chief Operating Officer of MyRapidMD, at CTIA. Not only can you keep your up-to-date medical history where first responders can find it, but right now you can get a free lifetime subscription....
Should you replace your voicemail with YouMail?
Posted May 9, 2008 2:32 AM by Alli Flowers
Using alternate voicemail with Sprint can be painful. Sprint customer service very begrudgingly changed my "no answer, forward" number to YouMail so that I could try it out.
(N.B. for Sprint customers: The customer service representative (CSR) who I spoke to assured me that customers can now set the "no answer, forward" number themselves. Unfortunately, the code she gave me to use didn't work. So be firm with Sprint CSR if you want to take advantage of services like YouMail.)
YouMail has some innovative and fun features. The basic premise behind YouMail is that everyone should be greeted personally, and traditional voicemail doesn't do that. So while you can have a standard outgoing message to everyone, you can also have dozens of personal outgoing messages played to individual callers that you can change whenever you want. YouMail matches your caller's caller ID with your address book to give each caller a totally unique voicemail experience.
Does your Centro need protection?
Posted May 5, 2008 7:34 PM by Alli Flowers
Much has been discussed in the forums about screen protectors. We almost universally agree that they are a necessity, but which is the best? That decision is about to become just a little harder. Listen to Kirk Feller, and watch him demonstrate BodyGuardz, a seemingly indestructible shield for your screen or your entire device.
Bling bling for your ring ring
Posted April 18, 2008 5:12 PM by Alli Flowers
To bling or not to bling. That is the question. Of course, there is such a wide range of cell phone accessory bling available now, you can go from tacky to tasteful by merely changing cases.
The CTIA 2008 cellular phone conference was proof that accessory manufacturers have suddenly realized there are at least as many women as men with mobile phones. And by some stroke of luck, they realized that women are far more likely to buy and own multiple cases for those phones than men. They are, after all, accessories – and accessorizing is something at which we women have excelled for generations. I have captured two shining examples in video that take you from the refined to the "so over the top I am at a loss for words."
Free smartphone e-greetings with Clip In Touch.
Posted March 26, 2008 4:08 AM by Tadd Rosenfeld
Clip In Touch is a service being rolled out by carriers (and other content providers) that allows users to send greetings to multi-media enabled mobile phones for free. Simply design a greeting using your desktop or Centro browser and the Clip In Touch site, and send it to anyone or everyone you know via e-mail or MMS. Clip In Touch offers a database of professional images, videos and music that can be combined to create greetings, or you can upload your own multimedia files (such as photographs, songs or your own recordings).
We caught up with the company last month and received an in-person demonstration. They showed us how to create a greeting and what a resulting MMS looks like on a mobile phone. The service is a lot of fun for sending joke messages to friends or for sending well wishes to loved ones on holidays.
Free e-mail and SMS dictation with Jott
Posted March 24, 2008 4:08 AM by Alli Flowers
As I'm driving to school, I suddenly remember something I needed to tell my mother. But at this hour, she's not likely to have her phone on. If I wait until I get to school, I'll have forgotten what I wanted to tell her, and I really can't email while driving. So I Jott her.
Speed dialing is a snap when driving, so I just speed dial Jott, and dictate a quick email. It's off my mind, and waiting on her computer when she logs in to read her email with her morning coffee. The quality of the voice recognition is truly remarkable, but the even more astounding part, is that Jott is absolutely free!
Check out Prima's new Centro cases! (Review.)
Posted March 5, 2008 9:32 PM by Alli Flowers
Prima has put two great feet forward into the Centro market with a Stylish Premium Leather Open Face case and Premium Leather Lateral Holster Style case.
As with past Prima Treo cases, their new open face case is beautiful and expertly made (see left image). Your Centro slides in from the top, and there is a heavy snap closure to keep it in place. The leather is high quality and perfectly supple with almost invisible stitching. It's a case designed to last.
The Prima Centro Premium Leather Open Face case can be used on a belt with a clip or carried in your pocket with a flat back. A screw can be inserted into a metal plate on the back to attach an included swivel belt clip.
Two great Seidio Centro cases
Posted March 5, 2008 9:19 PM by Alli Flowers
If you are looking to protect your Centro without adding bulk to the Centro’s slim shape and sleek lines, Seidio has your Centro covered with a variety of choices. This week I am reviewing Seidio’s Super Slim Rubberized Case and Premium Skin Case for the Centro.
Separated at Birth?
At first glance, the two cases appear almost identical. I chose to go with the black versions since I have a black Centro, but they also come in a few different colors (burgundy and blue for the Super Slim Rubberized Case and white for the Premium Skin Case).
Neurostechnology, DRM, and the OSD
Posted February 28, 2008 4:32 AM by Alli Flowers
A quick study note before diving into this controversial and exciting topic. According to Wikipedia:
"Digital rights management (DRM) is an umbrella term that refers to access control technologies used by publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. It may also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices. To some extent, DRM overlaps with copy protection, but DRM is usually applied to creative media (music, films, etc.) whereas copy protection typically refers to software."
One of the many great things about using the Neuros mpeg4 Video Recorder 2 Plus is that it copies, unconditionally, whatever is in your video library.
AT&T Centro Speculation
Posted January 29, 2008 6:59 PM by Tadd Rosenfeld
This week the blogosphere lit up with rumors of an impending AT&T Centro release. Palm's CEO Ed Colligan indicated on a recent investor relations conference call that we could expect the Centro smartphone rolled out on a second carrier prior to the end of February. However, Palm has not specifically announced any new device or carrier agreement.
Generally Palm provides carriers with three months of selling exclusivity. It's likely that Sprint's Centro exclusivity is about up.
Jaybird Bluetooth stereo headset
Posted December 10, 2007 5:36 PM by Alli Flowers
The perfect partner for your Centro; they're small and light, smart and contemporary.
Unlike some other headsets that try to control everything and succeed in controlling very little, the Jaybird does two things and it does them well. The Jaybird allows you to listen to music streamed via software such as Softick AudioGateway (SAG), and it allows you to hold clear and comfortable phone conversations. What the Jaybird does not do is try to offer ways to control audio playback (fast forward, pause, etc.) or control calls (redial, reject, etc).
PhoneSwitch for your Centro
Posted December 3, 2007 10:13 AM by Chris Nolan
One of the little things that has always irritated me about the Treo and now the Centro is how it would always return to the Phone application after receiving a call - regardless of what you were doing before the phone call. Arrrgh! Finally the problem is solved thanks to PhoneSwitch, a tidy utility from our friends at Boraware.
