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The State of Phone CamsIt’s official—camera phones need to get better cameras.  After lugging my half-way decent (if not state-of-the-art) digital camera out of town with me, I realize that I didn’t shoot a single damn picture with it. I did, however, take a large handful of pics with my Nokia 3650.  I need to go dig my Bluetooth adapter out of my notebook bag so that I can offload them and see how bad they are. The reason I took photos with the semi-crappy phone cam instead of the decent one is simple—I always had it with me.  The other one doesn’t fit well into my pocket to carry all the time, so it requires advance planning.  The simple solution for this is...


T-Mobile Treo 650 on the way?It sounds like a T-Mobile Treo 650 might be coming a lot sooner than most of us expected… Gizmodo is reporting a sighting by a corporate customer. "Hey joel, not sure if this is news, but t-mobile sent my company 3 treo 650s as a thank-you for renewing a bunch of cell phone accounts. i hadn’t heard anything official about t-mobile supporting treo 650, but this is clear evidence." This is only to be expected, after I finally broke down and got a Sprint version of course… On the other hand, T-Mobile has still to roll out their EDGE service, and I don’t suspect that many of the things I like about the Treo would be nearly as much fun...


Windows Mobile 6 Beta for T-Mobile DashFor those brave, foolhardy folks who just can't wait, apparently there is a beta of the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for the T-Mobile Dash floating around. According to the folks at the XDA-Developers Excalibur Forum (the Dash is an HTC Excalibur), there is a lot to like: It's noticably faster It adds the ability to edit Word and Excel files HTML Mail Windows Live integration Lots of eye candy There are also the usual Beta compliment of problems -- in some applications the number keys don't automatically change to Text, it apparently broke Blackberry Connect, as well as a few other applications. You can find more details, as well as a raft of workarounds for the various problems on XDA-Developers....


How-To run VoIP over existing phone wiringI've been a Vonage customer for going on two years now, and I have to say that Voice Over IP (VOIP) is an exceedingly cool and (for the most part) simple-to-use technology. You get a box from the VOIP provider, plug it into your broadband router, and plug your phone into the box. Instant dialtone -- what could be easier? But what if you don't want your phone right next to the router? A lot of VOIP users have gone to multi-handset cordless phone systems, and that works, but it's still not as convenient as using the existing phone wiring in your house that probably already has a jack everywhere you want a phone. Well, the good folks over to...


T-Mobile Closes Data Plan LoopholeApparently over the weekend, T-Mobile closed the hole that a lot of people were using to access data over the $5/mo T-Zones proxy instead of paying for the $20/mo data plan. This change was accompanied by a predictable amount of gnashing of teeth among the folks who were taking advantage of the situation. Funny, but my data access was just fine; of course, I pay the $20 a month, too. Which is not to say that it was wrong to do the $5 per month workaround -- it was there for such a prolonged period of time that it would be unreasonable to assume that T-Mobile was unaware that it was there and being used in that way. On the...