Cingular 8525 Release Nears
Cingular Wireless has only been offering the 8125 Pocket PC phone for a few months, but a replacement is already waiting in the wings.
According to widely available information, this will be a version of the HTC Hermes. The primary difference between this model — called the Cingular 8525 — and its predecessor will be the inclusion of HSDPA high-speed wireless networking, giving users data transfer speeds between 400 and 700 kilobits per second.
But this isn’t the only change being made to this Windows Mobile device. HTC has also added “OK” and “Start Menu” buttons, plus one for Push To Talk (PTT) service.
In addition, the processor speed has been doubled to 400 MHz.
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Starting in March 2007 the Wi-Fi Alliance will start certifying next-gen WiFi products, which puts us at ease a little bit. As CNET reports, the ultimate goal is, of course, to make sure that all the prelim 802.11n stuff out there plays nice with each other, which currently can mess up existing legit WiFi networks. For those of you who haven’t been keeping score at home, 802.11n has been fraught with total confusion since the beginning. Back in May 2006, the IEEE rejected the first 802.11n draft by a wide margin, failing to garner a simple majority, let alone the required 75 percent supermajority. Later that month, Glenn Fleishman at Wi-Fi Net News told us that Task Group N received around 12,000 comments on the proposed draft — compared to the 2,000-some that most drafts generate — which is another very bad sign. Unfortunately though, it still looks like the real deal officially official final ratification won’t be done until 2008. The short version? Just to be safe, stick with your current WiFi setup until there’s a new man in the White House, ok?
We are currently running a promotion on our Amazon.com channel. Lets see how this goes. If it goes well then we might just leave it there permanently.
A quick thanks to Ka Wang Yee from JAVOEdge for providing me with the JAVOHolster for the the review. Without it, this review would not have been possible.
Derek has done a comparison between the Palm Treo 650 JAVOSkin case versus its Boxwave counterpart. Whose the winner? The title kind of gave it away, JAVOedge of course! Once again JAVOedge’s style and ease of use comes out on top over our competitors. Not only was the JAVOSkin thinner and easier going in and out of pockets, it is also easier to access the keypad.