The prepaid wireless market is hot so hot that Sprint decided it wasnt enough to just lease its wireless network to Virgin Mobile, it went ahead and bought the entire company. Prepaid offers some advantages over contract plans, most notably in the fact that you dont have a contract. Youre free to come and go as you please and can better budget your spending. While prepaid phones have come a long way in form and function, theyre generally not the slickest handsets out there. Still, you can find some gems in this episode of The 5, Rich DeMuro takes a look at five mobile phones that dont look prepaid. techvi.com *** HEY THERE I’M RICH DEMURO AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER EDITION OF THE 5! IN THIS EPISODE WE’RE TAKING A LOOK AT PHONES THAT DON’T LOOK PREPAID. OVERALL, PREPAID WIRELESS MINUTES ARE MORE EXPENSIVE… BUT YOU DON’T HAVE A CONTRACT. JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GO MONTH-TO-MONTH DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO CARRY AROUND A BARE-BONES FLIP. THESE PHONES HAVE SOME POPULAR FEATURES. KEEP IN MIND – EVEN THOUGH MANY OF THEM FEATURE A FULL KEYBOARD – THEY’RE NOT EXACTLY SMARTPHONES. ((NUMBER 1)) FIRST UP ON OUR LIST… THE MOTOROLA CLUTCH I-465 FROM BOOST MOBILE. THIS PHONE COMBINES THE BLEEP BLEEP YOU DEPEND ON WITH THE FLEXIBILITY OF A FULL KEYBOARD. YOU DEFINITELY DON’T HAVE TO BE A MATH GENIUS TO OWN THIS PHONE… BOOST MOBILE GIVES YOU UNLIMITED VOICE, WEB, WALKIE-TALKIE, MESSAGING AND MORE FOR JUST 50 BUCKS A MONTH. THE CLUTCH FEATURES A FULL QWERTY KEYBOARD, BLUETOOTH AND GPS …
Reporter Dan Simmons from the BBC’s technology show Click managed to break a mobile phone marketed as “unbreakable”, during a demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Another concept animation of how Nokia phones could develop in the future, this time showing off a cool touchscreen user interface. Read more Nokia World coverage on www.techdigest.tv
-All is explained here in the description- This is a tuturial how to hack the most mobile phones with Bluetooth with your Sony Ericsson or Nokia phone. You need a program called “Super Bluetooth Hack” (it’s also called “BT Info”). You can download it on many places, such as: www.hack.pt.tp or rapidshare.com (there are the newest versions! It’s version 1.08) or try Google (search for “BT Info” or “Super Bluetooth Hack”. With the program you can do things on the other phone such as: – read SMS messages – read contacts – change profile – play ringtone (even if phone is on silent) – play songs – restart the phone – turn off the phone – restore factory settings – change ringing volume – call from the other phone (it includes all call functions like hold etc.) Notes: 1.) When connecting devices use the code 0000 2.) At start of programm on smartphones do not forget to turn on bluetooth before start of the application 3.) You have to download the file with Firefox, because Internet Explorer makes it a .zip file. If you don’t want to download Firefox, you have to change the extension of the file from “.zip” to “.jar”. If you downloaded the file as a “.zip” file, here is explained how to change it to a “.jar” file: With Windows: 1. Go to Start – Computer 2. In the menubar, go to: Tools – Folder Options… (With Windows Vista, you have to push the “Alt” key before you can see the “Tools” menu) 3. Go to “View”, and than deselect the mark from “Hide extentions for known file types …
So onwards with the debate on whether or not the mobile phone is actually a better thing to use than the landline is the final part of the argument.
Charging
So the mobile phone is always dying because of the short battery it has right? It would seem that the landline can do this a lot too. This is really due to the fact that many people now have landlines that are very similar to the mobile as you can have two or more wireless phones that act like the mobile. These phones are of course a big help to the people that are always having to run downstairs to get the phone but they have very little life in them. Surely if you are currently using one of these phones in your home then you may as well just use a mobile?
Landline Advances
So as you can see the landline is being forced to switch into an almost mobile device however there are many landline features that are currently unique to the landline that actually make it something worthwhile. One of the best inventions you can get for the home is the fax machine cross phone which is actually a great combo of the two meaning you do not have to spend a lot of money on both.
Although not technically something the landline has, fax to email is certainly a great invention as it will turn all of the incoming faxes into emails and send them off to whoever needs to have them.
The Truth
The mobile is used more than the landline because it has so many really good features to it that is impossible for the landline to ever have. The other thing is that you can get things like premium rate phone numbers and 0800 numbers on your mobile phone which is why a lot of businesses are choosing to give out mobiles rather than spend money on landlines.
However the choice in which you make is really yours!
The mobile phone market is developing at super speeds, the market is an ever changing one that is worth billions of pounds. If we cast our minds back to over a decade ago, you will remember that phones did one specific thing and that was to call someone.
If you now think of the current day handset, you will acknowledge that you can literally do anything and everything on them, such as take pictures record videos and browse the net. So where can we actually see phones progressing in the next coming years? Let us take a quick look into this.
Phones are going to change their bodily structure and anatomy; I can see a lot of handsets in reality opening up and becoming full blown headsets with multimedia system functions. The new phones will not only have superb functions but they are also going to be tremendously bendy and flexible, so you can literally wear the phone like a watch.
Within a decade’s time we could anticipate desktop computers to be made redundant in offices and our monitors being powered by our brawny smart phone system which we can then use on the go. You will be able to purchase everything on the move on your phone even before visiting a shop.
Cell phones will no longer just be for calling a phone number, telephone numbers may not even exist within the next few years, just names and code digits of the person that you want to communicate with. There is no point even calling these things phones anymore, they will be so much more then that. They should literally be called an entertainment system because that is what they will be. They may even have small projectors on them that allow you to watch movies and stream TV on the go.
In the current world we live in, a single person uses technology at least once a day to communicate. Whether it's a phone call, text message or internet access.
As technology progresses we are going to see new ways of communication filtering through. You may have come across twitter, which is a brand new communicating approach, people love it because its a free way of communicating.
I mean people are beginning to get fed up and so annoyed with mobile phones charging huge amounts to consumers, I mean you ring a freephone 0800 number and your mobile provider charges you a fortune. Well to be honest in a few years time all I can see is mobile phone providers losing out.
Because the latest trend is that of IP telephony which basically offers free calls via the internet. Mobile Phone providers are getting very anxious as to what the future holds for them and we have already seen certain providers begin to block access to VoIP applications.
But with the current credit crisis and economic downturn in full swing it is only a matter of time until people get fed up and just switch to VoiP. VoIP is still a baby product and has a while to go until it hits the global market, but when it does a huge amount of people will begin using it. But I can guarantee that in no time whatsoever companies will find a way to start charging consumers to communicate with each other. There is no way that the governments of the planet would ever let the telecoms sector suffer.
