Mobile Phones

The success of T-Mobile’s Sidekick is perhaps mostly to do with the way the screen opens.

Flick it with your thumb and the spring-loaded mechanism wheels the screen round to reveal a full Qwerty keyboard underneath. It’s neat and, more importantly, cool. It’s one of the ways the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 identifies itself as a phone that teenagers and young adults will want.

The technology inside is aimed at pleasing kids and bewildering dads, too. So there’s instant messaging and texting readily accessible, and, when activated, the Sidekick 3, creates a unique email address for you.

Although not over-complicated, using the Sidekick 3 will need to be honed. The menu and navigation buttons are not clearly marked and the power button is well hidden, so knowing how it all works makes you part of a private club.

Source and more info: computeractive

The Commerce Commission has called for submissions from Fiji’s sole mobile communications provider, Vodafone Fiji, for a review of current charges.

The Commission’s executive director Mili Racule said Vodafone Fiji has until March 20 to tender its submission, after which the Commission would go ahead to assess whether a reduction of charges is warranted.

If justified, mobile charges could come down in two months.

Source and more info: fijilive

David Sitton, our resident gadget reviewer who manages to be wired and unwired simultaneously on a 24/7 basis, takes us through the pros and cons of this rather cool looking phone.

Mobile phones are typically manufactured to survive a year’s use and abuse. The pace of change and innovation is reaching a flatspot in the mobile phone market as almost all the technology one could demand is already available. With that in mind. making a decision on what phone is suitable is more difficult than ever.

Now manufacturers have to focus heavily on style and form to create a unique selling proposition and it was exactly this that drew my attention to the Samsung SGH-D900.

Source and more info: citywire