Doug Simmons

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Push Your Buttons

My biggest complaint about stepping over to the Fuze from the original Tilt was the loss of all those buttons. I liked those buttons. Damnit. Don’t get me started. Have you heard of AEButton? Well it’s a hard button mapper (hard meaning the buttons you can feel on the phone, not buttons to press on [...]

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Do More Phone Stuff On Your PC

Got a nice lil’ piece of software to tell you about. It’s called WIFI Remote Access by France’s very own Julien Manici and it is très badass. Basically it’s like ActiveSync minus ActiveSync plus wifi, plus rich file management (including the ability to play your music on your computer streamed from the phone — multiple [...]

Abandon All Cabs and Existing Phones Ye Who Enters WP7

Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business Director Aaron Woodman, when asked by CNET if people with phones running WM6.5 would be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 7 without buying a new device, said no: “I don’t know if any Windows Mobile 6.5 Device today meets those specifications.” He went on to discuss new hardware plans which [...]

Google Buzz Revisited Yet Again

I’m telling you, this thing is not just a gimmick to screw around with while you’re on the can (though it’s great for that too). Last weekend my ol’ lady and I were stranded in downtown Dallas because American Airlines sucks so remarkably at getting people to and from Santa Fe for their romantic getaway. [...]

Extended OEM Batteries for the Fuze, Tilt 2

One thing some of you may have noticed about me is that I’m not in the business of plugging or praising anything related to AT&T. That said, we are all starved for battery life. Me, I have two on me at all times. Now you could go to your local AT&T hut and drop $45 [...]

Opera Mobile v10.3 Released (yes it does Flash)

Get psyched baby ’cause I got a fresh Opera Mobile build for you. There may be other subtle improvements but let me offer you what I noticed. Psyched? Let’s do this. It doesn’t crash as much as the last version and when you’re running a bunch of other programs, at least from my ten minutes [...]

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I’m Feeling A Groovy Buzz

Getting tired of the Google Buzz wordplay all over the headlines and blogs? Well it’s all over the place because, unsurprisingly, Google just unveiled something many people will pile onto even though there are plenty of companies whining about how they had this kind of idea years ago. Too bad for them that in their [...]

I’m Feeling Insecure

The other day I was looking for a free yet decent GTalk client. Found something on Google and though the project’s homepage TLD was .ru I installed it anyway, banged in my gmail account and password, signed on, didn’t have anyone to GTalk with, signed off and uninstalled the software. The next morning I couldn’t [...]

Microsoft’s Mobile Hail Mary

In an effort to escape my abyss of obscurity in the mobile software market, if I were Microsoft, to distance myself from my embarrassing mobile past I would commit at least a thousand developers to perfecting the next release (including one or two who are actually on the payroll and not some random ugly website [...]

Only In China

In case you’ve ever wondered what $68.51 gets you at chinavasion.com: “Say hello to the world’s hottest cigarette lighter mobile phone – The Machismo! Not only does it light your cigarette, but it’s also a super Triband, Dual-SIM cellphone with 2.5 inch touchscreen! It also comes with Dual-SIM slots so you can have two cellphone [...]

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