 T-Mobile scores high on J.D. Powers customer care study... Sprint PCS on the bottomTodd Ogasawara's O'Reilly weblog... The latest J.D. Powers mobile phone customer service phone rankings are out. T-Mobile got the top score and Sprint PCS had the lowest score. But, does it this sort of thing matter in an age of mammoth phone company mergers? [O'Reilly Weblogs] LG Hands Free Bluetooth Dongles From the RSS newswire... We're running the gambit here. Lots of cool stuff, from a phone that hooks up to a phone to a Bluetooth rear-view mirror. The mirror, which we see here, has hands-free features built-in and allows for complete control of your phone. I'm not sure that it's a great idea to have your hands all over your rear-view while bustling about in the big city, but I guess LG knows what its doing. There are also a bunch of little dongles and a big ugly dongle with buttons that kind of defeats the purpose of having a mobile phone in the car. Why not just make a car phone thingy that just plugs into the lighter and have it voice controlled? Who knows what they're thinking. BTW the word dongle is cool. [Gizmodo]  BT Mixes Home With MobileFrom the RSS newswire... Land-line phones are a thing of the past. With the advantages of cell phones people are ditching cheap land-lines for a little more expensive convenience. A happy medium may have been found. A British company is launching a service called BT Fusion. A cell phone connects wirelessly to a hub in the home, when ready to leave just take the phone with your for standard cell phone usage. It is predicted to be 95% cheaper while being used at home. Right now it is being tested among 400 U.K. [Gizmodo] HOW-TO: Run homebrew apps on your PSP! From MAKE Magazine weblog... Here's how-to run emulators, games and homebrew applications on your USA PlayStation Portable PSP. I cooked up a quick how-to, pictures, screenshots as well as video to watch on how to do all this. This is really a big deal, we're all going to be able to play thousands of games, run hundreds of cool applications all for free and all from the community of tinkerers out there looking to do more with their PSP and here's how.... [MAKE Magazine Weblog]  Is iTunes REALLY Beating P2P?Spencer Critchley's O'Reilly weblog... Not everyone believes the numbers in the widely reported NPD study that claims iTunes is the 2nd-most popular digital music service. [O'Reilly Weblogs] Samsung D720 From the RSS newswire... The D720 has it all. As smartphones are becoming more popular, Samsung has released their D720 to compete. One of the key features includes the use of the Symbian Series 60 operating system to help enforce the slogan of this phone, ‘smarter than the average.’ This phone also includes a 1.3 megapixel camera and integrated 64mb of memory. All standard cell phone options still apply: Bluetooth, web browsing, messaging, video playback, java, and even an mp3 player with dual speaker output. Without a contract expect to pay upwards of $1000. [Gizmodo]  Nokia and OnRelay Collaborate to Create the Mobile DeskphoneFrom the RSS newswire... OnRelay and Nokia join forces to bring to market MBXTM, the first generic solution that fully integrates a corporate voice system and all its surrounding business support systems with employees' 3G / GSM smartphones. [Wireless Developer Network News] LifeDrive: Should I Take the Plunge? The Bluetooth Weblog...OK folks, I’m going to need your help here. I’m intrigued by the LifeDrive Mobile Manager from palmOne. It looks like a cool product, and it promises a lot—4 GB hard drive, WiFi and Bluetooth support, capability to carry your office docs with you, and so on. It has all the features I would need for a mobile device minus a phone, which is not a big deal to me since I’m very happy with my cellphone. However, I have read the mixed reviews for the LifeDrive, such as how it does some features well and some not so well. Plus, the $499 price tag is definitely a concern. Anyway, I was hoping you could provide me with some constructive feedback and convince me whether I should go ahead and buy the LifeDrive or not. I am truly on the fence on this one, and I could really use your help. Microsoft Smartphone (MPx220) and Smart Watch (Suunto N3) were my vacation news and messaging tools Todd Ogasawara's O'Reilly weblog... Do you find your vacations "too busy" and hurried to boot up a notebook to read news and answer email? That's how mine tend to be. This time, I had my Motorola MPx220 Smartphone and Suunto N3 Smart Watch to help me keep connected and avoid the after vacation email and news catch-up syndrome. [O'Reilly Weblogs] Survey the Location Technology Frontier at Where 2.0, a New O'Reilly Conference Wireless Developer Network News... Location-aware technologies combined with mapping and other data are poised to create a whole new class of web apps and services. Hackers and researchers are mashing up Google maps with everything from Craigslist to Chicago crime stats [Wireless Developer Network News] iPod Photo Connector Hacking... MAKE Magazine Weblog... The iPod Photo connector is a neat little accessory ($29) you plug in to your iPod photo and to your supported camera which can transfer all the photos off your camera and to the iPod giving you 40/60 Gigs of storage. I finally got around to using mine and I think for many trips I can leave the computer home and save money on memory cards. The connector also seems to transfer any files in the image directory. I was able to transfer movie and MP3s. Of course, I had to see what else I could plug it in to- (it charges the Shuffle! and you can make a super cheap DIY version of the Belkin media reader!) it also works with a lot of other devices and now we have some hacks I need to do -- here are a ton of photos. [MAKE Magazine Weblog] USB drives to get smarter SanDisk and M-Systems back an initiative that could further blur the line between consumer electronics devices and storage. [CNET News.com: Personal Technology] Cingular and HP Launch HP iPAQ Pocket PC From the RSS newswire... Cingular Wireless and HP today introduced the first integrated voice and data HP iPAQ Pocket PC to be powered by Cingular's nationwide digital wireless network. [Wireless Developer Network News] Blog from your PDA From the MAKE weblog... I need to dust off my Pocket PC and try this out (blog companies could sell refurb'ed PDAs just for blogging)- Pocket Blog extends your weblog to any Pocket PC device. Weblog entries are maintained offline. When Internet connectivity becomes available, such as when your Pocket PC is placed in it's docking cradle or a WiFi card is inserted, changes are automatically posted to your weblog. [MAKE Magazine Weblog] 
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