BlueLLama

Alas, even after all that plastic surgery, you can’t escape the fact that you’re basically running Windows.

For instance, you open programs from a tiny Start menu, which you activate by pressing a dedicated Windows-logo key. Fine, except that the Start menu has room to list only seven programs. For access to anything else, you must open the Programs folder. But even here, only nine icons fit on each screen, and no list view is available. So you have to do a lot of scrolling.

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Sprint Nextel has agreed to buy wireless affiliate Alamosa Holdings for $4.3 billion in cash. The acquisition, announced Monday, includes the assumption of $900 million in debt. Alamosa is based in Lubbock, Texas, and provides Sprint PCS service in 19 states to about 1.49 million wireless subscribers.

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The Department of Defense plans to purchase Sprint Nextel’s iDEN network. One result of this deal will be that Sprint will receive a large amount bandwidth in the 700 and 800Mhz bands, which it will use to offer nationwide mobile WiMax broadband services over the next four to five years.

PCS Intel

As useful as the Treo 600 & 650 are, they are not without their faults. Just about every Treo owner will find themselves nodding in agreement with most of all of the items alleged in this class action suit (PDF link). Looks like someone is finally gettin’ their cumuppins…

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New drivers have enough things to worry about without adding cellphones and other wireless devices to the mix, federal safety regulators say. They want all states to make it illegal for teenagers and other novice drivers to jabber on phones.

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An “electric nose” that can smell individuals’ own personal scents may begin to replace four-digit pin numbers and secret passwords within the next decade.

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