For those of you who use Windows Mobile, you’re likely no stranger to battery life issues that sometimes come up, especially if you are a power user, spend a lot of time on the telephone during the day or connect to your Exchange email via ActiveSync for “push” email. A Microsoft employee who runs a blog on the subject has a great write-up to get you started on preserving your battery life and getting through the day on your Blackjack, Treo 750, Motorola Q, etc.
February 25, 2008
Good resource on Windows Mobile battery life issues
March 29, 2007
Big AT&T Network Upgrades
AT&T announced that it will be speeding up its upstream speed over its BroadbandConnect wireless Internet service. For tech evangelists who travel like those of us at TechBlog, this is welcome news.
Pesky posters over at DSLR point out that AT&T is on track to offer faster speeds via its wireless service than through their land-based products. Let’s hope they fix that problem–quickly.
Quick Review: AT&T BroadbandConnect - Sierra Wireless 875 3G AirCard
In terms of 3G AirCards, this one is our favorite. Using Sierra Wireless 3G Watcher we connected quickly and downloaded large files quickly. While connected via 3G, we downloaded files at about 1 megabit per second and uploaded at about 256k. In rural areas, EDGE was very acceptable (and actually better than the CDMA equivalent, 1xRTT) at about 150-170kbps downstream. Coverage using the AirCard 875 was absolutely better than anything we could do with the other cards we’ve tried from Cingular/AT&T.
Using 3G Watcher, we even have it working in Windows Vista! Now why we’re running Windows Vista, that is the question of the day….