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Suddenly PDA phones are everywhere, in dozens of varieties. Verizon Wireless, for instance, carries versions of the latest PalmOS, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices. Within these categories there are a few different flavors of connectivity, too. The PalmOne Treo 650 (reviewed in another incarnation several months ago) has both Bluetooth and a basic data connection, as well as a voice line (you remember those, right?). Ditto for Verizon's newest RIM BlackBerry, the 7250. And there are variations on the Windows Mobile theme: the UTStarcomm/Audiovox XV6600 with Bluetooth and a connection to Verizon's super-fast EVDO data network (known...
...promise of that last device is that it gives you the best of everything-access to Verizon's high-speed EVDO service, which gives you DSL-like downloading in more than 40 major markets, plus Wi-Fi functionality for everywhere else. It sounds great in theory, but has some serious drawbacks in practice...
...issue is that the Wi-Fi and EVDO connections can't run simultaneously. This isn't a problem if you're in one of the places that supports Verizon's EVDO network. But when you're not, and have to switch to Wi-Fi mode, you lose phone service-it won't even ring! Suddenly, this Wi-Fi bonus sounds like a burden...
...Hispanic fans over the past four years and have attracted more season ticketholders from Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, beyond the team's base. In-stadium advertising revenues have more than tripled, to $17 million, since Moreno took over--the team signed Anheuser-Busch, General Motors and Verizon to new sponsorship deals this season. "I can't say Verizon is buying us now because we changed the name," says Moreno. "Verizon is buying us because we're putting a winning product on the field...
...send a picture to any e-mail address, or to another camera phone that's on the same service. (Verizon customers can now send photos to their Cingular friends and vice versa.) Save e-mail addresses to your address book before you start snapping, so you don't waste time retyping them each time you want to send a picture...