Rick Cooper, The PDA Pro

Complimentary Teleseminar - Drive Safe and Talk Safe – Mobile Headset Tips

 

Do you use a mobile phone while driving? How do you stay productive while driving, but avoid the risk of DRIVING DISTRACTED?!?

Join me for a complimentary teleseminar where I will interview Mobile Headset Expert John Waller on tips to use your phone safely (and legally).

Drive Safe and Talk Safe – Mobile Headset Tips
(And Learn about California’s new Hands Free Driving Laws)
(Complimentary Teleseminar)

Thursday, July 3rd
12pm Pacific / 2pm Central / 3pm Eastern

Special Guest: John Waller, Mobile Technology Consultant

Register Now!

Click Here to Register for Complimentary Teleseminar

John Waller

Owner of Mobile Connectivity

John has been involved in technology since 1987. He started out in alpha numeric pagers, cell phones and digital pagers. He has been selling headset for over 13 years. He is a technology consultant and helps people to be more productive with technology and is a sought after speaker and consultant. He is the Founder of the Silicon Valley Palm Users Group and has been hired by Palmsource to train their employees on their devices.  He is currently writing a book on "How to be More Productive in the New Millennium". For more information about Mobile Connectivity, visit http://www.mobileconnectivity.net/

CALIFORNIA HANDS FREE DRIVING LAWS ARE NOW IN EFFECT!

New cellular phone laws went into effect July 1, 2008 in California. The changes are intended to reduce accidents caused by distracted drivers.

VC §23123: Drivers 18 years of age or older are prohibited from driving a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone unless a hands-free device is used.

SOURCE: California Department Of Motor Vehicles Web Site:
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/cellularphonelaws/

 

Palm Treo 500V Ready for Europe

What's Palm up to these days? According to Engadget on 9-12-07, Palm is releasing a new model for Europeans.

"Palm's European wing announced today that the Treo 500v was really real, and headed onto the monolithic Vodafone network in October. As expected, the new model will be coming in two colors, a bright white and gray finish (called Glacier White), as well as a muted charcoal tone (known as, surprise, Charcoal Grey), and will be running Windows Mobile 6."

The device has a new look and feel although it lacks a touchscreen.

For more information, visit Palm's UK website.

Photo courtesy of Engadget.

Microsoft Launches Windows Mobile 6

Following on the heels of launching Vista, Microsoft is rolling out Windows Mobile 6. Can the world survive this much change at once? We'll see!

As always, I would be cautious about making an immediate change to a newer operating system, whether for computers or PDAs. Unless you enjoy living on the bleeding edge of technology, the safe bet is to wait and see what happens.

I'll follow up with some updates from what more tech-oriented sites are saying. In the meantime, Chris Ziegler from Engadget recently wrote:

"Some of us are still trying to keep straight in our brains the difference between Windows Mobile Smartphone, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition devices, but with the impending arrival of Crossbow, that ship has apparently sailed. In the realm of new Windows releases, Vista has obviously been garnering the lion's share of the attention, but Windows Mobile 5 is about to ride off into the mobile platform sunset in favor of Windows Mobile 6 -- codenamed the aforementioned Crossbow -- and the naming convention to differentiate between its various flavors is riding with it."

Confused? You're not the only one.

Palm Treo 750 May Be Best Pocket PC Phone Ever

Dave Ciccone from Mobility Today writes about the new Cingular Palm Treo 750. He writes:

"This year Windows Mobile enthusiasts who are currently in contract with Cingular will now have the option of buying one of the best PocketPC Phone Edition devices ever to be released! Being the first 3G Palm Treo makes this device a ground breaking device for those who have been waiting that long year!"

His review goes on to offer more glowing remarks. Check out the rest of his review.

HP on Mobile-Phone Computing

HP's website has an interesting perspective on trends in mobile-phone computing. The site indicates:

"The holy grail of mobile computing is a converged device that transcends the cell phone to deliver a myriad of communication, business, productivity, and entertainment applications. It brings together mobile phone, digital video camera, radio, MP3 player, TV, DVR, GPS, game system, PDA, PC, and more in a single, go-anywhere handset. "

For most people, that's overkill. But, the HP offers some compelling evidence that the technology has come a long way.