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Just stumbled upon this new to me Google service: Google Local. You tell it 'What' (e.g. coffee shops) and "Where" (e.g. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and it returns location information. Is this new?
The FCC approved the Sony Ericsson S710a. This will probably be on Cingular, and should be available soon. As far as I know this is the best cameraphone you can get in the U.S. at the moment. Absolutely huge gorgeous screen. And runs on the semi-high speed EDGE network. I'm still waiting, but this one is for sure in the running.
I've been watching this thread over at Treo Central develop with some skepticism. The rather enthusiastic hackers there have been trying to get WiFi to work on the Treo 650. Palms choice to not include WiFi (probably to appease cellular carriers who presumably want you to use their network and not some free WiFi hotspot to send your data, but possibly in an effort to not undermine sales of their Tungsten WiFi PDAs) is one of the great disappointments with the 650. I had thought this quest would not be successful, but it's never very smart to underestimate the resources of a bunch of software engineers with too much time on their hands. And damn, it looks like they have done it. The .prc file you need is hosted here (I have it already if that goes down.)
Just two days ago the lead hacker, Shadowmite, posted:
It's just looking pretty bad... It works, but it's completely unstable and almost impossible to keep it working. We really need to completely re-write the network layers to make this happen, and thus the source code is needed.And then yesterday at 8:00 pm, after much shooting in the dark, he hit it:
I'm not giving up, but it's going to be slow, if any progress at all is made now...
GUYS HOLY FRICKING HECK OF MOTHER BLEH BLEH BLEH! I'M STREAMING SHOUTCAST OVER WIFI!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!1 yOU ALL OWE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111 GFPOIHPOGIHR3O[GIRWHOGIRWHGO42IHF42Of course, there are some problems
oK, INSANITY OVER...
It takes over the network connection/library... COMPLETELY! Once installed, you can not access vision UNTIL you hard reset and get it off the phone... Maybe with some more time we can find a way around that... But I wanted to mention it...So wow. Whether this becomes a big thing or is limited to the serious geek set will be determined by how well they can work out the remaining problems with the net.lib and needing to do a hard reset every time you go back and forth between WiFi and Vision (Vision is Sprint's 1xRTT cellular data service.) But still, seriously good show!