I’ve always wanted to be able to open a window and use my mouse to act as the stylus pointer on my device. I’ve wanted to somehow open up my phone and make a phone call from my phone and hear the call through my speakers and microphone. Having a Logitech headset would allow me to make phone calls through my cell phone as easily as I do through Skype. The other big functional advantage would to allow the user to send SMS messages through their unlimited cell plans and manage them from their phone, but respond and reply through the ease of their full-size keyboard.

It looks like the answer may be here with Universal Mobile Solutions and their PDA Controller software.

PDA Controller lets you type comfortably from your desktop PC or laptop in two ways. First you can zoom the screen to twice it’s original size, secondly you can use the desktop keyboard so that you can type in quickly. This way you send off those quick e-mails or SMS messages without the annoyance of having to tap each letter at a time while squinting at the screen!

Yep, that sums it up for me. Sounds like exactly what I’ve been looking for in the solution. The other nice advantage is that the software works with a variety of devices, so if you change yours, you don’t have to worry about purchasing a different version of the software or adding a new feature just for your phone.

Get more information to download and purchase the PDA Controller software by visiting the Universal Mobile Solutions website.

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Completely Control Your Mobile Device Via Your Computer

One of the things that I’m regularly experiencing is that I get teased about the size of my phone. I have been using a PPC-6700 with Sprint for the last three years or so now. I have credit to get a new phone and have no real desire to change devices.

My wife has a Palm Centro and she’s the one that regularly teases me about my phone. I decided to find out what’s the real difference between phones. Below is a comparison of a couple of phones that I found on the PhoneScoop website and reviewed on EveryJoe.

The challenge I get is that my phone “looks” larger than it is because it’s a square block. Unlike the other devices above which have tapered edges that make them appear smaller. The trade-off in my mind is that I have a huge screen and full-slide-out keyboard. The only real difference in size of all these phones is the weight, and the difference is about 2 oz. Sorry folks, but that’s not going to strain my back.

I’ll take the two ounces in exchange for the features I have that my wife doesn’t and the size of screen I have to use with the full keyboard. The size doesn’t really matter to me.

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Mobile vs. Portable – Does Size Matter to Everyone: Part I

Sprint has released a new screen saver for their Now network that takes advantage of our quest for information and data. You can pull in your favorite sources of information you want to know about and see them presented on your screen when you’re not busy working. The service also pulls in data from many of the most popular social media networks as well.

My only problem is my computer is rarely sitting unused long enough for me to take advantage of a screen saver. However, I’ve now got the Sprint Now Network screen saver running.

Uncover what’s happening NOW on your computer with Sprint

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Sprints Now Network Screen Saver

The Sing-a-long Flash Mob event was T-Mobile’s second “Life is for Sharing” project, following on from the immensely successful T-Mobile Dance, held in Liverpool Street Station in January. If you somehow missed the Liverpool event, you can watch it below as well.

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T-Mobile Sing-a-long in Trafalgar Square

Just because my phone rings doesn’t mean I’m going to answer it.

This could normally be because of two things:

1. I don’t have time to talk to you right now
2. I don’t recognize your number

In either of those events the expected outcome is for you to leave me a message letting me know what you needed and I’ll call you back if I need to follow-up with you.

If I don’t recognize your number I really expect you to leave a message. However, what would help out is if my phone would at least give me a bit of a heads up on the originating location of the phone number by area code. There’s only about 700 currently in use, the database would be infinitesimal.

I wouldn’t think it would be too hard to include a tiny little database of all the area codes in the US and the largest city represented by each area code. Now if I really wanted to get nifty a map would either display automatically or I could push a button and make it display to show me a simple map of where the call is originating.

Does anyone know of a good, reliable program that does this? If you do, please let me know. I’d love to have it and play around with it on my phone.

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Area Code Identification on Mobile Calls