Ron Hel-Or asked:


The PDA phone revolution is here. Only a few years ago, many of us used to carry around a cell phone as well as a PDA, and suffered form the “too much a handle” syndrome. The PDA as well as the cell-phone manufacturers saw this development, and sensed that people need something else. Their answer was to come out with a PDA phone, or a smartphone. This sophisticated device integrates a PDA with a cell phone and allows you to stay on to of things without getting over-whelmed. The smart phone will enable you to:

1. Keep one calendar instead of two.

2. Talk to people on the phone and check things on your email on the web at the same time. This saves a lot of time and returned phone calls.

3. Carry less

4. Upgrade just one device instead of two, when it’s time to upgrade.

5. Look sharper than ever!

So after we talked about the many advantages of having a smartphone, how do you find the Best PDA Phones and choose the one for you?

There are quite a few smartphone manufacturers – iPAQ, Palm-Treo and BalckBerry to name a few.

When ever you look for a PDA phone, pay attention to theses parameters:

1. Is it compact and light? some smartphones are just heavy and awkward to handle. You don’t need that. Go for a light and thin device that won’t be a burden.

2. Is it easy operate? Some PDA phones have complicated menus that require you to invest a lot of effort. Take a good look at how the PDA phone in operated and look for one that is easy.

3. Does it use standard software? – most smartphones are. But just check to be sure. You don’t want a smartphone that is “spoiled” and needs special software and accessories to operate at a basic level. For instance, prefer one that uses an operating system like the Palm OS.

4. Is the phone working well? There is a fine balance between the PDA and the Phone parts in any phone PDA. The Best PDA Phones balance that well and both parts work perfectly, and are fully integrate. Make sure yours does.

5. Do you feel comfortable with it? Perhaps the most important one of all. If you’re not comfortable with the device, it deosn’t really matter if it’s considered the best in the market, does it? Choose the one you feel good about.

Taking a good look at the variety of smartphonmes as well as reading reviews and consulting with owners is good practice. It will ensure you come up with the Best PDA Phones on the market, from which you can choose yours.

Amika Mobile asked:


Amika Mobile products are unique in that they take any content, analyze and distil it to key words that provide the essential information or meaning contained in the original email or web page. The products leverage artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze and abstract the salient meaning from email and web-based information. This effective use of artificial intelligence provides a personalized email summary to your mobile device. It is our belief that “pushing” all email and web-based information onto the micro-screens of today’s cell phones is not the right approach to deal with the flood of information that burdens and overloads users. We have thus established a market niche for ourselves as no other company in the world has delivered an Email-to-SMS solution that first ranks how important an email or web page is before extracting key content to be delivered to a micro-screen on a mobile phone or Blackberry. As such, we unburden users and allow them to only get critical email alerts that provide them with the important message. This technology is independent of the device, messaging platform or carrier.

Personalized email summaries to mobile devices constitutes the cornerstone of our philosophy as the discussion concerning the myths of wireless email highlights below:

Myth #1 – Stuff your Inbox into Your Mobile Phone or PDA – this is a terrible idea! How can you possibly fit into 2 inch x 2 inch micro screens the hundreds of messages you get at your desktop. Why would you want all that spam to follow you around? It is better to only have critical email follow you while mobile. This is intelligent mobile messaging.

Myth #2 – You cannot possibly expect to get key points of your email without getting the full message! This is a good myth. Typical emails are 2-3 paragraphs or around 150 to 200 words long. Using AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology it is possible to pull out the key points of an email that are typically 15 to 20 words. These 15 words typically tell you what the message is about.

Myth #3 – You cannot secure wireless content including the key points in the email. This is definitely not true. Many companies provide encryption all the way to the device. Service providers even go further and allow the contents of mobile devices to be wiped out if lost or left behind in a taxi!

Myth #4 – Cell phones are not effective devices for wireless messaging. This is another great myth. There are now 2.5 Billion cell phones with people text messaging from them continuously. Cell phones are great communication devices and are great for receiving the key points of email providing users with a low cost alternative to the Blackberry or other expensive PDA. Email to SMS text messaging is a very credible alternative for most cell phone users.

Myth #5 – You can only get the key points of wireless email from select service providers. This is also untrue. A number of service providers including ones like www.amikamobile.net allow any user from anywhere in the world to have critical email alerts follow them to any mobile phone, PDA or even desktop.

Amika Mobile asked:


Over the decade I have been using mobile devices to view email, I have noticed how users get completely addicted to their devices. I recall walking around with a Nokia flip phone – circa 2000 that I finally gave up for a Motorola phone circa 2004! I still think both vendors offer great phones. Today, I walk around with a Pearl from Blackberry. 2007 marks the first time in a decade that I have accepted a Blackberry as a phone and as an email device. I had both. I get the Gist of Email from various sources (personal and enterprise) sent to me through www.amikamoble.net. I don’t bother synching my Blackberry since I don’t want the 200 or so messages I get a day to come to me mobile. I am finding that this is a good way to separate what I have to absolutely address while away from my Inbox. I am definitely an addict of mobile email and am very fussy about my mobile device. I know people who have steadfastly refused to give up their devices until the keys start to fail. The reason for this besides the form factor, look and feel is the information that these devices have onboard in terms of contacts and now pictures. One way around this is to synch the device to a desktop contact manager and download pictures and crucial information before they get lost altogether when the mobile device finally gives out as all things manufactured tend to do!

Not only do users become attached to specific mobile devices but they can personalize their mobile phones further through the effective use of black and/white lists with services such as that at www.amikamobile.net. Judicious use of filtering words during the sign-on for this service creates a highly personalized mobile phone, thereby increasing the efficacy of the forwarding of critical email alerts and their relevance to every user. Filtering can be amended later by returning to the sign-on page and making changes, additions and/or deletions as necessary.

Amika Mobile asked:


It is interesting that the approach that vendors and carriers continue to tout to users is that they need ALL their emails on the mobile phones. Users can either register for a “push” email for mobile phones service such as the Blackberry and receive every annoying desktop email they get in its full glory with its hundreds of lines and threads. Or they can sign-up to other vendor offerings such as Google or Yahoo! with their “pull” offerings for Smart Phones which download your desktop email view to your 2×2 inch micro screen! Both types of services force you into expensive plans of $50-100 per month and you have to buy a Smart Phone. This is even the model for the more innovative devices such as the iPhone from Apple. So, what is a poor overwhelmed user to do?

Users need to look at reducing the volume and hence expense of the “all” or “nothing” model. The enterprise can look at buying a product that only forwards the critical emails to users with the option to reduce the content of those emails down to the key content. Consumers can similarly sign-up to Smart Email-to-SMS portals that automatically reduce the number of packets (and hence cost) based on salient content and then decide if that email should go mobile or not.

The carriers and the vendors would have us believe there are no such services! All you have to do is look at innovative solutions like the Email to SMS solution of Amika Mobile to know that there are great alternatives out there!!

altonrambo asked:


Mobile phones should be credited not only for revolutionizing the field of telecommunication but for each and every other aspect of the modern world. Life without mobile phones will come to a halt and after having come such a long path in the way of progress, we can’t allow us to come to a standstill. 

How would it feel if you run out of talk time and you can’t refill your mobile for some days? Or your friends who are asking for an answer and you do not have sufficient balance to send them a text message? We feel unlucky and totally disconnected from this world.

Simply buying a mobile phone doesn’t mean that you are done. We must get it recharged with enough balance and that is where the real dilemma begins. Mobile phone deals can be very costly sometimes. One must be careful that the mobile phone policy he/she chooses, adapts to their preferences and needs. Figure out if you want discounted offer or flexible talk time, if you find your usage is becoming high during daytime or after evening you when you withdraw yourselves for a certain relieving.

These criteria will help you to decide the most advantageous and profitable deal. There is severe competition between the mobile service providers in these days and this has contributed to some amazingly beneficial plans for mobile users. Virgin Mobile managed to get a certain number of customers within a few days of entering into the market by presenting a scheme where you get paid for every minute of incoming call to get. 

The discounts and offers on talk time and text messages are getting gradually more feasible. Using mobile phones is not a so expensive business nowadays. Every mobile service provider is coming up with fresh arrangements in order to attract more and more customers and to give ‘deafening warning’ to its rivals. The customers make warm welcome to this wild competition while their pockets feel more secure. 

Cheap STD and ISD rates are what many clients seek while deciding on a plan. Your loved ones seem more closely than they were with long-distance calls substantially getting cheap. Your relatives could be anywhere in the country or abroad, with these realistic mobile rates, you can reach them at any time you feel like. There are plans in which the rates vary depending on the time. If during daytime, you cannot use your phone much because of your busy schedule, and usually reach your friends in the evening and/or at night, there are plans that split up the cost of a call or make them free of charges during this period.

Have pleasure to speak with your friends as much as without getting worried about money. Enjoy these deals and don’t let the money get involved in friendship. To face up with the increasing pressure of competition, the mobile service providers are paying more attention on designing deals taking into account the budget as well as the calling habits of the mobile customers.  Therefore, it can be said that competition leads to innovation and novelty, and this is what keeps onward journey of life.

altonrambo asked:


Because different models of handsets have won a high place on the market, and most of them are moving forward for a similar height, different mobile phone deals have also emerged for the benefit of customers. In recent times, latest mobile phones facilitated the communication to a great extent. The various service providers offer various kinds of deals so that each user can make use of the advantages of these deals.

These types of offer include some of the best known mobile deals i.e. the Contract Phone Deal and Pay as You Go deal. Both mobile phone deals caught on for their very lucrative offerings. In the Pay as You Go plan, you must pay each time you want to make calls and if any balance remains, it will be continued at its next calls. You can also change the service provider anytime you want to. These mobile deals are primarily favored by the students and the people who travel through different countries. If they don’t like to pay surcharges they need to upon changing a country, they can simply switch to a local wireless carrier of a foreign country.

Another type of business is the contract mobile phone deal where the customer needs to sign an agreement with the supplier for a period of time extending from 6 to 18 months or more. These deals also have the inability to change the supplier because of the contract that comes with them. With the contract comes to the monthly billing sent to your address at the end of each month. You can now use the telephone as far as you want to before the end of the month and there is nobody to refrain you from doing this but you must realize that the bill would finally be paid by you. There are additional advantages for the customers with the purchase of these mobile phone deals. Free LCD TVs, PlayStations, notebooks and Xbox and much more similar kinds of free gifts are offered with these profitable deals. They are offered by all kinds of mobile service carriers which include Orange, Virgin, Vodafone, O2, and T-Mobile.  

These mobile phone deals can be accessed easily as they are available at just about every online store and can be found simply by using the research tools of Google. You just sign up at any of those stores and then get all the deals available for you to take the decision. Few of these shops also offer the purchase based on comparison of prices and select the one which adapts to your pocket as well as the usage. You can simply pick up the one that meets your diverse needs of daily life. If you want to use the phone too often, you can go to seek for a contract deal and for the pay as you go if you need a carrier that you can change at any time.  The great mobile phone plan is a plan that offers you a sufficient number of minutes and great coverage at affordable prices.