First came the trim, consumer-friendly BlackBerry Curve 8300. Then came the Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry 8820. Now there’s the BlackBerry Curve 8320, an impressive PDA phone that combines the best of the previous two models with an impressive bonus: While the 8820 supports Wi-Fi for data only, the 8320 permits you to make voice calls over Wi-Fi too.

The 8320 is smaller, lighter, and curvier than the boxy 8820. Physically, the 8320 is the same as the original Curve. Unlike that device and the 8820, which AT&T offers, the 8320 is available from TMobile; it costs $300 with a two-year contract.

The big news, however, is under the hood: In addition to support for GSM and EDGE networks, the 8320 has Wi-Fi with Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA), a technology that lets you make voice calls over Wi-Fi. It works with T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home service, which allows unlimited calls over Wi-Fi. Though the service is pricey, it could lower your costs by reducing your used cellular voice minutes.

Both the phone and the service by using one of T-Mobile’s HotSpot@ Home wireless routers, manufactured by Linksys. But the 8320 will connect to any 802.11b/g wireless network, so you can use your existing router or even a public hotspot to make calls and surf the Web. T-Mobile says that its router is designed to prioritize voice traffic in order to improve call quality. However, there is no significant improvement when using the T-Mobile router instead of your own Linksys wireless router. Call quality over both wireless networks was the same: decent, just as it was when used the phone over a regular cellular connection. Being able to make calls over Wi-Fi is a great option in areas where cellular service is spotty, though.

For both voice calls and data usage, the 8320 will default to Wi-Fi. Should you leave the network’s range, the phone will switch your call to the cellular network and vice versa.

Like all BlackBerry units, the 8320 is a stellar e-mail device. The 2-megapixel camera (which sports a flash and a 3X digital zoom) took good snapshots. It also has an audio and video player that supports most formats (including MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV, and MP4). The ability to make voice calls over Wi-Fi is very useful. And combined with the 8320’s sleek design and awesome e-mail handling, it makes a winning package.

Nokia recently unveiled another Internet tablet to join its 770 model, but this one features faster performance, a full-screen QWERTY keyboard, improved Wi-Fi connections, an integrated Web camera, and a new design. The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet carries an estimated retail price of $399 and allows Internet calling, instant messaging, and, of course, email.

The device runs on Nokia’s Linux-based operating system. Nokia also announced a development deal with Skype that will allow Skype users to make Internet t calls from the N800. Weighing a mere 7.27 ounces, the N800 features a high-resolution touchscreen with up to 65,536 colors, stereo speakers, and two internal memory card slots that support SD, miniSD, microSD, MMC, and RS-MMC (Reduced-Size MMC) cards. In addition to the aforementioned applications, the device includes the Opera 8 Web browser with Flash 7, a media player, Internet radio, an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed reader, a PDF viewer, a sketch program, file manager, backup and restore, an image viewer, calculator, and more. For wireless connections, the N800 supports 802.11b/g.

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This is the Kyocera Alltel Passport KPC650 PCCIA Card.

The fastest high-speed cellular card will keep your laptop connected on the road. Surfing at average speeds of 700 Kbps on Verizon’s network, which now covers over 170 major cities in the U.S. and Canada.

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Bluetooth is a great technology for connecting wireless headsets and making data transfers. However, while plenty of cell phone and handhelds have Bluetooth built in, most desktop PCs and many notebooks lack support for the technology out of the box.

The solution: a USB Bluetooth adapter about the size of a thumb drive that you can plug into your PC when you need it, yet is small enough to throw into a laptop bag.

I suggest with D-Link DBT-120, which in good design but cheaper models are available online and at your neighborhood computer store. And browse to find here to read about new Wireless technology, which the company claims enhances Bluetooth.

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Nokia has started testing in Finland a technology where people can make calls seamlessly between Wi-Fi and phone network using pilot Nokia phones. When these users are within range of a Wi-Fi network, the call would be routed as a VOIP call and the user moves out of range, the call will move seamlessly to a GSM phone network.

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Skype is changing the world of communications by allowing users to talk from PC to PC for free using Internet telephony. Skype’s limitation is that users needed to be near a PC with an Internet connection.

NetGear is taking Skype to the next level with Skype WiFi Phone, which leverage wireless internet networks to allow users to make free calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world, anytime there is WiFi access, without a PC.

The phone’s display shows all of a user’s contacts who are currently online. And like other Skype phones, Netgear’s phone lets users make call to ordinary phones for just pennies a minute. Netgear is making true mobile wireless internet telephony a reality, especially as cities such as San Francisco move to Wi-Fi enable the entire city at no cost to end users.

Who needs a cellular phone?

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Make cheap Internet calls without headphones and microphone’s with SMC Network’s Wi-Fi Phone for Skype.

The WSKP100, a wireless Internet phone, comes with Skype software installed so you can make free call to Skype users anywhere in the world. Just get connected via any Wi-Fi connection whether you are at home or at a cafe, and the phone will automatically register to a Skype account and contacts.

The phone can be recharged from any USB socket, and deliverys 3 hour of continuous talk time and 30-hours standby per full charge.

And although Skype phones cannot dial emergency numbers, you can also use it to call ordinary landlines and mobile phones by using the chargeable SkypeOut services.

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Sales of mobile phones featuring both cellular and Wi-Fi capabilities will be booming by 2010, according to a recent study by market research firm In-Stat. In-Stat analysts predict that 132 million of the devices will be in use by then.

Wi-Fi, which offers wireless Ethernet connectivity over a range of a few hundred feet, is widely used by consumers to connect their PCs and certain handheld devices to the Internet. But until very recently,Wi-Fi has been absent from the world of cell phones.

More than 20 WiFi-enabled models are either already on the market or will be released soon. Some of these new phones will be products of collaborations between cellular carriers and companies that offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, which allow transmission of voice and data over the Internet.

Consumers could use a VoIP service when the device is within range of a Wi-Fi signal. Once out of Wi-Fi range, they could then operate the same phone using cellular technology, according to In-Stat analysts.

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Nokia showed off its first handset designed to allow a handover between a cellular and Wifi network. The Nokia 6136 phone, due to ship this summer, uses Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA), a specification developed by operators and handset vendors to extend phone voice and data services over different wireless services.

It means a phone using GSM cellular network can switch to Dab hander… the Trilogy TV-enabled handset Wifi when the user moves into a hotspot. Orange will be one of the first carriers to offer the handset, according to Nokia. The quad-band 6136 supports an email client, as well as support for attachments and push-to-talk capability.

‘The Nokia 6136 clearly demonstrates the complementary nature of cellular and IP-based networks,’ said Nokia’s Kai Oistamo. ‘By implementing UMA into this device, worldwide GSM coverage is combined with WLAN coverage for a seamless communications experience.’ Meanwhile Sony Ericsson announced a range of applications for its Wifi-enabled P990 UMTS smartphone, including a business-card scanner, new entertainment features and Blackberry-style push email.

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Pair a NetGear RangeMax 240 Wireless router with its WPNT511 Card-Bus PC Card client and you’re in for quite a shock. The pair breaks wired networking’s lock on 100-Mbps transfers. On the tests, at distances up to 120 feet the two even beat the stunningly fast Linksys SRX 400 and its laptop adapter. The router/PC Card combination hits more than 103 Mbps at 10 feet, exceeding the throughput of wired Fast Ethernet. In fact, data transfer is a remarkable 95.3 Mbps at 60 feet—still on a par with Fast Ethernet.

Even at 160 feet, throughput is 22.4 Mbps significantly faster than with any wireless technology. Netgear didn’t sacrifice ease of use or features for speed, though. The bundled software and the router’s Web-based configuration interface are both intuitive. And the hardware packs in all the features you would expect; port forwarding and triggering, VPN pass-through, dynamic DNS, service blocking, UPnP, and many more.

The wireless security choices are the standard WEP, WPA, or WPA2 with preshared key. All that’s lacking as with the Linksys SRX 400, is effective parental controls. For anyone streaming multimedia simultaneously to several wireless clients (or engaging in other bandwidth hogging activities), this is the fastest and easiest to use wireless hardware currently available.