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I finally received my call from T-Mobile on Friday regarding them sending me the wrong phone. They said they would get the MDA ordered that day and I should have it Monday or Tuesday. I have to send back the SDA within 14 days, so I'll be sending that today. I think I am going to have to call them again though because I got a text message confirming that my MDA had been ordered, but it looks like they charged me the "non-upgrade" price. This has really been a pain! I will say though, that every time I deal with someone from T-Mobile on the phone, they are very pleasant and seem like they are genuinely trying to help me.

Well, I received a phone yesterday from T-Mobile. Not the phone I ordered, but a different one. I received the T-Mobile SDA. According to this thread on Howard Forums, about 800 people who ordered MDAs got SDAs instead! Someone from T-Mobile is supposed to be calling me in the next day or two to straighten it out. I won't hold my breath...

Well, my Cingular 2125 sold on eBay. I got a good price for it. I tried to get the T-Mobile MDA from a T-Mobile store, but they were sold out. I tried to use the "My T-Mobile" site to upgrade my phone to the MDA, but they didn't even offer it. I checked almost every day to see if it would appear and today it finally did. I ordered it right away and it said I should have it in about 7 days!

A few months ago I went to the .NET Rocks! Roadshow event here in Phoenix. It was a great show and I ended up winning "some really cool PDA/Phone device from Cingular". Apparently, Cingular hadn't even finalized what the device would be so the winners were told we would find something out around the end of December. It was suggested that the device might be an iPAQ 67xx.

Well, December turned into February and the iPaq turned into the Cingular 2125. I decided to unlock it so I could try it out with my T-Mobile account. It worked great, but I was really looking forward to a pocket PC Phone with a QWERTY keyboard. So, I decided to sell it on eBay.

After I sell it I will be buying a T-Mobile MDA. I tried one out at the local T-Mobile store and it is a lot smaller than I expected and the slide-out keyboard seems to work pretty nice.

So, if you are looking for an unlocked Cingular 2125, head on over to my auction and bid!

iTunes 5.0 has been released. I like the changes so far and was excited to see that it can now sync Outlook Calendar and Contacts to your iPod. I have the Calender sync working, but I cannot get it to sync my Contacts. I keep checking my iPod after a sync and the Contacts menu has nothing in it. Is anyone else having this problem?

So, I finally got an iPod about a month back and I have been looking at different ways of listening to it in the car. I tried the Griffin iTrip. It is a pretty slick device, but I had two problems with it:

• I live in Phoenix, so it is difficult to find a station that is not in use or doesn't have interference from nerby stations.
 
• I have an iSkin eVo² silicone cover on my iPod. It is just thick enough to cause the iTrip to pop up out of the headphone jack.

Now, the iSkin website says you can use the iTrip with the iSkin on, but don't believe it! It will plug in and it works, but then after a few seconds it will pop up just enough to disrupt the connection. Since I wanted to keep my iPod protected and I like the iSkin eVo², I decided to take the iTrip back. I thought about getting another FM transmitter, but I couldn't find very favorable reviews of ANY of them.

Now what?!? Well, I decided to take a look at the manual for my receiver. I have a Kenwood KDC-316S. It's an AM/FM, CD player. It also has the ability to control and take input from a Kenwood CD changer. It has a plug on the back with a bunch of pins. I looked around on the web to see if there were adapters available for 1/8" miniplug or RCA jacks. I found one at Discount Car Stereo made by Precision Interface Electronics. It has two RCA jacks on one end so I took an RCA - 1/8" miniplug cable I had laying around and plugged it in. I put some duct tape around the connectors so they don't vibrate loose and tucked it all behind my car stereo. The miniplug end feeds through an open space under the dash and I just plug it into my iPod. The sound is great, much better than the FM transmitter ever sounded!

I turned 0x23 yesterday and my wife gave me an iPod for my birthday. It took me a while to figure out which MP3 player I wanted, until I played with a few at Best Buy. The iPod really does have a great user interface! So, I've started using iTunes for Windows and I have to say, it is a really nice player/manager for MP3s.

I've had a laptop supplied through work for a while now. When I recently switched jobs, that wasn't part of the deal, so I decided to buy one myself. I have become too used to being able to take a computer with me when I go on vacation or to visit relatives, etc. Plus it's nice to be able to sit in any room in the house and use it.

I bought an HP Compaq Presario R3000T. I have had it for a week and I am very happy with it. I ordered it through Costco.com. When you order through them, you get to customize it. I chose:

• Pentium 4 3.4GHz w/HT
• WinXp Pro
• 1.0 GB RAM
• 80 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
• 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
• 15.4" WVA WUXGA Display (1920x1200)
• Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN & Bluetooth
• DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive

It ended up being about $2200. Not bad, I wasn't able to find anything with similar specs for the same price on IBM, Toshiba or Dell's sites. Apparently, this model has the same guts as the HP Pavillion zx5000, so if you like the case better on that, it is about the same price.

I've installed Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005, SQL Server Express, etc. and it runs everything great. No problems so far. Just one oddity though. Every driver was installed except for the Bluetooth driver. I find it strange that HP installed every other driver, but didn't install the Bluetooth driver. It wasn't an oversight either; the documentation talks about installing the Bluetooth driver as the first step in getting started using the Bluetooth functionality.  Go figure.

If you have a PDA and a laptop, or you sync with multiple PCs, this cable is great. It will handle syncing and will also charge your PDA right from the power supplied by the USB port. I ordered one on the 6th and received it the 8th. I'm pretty happy with Meritline.com. The cable was only $15 including shipping and they shipped it the same day I ordered it.