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IRES can do a lot of things, but one of the least appreciated features is just how fast it can actually send files compared to FTP. By using finely tuned advanced networking techniques especially designed for mobile phone networks, IRES can achieve speeds almost triple what you would normally get. Seeing is believing, so I made a video of Phojo running on the AT&T Touch Pro, the Verizon Touch Pro II, and the Sprint Touch Pro II. On AT&T IRES achieves about double the speed vs FTP, on Sprint a little bit less than double, and on Verizon, almost triple the speed! The different between the slowest case, sending a file via FTP on AT&T, and the fastest case, sending a file via IRES on Verizon, is huge, 12KB/s vs 70KB/s. If you watch the last section closely you can see the Verizon phone sends almost a megabyte before the AT&T phone can even get up to full speed. Now, your results may and will vary due to how close you are to the cell towers, and in AT&T's case, how many people are using their iPhones at any given moment. In my experience, the Verizon results are pretty typical. AT&T is a lot more variable, enough to cause a lot of frustration. I can't comment on Sprint as I haven't used it as much as the others, but I did expect it to be faster.

It’s been a frustrating year for new Windows Mobile hardware. The HTC Advantage looked so good on paper, then let us down with broken USB host support. The Cowon Q5W took forever to launch, and then they left out HSDPA and all the Bluetooth profiles except headphones, so you can only connect via WiFi. This leaves the Toshiba G900 as my new top recommendation. It has almost every single feature you could ask for in a phone, an 800×480 VGA screen, HSDPA for the fastest transmission speed available, WiFi, Bluetooth, and of most interest, one of the best USB Host support implementations I’ve seen. Not only is the Mini B->A adapter included in the box, unlike the Loox T830, you don’t need to change any software settings before plugging in the camera, it just works.
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I`d like to introduce the new T830 from Fujitsu Siemens, the most powerful phone on the market for running Pocket Phojo. Like a few other high end Pocket PC Phones, the T830 has 3G (UMTS) support, WiFi, Bluetooth, and an SD Card slot, but the unique feature that makes it perfect for Phojo is the USB Host support.

USB Host support means you now plug your mobile phone directly into your camera. This is the biggest leap forward in high speed news gathering since the first version of Pocket Phojo was released back in 2002. In the simplest scenario, you can use it in place of the Canon WFT-E1 WiFi transmitter to transmit all of your images as you take them. Even WiFi networks can’t transmit as fast as a photographer can shoot though, so Pocket Phojo solves the backlog problem by using the Protect function on the camera to rapidly select which images are to be transmitted. In addition, you can configure Phojo to recompress your images for faster transmission, add a caption, or send via email if the recipient does not have an FTP server. Most noteworthy though is that unlike the Canon WFT-E1, this setup is not restricted to areas with WiFi coverage, you can use it anywhere you have a mobile phone signal! Continue reading ‘The New Loox T830: Most powerful Pocket PC Phone for Phojo’