Mountain View Cellphones

4/18/2009 by www.mountainviewcellphones.com

Opera is a common name among people who have an interest in improving their browser experience.  Opera now ships standard on windows mobile phones and will hopefully be standard on many other phones as well.  For example, the Samsung Instinct can now adopt Opera in newer updates.

Opera is great for several reasons:

1.  A full HTML experience browser with zoom in/out capabilities for a small screen.

2.  Easy access to bookmarks and management of the booksmarks.

3.  Integration of web pages with regular phone functions like dialing a number from a web search

4.  Integration of your desktop Opera experience with your phone to sync many data points

Opera provides a better browser experience overall than standard shipped web browsers on many phones.  Opera on a Blackberry far surpasses the Blackberry browser.  The best part is that it’s free for the users to use and download.

Opera can be downloaded at mini.opera.com.  Get it and your use of the web on the phone will jump dramatically.

3/19/2009 by www.moutainviewcellphones.com

It’s now very feasible and inexpensive to use your mobile phone to process credit card transactions.  This only works with Nextel, Blackberry, and Windows mobile devices, but it’s a very elegant and fast solution. 

You only require software that cost $100 for the phone and a merchant account to process credit cards.  We have great partners who can give goods rates for processing if anyone is interested.

All you need to do is activate the application, put in the credit card number, process, and you get an authorization and capture in 3 seconds.  It’s very fast. 

To improve the system, you can buy an additional portable bluetooth printer and swipe for $150.  This provides the ability to get a full swipe rate for the card (generally about 0.25% better) and print a receipt for customer right on the spot. 

This is great technology we can help your organization with.  

Lastly, with Sprint Blackberries, you pay about $20/month less than ATT and Verizon and you get GPS navigation for free.   Now, you can get where you are going and you can transact at the lowest rates.  Any questions, feel free to inquire with us.      

2/2/2009 by www.mountainviewcellphones.com

We are expanding our service and repair business to start repairing more models of Smartphones.  We are first starting with a simple Blackberry Trackball repair for $35.00 and in less than 30 minutes (parts and labor).  www.phonemechanics.com

 We look forward to helping your business or personal needs.  Either mail or drop by your phone and we will repair your trackball issues quickly and efficiently. 

 We are working on getting a more formal site up and running that will be a large jump in service and convenience for customers nationwide for repairing their phones.  We will keep the world up to date on our progress and improvements to our service. 

The recent release of Windows Mobile 6.1 on the TREO 800w at first made us hesitant.  Was this a real upgrade or just another more advance software that freezes continually?  To our surprise, Windows Mobile 6.1 is a real competitor in operating systems for smartphones now.  I don’t know what Microsoft did, but 6.1 has fixed all the major complaints about phone stability of the past.

I’m writing this because it’s our own results and the results tested by our Windows customers. 

The great news:

1.  The device doesn’t crash or freeze up like its preceeding versions (6.0 & 5.0). 

2.  It is responsive and fast with the user.  In other versions, system performance slowed as you opened more applications and did more things on the phone.  6.1 has fixed this to a great degree.

3.  Great new Windows features…I can’t believe I’m saying this but its actually good.  It has many more advantages than the IPHONE and is does more than the Blackberry in many respects.  Here is the list from the http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/6-1/default.mspx. 

• Instant messaging-like texting
• Improved Internet browsing
• Simpler e-mail and Bluetooth setup
• New Home screen interface
• New Getting Started Center
• Security enhancements
• Easier Wi-Fi connection
• More personal choice

 4.  You still get to work with many Windows applications native on the mobile device.  This is very useful, especially for Windows centric businesses.

What does this mean?  There is a shift in the tide towards windows now that this is real.  In coordination with Palm 800w comeback and new phone releases of the HTC Diamond and HTC Touch Pro, Windows & HTC & Palm are back and they combined will begin to take market share from other vendors.  There is no better ecosystem right now for mobile wireless applications as most applications developers don’t want to develop to 5 or 6 constantly changing operating systems.  They can stick with windows and make a better application now on a stable and working device, so windows and the application developer and hardware manufacturer can now win.  It’s also much easier for application developers to just extend their windows enterprise applications wirelessly now.  It’s finally here…a Windows phone that just works!!!  And net net, this is a good thing for the world.     

By: www.mountainviewcellphones.com  8/22/2008