Jenny and I both got new cell phones this weekend. Both of our contracts were up and I wanted to add her onto my account to get a family plan sort of deal. Of course, when resigning you get good discounts on phones and accessories. I knew I wanted the AT&T Tilt and I wanted Jenny to get some type of smartphone. We finally settled on the Pantech Duo for her, and we both love our new phones.

I've been looking to get a new smartphone for the past year, but wanted to wait until I could get one with Windows Mobile 6 installed. Well, that day came a few months ago when AT&T released their newest smartphone called Tilt. But I wanted to wait a few months for the reviews to come in and also for my contract to expire. Now that the reviews are in (and good) and the fact that I can pick one up fairly cheap by re-signing another 2 year contract, I plan on getting one here in the next few weeks.

A few weeks ago Cingular released their newest smartphone simply called the Cingular 8525.  It sucks.  You know why?  Because I don't have one yet.  Heh.  Truth be told, if I had money or if I didn't just buy the Cingular 2125 a year ago, I'd immediately go out and buy this smartphone.

Well this is my first time working with Bluetooth, so it's kind of been an 'interesting' experience to say the least.  I'm going to first plug Centrafuse (CF) again because honestly it's the best front end (GUI) I've used for the carPC environment.  Recently the CF guys have released RC3.1 and with it came a bunch of fixes and additions.

Yea!  Another frontend for me to figure out.  Seriously though this frontend looks to be the frontend to end all other frontends.  It's called Centrafuse and it absolutely rocks!  This is probably my third or fourth frontend that I've gone through since I build my carPC.  The problem is that most of the frontends are created by dudes in their home for free.  So the quality isn't always there.  But Centrafuse looks and acts like a completely professional frontend for my carPC control needs.  But then again, Centrafuse is not going to be free.

Yesterday Microsoft released a new optional update for Windows Vista Beta 2.  It's an update I've been looking forward to since I installed Vista last week.  The update is Windows Mobile Device Center Beta.  In Windows XP and earlier it was known as Activesync.

Haha!  I almost forgot, I can use my smartphone as a wireless modem for my carPC.  Sweet!

It's simple really....well...sort of.  First, I have unlimited Internet access through my cell phone.  That means, anywhere I get a digital signal from my carrier (Cingular), I can connect and access the Internet through Pocket Internet Explorer.  Now my carPC does have a wireless card installed, but I have to be within range of a wireless network in order to access the Internet.  And since my cell phone carrier has vast coverage over any open wireless networks, I can now let my carPC access the Internet from virtually anywhere.

After 2+ years I finally got a new cell phone, a Cingular 2125 SmartPhone to be exact.  Yes it is awesome, and yes I'm going to tell you everything about it right now.  I decided to go with Cingular service because of three things:  they have full digital service in Lake Havasu, cheap monthly rate plans, and awesome phones.

It's the Cingular 2125.  It's got pretty much everything I'm looking for:  Windows mobile, camera, high-res screen, blue-tooth, headphone jack, etc, etc.  My contract with crappy Verizon is up, so I'm going to give Cingular (AT&T) a try.  They seem to have pretty good service, affordable rate plans, and this cool phone.