Cellphones & Mobile Accessories

Nokia to cut 7,000 jobs, stop developing Symbian operating system
Nokia is cutting 4,000 jobs worldwide by 2012 in a move that will also result in its Symbian mobile operating system being taken over by the outsourcing firm Accenture. The Finnish phone maker said Wednesday, in announcing the jobs cuts, that the desicions should reduce its operating expenses by $1.47 billion in the year 2013, when compared to 2010. Accenture’s take over of Symbian will also …

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When I turn on my computer, Blackberry Desktop Manager opens up automatically. I want to stop this because it slows down my computer a lot and is extremely annoying.

So, how do you stop it from opening on when the computer is turned on?

Thank you

I use my cellphone to update my Twitter, but I don’t like getting direct messages on it. Is there a way to turn it off? If so, how?

From time to time, I go to look up a contact and that person has mysteriously been erased from my contact list. Blackberry support (which is a joke, worst I’ve ever seen) wants to charge me $50 just to talk with them. I know other people that have experienced the same problem with contacts just disappearing. One time, almost have of my list disappeared including my parents’ cells. Please somebody help! Blackberry will not…

Slide2Call is a mobile application that prevents you from making unwanted accidental calls. Each attempt to make a call is interrupted by a ready-to-confirm slider. To proceed with the call, simply move the slider from left to right. For Windows Mobile!
Slide2Call – Stop Accidental Dialing

I use a blackberry pearl and yahoo. Every time I send an email from my blackberry, a copy of it shows in my “sent” folder in Yahoo. I don’t want any of the messages to save there. How do I get it to stop?
If I send mail through my regular account (on my laptop, not my blackberry) it doesn’t save a copy in the sent folder. Only when I send it using the blackberry….

My Nokia send me a sms to tell me when someone has called and not left a message. At the same time is tells me I had a missed call. I don’t need both these messages. It’s very annoying that I have to acknowledge this sms to get rid of the “received message” icon and be sure I have no other messages. Such a waste of time and crappy programing. In case Nokia is reading this I can tell you a dozen more problems like this with you phones.

I just got a new Samsung phone, a Samsung A476, and its great, so far, but when the battery get low, I get reminders about it every 10 minutes (I keep the phone on vibrate). It’s really annoying. Does anybody know a way to make this stop?

Verizon to stop white pages distribution
Verizon will not be distributing its white pages directory to local residents for at least the next two years, beginning in December, the company said Tuesday.

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