{"id":167,"date":"2006-02-23T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2014-05-27T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:16:17","slug":"review-of-cingular-8125-htc-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/2006\/02\/23\/review-of-cingular-8125-htc-wizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Cingular 8125 (HTC Wizard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking at getting a mobile phone capable of running some of the genealogy software that&#8217;s available for handhelds, you might want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobiletechreview.com\/cingular-8125.htm\">this review<\/a> (mobiletechreview.com) of the Cingular 8125 aka HTC Wizard (available from T-Mobile under a different name I believe).  It&#8217;s a Windows Mobile 5.0 device, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernhillssoftware.com\/\">Northern Hills Software<\/a> indicates that Pocket Genealogist will run on it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the nice features and one of the reasons it will handle genealogy software made for Windows Mobile\/PocketPC devices &#8211; it has a stylus.  More importantly, it has a slide-out keyboard, which even though it&#8217;s small, beats using a stylus for inputing or searching for names.  It doesn&#8217;t have the fastest of CPUs (195MHz), but hey, it&#8217;s a phone.<\/p>\n<p>It also has a 1.3MP camera with a flash for those times when you need to take a quick snapshot (and there is software available and\/or being developed that is made to do OCR (optical character recognition) from camera phone shots).<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention it has WiFi available?  Beats using your normal service for downloading web pages, email, etc., when you have WiFi access available (ala a library or research center).<\/p>\n<p>A quick check shows it retails for around $350 USD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking at getting a mobile phone capable of running some of the genealogy software that&#8217;s available for handhelds, you might want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobiletechreview.com\/cingular-8125.htm\">this review<\/a> (mobiletechreview.com) of the Cingular 8125 aka HTC Wizard (available from T-Mobile under a different name I believe).  It&#8217;s a Windows Mobile 5.0 device, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernhillssoftware.com\/\">Northern Hills Software<\/a> indicates that Pocket Genealogist will run on it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the nice features and one of the reasons it will handle genealogy software made for Windows Mobile\/PocketPC devices &#8211; it has a stylus.  More importantly, it has a slide-out keyboard, which even though it&#8217;s small, beats using a stylus for inputing or searching for names. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}