My wonderful wife and I just returned from a week-long trip to England where we tried many different technologies in order to stay connected while being overseas. My findings: it’s incredibly easy and cheap to stay in touch while in Jolly Ol’ England. The tools we utilized were: an unlocked Euro Nokia N97 (my primary…
I’ve long held the belief that location based services on the mobile platform will be very slow in terms of adoption. However, yesterday, Apple announced the new capabilities of iLife ’09. In this update, iPhoto ’09 specifically will include: facial recognition that will allow you to find and categorize your pictures based on the faces…
There have been some blog posts lately about Nokia build quality, particularly with the Nokia NSeries. More specifically, a few weeks ago, Michael Hill of Symbian Freak wrote of the poor build quality on his N82. Michael notes creaky button pushing, scratches on the screen where he’s taken great care of it, and overall low…
Soon I’ll be heading down to San Francisco, CA for the Mobilize conference put on by GigaOm. What gear does one need to cover such a conference? Here’s my rundown: My original Macbook: I was hoping Steve Jobs and Apple would have come out with the new version of the Macbook Pro by now. However,…
On Thursday, I’m going to Gnomedex aboard the Iterasi geek bus. Gnomedex is a gathering of bloggers, social media types, and other techno-geeks. I look forward to showing them some of the geek gear and showing the iPhone-types what open technology is all about, sans Steve Jobs’ DRM. This year, along with me and my…
Thanks to the Nokia Blogger Relations Program, I received a Black N82. The N82 has much of the same features as the N95 including on-board GPS, WiFi capability, and a 5MP digital camera. The wonderful thing is all this is in a candy bar type phone. Personally, I’m partial to candy bar style versus the…
Wow what a great looking device! As I mentioned before Nokia was expected to reveal a new Nseries device this week. As it turns out, the rumors were true and behold the N82! The specs are fabulous and similar to the N95 including: Assisted GPS European 3G Awesome 5 megapixel digital camera with a Carl…