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Video Diaries and Reviewing Smartphones

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While on the US trip, myself, Rafe and Steve over at All About Symbian decided to take the time that I was away from my regular desk to do a little testing of a new product, namely short video reviews of handsets over a long period of time. During March, readers of All About Symbian were treated (I think) to my views of the Nokia 5800, and the format was well received. So now I’m back home, we’ve decided to keep them running. With the 5800 now rather comprehensively examined, my eye (and camera) will be turning to the Nokia

Some Thoughts On The Nokia Netbook

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Interesting to see the number of comments and discussion on my thoughts on Nokia producing a netbook sized device over on All About Symbian. Here’s one of my key points: If Nokia are going down this route, I’d suggest doing what the majority of other manufacturers are doing and use Linux, probably with a custom theme on top of Ubuntu. While Maemo is kicking around, it’s again for a small pocketable device with limited functionality (go on, argue with me). A Nokia netbook is going to need a decent ‘proper’ operating system. The magic sauce from Nokia would be two-fold.

Don’t Make The Next Twitter, Make The First Wonderbra

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Digital Media Wire is carrying an interesting analysis on Twitter and what other entrepreneurs could learn from the micro-blogging service (and I’ll present this as a counterpoint to The Sunday Times). They’re all very good points, and a quick search for any ‘new web thing’ and ‘lessons from said web thing’ will bring up a lot of articles like this. What’s important is not just to take on these lessons, but take on these lessons, expand on them, and do something else. One of the rules of thumb I have when doing links to other news stories on All About

The Road Warrior’s Smartphone Swiss Army Knife

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I do a lot of travelling during a year. Sure it’s not as much as many in business, but it’s certainly more than a two week holiday to the Mediterranean that’s still popular in Scotland over the fair fortnight. That Means I’ve got a bundle of tricks in my head to make these trips more enjoyable, useful to me, and to help them run smoothly. So it’s been good to let some of them out over on All About Symbian in this morning’s article on the mobile traveller and how best they can use their smartphone while bouncing around the

Mobile Resolutions for 2009

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Over on All About Symbian I’ve put together some new year ‘resolutions’ for those of us attached to our smartphones to take good care of them. With a New Year comes a new start, and a perfect time to clean out your house. And as many of us pretty much live in our smartphones, then what can we do to for 2009 to help out our mobiles and make sure they’re in tip top condition? Here are my resolutions to get my phone ready for 2009… From checking your data plan and PIN codes, to clearing out your inboxes and

The ‘Fun’ Of Switching Symbian Smartphones

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One of the things that was easy back in the early days of Symbian OS (when it was on the Psion Series 5 machines) was movign data from one machine to another. It’s not as easy with the modern smartphone, as I found out moving from the N95 8GB to the newer N85. It’s impossible (for security and DRM reasons) to simply move all your applications over from one device to another, so I have to dive into my personally maintained archive of SISx and JAR installation files to put back on the applications that I use a lot. Any