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Mobile Phones Will Always Be Buggy

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Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted some thoughts about mobile phone firmware. Spurred on by the problems around the Blackberry Storm and its ‘buggy’ software in the first wave of hardware releases, the company CEO said that this was the wave of the future – all phones released will have bugs. The knee jerk reaction that this is bad was always going to happen, but I think that he has a point here: It’s to do with complexity. The modern mobile Operating System is huge, and measured in tens of Megabytes. That’s a far cry from ten years ago

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

The Symbian Smartphone Show Recap

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Well I say recap, but I think the next two or three weeks over on All About Symbian will be taken up with a lot of writing from this week’s Smartphone Show at Earl’s Court. Anyway, while you’re waiting for that, the podcast from the event is now available… [audio:http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aas_podcast_smartphoneshow2008_20081022_97.mp3] Download MP3 – Podcast RSS – Show Notes And while you listen to that, post your entries here for the All About Symbian Smartphone Show caption competition…

S60 Summit Podcast Recap

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Rafe Blandford and myself attended the S60 Summit in Barcelona last week for All About Symbian, and some coverage has come out, (such as last Friday’s Top gear spoof). Today, Rafe and I, along with Steve Litchfield, discuss the S60 Summit in the weekly All About Symbian Podcast. [audio:http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aas_podcast_20080602_76.mp3] Show Notes – MP3 File – RSS Feed

The Top Ten Mobile Web 2.0 Companies

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Just posted over on All About Symbian is my Top Ten Mobile Websites – specifically sites from Web 2.0 companies that are designed for the smaller screen, but still providing the relevant information. The Top Ten goes as follows… 10. Mippin – http://m.mippin.com/ Content re-aggregator powered by RSS. 9. MySpace – http://www.myspace.com/ Popular social networking site with a strong flavour of independent music. 8. Dopplr – http://m.dopplr.com/ Where you and your friends are travelling to in the future. 7. Google Reader – http://www.google.com/reader/m/ Content aggregation and sharing from the folks at Mountain View. 6. Flickr – http://m.flickr.com/ Photo (and now