Everybody’s been blogging about the Palm+Microsoft lovefest so I thought I’d cover two other new devices that might be important and more widely used in the long run. Both Motorola and Nokia announced 2 megapixel cellcams yesterday. They both support memory cards and various digital audio formats, promising to be good cellpods as well as [...]
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ROKR, meet Nano
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Following up on my ongoing love affair with cellpods: Apple and Moto recently launched the ROKR line of cellpods with ROKR E1, the world’s first iTunes enabled cellpod. This much anticipated gadget promises basic iPod playback functionality built into an entry level but functional GSM-based, Bluetooth-enabled cellcam. On the surface this seems to be a [...]
What cellpods need
Thursday, April 7, 2005
Carlo Longino writing in TheFeature has drawn similar conclusions about music enabled mobile phones to mine a year ago. Writing about the differences between cellpods and iPods, he notes: There’s only one real significant remaining difference between iPods and music phones, and it’s significant, but certainly not insurmountable The diff? Usability, especially the UI. I [...]
3GSM World Congress 2005
Friday, February 18, 2005
I’ve been reading the deluge of reports and press releases from the 3GSM World Congress 2005 which wrapped up yesterday in Cannes. Expanding upon last year’s limited Sun and Intel & Nokia 3GSM posts, I thought this year I’d summarize the major wireless developments via links to various 3GSM bits from around the Web. Starting [...]
Highlights from year one
Sunday, February 6, 2005
It’s been a year today since I launched my WordPress powered blog on BillDay.com and started shifting my blogging attention here in lieu of my java.net blog. 249 posts later, I feel like I’m finally catching my stride. Of course it helps to have plenty of time to spend reading and writing… Many of my [...]
WiFi spells opportunity for handset makers
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
eWeek’s article “Three Smart (Phone) Moves” is an interesting look at some of the latest gadgets from the MS Smartphone (Motorola MPx220), Palm OS (PalmOne Treo 650), and J2ME (RIM BlackBerry 7100t) gadget camps. It’s most interesting to me because in reading the intertwined reviews of the devices, it’s obvious they’re all missing a tremendous [...]
Moto Linux powered handsets in 2005
Friday, January 28, 2005
According to LinuxDevices.com, Motorola will launch 8-10 Linux based handsets in 2005. This would constitute roughly one quarter of Moto’s new handsets in 2005. That’s cool. Not so cool, however, is this dorky quote from Jim Ready, the CEO of MontaVista (makers of Moto’s Linux distro): [Motorola's] ability to pop out three phones based on [...]
Sharpening the (somewhat dull) Razr edge
Thursday, January 20, 2005
BusinessWeek reports on Motorola’s plans to produce a line of handsets based upon the Razr V3. In case you somehow missed it (I’m not sure how you could have if you’re in the US and watch television, because Cingular carpet bombed the airwaves with Razr ads over the holidays), the V3 is a new top [...]
My new LG L1400
Friday, November 26, 2004
In leaving Nokia, I had to give up my company owned 7610. This was a sad day indeed because it is a truly fantastic device IMO, but on the other hand losing the 7610 also presented me with an opportunity to revisit which features are most important to me and which handsets on the US [...]
Free agent
Saturday, November 20, 2004
I am moving out of state for family reasons and unfortunately management at Nokia feel this is inconsistent with the requirements of my position. Because of this, I am leaving Nokia. November 19th was my last full day in the Nokia offices. I’m still in Nokia’s employ through the first week of December, but I’m [...]
