Nokia Lumia 800. First impressions.

I have been looking at the Nokia Lumia 800 for a while and, finally, I decided to give it a try. Here my list of likes and dislikes after two weeks of intensive use. Likes I like the fact that the implementation of the Metro UI has been really designed and extended deep into the […]

Accelerometer Madness

After accelerometer technology made its appearance to the masses it seems that every mobile phone manufacturer is rushing to put the very same bit of hardware in their mobile phones. There a lot of applications that can make use of the accelerometer to increase the usability of the products or services and there also some […]

Where Are You?

I think that the question “Where are you?” is the first sentence pronounced by most people when making phone calls to a mobile phone. I am sure that pretty much anyone has desired to give fake answers to that question. Something like “I am queuing at the post office” instead of revealing that you are […]

Device morphing

If I look at what a mobile phone is today it’s very difficult to say that is only a phone. It is a phone when you are making a call. It’s a camera when you are taking pictures. It’s a camcorder when you are shooting a video. It is a television set when you are […]

Battery killed the Mobile Internet star

There are plenty of new great internet applications coming to your mobile. You will be able to chat with your friends, catch up with e-mails, read your favorites RSS feeds, browse the Internet, do Skype call while hitting the road. That’s great. I want all of these applications on my mobile phone. As we wrote […]

The Internet in your phone

It really seems that all operators are signing agreements with all the major internet players. 3 is launching services with MSN, Yahoo, Google and Skype, Vodafone with YouTube and MySpace. Same thing seems to be happening with handset vendors. Just look at the last Nokia press release announcing an agreement with YouTube while, historically, they […]

Friends generated content

For several reasons I will not be attending the 3GSM World Congress this year. From the reports that I am reading from the Internet there is great focus on Media and Internet companies. Yahoo, Disney, MTV have their own booth at 3GSM and all the recent press releases talk about these companies and their initiatives […]

Technology is there

Yesterday night I had a dinner out with a friend. He was a former research fellow at Olivetti in the shining days of that company. Obviously we ended up talking about innovation in mobile phones and I shared some of my personal views on the subject. All these wonderful web 2.0 applications that are coming […]

Twitter and the mobility dilemma

In the last couple of weeks I have been playing around with Twitter. Personally I think it’s a cool idea. It’s a very simple service that allows your friends or, if you don’t care much about your privacy, strangers to be updated on what you are doing. Using a mobile originated SMS, an Instant Message […]

The definition of Smartphone

During my daily scan for news I have found this interesting piece from Yahoo News. There are two statements I would like to comment on: Unlike regular cellphones, smartphones have a PC-like operating system and download and run computer programs. Most include advanced data features such as e-mail, instant messaging and word processing. Some, such […]

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