Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

These are thoughts in my mobile life. aBrilliantBlog By Jeb Brilliant

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Entries from November 2008

Mobile Geeks of London is tomorrow night

November 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

One of my favorite events of all time (and I’ve been to a lot of events) is Mobile Geeks of London and it’s being put on by the coolest cat in all of London, James WhatleyDude Whatley.  MGoL is taking place tomorrow night (Wednesday).  Here is a link to his site with all the deets [...]

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Tags: Announcement · Events

The best chocolate I’ve had

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Over the weekend my wife and I were  watching a movie When do We Eat? and mid movie she goes into the kitchen and comes back with a box of chocolates.  I am not a huge fan of sweets, I have a weakness for ice cream and doughnuts, but that’s about it. Well until now.  My wife [...]

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Tags: Review · Thoughts

Spracht Aura Mobile BT Conferencing Unit

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I have been using the Aura Mobile BT for a few months now.  It is a high quality duel speaker phone created to be a mobile conferencing hub.  Instead of having a super expensive conferencing unit someone could purchase the Aura from Spracht.  I have used it in a few different environments now and I [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Review

Choose what address book to access on your S60 FP2 device

November 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I am traveling to Israel in a few weeks mostly for vacation and a little business on the side.  I have a local Orange BigTalk sim card that gives me an Israeli mobile number.  I will likely be using the Nokia N78 that runs S60 Feature Pack 2.  One thing I like about Nokia S60 [...]

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Tags: Mobile

SkyWest Airlines has the worst website I’ve seen in a long time

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I got on my computer this morning planning to check on a flight my cousin and his new bride were on because I was picking them up at Long Beach Airport.  Their itinerary I was sent said they were flying SkyWest Airlines so where do I go to check on their flight?  You guessed it, [...]

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Tags: Rant

Short Review of DeFi, an up and coming MVOIP

November 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I have been testing DeFi a Mobile VOIP for a few weeks now on the Nokia N 95-4 . Let me tell you, DeFi has it pegged. I am not an economist and I don’t have a masters in business but I think if they can get DeFi in front of the right people they [...]

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Tags: Nokia · Review

Boingo Customer Service is top notch, thanks Bianca!

November 13th, 2008 · No Comments

As everybody the world over knows Los Angeles has the worst traffic anywhere.  When I give directions to out of towners and they ask how long it will take to get here or there I say x amount of time or all day.  The sky is the limit.  So I was on my way to [...]

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Tags: Review

AT&T is going to be selling a Symbian phone again!

November 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Great news for the S60 enthusiasts out there, like myself.  Nokia has gotten the 6650 in AT&T stores starting tomorrow.  It has been a while since we in the the US have had access to a Nokia Symbian smart phone from a mobile service provider.  The 6650 is not tricked out and laden with extras [...]

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Tags: Nokia

The Asus EeePC 901 initial thoughts

November 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Sometimes I have to pinch myself I feel so lucky.  I was sent an Asus Eee PC 901 late last week and have been amazed with it from the moment I took it out of the box.  I will go into more detail about the netbook in future posts but for the time being I [...]

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Tags: Review

Mobile email by Nokia, my thoughts…

November 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I have been using mobile email for many years now and most recently been I have been using Nokias new beta email service. I am not 100 % sure why, but I really enjoy it. It is more or less reliable (keep in mind it is still in beta) though it has stopped working [...]

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Tags: Nokia