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These are thoughts in my mobile life. By Jeb Brilliant

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Nokia MD-6 portable mini speakers

December 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

A month or 2 ago I attended a Nokia event at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles.  As is Nokias way, they handed out a cool bag with a few goodies in it.  One of the treats was a MD-6 portable speaker set.  I didn’t think much of it, and put it on my […]

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Tags: E Series · N Series · Nokia · Review · Travel

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 · Mobile Phone · Review

Short Review of DeFi, an up and coming MVOIP

November 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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: Mobile Phone · N Series · N95-4 · Nokia · Review · SMS · Thoughts · Truphone · VOIP · WiFi · mVOIP

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: Boingo · Customer Service · Netbook · Review · Thoughts · Travel · WiFi

The Asus EeePC 901 initial thoughts

November 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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: Boingo · Netbook · Review · Skype · UMPC

Dan York of Voxeo explains what they do

November 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I met Dan York at the ITExpo last month and walked the show floor with him a bit while learning about Voxeo, a voice application platform for developers to build on.  I think Dan will be able to explain what Voxeo does better then I ever could so watch the video below.

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Tags: ITExpo · Review

Boingo keeps me connected

November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

I was fortunate enough to be asked to participate in a promotion by Boingo to test out and use their service. Boingo is a service that unifies many paid and free wifi hotspots together to give you one log in at all of these thousands of locations. The service runs $10 for a mobile […]

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Tags: Boingo · Mobile · Mobile Phone · Mobile Web · Review · Travel · WiFi

I was on the T4 Show last Friday

October 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I was a guest on the T4 Show with Michael Manna on Friday.  He is a fun host for in interesting podcast.  If you want to  listen it’s episode 93 and here’s the url http://t4show.com.  Thanks for having me Michael.

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Tags: Interview · Review · UMPC · podcast

Dell Video Chat

October 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I was recently asked to write a review of the new Dell Video Chat software created by SightSpeed.  Dell Video Chat is loaded onto all new Dell computers.  I am going to break it into two parts, my initial thoughts on it and I will write a more in depth review after I have had […]

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Tags: Review · Video

I had a great chat today with DeFi Mobile

October 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I had never heard of DeFi until today and now I’m using their service and REALLY liking it.  DeFi is geared to international callers and heavy talkers.  They offer unlimited mobile VOIP or mVOIP calls to anywhere in the world (on Nokia S60 phones) as long as you’re on wifi for $40/month.  I call that […]

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Tags: Interview · Mobile Phone · Nokia · Review · S60 · Save Money · VOIP · WiFi · mVOIP