Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

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I may be late to the game but I think Nokia is doing what Nokia does best, make phones people want and buy.  Isn’t that what it’s all about.  I know Nokia has been playing catchup for a while now and they will continue to [...]

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Ovi Store is what it’s called, right?  they why is it only selling apps.  Why isn’t the Ovi Store selling Nokia handsets and accessories?  Nokia clearly has the ability to sell devices online already directly to the consumer so what’s holding them back from selling [...]

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I’ve had the N900 for a few weeks now and I have so many different and conflicting feelings about it.  I have been a huge fan of the tablets since I first layed eyes on the N770 many years back.
PROS:
The N900 is a stupendious device
The [...]

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I’ve been wanting to blog about some Truphone (one of my favorite services) news for days now and I’m finally getting to all the news.  Instead of writing 3 different posts I’m just going to condense it down to one short post.  Let’s get to [...]

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I used to do a great deal of travel for work when I was producing events almost every weekend.  Since then I don’t fly nearly as much as I used to, sometimes I miss it but now that I have a wife and 2 daughters [...]

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I’ve been using the Blackberry Curve 8520 on T-Mobile here in the USA on and off for a few weeks now.  I see how and why so many business people are such huge Blackberry fans.  My family and friends call me a power emailer so [...]

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What does it mean if Skype buys Gizmo Project? This is a huge deal for the VOIP industry.  It is a big deal for something that keeps going thorough my mind “The next Billion” (meaning the next billion people to get mobile phones and get on the mobile web).  The first thing that came to [...]

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A few weeks ago I spent some time with Alec Saunders, the co-creator of Calliflower.  On the surface it is a cool application, providing web based conference calling and as you dig into it and use Calliflower you come to find out it’s the single best application available today for conference calling.
Alec who I first [...]

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I got invited to go on a bus tour this yesterday afternoon, come to find out it was a bus ride to go take a tour of a Nokia research and development office. I didn’t have any idea what to expect, but in short it was very interesting.  It’s way to late to go into [...]

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Welcome to CTIA.  I walked in checked in and am ready to rock and roll.  Here’s my friend Cian’s post on GoMo News.  My big announcement for today was I got to see the Nokia E72.  It is everything I was hoping for in form factor and it really is a good looking device.  I [...]

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