Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

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I have been a heavy user of phone minutes on and off for many years now.  At my peak I believe once I hit 5,000 minutes in one month.  That may not be a lot for some but boy was it a lot for me. [...]

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I got to spend some time with Raam Thakrar and Ed Hodges from Touchnote.com during CTIA and had a blast.  They were a ton of fun, we talked about how irresponsible we’ve been at work to Middle East politics and I got to learn all about what Touchnote is.

I get to see all kinds of [...]

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So as all of my readers know I’m a hard core Nokia E71 fanboy.  I’ve been infatuated with the E71 since I first heard about it roughly 2 years ago.  Now I’m impatiently waiting for the much anticipated E72 but I decided to whip out the E75 I was graciously lent for review and have [...]

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Great news for Nokia S40 users, emoze is now being shipped with a link in the Ovi Store to download emoze. This is a really big deal because S40 is the single most popular platform in the world for mobile phones.  I’m on vacation (holiday) so instead of going into detail I will just copy [...]

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I just got done watching the Lakers vs. Magic basketball game (Lakers won) and came away with the feeling that I wanted to get T-Mobile cell phone service.  I don’t know what it was or why I got the urge but someone in advertising/marketing is doing something very right.  I had such an urge to [...]

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Earlier today Emoze (a client) announced a developers program.  They are giving developers the opportunity to create plug-ins for Emoze.  In one case developers created a plug-in where by Emoze users can collect, create, and reply to Facebook messages.  This is a large step opening up hundreds of millions of users to have the opportunity [...]

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Truphone one of my favorite mobile VOIP providers has announced 2 new flat rate plans.  I have been waiting for this kind of thing for over a year and maybe 2 years now.  They have a plan called TruUnlimited for Landlines at $14.40/month and it includes unlimited calls to landlines in 38 countries and unlimited [...]

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I am totally awestruck by this video from TED in Long Beach Feb. ‘09.  This is what I’ve been wanting to see for years.  Thanks to my buddy Hillel Fuld for turning me onto this.  For a long time now I have been wanting to see someone do so much more with a mobile phone.  [...]

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By Jeb Brilliant
Chief Editor
I had a really nice conversation with Jeff Rice today.  He’s the CEO at DeFi Mobile (disclosure, they provide me with VOIP).  I had some pointed questions I wanted to ask but we started off with what they are up to right now (the good stuff).  First though I should tell you [...]

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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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