aBrilliantBlog

These are thoughts in my mobile life. By Jeb Brilliant

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Pikchur now offers more sites to upload to

September 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve been using Pikchur on an off for many months until recently when I became a full time user.  As soon as they started supporting Ovi Share I was converted.  Pikchur is like a few other picture dispensing sites except for the fact that they do a really good job in geo-tagging my pics and [...]

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Tags: Review · Thoughts · Uncategorized

App stores will keep us going for a while

June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Mobile phone and brand app stores have reinvigorated the internet and it looks like a small version of what it was before the bubble burst.  I was just reading Ewan Macleod come back story (great guy by the way) and I’m thinking about his Mobile Industry Developers TV and I’m thinking, it’s back to the [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Tech · Thoughts

Why aren’t more people on Ovi Contacts (IM)?

April 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments

I’m not here to criticize my friends or Nokia or my friends at Nokia.  Nor do I want to pressure them.  But I haven’t seen all that many people on Ovi Chat.  I know what you’re going to say, I don’t need another IM ID.  Well I know lots of people who signed up for [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Mobile Messaging · Rant · S60

Smart Phones aren’t that smart

April 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments

I’ve been using a smart phone for a while now and I don’t think they are all that smart anymore.They are not keeping up with where I think they should be.  I need my phone to get smarter.  Maybe in my case that means I want my phone manufacturer to get smarter or maybe it’s [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Mobile Messaging · Nokia · Rant · S60 · emoze

Ovi is killing my phone book!!!

September 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

So I decided to sync my calendar/contacts with Ovi yesterday like I do every so often.  I know it has some bugs but none of them had worked their way into my handset or any other copy of my contacts, until yesterday.  I value my phone book more then anything else on the phone.  I [...]

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Tags: Nokia · Rant

Nokia where is Sync with Ovi?

June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Nokia, you know I’m a fan boy, but I have a question for you.  Where is Sync with Ovi?  I have been waiting for months and months now and I’m getting inpatient.  I now have an N78 that I can’t sync with my MacBook because no plug in exists yet, or that I have seen.  [...]

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Tags: Nokia

Nokia E71 and E66 Press Release

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

A little late to the table with the actual announcements but you can find the press releases below for my next phone the Nokia E71 and the other phone released yesterday (also very exciting) the E66.
PRESS RELEASE
Email made easy: Nokia unveils two new Nokia Eseries devices optimized for personal and professional email
June 16, 2008
Slim, stylish [...]

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Tags: Announcement · Review · S60

Thank You to Comunicano and Nokia

April 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I want to thank Comunicano and Nokia for including me in all kinds of great briefings and meals last week at CTIA in Las Vegas. My friend Andy Abramson the owner of the most prominent mobile PR firm was most gracious and hospitable by brining me along to participate. Andy had [...]

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Tags: Nokia