Image via Wikipedia Despite having my Motorola Surfboard SB5120 plugged into a damn UPS, my cable modem suffered an awful fate at the hands of a power surge-death. It's not even trying to talk to Comcast anymore. It's lights blink no more. It's a doorstop, destined for the great bit [...]
Driving Off Road Originally uploaded by PhoneBoy There was a road there. It just wasn't in Nokia Maps yet. Or any other maps I had access to. It's one reason you can't completely trust navigation aids. Related PostsTexting and Driving About to be Illegal in WA StateThe Problem With GPS [...]
If you're a current AT&T Customer: For those of you not AT&T Customers: If you don't want to watch these cheesy videos from AT&T, then here are the particulars: 1. New AT&T customers will get the 3G iPhone for $199 (8GB) or $299 (16GB), complete with 2 year ball and [...]
In the evenings, I like to work downstairs on one of the kids computers. It's nice to sit somewhere else and work. Keeps the mind fresh, and it also allows me to experiment a bit. One problem with doing this is the web filters, which I've set up to prevent [...]
I was working on a post about voice mashups that you will hopefully see published soon. As part of that article, I was going to use this little nugget about Sitofono, a click to call service done by Luca Filigheddu's company Abbeynet. It ended up not fitting after I rewrote [...]
Image via Wikipedia I've actually been running earlier versions of the newly released Diablo firmware for the Nokia N810 Internet tablet, which was recently released to the public. The nice thing that this firmware release has is automatic updating! Much like with Windows Update in some configurations, the tablet will [...]
Image via Wikipedia I don't think it's any huge secret or anything that I've got a lot of phones lying around. I have at least three just within a couple of feet of my keyboard! I recently got an email from the folks at Comunicano about their “No Phone Unused" [...]
It's interesting to see Charlie Schick, one of my Nokia colleagues discuss-on the corporate blog no less-a subject that has gotten a lot of attention thanks how well the Nokia E71 was kept secret before it's launch. And like Charlie, I'm going to drag out some thoughts from Nokia's internal [...]
Carolyn Schuk is not happy that the mainstream press is amazed that women like smartphones. Her contention is that women buy and use smartphones too! She's right. Here's the secret, though: outside of the small percentage of people that either work for a mobile phone manufacturer, operator, retailer, or otherwise [...]
To the average person, the number of computers in my home is appalling. There are three computers downstairs alone, one for the other members of my family. Then there's my office. One problem with the downstairs computers is that they all, without exception, have web filtering software on them. I [...]
One of my co-workers at Nokia forwarded me the page on Voadfone Italy, where they will be selling the iPhone unlocked, or at least unsubsidized. To convert that into U.S. dollars (using today's exchange rates anyway): the 8gb iPhone is $772, the 16gb iPhone is $880! It does make me [...]
Image via Wikipedia When I was a kid, I used to hate pulling weeds in my parent's yard. Nothing more undignified, unsatifying, or boring than pulling up plants out of the ground that shouldn't be there. Why in the world do I want to do that? Today, I did this [...]
As much as it pains me to say this as an employee of the competition, iPhone 2.0 is going to be a big win for a lot of people. For two reasons: Price: At $199 for an 8 gig phone, the pill of buying a new iPhone is going to [...]
Before I go on my self-imposed blog break, I suppose I should do my weekly "Week That Was" post. I don't expect I'll post anything here until next week's "Week That Was" post where I'll have a few items from The VoIP Weblog. This next week, I'll be in Ottawa. [...]
As you might understand over the past few weeks, things haven't exactly been stress-free in my household with my son being sick. He's doing much better, thanks, but we're not entirely out of the woods yet. He's currently taking antibiotics by IV and will have to go in in a [...]
Every once in a while, the part of Nokia I work for announces new stuff. Today, it's a new piece of gear: the Nokia IP1280. Excuse the marketing speak, but I occasionally like to promote the things my part of Nokia is doing. For some reason, I found the phrase [...]
Despite the fact my son's doing better, he's going to be in the hospital for a couple more days. Unfortunately, for those of you who read my blogs, it means less blog entries. It also means I've got some work to do as my bank of articles is now empty. [...]
Image via Wikipedia For once in my decade at Nokia, I've been given the opportunity to formally test a product before release. While I can't talk about the product I'm testing until it's formally announced, I can talk a little bit about Nokia's internal beta testing program for upcoming products. [...]
I have a couple of Macs-and a lot of PCs. While I don't listen to music that often, I have collected quite a bit of it-mostly on these plastic disks called CDs. Some of you might have heard of them Anyway, when I got my hands on a Mac a [...]
