While it's been kind of a rough week workwise, with the announcement of Nokia selling off the Security Appliance business, I did get a couple of new phones to play with: The Nokia N96, which I will review later, and the Nokia 6301. The latter phone came as part of [...]

Skyfire has opened up their mobile browser to an open beta, not to mention releasing a new Windows Mobile version (0.8), which adds a ton of new features, including better zooming and video quality. The Symbian version has not been revved yet, but it is forthcoming. Meanwhile, the browser is [...]

Image via Wikipedia The job that is taking a large chunk of my time at Nokia these days revolves around knowledge management. What the hell is that? According to Wikipedia: Knowledge Management ('KM') comprises a range of practices used by organisations to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable adoption of [...]

Image via Wikipedia If you want to hear the (non) answer to this question, check out this interview with Bill Plummer, who is a Vice President in Nokia Americas (seek to 38:40 for the interview). But if you're not interested in doing so, here's the summary: Nokia had 47 different [...]

Image via CrunchBase PC World has an interesting article about how Apple's iPhone is the current basis for comparison. Even my employer, Nokia, who has a billion people using Nokia devices, is doing it: Bill Plummer, vice president of go-to-market strategies for Nokia in North America, took questions from reporters [...]

Using the N95 on TV Originally uploaded by PhoneBoy Because it's occasionally a nice thing to do, I am using the TV cable on my Nokia N95 to hook up to the TV so I can see my phone "on the big screen." To go one better, I am using [...]

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown I don't like to prognosticate, but after reading the latest PR speak from EQO, I am not overly optimistic about EQO's chances at success. The latest thing they are releasing is a version of their EQO client geared specifically at operators. EQO originally started out [...]

I love Boingo and how it works on my Nokia Nseries and Eseries phones. Now the folks at Boingo have brought that goodness to several WiFi-enabled Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ headsets. The press release mentions three in particular: The W960i, P1i; and the recently announced G900. Boingo Mobile subscribers on [...]

In my last post, I took a screencast of my VMware session where I was running Google Chrome to show off how you can drag a tab off the main Chrome window and have it create it's own window. The capture file was about 14 seconds of video and about [...]

The single biggest reason I use a mapping application on my phone is the ability to find something. I'm sitting here at home and I want to find where the nearest Walmart is. Actually, I know where it is, I just want to see if Nokia Maps on my Nokia [...]

Om Malik says: "some of [Nokia's] new handsets, such as the new N78, are not VoIP compatible anymore." Charlie Schick of Nokia Conversations says the report of the death of VoIP has been groosly exaggerated. While I haven't seen the N78 or the N96 up close and personal for more [...]

I personally don't understand the fascination with push-to-talk. However, the folks at Palringo, whom put out a multi-service IM client for mobile phones, including the iPhone, now offer push-to-talk on the iPhone. They didn't offer this functionality when they released the client last month. The value with Palringo's service, in [...]

While I was on vacation, I got the news that VoSKY is releasing a 1U box that will interface with the T1/E1 port on a conventional PBX and replace it with Skype. From the press release: VoSKY’s latest gateway can support up to 30 concurrent Skype calls using E1 ISDN [...]

I am periodically asked to review VoIP services. One of the more recent ones is Denmark based Vopium. They provide a piece of software that will dynamically redirect calls through their gateways, thus giving you a cheaper rate. Very similar to what Truphone Anywhere does when WiFi and 3G aren't [...]

Seems that my bloakes in the UK with compatible Nokia handsets can get their hands on FIFA08 for free. Head on over to www.n-gage.com/fifa08 to watch some amusing videos of people so engrossed in their game that they'll do anything to stay in it as well as download the game [...]

cellphones.ca is reporting that Skyfire supports Microsoft Silverlight, which, for all you Olympics fans, means you can watch streaming video of the Olympics on your mobile phone! And yes, I was actually watching the .01 second victory by Michael Phelps on my mobile phone, as pictured. While it did play [...]

I have admittedly been a late comer to last.fm, but lately, I've found myself using it more than I ever thought I would. I'm not sure if it's the new interface or that I finally figured out what value it might bring to my music-listening experience. I haven't started using [...]

Got this amusing email from the folks behind openatownrisk.com: I am writing from Nokia HQ with news: we have defeated corporate censorship! The most insane video ever produced is now online. If you visit www.openatownrisk.com you can view the clip, but only if you're worthy enough to break the code. [...]

While on vacation in Alabama, I spent a lot of time using Google Maps on my Nokia device. I could have used Nokia Maps-and I should have, given it's dogfood-but Nokia Maps fails to find anything in North America. It couldn't find a single Wal-Mart in Alabama, yet there is [...]

After a bit of mucking about with the content in "The Box" on Download! on my Nokia N95 and interacting with the proper version of openatowrisk.com, I was able to break all four seals on the game. Surprisingly, it didn't take me long to do. The weird clip is truly [...]

I really could have used this on my vacation, as I lacked access to a proper desktop computer. The Skyfire browser, which recently became available in a Symbian version, provides a desktop-like experience on a mobile phone, or at least that's the goal. I previously gave the Windows Mobile version [...]

Pat Phelan followed a story about video blogger Sarah Austin, who was getting paid by Flixwagon and there was no disclosure about this fact anywhere. There was nothing in the contracts that forbid disclosure, but she did not want to disclose this fact because "I just think it is better [...]

When I went to California earlier this month, I didn't have a lot of time to do my ritual of reading RSS feeds with Google Reader. It happens when I travel, particularly when I've only got a couple of days to get a bunch of stuff done. Then I came [...]

One feature I like about the newer S60 handsets from Nokia is that they include a built-in RSS reader. When you go to a web page that has feeds listed in the meta tags, you can automatically subscribe to those pages. Quite nice! But the RSS reader isn't really an [...]

While it's nice to hear that Skyfire hired Mike Rowehl to improve their system scalability, they need a Symbian developer. Explains why I haven't seen a Nokia version of their mobile browser as of yet, even though I was orignally told it was supposed to show up in Q1 of [...]