Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'mobile'
Apple/Yahoo's Flashback from 11th Century
This is an actual screenshot of an attempt to get a weather report for Tartu, Estonia on my iPhone, using the standard Weather app, powered by Yahoo data. What's the joke? Yes, the city of Tartu used to be called Yuryev at some point. Namely between 1030 and 1061 when Prince of Kiev, Yaroslav I the Wise burnt down the wooden fortification dating back to 7th century and built his own. Just checked, Yahoo! Weather on the web has...
Skype for Your Mobile is here
It used to be that you had to be lucky enough to live in one of the eight countries of Hutchinson's 3 network to use the "official" version of Skype on a 3 Skypephone handset. That option is still there, but the world has gotten smaller again for those of us elsewhere, say in Elbonia. If you are a Skype user and have one of these 50 mobile handset models (more on the way), just go and download a client...
Parkimisest ehk aus olla on kulukas
Ühe reede õhtu, mil parkisin auto üle hulga Tallinna vanalinna, kronoloogia: 18:53 - Pargin auto ja suundun üritusele 22:00 - sõber esitab pika ja praktilisest näidetest pikitud selgituse, kuidas ja miks tema on loobunud Tallinnas mobiilparkimisest, kuna see ei tasu vaeva. Europarkil kui eraoperaatoril puuduvat mehhanism ilma kohtuta tasusid reaalselt kasseerida. Ja linnavalitsuse eest kontrolli teostavat Ühisteenuseid olla tänavail näha pöördvõrdelises seoses õhuniiskusega. Avaldan (mitte eriti veenvalt) arvamust, et eks see maksmine ole natuke ka ühiskonna ja kultuuri küsimus, mitte...
Me-too Moments: iPhone
I just checked, it has been 14 months since my enthusiastic post on the iPhone announcement and a liminal devices rant. Operator locking pushed me back from actually getting an iPhone for over a year. Will I get thrown out of the true gadget geek directory now? And now there I am, the last me-too kid on the block with the cool running shoes. Can't help but share some comments. As the whole internet is full of reviews already, I'll...
K800i Rulez Flickr
As a follow-up on finding the best phone (for moblogging to narrow the scope), SonyEricsson K800i has now become the #1 choice on Flickr. (Some quite amazing photo samples behind that link as well)....
Gram of a Gigabyte
One of those moments when you feel really old and feel the Moore's law kicking in with a full blow. It reminded me the file server at my first job at Primex Data (nowhere to link to, as the company went down too early in the internet days) in 1993 which had a massive and expensive (a thousand dollars?) 300MB harddrive to host a few dozen users and still have plenty of room for the file archives of the...
Some berries are blacker than others
After the recent odysseia of fixing my broken mobile communications I've now solved the written comms part as well. I've joined what some consider the forces of evil and landed on a BlackBerry 8800....
Bye-bye Nokia E70
That's it. I had enough. Nokia E70 was a dream phone found for me: Nice form factor, but still with a very usable QWERTY keyboard when folded open. Almost a big enough screen with an excellent resolution (640x480 or VGA). Camera with minimalistic feature set (but not bad quality at all, if you've been following the entries below) for moblogging. Wifi. Very good browsers, especially the HTML one with preview mode, but also OK for WAP. Downloadable applications for Exchange...
Liminal devices, or if iPhone met Wii
Jaanus, sharing his initial thoughts on Apple iPhone speculates among other things on where the design could go further: ... taking the accelerometer (the portrait/landscape detector) and the proximity sensor a bit further and having a Nintendo Wii remote-like capacity to have the phone be fully aware of its 3d orientation and motion vectors. Though I can’t really imagine an application and use for it other than, say, theft detector. Here you go, Jaanus, some potential applications:...
AAPL post-iPhone announcement
So, the Apple iPhone is out. There are enough blogs covering every single aspect of that little piece of history made, so I will not dwell on the product features much. I want one very badly. You want one. And if you don't, you likely will at some point quite soon. Instead, let me share some initial thoughts I had from the amateur investor angle. No buy/sell/hold verdicts, just aspects to consider....
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