Reading Time: < 1 minute I got to play more with my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (XM) phone in the weekend. The following are the things I tried. 1) Video playback: I found there are some Nokia sample videos and a .wmv video (transferred from my PC Windows media player). Both played without problem. However, when I copied some Apple Dev
Reading Time: 2 minutes Not exactly, but close enough (here is a post I wrote on June 29, 2007 when iPhone started). Today the new iPhone 3G S is on sale at AT&T store, as I understood. This time iPhone did not generate as much buzz, but I heard my favorite tech writer Walt Mossberg was also standing in
Reading Time: < 1 minute Via Podcast. Partially inspired by an idea suggested at bbs. But I want to automate it a bit more, here is the software: DopplerRadio. It has both iTune and Windows (Media Player) version. Here is a detailed Windows guide written by Jake Ludington. The MarketPlace RSS feed is: http://feeds.americanpublicmedia.org/MarketplacePodcast The same site also has feed
Reading Time: 2 minutes I took some pictures using Nokia 5800 camera yesterday (June 11) evening. Note this is a 3 Mb camera, so the resolution is not great. Yesterday evening we had a thunder storm like weather, we had the sun and lots of clouds at the same time.
Reading Time: < 1 minute TDMA, or TD-SCDMA, is a Chinese domestic 3G standard (Wikipedia). China was not behind the west in terms of 2.5 GSM network and applications in recently years. Actually the development of mobile phones are so successful, the total users of China mobile phones users already exceeded half a billion (source: digitimes). China Mobile (NYSE: CHL),
Reading Time: 2 minutes The thing finally came from Dell Small Biz (via UPS). My initial impressions: meet expectation (I understand this is not an iPhone killer, rather a notch below iPhone, as the $240 price tag much lower than iPhone $499 price tag). (Left: iPhone; Right: Nokia 5800) 1) The size is about right, slimmer than iPhone, but
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blackberry or iPhone? I used both BB and iPhone. I think BB is better for “Email/text messaging” (dedicated keypad). It takes a few days to get used to the touch screen keypad on iPhone. It’s still not as easy as the BB keypad in my opinion. BB also has strong push technology which pushes email
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update from The Register May 29) Palm Pre plays nicely with iTunes. See more D7 video here. Here is another interesting one, for instance, Microsoft new search engine “Bing“.
Reading Time: < 1 minute This one. Use coupon code TP2GK4X1DTX0C8 (expires June 3) during check out. It comes out $229 + tax (after $50 mail-in rebate). Slightly cheaper than Amazon ($290 after $50 main-in rebate). Dell also offers Nokia N85 at $247 + tax (with $50 main-in rebate). Reviews: GSMArena; BrightHand. Discussions “N85 or 5800XM”: phonegg; Nokia discussion forum.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is a review of E63 at Brighthand. This one goes for $149.99 after $50 mail-in rebate at Amazon. I saw lots of Ads for a more high end version E71 at WSJ recently. The main difference is the latter has better camera (3M vs. 2M), has GPS and made from metal (vs. plastic for
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