Most of you will know that I love both my Nokia 5800 and my Nokia E71. I’m torn between them in a love triangle, I love the touch screen but I love the flexibility of a keyboard. The N97 will partly end my woes as I’ll have touch screen device with a keyboard. But it [...]
June 16th, 2009 by Lester Madden
Remember back in early April Samsung posted the disappearing Omnia i8910 HD trick to YouTube?
In case you have forgotten
Well, there were all sorts of suggestions how they did the trick, but here is the answer.
June 15th, 2009 by Lester Madden
The i8910 HD device from Samsung is one sweet looking phone. We had one on our exhibition stand at Mobile World Congress earlier in the year. I thought HD playback on a phone would be a gimmick and couldn’t imaging why anyone would want HD on a device, but man it was so impressive, it [...]
June 15th, 2009 by Lester Madden
How would you feel about a book that was different every time you read it? Here is an interesting idea for a book based completely on QR Codes and twitter.
June 5th, 2009 by Lester Madden
Regular readers will know that augmented reality is a passion of mine. So much so that I setup another blog, AugmentedPlanet where I could blog away happily about all things AR.
However I came across a really cool mobile augmented reality demo for visually impaired people today that I thought was worth sharing. The SeeScan application [...]
May 26th, 2009 by Lester Madden
I had an interesting meeting yesterday with a company called Mob4Hire.
Mob4Hire is an interesting idea where developers can submit applications that they want beta tested, specify what functionality they want testing, on what devices and on what networks, in return they offer a cash incentive.
May 21st, 2009 by Lester Madden
If you’re a developer then take a look at a couple of interesting videos that appeared this morning on YouTube.
They are both published by Symbian, the first sets up the developer proposition, the second is focused more on the benefits of the platform.
Interesting stuff.
What it’s all about for a developer
Opening up a world of infinite [...]
May 19th, 2009 by Lester Madden
Sometimes your phone rings at the worst possible moment, on the tube, in a meeting, at 5am while you nurse a hangover. Still it could be worse, it could ring in the middle of a live press conference at the White House and the Press Secretary could fancy himself as a bit of a comedian.
[...]
May 15th, 2009 by Lester Madden
I visited Motorola in Turin not so long ago. In their reception area they had a cabinet displaying some of their high range devices. One of them was solid gold Razor, the ultimate bling. As this weekend’s Euro Millions Lottery is a massive £120 million roll over jackpot, it got me thinking about what I [...]
May 6th, 2009 by Lester Madden
Ever fancied yourself as a secret agent? Of course you have, but to be the next James Bond you need to have the latest gadgets. I’ve said a few times that this year we are going to see a plethora of watch phones come to the market. At MWC and CTIA there were a number [...]
May 5th, 2009 by Lester Madden
