Sometimes smart people do dumb things… and we should forgive them. No one’s perfect. But sometime smart people use their smartness to mislead and scare a lot of people in a polished but mis-guided attention-seeking stunt and then they deserved to get hit with a tidal-wave of vitriol. This post started life on Friday as a long [...]
Nokia. Say what you like about their phones and software (and indeed we do), plenty of people like them and they can’t all be wrong… (can they?) Their customer service, however, often leaves a lot to be desired – we’ve covered it before at length. So here for your guffawing pleasure is their response to Richard [...]
Right now the entire mobile industry is in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress and the coincidently-timed International Pick-Pocket Festival. There’s plenty of big news, but it’s the smaller stands where the magic is often to be found… How about some eye-controlled earphones…? Yes. I said eye controlled.
We’ve got some phones to give away courtesy of the nice people at the Nokia who were clearing out the cupboards and, yes, are still being nice to us despite what we sometimes say about them. We’ve got an N97, an E75 and an E55 to give away, but we’re a bit stuck… How should we [...]
I did it. I bought a Blackberry. My first one… A 9700 Bold from Three. I’ll get to a full review and explanation why the Nokia’s most recent effort – the E72 – didn’t attract me back in due course, but after 2 weeks of use there’s a couple of features that have really impressed.
The Prodigal Fool has interrupted his high-rolling lifestyle just long-enough to pen a letter to Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, suggesting 10 ways to get Nokia back as ‘contenders in the high-end smartphone market’.
A habit of mine when I’m on the phone is to wander around the house. For some reason I prefer to walk and talk rather than sit in a chair! However with a regular PC headset I’m tethered to the PC and can’t move which is a source of frustration. So when I saw the FREETALK Wireless [...]
Last night, as I was leaving the office to go play football, word was spilling out onto the interwebs about a brand new Google service. “Social features!” some said, “Keep your friends updated”, whispered others but, it was only when I saw the sad, inevitable combination of words that make up the phrase “Twitter Killer” did [...]