Entries from November 2007

Mobile Browsers Shortcuts Standard

November 28th, 2007 · Comments Off

Nokia and Opera are supposed to be two companies that put the customer experience at the heart of their business. Then why o why they don’t try to have the same shortcuts? For example, I’m sure that the majority of people by now know the use of Ctrl+c. Why we don’t have the same when [...]

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Tags: Cool Apps · Free S60 Apps · Nokia · Opera Mini

S60 Tabbed Browsing (Up to 5 Tabs)

November 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

Reading this reminder on S60 Web Browser Shortcut Keys from the thenokiablog.com I recalled that my N95 browser actually supports tabbed browsing but I never used it because of the difficulty in opening a new tab and the out of memory problem which makes the browser unusable even when using just 1 window . Anyway, [...]

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Tags: Cool Apps · N95 · Nokia · S60 · Symbian

Woking Travel Trivia

November 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

Did you know that War of the Worlds from (Steven Spielberg – 2005) is based on H.G. Wells‘ Novel which is set in Woking (U.K)… I didn’t until I decided to look up at this statue (click on image for bigger size) in Woking town centre The War of the Worlds from Wikipedia

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Tags: Travel · United Kingdom

Get your priorities right

November 21st, 2007 · Comments Off

Great news, I got a new job (starting from 1st of January 2008)! Having said that, the reason why I’m posting this is because each achievement (this promotion included) has a cost… On this note I wanted to share a conversation I had in the past. Few years ago, actually several years ago, a salesperson [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Car kits alternatives

November 17th, 2007 · Comments Off

Few years ago I installed Nokia CK-7W car kit in my car and I have to say it was a good product until Nokia changed the PopPort to mini-USB port on its mobile phones. So, since I had my N95, the only way to use the Car Kit was to connect it using bluetooth. The [...]

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Tags: BH-500 · Car Kits · Nokia · Nokia Car Kits · Venturi Mini

Unbelievably cheap: Asus Eee PC 4G 701

November 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Ok, I don’t usually like to report reviews and comments of any sort because there are the shared items in my Google reader and other blogs for that. But looking at the news reports from my company’s intranet I found the Asus Eee PC 4G 701 (nice review here) mini laptop, which is simply astonishing [...]

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Tags: ASUS · E90 · iPhone · N800 · N810 · Nokia · Symbian

Android, the Handset Alliance is open but the Developer Challenge is already closed for Italy

November 13th, 2007 · Comments Off

It seems that the future of Italy is always going in one direction: down! If you read the The Android Developer Challenge FAQ and go to the eligibility section, you can see that the challenge is not open to residents of Italy! From Android Developer Challenge FAQ:

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Tags: Android · Italy

Is the N-Series brand a failure?

November 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Actually, the original title was “Usability not counteless features is good for Nokia phones” but then my train of thoughts focused on the N-Series (as well as S60 usability) in the end… Reading this great summary from Russel and the following comments in this link, I recalled a previous post regarding the complex structure of [...]

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Tags: Internet · N95 · Nokia · nseries · S60 · Symbian · Web2.0

UK iPhone crowds…

November 13th, 2007 · Comments Off

People, please calm down… please… please stop pushing…. Well, everyone seems to be happy with UK iPhone sales. People that wanted the iPhone to fail say that there was no queue in UK, O2 seems quite happy, I’m happy with my N95 but I would be happier with an iPhone as well…Hopefully Xmas is coming [...]

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Tags: iPhone

Blogosphere and original content

November 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

The blogosphere is becoming day by day really really exciting … You know creating content is an expensive and time- consuming business so different people have come up with different solutions, which you could use right away in your blog (if you have one ): You have the techie solution like Techmeme, Google News and [...]

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Tags: Blogs · Internet · Plagiarism · Uncategorized · Web2.0 · Web3.0