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Next phone in line: Nokia’s latest “flagship” N97 touchscreen device. Verdict so far:

Since my N95 died (sniff), I’m trying out some other (Nokia) phones. First in line: N96. Verdict:

Using wordmobi. The pic has nothing to do with it. Posted by Wordmobi

Using the newer speedtest at http://i.dslr.net/iphone_speedtest.html , I clocked the Nokia N95-3 using its native browser and the Nokia N800 using the latest native browser and Fennec, using Wifi on my home network: N95, native: 1803 kbps  N800, native: 4660 kbps N800, Fennec: 4100 kbps PC (for comparison): 6225 kbps The N800 and N95 comparison [...]

Open a Dropbox account, sync some files on your computers, and view them from the cellphone. Cool.

LightNotepad: let’s see how this works

Qik is a website for streaming video from cameras. Nice. Another way to compromise privacy. Or show cool stuff to friends. Well, they’re in beta, so I’ll give them some slack, but here is where it doesn’t get it quite right yet: They have recently added ‘groups’ to their service. So you can be member [...]

Want to send the latest podcast, or movie, or whatever, to your phone – automatically – and find it there, waiting, in the morning? And whatever software you are using doesn’t quite do it? Here’s the trick (for Linux): let dp1=$(date +%d)+1 curl http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/$(date +%Y/%m/%d)/${dp1}frontpage-p.mp3 \ -o nyt-frontpage.mp3 && obexftp -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 \ -p nyt-frontpage.mp3 [...]

on the plus side: Some of the N-Gage games are not half-bad (I don’t have a PSP, so I’m not spoiled…), AND… you can connect the N95 to the TV and play on a bigger screen (avoid the landscape mode though – the half-VGA then shows badly…) AND… some Austrian computer science students came up [...]