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So I'm on the middle of a road, and at one end of the road is the Iphone, and at the other end, the
Blackberry Storm.
I'm a Verizon subscriber, I love their service in my area (Newton, MA) and its coverage when I
travel within the States. I have to update my dumbphone this week, and I'm debating the Storm or
Iphone. My contract is up, I'm a free agent baby.
Here is my mindset with everything: I tried a Storm out at Verizon yesterday. I enjoyed the QWERTY
keypad and do not feel concerns about not being able to type as fast as I can on a physical QWERTY
keypad. The web browser on the Storm is a very important feature for me. It's clearly not as good
as the Iphone's with the omission of multi-touch and less smooth scrolling of pages. Also the lack
of wifi IS NOT a deal breaker for me, but I would have liked to have it as an option. Having said
that, I still think the browser is "good enough" for satisfy my needs.
So here are my questions for Iphone users. Any answers are greatly appreciated. Here goes.
1. What is the learning curve for using the touch keypad on the Iphone? I find myself making a lot
of mistakes in the short time I've used it. I find myself making a lot less errors using the Storm
QWERTY in the first time I used it.
2. A lot of my friends who have Iphone's say that the Safari web browser often crashes during use.
Has this happened to you?
3. How is your battery life? In my situation I would keep 3G and wifi off during the day, and
turning it on only when I wanted to browse the web, etc.
4. How has your plastic casing held up? I would not want to add a case, and I fear the hard plastic
would break easily if dropped. Also, if you own a white Iphone, has your plastic back gotten dirty
or cracked over time? I question how durable that white case is over time.
5. Do your apps crash often? I was talking to an Apple store rep yesterday and I asked about the
app that gives you a QWERTY key pad in landscape, and he said it's very buggy and he would not
recommend it.
6. This is more specific: does anyone here live in or near Newton, MA? I fear AT&T's service in
my area. The AT&T site says I have great coverage, but I hear a lot about dropped calls and
poor call quality from my friends who live in Boston and surrounding cities.
7. Is 3G coverage still as spotty as it used to be? I've read a lot of complaints about
inconsistent 3G coverage, etc.
If I think of any additional questions, I'll add them here. Thanks in advance for all your answers!
The Skyfire web browser, previously only available in the US and Canada, is now available in the UK, it seems. It's proxy-based
(for pre-processing speed) and it runs on virtually any S60 3rd Edition phone. Comments and early
reviews welcome. (via p@sco)
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br/pWill touch screen devices become obsolete in the near future? Nokia might be thinking just
that, as it has filed a patent that uses an ultrasonic system which will allow your cell phone to
tell where your fingers are pointing at the display, and will even be able to detect some basic
gestures (such as opening and closing your hand) to manipulate the web browser. While it will
certainly make you look weird if you were to wiggle your fingers in front of your phone, it does
seem like quite a bit of fun. /p pa
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The Skyfire web browser, previously only available in the US and Canada, is now available in the UK, it seems. It's proxy-based
(for pre-processing speed) and it runs on virtually any S60 3rd Edition phone. Commenrs and early
reviews welcome. (via p@sco)
I tried it out and it was very impressed by the speed and accuracy of the motion tracking (he did
flicker a bit and have problems when my lights were to bright, so be prepared to work a bit to
make him happy). This is a Flash implementation of augmented reality created by Digital Pictures Interactive; all it takes
is your web browser, a webcam, and a printed marker symbol. Now, would it kill the little guy to
smile every once in a while?!
It seems to be based on the ARToolKit
developed by Dr. Hirokazu Kato of the University of Washington.
I enjoy Augmented Reality much more than Virtual Reality because 99% of the AR environment is the
real world in all of its infinitely detailed glory and I can accept a few lower fidelity objects
overlaid here and there. Even the highest quality VR worlds still feel much less than real in a
way that usually pulls me out of the experience.
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A tidy and useful ‘Web 2.0′ SaaS application designed to simplify the management of
meeting rooms in the office environment. Niche and Nice!
CEO’s Pitch
Using our online meeting room manager, you can check the availability of any meeting room in your
office and make a booking in real-time using a web browser. Organising meetings made easy.
Imagine the simplicity of using an online room scheduler to book a meeting room from your desk
rather than having to locate a meeting room coordinator and have them check availability and
reserve on your behalf. Typically the larger the organisation the more time can be taken up in
the organising a room for a meeting. With bookmeetingrooom.com staff will be able to see with one
quick glance which rooms are available from where ever you are. It’s a fantastic facility
for anyone who schedules meetings and those who have to attend them.
Mashable’s Take
Fortunately, it’s been a few years since I worked in an office big enough that booking
meeting rooms was required. But if I still did, a service like bookmeetingroom.com would make a
lot of sense. It’s a web-based application for managing meeting rooms, allowing employees
to see a calendar for all of an office’s available conference space and make bookings.
While booking meetings is a seemingly simple task, Bookmeetingroom.com takes just about
everything into consideration, like allowing companies to maintain meeting rooms in multiple
buildings across different time zones, with reports built in for administrators to see how their
workspaces are being utilized. Like other software-as-a-service business models, pricing is based
on the number of meeting rooms being maintained and the number of users accessing the system.
If an app for managing meeting space sounds like overkill, you’ve probably never worked in
a company where booking meeting rooms becomes a political affair and you wind up huddled in a
janitor’s closet. (or maybe I’ve just had some really bad jobs in the past ...). The
alternatives are typically either a system based on Outlook/Microsoft Exchange’s scheduling
features, or just having a receptionist maintain a list of who has what rooms booked.
In any event, bookmeetingroom.com has found a nice niche with a nicely executed web-based
product. It seems a bit like something 37Signals should’ve come up with.
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have to download and install a small LittleShoot add-on. To publish a file on LittleShoot, hit the
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pNokia has yet to make touch-based interface a mainstream method of navigation on its handsets, but
that could soon change with news of the Finnish cell phone manufacturer leaking out that it is
working on gesture control for cell phones in a recent patent that was filed in January this year.
This patent will involve an ultrasonic-based system that is able to tell where your fingers are
pointing at the display, and can even detect basic gestures such as opening and closing one's hand
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height="687" /Nokia has always held the line that the reason their top-end N-series has yet to see
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indirectly, though, was mention of gesture control for mobile phones—something
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shows that Nokia has been cooking up something gesture related for quite some time. The patent
calls for an ultrasonic-based system for divining where your fingers were pointing at the screen,
and to also detect basic gestures like opening and closing your hand to control a web browser
(similar to gesture based interfaces in PCs). While this seems like an incredibly roundabout way to
go about something that seems far more natural via touch, especially on a mobile device, I guess
I'll reserve final judgment for when I'm surfing the web via jazz hands on a new N-series piece,
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BMW iDrive/a. Whereas the latter has an Xbox 360 feeling, this one gets some clues from Apple's,
specially Coverflow and the menu navigation, which reminds me of the first version of the Apple TV
and Front Row. One big difference is that myCOMAND is connected to the web, grabbing information
wirelessly and presenting it through their own on-screen apps. Looking at the high resolution
screens and the feature list, it looks very good:/p pscript type="text/javascript"
charset="utf-8"galleryPost('mycomand', 3, '');/script/p p· Off-board navigation: The GPS is
constantly updated, from the maps to the points of interests. It also has a satellite overview and
the search language is open: you can write directions without having to follow a format. It looks
like the are plugging into Google Maps for this one, although I'm not sure how well the writing
will work using their navigation knob./p p· Trip assist: This part is quite nice, grabbing
information pertaining your planned trip from different web sources and presenting it in a useful
manner. You can, for example, see the weather forecast for the trip, as well as giving you the
possibility to make hotel and restaurants reservations from the system itself./p p· World
radio: Instead of using a normal radio, this one plugs into the web to access all the stations
available. The menu gives the possibility to access radio via genre. More interesting is the idea
of storing your music in a web server and accessing it through the system directly, without the
need to connect an digital music player or storing things locally./p p· Internet telephony:
It has support for voice over IP systems like Skype./p p· Web browser: They also include a
web browser, in case you need to get more information than the one provided with the thin clients
above./p p· YouTube: For huh... hmmm. iSome/i reason./p pThe navigation knob, which looks
similar to the a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/powermate-5576.php"Powermate/a, is simpler
than the iDrive 4.0. Our a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/la-auto-show/"Jalopnik comrades/a will
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Auction Hunter is a native Cocoa application for OS X, built to make your life
easier on eBay. It allows you to monitor auctions that you are interested in bidding on, or that
you would like to simply observe and store for future reference.
Main features of Auction Hunter are:
Automatic bidding and sniping tools, that let you set your snipe amount for an item you like,
so that Auction Hunter will place the bid with eBay until just a few seconds before the auction
ends. This allows you to not attract attention to the auction, causing price to go up. You can
also easily cancel or change the snipe when you like, before the auction ends, not risk anything.
Searching tools, that automatically let you to save and run the same searches on eBay,
storing the results in user defined folders. You can also specify a time interval to be used to
periodically run the searches. If new items are found, Auction Hunter will change the folder
color, so you immediately know there is something new. New added items are also highlighted in
yellow!
Thanks to a built-in powerful database, Auction Hunter allows you to store thousands of
auction listings (with thumbnails too!) so you can search through all saved items and what they
sold for, even for past auctions no longer available on eBay. If you like, you can also save the
full content ofÊ the item’s web page, and open it later with Safari
for future references.
Auction Hunter periodically updates the information about the auctions you are interested in,
and let you know at first sight what is going on, due to the use of colors and bold typeface. For
example, a red line says that the auction received no bids or that reserve price is not met,
while a black line means that the auction will sell, but not to you. A green line says that you
are the high bidder. A line in bold face font, instead, means that you placed a bid on that item.
Colors and bold typeface are combined to provide all possible auction status.
Auction Hunter provides support for all international eBay sites, and also automatically
updates all the categories when you launch the application.
If you have more than one eBay user IDs, for example one for your hobby and one for work, you
can use them at the same time!
Bids and snipes are now performed on the site where the auction was found on.
When double-clicking on an item, now it will be open in web browser on the site it was found
on. You can override this behavior by turning the new checkbox "Always open auctions in browser
with preferred site" on ("eBay" preferences panel).
A new item has been added to the auctions contextual menu, to let you open selected items in
browser using one of the supported ebay sites.
Mobile data and web use has grown by leaps and bounds over the past year or two. One new stat says
mobile data revenues are growing a
href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-ofcom-report-mobile-data-revenues-growing-five-times-faster-than-voice/"five
times faster than voice/a (albeit from a much smaller base), while Facebook recently said it has a
href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=38212737130"15 million active mobile users/a. Some
operators are trying to capitalize on this interest by deploying transcoders that take standard
desktop pages and transform them into something understood by more basic phones' web browsers and
that can be displayed on their small screens. That's all well and good, since users often complain
about the differences between the mobile web and the "real web", and their inability to surf the
same sites on their phone as they do on their PC, although the transcoders often do a pretty poor
job of making sites very friendly to mobile users. br /br / One way around this is for web
developers to create mobile-specific versions of their site, so they have more control over what's
presented to mobile users, and many use auto-detection so that both mobile and PC users can access
the relevant content at the same URL. So enter Verizon Wireless, with its a
href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20040701/1545223.shtml"long history/a of really grasping the
mobile web, which has now a href="http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=1837"deployed a transcoder/a. The
problem is that the transcoder breaks much of the auto-detection used by mobile web developers,
resulting in their work to create mobile sites being rendered useless for Verizon users, who are
then served a transcoded version of their PC site. Verizon and its vendor, Novarra, say the
transcoder partially follows a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/ct-guidelines/"guidelines/a being worked
on by the W3C to cover transcoders -- the process for which started after another Novarra install,
at Verizon parent Vodafone, a
href="http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/06/06/vodafone-uk-doing-a-lovely-job-of-supporting-the-mobile-web-by-breaking-it/"caused/a
similar problems. It's worth pointing out that Novarra has a representative on the W3C committee
working o
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