I later discovered that 2 more pals had shown up at Zeitgeist looking for me.
interesting. though, who cares about the constant dodging going on in the bar scene?
Tag: mobile
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Nokia Messaging
Nokia is pushing hard for consolidation, looking to make their smartphones the go-to device for communication. One of the major announcements at Nokia World 2008 this year is about their Nokia Messaging solution. It is essentially a multi-platform messaging solution that enables email considerably more gracefully than the original Symbian interface.
Nokia overreaches
Rooting Android
I hacked my camera’s firmware manually by using an exploit to cause it to execute arbitrary code – and then blinking out the entire firmware in 0’s and 1’s on the autofocus LED – read in by a photo transistor attached to a sound cable plugged into my microphone port – and then put back into 0’s and 1’s… Then disassembled the ARM9 code in it and worked on porting CHDK to it… I’m pretty sure having a whole OS at my disposal should make this a lot easier
NFC
Want to print a picture, just tap the phone to the printer. Want to pass your business card? Just tap your phone with someone else’s. Easy peasy.
Google for BlackBerry
nice. now if only blackberries weren’t such slow pieces of crapware for losers tethered to exchange.
Emerging Markets Innovation
developing countries may now be poised to leapfrog the industrialized world in the era of the mobile web.
GMM Improvements
Google Maps Mobile is simply not ready for primetime yet.
+1 actually, all blackberry apps i have seen are hopelessly retarded.
Do Mobile OS Matter?
Just think of how far that $400m would have sped them along had they chosen to move to something like Linux instead.
verdict: symbian does not matter.
Technologies That Connect
To raise productivity (and wealth), raise connectivity. It’s that simple.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 