Aug

27

The Kindle presents an Amazon Associates opportunity

Filed Under Affiliate, Amazon, Apple, Ideas, Insights, Kindle, Mobile, Telecom, WiFi, iPhone, iPodTouch | Leave a Comment

Arrington on Techcrunch talks about the possibility of Amazon licensing its Kindle ebook reader hardware specs and trademark to third-party manufacturers:

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Samsung needs a brand strategy to take on Nokia’s smartphones

Filed Under Editorials, Marketing, Mobile, Nokia, samsung | 2 Comments

Recent smartphones from Samsung, HTC and LG indicate that Nokia’s finally got competition in the high-end space. However, it’s going to take more than engineering skills to succeed in India’s tough mobile market. Consistent phone branding, clear messaging and a solid distribution network are as important, and that’s where Nokia’s streets ahead. Can the competition catch up? Read more

Aug

9

The Mobile Internet Lifestyle

Filed Under Editorials, Email, Facebook, Gmail, IM, Internet, Mobile, Nokia, Opera, Social, Twitter | 4 Comments

(This post began as a reply to a comment question on my previous blog post about iPhone 3G. It’s also a complete re-write of an earlier post.)

My experience with the Internet on my Nokia N82 has been more than satisfying, but that might well be a result of my usage pattern. Your mileage may vary. And yes, my ideal internet-access device would be iPhone, but I’ve already written about why iPhone is a no-no for me.

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HOWTO: Syncing Contacts and Calendar info between Nokia smartphone and Outlook

Filed Under Firefox, HowTos, IE, LotusNotes, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, PC | Leave a Comment

Your contact list and calendar events on your mobile phone have nothing to do with the contacts and calendar items on your Outlook, even though most of them are the same. For instance, you store contact numbers in your phone and email info in Outlook’s contacts. Shouldn’t they both be connected? Shouldn’t the reminders/events you set on your phone, or the meetings you enter in your Outlook calendar be available at your desk and while you’re on the go?

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The iPhone question - and why Arrington is wrong

Filed Under Editorials, Insights, Mobile, iPhone | 7 Comments

(This post is a follow-up to “Why did Mowser fail?“)

An iPhone in every hand will not ignite a mobile web revolution. That much is certain.

Both Michael Arrington and Russell Beattie make this mistake. Perhaps that comes from living in a echo chamber for too long - both likely have iPhones, are heavy web users on their devices, have friends who have iPhones, and therefore think all would be well if only everyone had one like them. Arrington is shockingly naïve when he says “…it will be much better to push prices down so that today’s iPhone is available for next to nothing in the third world.” Of course, I bet he hasn’t lived for too long in the “third world”.

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Why did Mowser fail?

Filed Under Editorials, Insights, Mobile | 3 Comments

According to Mowser’s founder Russell Beattie, the “Mobile Web” is dead. As is his startup Mowser. I think he’s partially wrong. Russell hasn’t quite figured out how the Internet on mobile devices is likely to work.

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Moving to an Online Life

Filed Under Blogs, Editorials, Email, Firefox, Gmail, Google, HowTos, IM, Internet, Mobile, Nokia, RSS, Social, Thunderbird | 6 Comments

So my Thinkpad’s hard disk (a standard Hitachi 2.5″ 4200 RPM 80GB HDD) died Saturday evening. It began making ghastly noises all of a sudden, signaling imminent mechanical failure. I shut down the computer immediately, and on restarting, a BSOD informed me my boot volume was un-mountable.

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Exit Outlook 2007, Enter Thunderbird 2

Filed Under Email, Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird | 4 Comments

So I moved from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird this weekend. Though I’d been looking for an Outlook replacement for a while, the Nokia Synchronizer app (which I use heavily) worked only with Outlook, so that kept me from moving.

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Syncing Nokia Phones - Alternatives to Outlook?

Filed Under Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird | 3 Comments

I am very close to dropping Outlook as my email client of choice for my institute mailbox. It is slow, incredibly disk-intensive and requires too much maintenance - the same problems I had with Lotus Notes during my time at IBM.

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Mobile 2008 = PC 1982

Filed Under Editorials, Insights, Mobile, PC | 1 Comment

Why the mobile phone industry today looks a lot like the PC industry 25 years ago:

Several players selling standalone “boxes” (or bricks). Atari, Commodore, Tandy, Apple back then. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Apple now
Incompatible software platforms
Incompatible hardware and peripherals
Nascent application development industry
Device seen as replacing several existing devices

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