I had the opportunity to trial a Nokia E71x for a few weeks.  My first impression of the phone was that it was a lot like a Blackberry in design.  It has a full QWERTY keyboard with a navigation button in the middle similar to the Blackberry’s trackball.  (Others compared it to a Samsung Blackjack.)  [...]

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I’ve received a number of hits regarding my previous Google Sync post so I felt that I needed to give an update.  I am no longer connecting my iPhone to a corporate Microsoft Exchange server so I am now able to use Google Sync to manage my calendar and contacts. Setup Setup was extremely easy.  [...]

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Most people are not comfortable telling the entire internet their whereabouts but they may be doing so unintentionally. One seemingly innocuous photo could result in people knowing the exact GPS coordinates of your house.

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All this talk about mobile phones and wireless carriers has me thinking about the what I dislike about the wireless industry in the United States. It is that wireless carriers lock the phones to only work on their networks and lock out features included in the phones. It is my experience in Europe and other [...]

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Sprint has recently released a Palm Pre print ad directed toward iPhone users whose contracts with AT&T will soon expire.  At first glance one would think this ad makes sense.  The eaten apple is pretty funny symbolism if you think about it.  But something’s not right.  If I have an iPhone, my contract is up [...]

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