Joy of Gadgets

The folks at Sony sent me a Sony Ericsson W995A to review. This is the first time I have actually used a Sony Ericsson product, so this is as much a review of the specific handset as it is the experience of using Sony Ericsson products in general.
The phone came in a FedEx box and [...]

Here is some feedback I have sent to Apple regarding the latest issues related to Apple killing “Google Voice” type applications in the App Store and Apple’s statements that jailbreaking your iPhone will cause the world to end. I would encourage you all to do the same.
I’ve seen a number of news stories that says [...]

This past week, I have primarily been using my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic as a way to listen to my podcasts. However, I have been using it without a SIM card. This is good, as it extends the battery life of my Nokia 5800 substantially, particularly when all I am using it for is browsing via [...]

Clearly, my current employer feels threatened by the current economic conditions as they’ve announced they are asking up to 1,000 people to leave on their own in order to lessen “the need for involuntary redundancies.” Internally, of course, there were other announcements along these lines, so seeing a public announcement about it is no shock.
What’s also [...]

Tuesday, I received my white Nokia E71. The phone’s been out a while, as I’m sure anyone who follows a Gadget blog or reads Wired can tell you. Since I work for Nokia, you should realize the following is my own opinion on the Nokia E71 NAM, i.e. E71-2, RM-357, or at least one other [...]

The Nokia E63 is a lower-cost version of the wildly-popular Nokia E71 that was released several months ago. It’s a little thicker than it’s cousin, and the case is plastic instead of metal. It also downsides the camera to 2 megapixel without auto-focus, and loses HSDPA data and GPS.
However, the handset still has a 320×240 [...]

The other phone I got last week was the Nokia N96, though this came from the folks at Nokia’s Blogger Relations program instead of T-Mobile.
My first impression is that it is a cross between the Nokia N95 and the Nokia N81. Unlike the Nokia N95, and like the N81, the headset jack is up top. [...]

A while ago, when I was writing for Gadgets Weblog, I reviewed the Solio H1000 Universal Hybrid Charger. At $79.95, it seemed a bit pricey. Especially since I could never get the solar part of the charging to work very well.
Meanwhile, Mark Guim over at The Nokia Blog got a Solar Cell Charger by Daylight [...]

Nokia and Maemo: Next Iteration
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A developer involved with the Nokia Internet Tablets posted on Jaiku about the latest iteration of the Maemo software that runs on these tablets. Note that unlike the Symbian OS that runs on all of Nokia’s smartphones, the underlying Linux OS of [...]

Charlie Schick over at Nokia Conversations asks an interesting question: could you join The 1100 Club, i.e. use nothing but a Nokia 1100 series device for a month?
For those that don’t know, the Nokia 1100 is Nokia’s most popular phone, bar none. Over 200 million of these phones have been sold worldwide since late 2003, [...]