Category: mobile phones

2 September 2008

Where’s Wal-Mart? The Failure of Nokia Maps

Filed under: Services, mobile phones, nokia, software - 02 Sep 2008

The single biggest reason I use a mapping application on my phone is the ability to find something. I’m sitting here at home and I want to find where the nearest Walmart is. Actually, I know where it is, I …

1 September 2008

Why I Use Share on Ovi

Filed under: Services, mobile phones, people - 01 Sep 2008

Nokia Ovi logo.
Image via Wikipedia
Matthew Stevens, a.k.a. GadgetVirtuoso gives a few reasons he thinks Share on Ovi is a non-starter. His main complaints center around the fact …

28 August 2008

Nokia Says: We Didn’t Remove the VoIP

Filed under: mobile phones, nokia, voip - 28 Aug 2008

Om Malik says: “some of [Nokia's] new handsets, such as the new N78, are not VoIP compatible anymore.” Charlie Schick of Nokia Conversations says the report of the death of VoIP has been groosly exaggerated.

While I haven’t …

24 August 2008

Palringo Brings Push-to-Talk to iPhone

Filed under: apple, mobile phones, software - 24 Aug 2008

I personally don’t understand the fascination with push-to-talk. However, the folks at Palringo, whom put out a multi-service IM client for mobile phones, including the iPhone, now offer push-to-talk on the iPhone. They didn’t offer …

21 August 2008

It’s Official: Qwest Now Pushing Verizon Wireless

Filed under: mobile network operators, mobile phones, telecom - 21 Aug 2008


A while ago, I posted that Qwest intends on selling Verizon Wireless service instead of …

My Take on iPhone 3G versus Nokia Nseries

Filed under: apple, mobile phones, nokia - 21 Aug 2008

2008.03.17 - Share on OviTed Wallingford did a “smackdown” comparison between the Apple iPhone 3G and the Nokia Nseries devices. His assessment, while …

18 August 2008

Skyfire Supports MS Silverlight

Filed under: mobile phones, nokia, software - 18 Aug 2008

08/17/2008 - Share on Ovicellphones.ca is reporting that Skyfire supports Microsoft Silverlight, which, for all you Olympics fans, means you can watch streaming …

11 August 2008

The PhoneBoy Blog Now Mobile Friendly

Filed under: blogging, mobile phones, phoneboy - 11 Aug 2008

If you access phoneboy.com from a mobile phone, you should automatically be presented with a mobile-friendly version of the site. If for some reason, that detection fails, you can also manually get into mobile mode by entering one of the …

20 July 2008

The Weeks That Were 23 June - 12 July 2008

Filed under: mobile phones, phoneboy, software, telecom, voip, week that was - 20 Jul 2008

I’m still trying to get caught up with these posts. Next week, I should be caught up doing these bloody things.
Of course, next week’s …

8 July 2008

Too Many Social Networks!

Filed under: blogging, mobile phones - 08 Jul 2008

A problem I’ve had as of late: I am on way too many social networks! As of right now, I maintain accounts on:

Twitter (twitter.com/phoneboy)
Jaiku (phoneboy.jaiku.com)…

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