Archive for: July 2007

I got word from some internal sources inside of Nokia that the Quickoffice application that’s pre-loaded on the Nokia N76 has some bug that prevent it from viewing some Microsoft Office …

I have to admit, I wasn’t aware of all these resources. Maybe you’re not either, so with that in mind, I provide the list. If you find some publicly available blogs that …

Here’s my dispatches this week:

SunRocket Aiming For the Dead Pool (From The VoIP Weblog)
It’s Official: SunRocket Down In Flames …

Now, in addition to writing for The VoIP Weblog, the folks at Creative Weblogging hired me to write on The Gadgets Weblog as well. It’s not …

I have been using Nokia Media Transfer with the Nokia N76 that WOMWorld lent me for a couple of weeks. (I’m going to hate to give it back. sigh) Due …

You know, with all the coverage on this topic, all of which I outline on my article on Ooma at The VoIP Weblog, I’m surprised nobody picked up on this doomsday scenario …

It also backgrounds the app while posting. Nice!

My box from WOMWorld arrived on Wednesday with a nice, shiny, red Nokia N76 inside. I’m not going to bother with unboxing pictures because everyone’s done that. But I will type down my initial experiences, with the usual disclaimer that while I work for Nokia, yet they don’t pay me to write about phones. These are my honest opinions.

The Nokia N76 is sometimes called Nokia’s answer to the Motorola RAZR. The size and the keyboard certainly remind me of one, but the design here is all Nokia. The keypad is basically flat, but most of the keys have a rough feel to them. The keys give just-enough tacile feedback to let you know you actually pressed a key. There is a visual and tacile border between each of the keys as well. The angles and use of chrome decoration are elegant. The movement of the fold is slow, deliberate, and very solid. A little tricky to open one-handed, but it can be done.

There’s a lot to see and experience on this device. It’s a little long, I know, but keep reading!

It’s funny. I started blogging over at The VoIP Weblog last Friday. Five of the six articles I’ve published at this point have involved the now defunct VoIP-provider Sunrocket. I’ve also written …

Vodafone, one of the largest mobile phone carriers, has been trying to get into the US market for several years now. The first obvious attempt at this was when they were in a bidding war with Cingular for AT&T …