Ewan Spence has been using the slightly controversial service Twitter at SXSW, and here he explains how it works in theory, how it worked in practice at SXSW and, ultimately, asks what Twitter is actually for.
It's rant time..... Steve rails at reality TV, Twitter and Jaiku, the inanity of the trivia of other people's lives and the burden of maintaining such an online presence....
Steve Litchfield plots useful functionality against price and reckons that most smartphones are just about 'bang on'. He also notes the breadth of Nokia's range and the presence of 'flagship' devices...
Nokia's N800 internet tablet is marketed as an Nseries device, but it's not a phone. What is it, how does it compare to smartphones, and what can Nokia's S60 department learn from its Internet tablet department? Krisse gives a long term view on the device and answers these questions from a personal standpoint...
Steve Litchfield wonders whether the move towards auto-focus cameras on smartphones was a 100% positive one, in the wake of criticism from friends and family!
Too many mobile phone network operators are behaving in a parasitic way that hurts customers and manufacturers, protected by a number of myths and misunderstandings. Why do customers let them get away with it, and why didn't Apple's Steve Jobs take them on when the iPhone gave him the chance?
The Sony Ericsson W950 turned heads in the Symbian world. It turned head in the regular mobile phone market. The trick, as Ewan discovers here, is to concentrate on the latter and not the former.
Steve Litchfield wonders why the whole concept of 'Settings and Preferences' in an application, or even in S60 as a whole, can't be enhanced and mirrored by a initial setup wizard that asks just one simple question...
Ewan (of all people) has had it up to here with people using the old Psion range of PDA's to beat up the latest smartphones. Just stop it, it's not big, or clever anymore.
