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Certainly looks a lot faster than when I first played with it, thanks, giving this application another shot!

I much prefer Walking Hotspot, way more stable.

Scoble: I wrote my thoughts already here:

http://www.intomobile.com/2008/04/23/microsoft-...

But I'll sum it up in one sentence: Mesh solves the data portability problem and is not about file sync, but instead about new ways to visualize and manipulate your data in the same desktop metaphor people are already used to today.

enjoy! can't wait to read your reports!

Why not just get a better camera phone? Think about it, Scoble uses a Nokia N95 to do all of his QiK streaming and that has a 5 megapixel camera. Jeff Jarvis used a Nokia N82 to cover the World Economic Forum: http://www.beet.tv/2008/02/nokia-n95-loom.html

That has a 5 meagpixel camera with xenon flash, wifi and the ability to upload straight to Flickr or whatever image service you like to use. It's the device I currently use day in and day out.

Disclosure: I work for Nokia's S60 Division, S60 being the OS that powers devices like the Nokia N95 and N82.

dude lol, you were at mobile world conference when this phone was announced.

People are gushing over Rez HD, I've yet to play it, but I fondly remember playing the first version on the Dreamcast. You might want to check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rez

And don't forget Geometry Wars and Marble Madness. In our ever increasingly ADD world I personally love these games that you can just fall into, play with for a little bit, leave, then come back to with no problem.

All the new Nokia phones coming out come with a podcatcher built it, if you already have a Nokia device and don't have the application you can grab it here: http://europe.nokia.com/A4160376

As for the N800 not being polished enough, I agree, even with the latest firmware/OS on it, which by the way is the exact same experience on the N810 minus the keyboard and GPS, the browser just isn't snappy enough according to people whose main source of information is Google Reader.

I don't understand the Valley at all. I've been doing this for months already with Jaiku. Back when people were on Twitter and Jaiku came out everyone said "what's the difference?"

A lot.

Adding the RSS feeds of everything I do online, like FriendFeed is doing now, was there from day 1.

Threaded conversations ... there since day 1.

Am I going to use FriendFeed?

I already am and have been for over 8 months, it's called Jaiku.

you shouldn't have to defend your opinions against other people's opinions. like assholes, everyone has an opinion. i agree with you on all your points, especially the remark that things should just work. the out of box experience is something lots of people take for granted. like you i hear "well duh, S60 is a smartphone platform so you can just add the features you really want."

that isn't enough. the baseline needs to improve. S60 aside, N82 user here, i've yet to purchase an internet tablet. like you i agree google reader is the killer app, but i regularly consume around 300 RSS feeds and i've heard bad things about the new mozilla based browser in maemo 2008.

maybe the next version. maybe i'll stop saying that one of these months.

red please :-)

"And here’s the clincher: nearly all the links posted on this site since the beginning of February were added from it – something that I never managed to find an easy way to do on the N810."

Can you elaborate what you meant by that?

Having an outside company control what you can and can not do with a device you own is always a dangerous game. Sure there will be plenty of awesome applications, but you can bet your ass that things will be called "illegal" and "bandwidth hogs" and taken down just to make operators happy and copyright owners happy. How would you like it if every application you wanted to install on your Windows machine had to go through a filter setup by someone else? Exactly.

Biting my tongue until tomorrow. I'll tell you one thing Apple is doing right, this coming from a Nokia/S60 die hard, they're using the iTunes platform as their means of software distribution. Finding good applications worthy of instillation has been the thorn in users and developers asses since time existed. Nokia's Internet Tablet, which runs Maemo based on Linux, uses the same repository type system that other distributions use to aid in software discovery and installation.

Hate to say it, but it took you long enough to come to this conclusion :P

Now the fun hasn't even begun, wait until the SDK comes out and people wake up to the fact that they can add value to their mobile phone post purchase ... then the revolution will begin.

Long time reader, don't think I'm mocking you, I just thought you would "get it" a lot sooner than the rest of the people in the mobile space.

OpenID + XMPP. Think about how each and every one of our personal relationships have their own set of rules. There is the guy your daughter dates who she doesn't want you knowing about or her friends at work, but doesn't mind her friends at school knowing. How come no one builds something for that use case? Social networks are all or nothing and I don't like that. Follow the UNIX philosophy and solve one problem at a time then create a solution around those answers.

I got mine around Christmas for $100, I'm amazed at the price drop. Really wanted that version with the USB key, couldn't find it. Doh!

Do you have any idea how much more efficient Twitter would be if they switched to XMPP based RSS instead of whatever the hell it is they have now. Twitter is basically instant messaging with even less volume than instant messaging, yet they can't figure out in 2008 what AOL, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo did way back when. What are they waiting for?

It certainly is cool, but he is courting the wrong person.

He should be talking to advertisers and trying to get them to experiment in a new medium that is proven in the eastern markets, but has yet to penetrate the western world.

We're actually arguing over this at one of the Nokia S60 blogs: http://blogs.s60.com/tommi/2008/01/current_stat...

"Cool" makes for a great tech demo and at CES I certainly saw some cool things, but I want to see it used by society. That is the hard part.

Oh and by the way, if you want one of those SD cards for your Nikon then check out this from Sandisk, they've been on the market forever (2005 first shown off):

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0501/05010606sandi...

Link to product page: http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1096)-S...

useless. qr codes + mobile phone = the best converged solution. you think this is cool because you probably never went to japan where they've been doing this for several years.

subscribed!

Are you trialing the new QiK application? I'm trying to get my paws on it, but can't find anyone for the hookups. Supposedly it gives you even better quality (640x480 over hsdpa, 320x240 over umts).

buy a playstation 3. i mean the fact that if you ever wanted to buy a game and pop it in instead of watching a movie is a pretty compelling argument.

I can't wait, last year's bloghaus was the talk of the town, this one looks to be even cooler!

A 1 TB drive would be nice and as for ideas on what to see ... well 2008 looks to be the year of the UMPC. I'm going to hang around Lenovo's booth and Intel's. See you at the BlogHaus.