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Re: Antifeatures: big mistake that location app developers make

kbateman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:37:52 -0000

Robert, any chance of you checking out how we at BuddyCloud do it ?

Would be interesting to get your view.

www.buddycloud.com

Re: Nokia N900 Maemo demonstration video

kbateman — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:53:05 -0000

To be honest I have windows machines but I didn't have any speakers attached to them, and didn't want to wait 10 minutes for my laptop to reboot from linux to vista and demand to do updates.

Although if you look about pretty much all the press relating to the N900 seems to be saying that it is Nokia's attempt to lure customers away from the iphone. I'm not sure how much I agree with that and how much I think it is just a fairly forward thinking product because to be honest even though Nokia has the majority of the smartphone market at present, personally, I think the devices are beginning to feel quite dated. Although this video still makes the UI look sluggish compared to an iphone (in places).

However, it'll still be interesting.

Re: Nokia N900 Maemo demonstration video

kbateman — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:50:20 -0000

Thanks Ewan, less grumpy now :)

I stand by my first point though, putting a video that can't be watched by an iphone on a website isn't really going to get anyone to move from an iphone to a maemo device.

Cheers

Re: On the face of it, Maemo looks fuuuuuuuuuuking nice

kbateman — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:26:05 -0000

On another note, I thought I read somewhere recently that maemo was going to move to Qt instead of GTK+ ?

Re: On the face of it, Maemo looks fuuuuuuuuuuking nice

kbateman — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:23:31 -0000

Good marketing ... how am I supposed to be lured away from an iphone if I can't even watch the video on their website ? Infact I also don't seem to be able to watch it on my laptop (linux) which does have the flash 10 plugin in firefox3.5.

Ok, so I'm a bit bleeding edge and not necessarily the intended audience, but that made me even more grumpy, I'll have to check it out on the mac when I get home tonight.

Re: [Insert another 'SpinVox bashing' post here]

kbateman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:51:38 -0000

Definately still a supporter, still thinking how I can fit SV into my secret application idea. To be honest I don't really care how it is transcribed if it works well enough. Ok a bit of clarity would be nice, but I agree that a lot of information is company secrets as such.

Re: Glympse vs. Google Latitude in location sharing battle

kbateman — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:08:55 -0000

Tried buddycloud.com ?

Re: The T-Mobile G1 coming shortly

kbateman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:17:59 -0000

Hmmm might have to get one then :) gotta admit I'm quite pleased with the iphone dev tools (obviously apart from the openness thing).. Ahh well just another platform to include.

Re: You’re watching MOBILL INDUSTREEE REV-YOUUU

kbateman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:42:33 -0000

"Normob Hunter" in the style of the unreal tournament announcer ? :)

Re: Private: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

kbateman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:16:17 -0000

Yup complete agreement here ... if we can figure out the prices I'm sure the usual crowd (and the prom queen) could knock something together that works. Sounds like a good bit of fun too...

Re: Private: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

kbateman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:02:46 -0000

Excellent review Jay.

Having had a few comments with J, it looks like a lot of the issues could be resolved by moving to a linux only solution, SMSC software is relatively available these days and using only linux would probably cut the cost by somewhere around £2k - £5k I suspect, also it could possibly resolve the heating / cooling issues.

Just my thoughts... nice piece of kit though ... wouldn't mind one myself (make it open source and I'll do the mods too :)

Re: iPhone to launch officially in China shortly

kbateman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:54:08 -0000

Oh, if its just replacing 3G with China-3G then thats not so bad... thought the original bit sounded like 3G was just being removed completely.

Re: iPhone to launch officially in China shortly

kbateman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:31:54 -0000

Ummm removal of 3G AND WI-FI ... that doesn't leave much, unless it still has EDGE or GPRS. Without any data connection ability it would be an extraordinarily expensive basic phone (although very shiny and multi-touch etc..) with the ability to sync media I guess ? and how are users supposed to know wether an app store application will work or not ?

I'm probably jumping the gun a bit here, but it doesn't sound all that great, for users or apple.

Re: More and more annoyed at the book industry

kbateman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:19:10 -0000

Amazon -> Your Account -> Communications Preferences -> New Products :)

Cheers

Kirk

Re: More and more annoyed at the book industry

kbateman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:01:08 -0000

I thought the Amazon recommendations stuff did that ? via e-mail ? I'm sure I keep getting mail about more recipe books when new ones from authors I like appear (to add to my ridiculously large collection - WhatleyDude you wanna see this load of books haha).

Re: This week’s videocast comes to you from…

kbateman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:29:55 -0000

James Whatley .... "Its What I Do" ;)

Re: The O2 trauma continues!

kbateman — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:31:09 -0000

Sometimes you just have to be forceful to get things done. I suppose that because you actually know your stuff when it comes to the techie side of mobiles if anything that should have made things easier, although these days it seems that a lot of companies don't have the ability to speak to techie people and just expect customer service to deal with "normobs".

I had a situation a long time ago with the orange broadband setup for a friend, he'd had it all sent to him (free on certain mobile contracts) and it never worked, I spoke to customer service and technical support a number of times, shouted at them to do line tests etc.. the funniest part was being asked what operating system I was using (bear in mind that the orange modem thingy wasn't syncing with the exchange), so I told them it didn't matter (they said they had to ask), so I said it was CPM which probably didn't help. Eventually sorted when they figured out 2 months down the line that they hadn't activated the line (despite telling me dates that it was activated). This was at the start of their free broadband offer, so I suspect that it was largely down to over subscription, which seems to affect a lot of launches :)

At least you're up and running.

Re: A tech evangelist’s perspective on the o2/CPW saga

kbateman — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:29:36 -0000

For those companies that can't or won't setup their own forums to solve these sort of problems, there is always http://getsatisfaction.com/ which would be a simple way to get things working better for customers online.