Mobile Handsets

The past few years have been dominated by one handset above all others, the Apple iPhone. And rightly so, I would contend. The device and it's OS have set the bar at a height that other manufacturers are struggling to reach, and have been since its launch. But the point of this blog is not to recap on history.

As we draw to the end of 2009 I am taken with the recent number of new handsets coming out that are vying for the crown held by the iPhone. Each new iteration of handset seems ...

One might be forgiven for thinking that royalty had just knighted Steve Jobs, or that aliens had landed on Table Mountain. The hysteria that has gripped the world vis a vis iPhone OS 3.0 is astonishing.

You only have to visit the regular Apple forums to witness all manner of trailer trash feverish in their assessment of Apple's new iPhone operating system. Some, or many, appear to have actualy forked out the $99 fee to register as an Apple Developer Connection (ADC) member just to ...

Let me start out by saying that I am a complete gadget freak in every sense of the word. Like several on Talk3G I believe that I stand out from the masses inasmuch as I am not normal Ordinary folk simply do not behave like some of us. If it is electronic, does stuff, and I can afford it I will probably do my utmost to buy it. To me these things are my toys - although some do get very serious use indeed. But handsets, how much does a handset need to do to be practical and useful?
...

MMS pictures, and lots of them too. Quite unusual for me, but I had a good reason today, and none of it for personal entertainment either.

We mostly read about these new(ish) technologies being used for social pleasure, and not much by way of for business. And I am not one of those who blogs my way through life sending all and sundry pictures of what I am up to. Its just not something that I do. Mostly I'm so busy doing whatever it is that I don't even think of whipping out the phone/camera ...

Like moths to a flame, the iPhone still pulls 'em in.

It is quite amazing how this little device has such an attraction for people. Most times when I take it out folk get all glazed eyed over the thing. It is most certainly 2007/8's object of desire.

Today has been my eldest son's 21st birthday and we ran an open house for friends and family to come round to visit. Later in the day the younger peers arrived to help drink and eat us out of the home. Fat chance, my Mrs ...