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Bunch of gear to review this weekend

palmsolo — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:57:43 +0000

Bunch of gear to review this weekend,
originally uploaded by palmsolo.

I received a Nokia E72, Nokia 5800 Navigation, Blueant Q1, Sprint Overdrive,
and Noreve N900 case to review this weekend. Then on Saturday morning
another NDA device was sent for Monday revelation. It is so good to be a
geek

David Allen signed nook

palmsolo — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:56:10 +0000

David Allen signed nook,
originally uploaded by palmsolo.

I had my B&N nook signed by David at the Tertulia dinner and have his books
loaded on the device too.

Mobile phones landing daily and I can’t catch my breath

palmsolo — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:31:31 +0000

Wow, if you have been reading my ZDNet blog you will have seen that I have been inundated with mobile phones to evaluate over the last month. The phones I have received to evaluate have included the HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger, Palm Treo 800w, Nokia E71, the Nokia N78, Nokia N82, Sprint BlackBerry Curve, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Advantage X7510, and Samsung Blackjack II with Windows Mobile 6.1 . I am still expecting the MWg Zinc II soon and there is a possibility an iPhone 3G may be in my near future.

The iPAQ 910 is going back tomorrow and then the other will be sent back soon too. It is almost a relief to box things back up and send them back since it reduces the phone clutter around my house and actually gives me a bit of a sense of freedom since so many can get overwhelming when trying to figure out what to pick up and take along.

A couple of hot mobile devices in my hand

palmsolo — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:29:16 +0000

I just posted a first impressions article on the REDFLY Windows Mobile Smartphone Companion that you may enjoy reading. It is a very nice piece of hardware, but if it is priced at US$500 then it seems to lose much of its appeal. There is no OS on the device like the Palm Foleo had and it just extends your Windows Mobile device to a larger display and keyboard. I like the idea and would snap one up for US$200, but not at US$500.

I do have a photo of PocketBible with Maps running on the 8 inch display of the REDFLY so maybe this could be a good Bible study device to work with the powerful Bible applications available on Windows Mobile.

I also have another device that I have to keep secret for now, but check out my ZDNet site early next week for a HUGE review.

N95 and N800 are in the house and rocking!

palmsolo — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:55:16 +0000

I just received a Nokia N95 to evaluate through the Nseries Blogger Relations program and have to say that so far it is FANTASTIC! Check out my initial thoughts and unboxing photos and stay tuned for more experiences as I dive into using it. It was wonderful to listen to Yahoo! Music through my Ultimate Ears earphones, surf the web, and check GPS status on the bus this morning. If you just saw the N95 sitting there you would think it was a digital camera with the large display and Carl Zeiss camera lens, but it is so much more.

I also received a N800 last Friday and love using it as a couch surfing device. My Samsung Q1 UMPC is now available again for sale and I’ll be posting an ad here and elsewhere soon so if you are interested in it feel free to email me at palmsoloATgmailDOTcom.

I am loving the N93 again, after a hiccup this last weekend

palmsolo — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:10:59 +0000

I can take awesome videos with the N93 and have used it quite a bit to take sports videos and other videos of my daughters to share with family and friends. Given that fact, I popped in my SIM and took along the N93 to my daughters end-of-the year soccer party held at Bullwinkle’s Family Fun Center in Tukwila. I then flipped open the fully charged N93 and the camera application wouldn’t launch. I shut it down and tried again and it came up. I then tried to take video and it locked up again. I did another restart that actually required me to take out the battery. This time I tried to check email and the device just kept freezing. I tried a few more times after waiting a bit and the device just wouldn’t perform. This was a mystery to me as this N93 has been rock solid up until now and I even used it for 95% of all the CES photos I took for Geek.com.

After the event, I had a bit more time to think about what was going on and thought that maybe the miniSD card was causing problems since I took it out to take off the photos and something may have been corrupted. I also saw that a version 2.x firmware was available for the N93 so in a bold move I completely reformatted my storage card and upgraded the firmware of the N93. Now, everything is working well again and my camera/device issues may have just been related to a corrupt storage card. You know there is a utility on the N93 that allows you to reformat the storage card right from the device so that is something to think about if you are having issues.

I also discovered that the latest version of Mail for Exchange from the Nokia Business site does not work on the N93, but the previous version (1.3 I think) does work very well and luckily I still had a copy of that on my hard drive and will have to burn it to a CD since I don’t see a way to download older versions from the Nokia business site. The N93 is a beautiful, high quality device and I plan to load up some Office suites and try using it with the TV out functionality as a mobile PC device coupled with my Think Outside keyboard. There have been lots of cool free apps released recently that I have been talking about on MobileTechRoundup that I will be trying on the N93 too.

Review and 40 photos of Nokia N73 and N93

palmsolo — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:15:21 +0000

I have been checking out these two Nseries devices for about a month and have been capturing a ton of video with the N93 lately. I have taken lots of my girls playing basketball, Granny making lufsa, and more. Check out my review on ZDNet and don’t forget to check out the 40 photo image gallery.