Mobile phones

Friday 19.12.2008

Using your phone as a modem via bluetooth

8:35 pm

Anyone ever have issues with not finding a decent WiFi connection? Anyone else can’t be bothered to shell out for those mobile broadband USB dongle adapters plus the associated 15 odd quid contract just to be able to go online on the go without wifi away from home or work? Me neither!
I thought about connecting [...]

Saturday 22.11.2008

5 minutes with the Blackberry Storm

8:47 pm

If you’ve not been living under a rock lately, you should have noticed all those Blackberry Storm adverts that Vodafone is pushing lately, with over £1 million spent on promotion!
Anyway, I had a chance to have a quick play with the device at some random Vodafone store which was lucky enough to have one to [...]

T-mobile G1 googlephone

7:54 pm

Quick summary of what I’ve read from various posts from the blogosphere:

Great software - web browsing and touch interface is brilliant; open sandbox design of the OS means plenty of possible applications to do whatever you want
Google app/mail/contact syncing is excellent (providing you have an account), though some feel being tied to a Google account [...]

Tuesday 16.09.2008

CPW: Do not pass go

4:50 am

Carphone Warehouse Lifeline Insurance? Total rubbish.

Monday 16.04.2007

Next mobile phone: which one?

11:04 pm

I’ve been pondering for some time now on which phone to get. It’s been a month since I’ve gone through 12 months of my Orange contract, and now, I’m looking for something that I would definitely be happy with for the next 12 months. Requirements? it has to be better than my current phone, the [...]