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Mobile Internet sucks (= conclusion of 3 wks without ADSL)

I've been without broadband Internet at home for about three weeks - I was "between providers", so to speak.

Must say that, while I was still able to consume some of my daily Internet fix - browsing RSS feeds on my mobile phone -, it was at the same time a sobering experience of how embarrassingly ill adapted the applications on my Nokia N95 are to mobile Web 2.0 participation.

I'll probably remember this period best as the time when Doc Searls went in and out of hospital and blogged  it all. Good health and happiness to you, Doc!

Data speed is not the bottle neck. It's the lack of mobile client-side participatory software.

With my Nseries device and 3G coverage I could browse and email, but that was about it. No tagging, no digging, no blogging with any level of convenience.

So what I ended up doing was to bookmark the URLs I would have liked to tag, digg or blog and thus collect them in my mobile phone's browser for future reference.

I hope to catch up blogging some of those bookmarks over the coming days.

Dugg: Poets of the Fall - unplugged at the Nokia HQ canteen | josschuurmans on Ovi

"Poets of the Fall" were playing live over lunch today in one of the canteens at Nokia House, the company's headquarters in Espoo, Finland. Recorded with a Nokia N95 and shared on Ovi.com.

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Dugg: Reuters' "mojo" experiments with Nokia | Jemima Kiss

"(...) Reuters' journalists are experimenting with the potential of mobile journalism through a project with Nokia's research centre. (...)"

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What's the top life recorder for the season?

Christian,

How are things at Fjord? And yourself?

JIT for Xmas, perhaps a good moment to give us an update on your favorite life recorder?

With the Nokia N73, you picked your 2006 cameraphone already in August of that year.

Later in 2006 you seemed charmed by the Nokia N95.

I know, "life recorder" does not equal "cameraphone"... but still. With a two-year-old running around and his brother or sister on the way, I want to use Lifeblog to its fullest potential - that means, among other things: with the best hardware.

Funny really, when we spoke about Nokia Lifeblog beta in 2004, and you confided that first-time parents would be a major target group for the application, I didn't quite buy that.

I thought the memory prosthesis was just as compelling a proposition to any Internet-savvy DINKer like myself.

But now I know better. With kids, you just don't want to compromise on the quality and ease of use of recording their young lives.

So, how about it? Give us your take! :-)

Best wishes from Espoo and Mäntyharju,
Jos

Dugg: New Kyte User Guides | Kyte blog

The Kyte team created new user guides to help people get started using Kyte on the web or with their mobile phones: Kyte Quick Start Guide; Kyte Mobile Guide; Kyte Nokia Web Upload Guide.

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Dugg: Nokia N95 Tips | Kyte blog

Instruction video showing how to increase the Nokia N95's battery life by change the WLAN power consumption settings and by draining the battery a couple of times.

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