This video, which I made for my brethren over at DownloadSquad, show s how to implement Maemo Mapper with Google Maps for GPS tracking and mapping. View the video at YouTube.
New N800 GPS video how-to online!
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Just noticed something cool about the Nokia N95
It has stereo speakers. Don’t know how I didn’t notice this for so long. But even my Spirit of Radio ring tone (courtesy of iTunes’s “Convert to MP3″ feature) plays through in stereo. Neat!
Inside the Nokia N800: Hands-on Video
I did a video for DownloadSquad which seeks to answer the question, “is the N800 really an iPhone killer?” Check it out here!
8 GB Nokia N95 coming tomorrow
or so says engadget – check it.
Interesting N95 pics
I recently took some new photos with the Nokia N95. I never used to “get” the idea of a cameraphone. But having a decent camera on my hip at all times has really been beneficial. You never know when you’re going to want to snap a pic. Actually I went to the Bridgestone Invitational last Saturday to watch Tiger Woods dominate the leaderboard. Sadly, they didn’t permit cell phones or cameras. *sigh* Other comments are interspersed.
Fireworks are always hard to photograph–but I’m pretty happy with the way this shot came out. It was taken at a Tribe game against the Tigers. Tribe won, w00t.
This picture is of my daughter Maddie. It was taken on one of the rare sunny days we’ve had in Cleveland lately. The N95′s camera excels in bright-light situations.
An interesting sign. No comment.
A very well-nourished arachnid which was hanging around the web he built next to my barbecue grille. It was hard to get him focus in the low-light, perhaps because I was so close and he was such a relatively small subject. But man was he a mean-looking one. Isn’t he a good artist?
Handy: Guitar tuner for your mobile phone
What better place to tune your instrument that on your mobile phone. It has a microphone and sound-processing capability, and since most mobiles are highly programmable, why not use the one thing you take everywhere on the gig nights when you forget to bring your Korg pocket chromatic? Here are some mobile phone guitar tuners you can download:
Yes ubiquitous WiFi changes the rules of the telco game
Saw this post from a guy who has discovered the SIP potential of his E61:
I�ve now got the phone set up as, appropriately enough, �extension 61� on the local Asterisk PBX. This means, in practice, that it is now simply another handset here at the office. Except that �the office� stretches anywhere there is wifi. In other words, Johnny can pick up the phone in his office, dial �61� and my mobile will ring. Whether I am in the office next door or drinking absinthe with Olle in Copenhagen.
While this is technically elegant, it would also seem to signal a rather cataclysmic shift in the mobile marketplace: wifi is everywhere; once wifi-enabled phones are everywhere, is there any reason to have a SIM and be tied to expensive rates, dreadful service and poor features?
I’ll take that a step further. How’s about carrying your WiFi credentials with you on the SIM card, too–so you don’t have to muck with WiFi setup everytime you go to a new coffee shop or place of business.
Here comes the iPhone (Ajax + NO SDK)
With the availability of Apple’s much-anticipated iPhone at T-minus 18 days, there seems to be a hum in the blogosphere that’s unmistakable–like the weeks leading up to the release of the Wii, or the WoW Expansion, or Avaya Communication Manager 4.0 (ok not so much). For sure, the buzz on the iPhone is everywhere.
If you’ve been watching the NBA Finals, you’ve seen two things: the Cavs being humbled by a team that’s twice the team the Pistons are, and, yup, iPhone commercials. The commercials are in keeping with the original Stevenote introducing the device back at Macworld in January–demonstrations of web browsing, the mapping/nav application, and of course, the media library stuff. All very cool. What we’ve seen about the iPhone up until now has been quite exciting.
What’s most exciting is the stuff we haven’t seen. In the span of a few months, the rumor mill has gone nonstop in three shifts, giving rise to some credible and intriguing rumors. Let’s start with Russell Shaw, who thinks the iPhone will be used for direct wireless access to commercial movie content. While this would be cool, I would much rather see the iPhone sport a form-fitting front-end for my favorite digital media site, YouTube. Not so far fetched, at least according to Jobs.
Then came the mysterious “missing disclaimer”. Originally, the iPhone ads contained a disclaimer line stating that a two-year contract was required. Later, the disclaimer disappeared. Some thought this meant that the iPhone might be available loose, ie. Apple wasn’t going to push the 2-year commitment as heavily as it seemed at first. I for one think the discount-in-exchange-for-contract revenue protection technique is a major pain and Apple should just sell this thing loose for $700 or whatever. Hey, Nokia does it. And people buy em.
It’s interesting to note that, despite the continued non-existence of the iPhone as a commercially-avaiable product, you can already purchase a silicone skin for it for $2 on eBay. My how those eBay entrepreneurs think fast!
Of course, the rumor rubber meets the road only when the facts come from on high at an actual Stevenote. And during today’s WWDC–NO NEW DETAIL ON THE IPHONE except for one tidbit right at the end, during which Steve let the whole room down by announcing there will be no Software Developer Kit for the iPhone, but that web-based Ajax applications will be consider kosher as suitable iPhone add-ons. And the web apps will ostensibly run offline, meaning you don’t need to be on the grid in order to get an Ajax interface into the web browser. Let’s hope this doesn’t end up being too much trouble, as web-based apps on mobile devices often are (even the N800 is painful to use the web on sometimes). But the demo given by the iPhone development people looked very promising.
Still no VoIP or videoconferencing on the iPhone, it would seem.