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The Carnival of the Mobilists, #95
And what a week to be hosting the Carnival. I'm publishing this just minutes before trekking off for the annual Symbian-sponsored Smartphone Show - (and yes the name's spookily similar, but I can't help that!) - in London, with all kinds of uber blogger meetups and side parties. A carnival of mobiles, communicators, systems and services if ever there was one. Although the dancing girls and bongos are a bit thin on the ground.... the best I usually see is 'The Orange Man'...
I've got a really great crop of articles for you. Pour yourself a coffee or beer, sit back and enjoy.
In my top post of the week, Carnival regular Michael Mace weighs in on the whole Apple iPhone locking/unlocking/3rd-party fiasco, pointing out (among other things) that the reason Apple doesn't want a 3rd party application scene is probably because all iPhone apps run with full system access and there are some serious security problems that need addressing in the iPhone's OS.
Dennis, over at WAP Review, has identified five different tiers of web capability in mobile devices. How should these be addressed by those of us wanting to publish on the Internet?
Mobilist celeb Ajit Jaokar, always more thought provoking than you think he's going to be, has penned a fairly comprehensive essay on the importance of net neutrality, i.e. why priority should never be given to specific sites or sources.
Plenty of events at this time of year, it seems. Improbulus presents a 'girl-geek' look at MobileCampLondon 2007 and BarCamp. Meanwhile Mark van 't Hooft presents two detailed and very focussed looks at Handheld Learning 2007, the Pre-Conference Sessions (here's part 2!). And Russell Buckley's been at Mobile Marketing Association’s Mobile Marketing Forum, bemoaning the way that traditional ad agencies still don't 'get' mobile.
A few hardware-related essays now. Carnival supremo (suprema?) Judy Breck is curious about the two different ways schools are reacting to the presence of phones, iPods and other digital equipment in the hands of children, Kevin Bedell raises a good point, talking about the recycling of old cellphones and providing links to relevant initiatives and in a great post, a road warrior after my own heart, Sagar Satapathy, presents 15 Gadgets to Turn Your Car into a Mobile Workstation.
File this one under worrying-trends, Jason Devitt is getting rightly concerned that a major network operator is about to share details of all your telephony habits with just about anyone they fancy getting into bed with.
And file this one under 'I don't agree at all, but...': Andreas Constantinou presents three, no four reasons why he thinks Google are readying an actual phone and an actual phone OS.
Meanwhile, Edoardo Schepis has been recounting his slightly harrowing experience trying to get a Java application 'verified', ringing bells with me and any other Java or Symbian OS developer...
Back on a traditional CotM theme, Troy Norcross presents what he rightly calls 'a hot topic', with his report that Bluetooth Marketing: ICO removes guidance for Opt-In permission - should companies be able to spam your mobile legally with Bluetooth invitations? And, staying with Bluetooth, Ewan Spence has been acting out the Emperor's new clothes story in his decrying of A2DP stereo music, the Bluetooth wunder-kind, it seems that we still need faster processors in our phones to pull off the whole wireless trick flawlessly.
Finally, I couldn't sign off without picking one of my own (ahem) articles, looking at the fun and freshness that comes with finding and installing quality themes for your S60 or UIQ smartphone. And no, I purposely resisted picking any of the iPhone clone themes... no point in adding fuel to the fire!
Thanks to the others that submitted entries this week, sorry you didn't make the cut and I've left your posts untagged so that they can be picked up by the next Carnival host, m-trends.org, if the editor sees fit! See you there!
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Archives
Show 44 - video news from HTC's big launch day in London this week, with hands-on time with the Shift, the Touch Dual and the S730; "Can a smartphone replace a laptop?"
Show 43 - news from the smartphone world, including video from Nokia's E51 launch and Apple's iPhone UK launch, a look ahead to the London Smartphone Show and a hands-on review of the UBiQUiO 503G
Show 42 - news from the smartphone world, including video from Nokia's huge Go:Play event in London; tips for getting best performance out of your smartphone's GPS; my pick of the Top 5 most desirable smartphones in the world
Show 41 - a bit of a GPS theme - a roundup of five completely free GPS navigation solutions for your smartphone and a hands-on review of the new Nokia 6110 Navigator.
Show 40 - I define my Smartphone 'Standard' for 2007 and highlight the Nokia N95, plus a hands-on review of the Windows Mobile flagship, the Toshiba G900 - was it pushed out the door too quickly?
Show 39 - A hands-on review of the Nokia 6120 Classic, a hands-on review of the Sony Ericsson P1i, and a feature on syncing to an online PIM service (MobiCal)
Show 38 - A hands-on review of the Apple iPhone, comparing to the music-focussed Sony Ericsson W950i Walkman and the Nokia E61i Communicator.
Show 37 - News, plus a hands-on review of the Motorola RIZR Z8 'multimedia monster' and a peek into my gadget bag(!)
Show 36 - News, plus a one minute(!) review of the Apple iPhone and a feature on applying iPhone-esque simplicity to a S60 smartphone
Show 35 - News, plus a hands-on review of the Nokia N76 and a feature on improving smartphone battery life
Show 34 - News, plus a walkthrough of the 3-Lib smartphone 'Grid', a test of smartphone browser speeds, review of ViewRanger on the Nokia N95
Show 33 - News, plus hands-on review of the HTC S710 (Vox) and an iPhone rant, focussing on 10 things the otherwise uber-cool iPhone can't do.
Show 32 - News, plus hands-on review of the budget Nokia 6290 smartphone and a rant on locked vs unlocked devices
Show 31 - News and "Battle of the Titans": head to head review of the Nokia E90 and HTC Advantage X7500
Show 30 - Hands-on preview of the Nokia N77 TV smartphone; video from the Future Technologies conference; demo of the Proporta USB Device Charger; rant about the use of touchscreens in smartphones(!)
Show 29 - News round-up from the smartphone world; hands-on review of the i-Mate JAQ4; video editing demo on a smartphone, featuring the Nokia N95
Show 28 - Nokia N95 special - an exclusive hands-on, extended review of the production version of this ultra-converged smartphone