Some Random Moblog

On an average day, I use the Internet on at least 5 different web browsers; Chrome on my work PC (for general browsing), Firefox on my work PC (for personal/design-related tasks), Internet Explorer on my work PC (for work applications which, for one reason or another, don’t work in anything else), Safari on my iPhone, [...]

I’ve never been much of a fan of hands-free devices for mobile phones. Bluetooth ones just look stupid, and wired ones are an annoying tangle. While I do like the iPhone headphones for music (to pause or skip tracks), I’d usually rather unplug them if I’m going to take a phone call.
Maybe my behaviour is [...]

I came across this Techcrunch article via Twitter this morning, which got me thinking about where iPhone applications and accessories could (or maybe should) be heading.
The article is about the Flip video cameras- compact pocket-sized camcorders.
And the iPhone has something that the Flip will never realistically have, cellular and wifi connectivity that lets you upload [...]

I just want to say how happy I am to be able to easily post this link— which also explains why…

I’m getting increasingly irritated with these messages. (Note the signal level in the pictures at the end of this post.)
I live and work in central London, where you would expect a good mobile signal. Yet there are holes in the service all over the place.
We’ve got the devices that can make the mobile web [...]

The idea of this blog when I started it about 6 months ago was that it would look at the “always on” mobile internet; the permanent connection that the latest generation of mobile phones is giving us to the internet, and how that affects what we can do, and how we interact with it. The [...]

It’s been nine months since I set up this blog as an experiment into what it would be like to write a blog purely from a mobile device- this is a brief summary of what I’ve learnt from the experience.
Firstly, it’s not the best way to blog. From a technical point of view, not being [...]

There is one thing that makes the iPhone an incredibly powerful device, which at the same time makes it incredibly annoying.
Cloud computing.
When you’re permanently connected to the Internet, a whole lot of opportunities open up. Most obviously, you can get the latest information- news, sports, emails, Facebook and so on. At the touch of [...]

“Netbooks” are a new category of laptops that mark a fragmentation of the laptop market. The reason that netbooks mark a change from laptops is a change in the direction of what a laptop is supposed to do; the focus is now truly on portability. Not just a PC that you can conveniently carry through [...]

Mobile networks have always had a tight control over what you can do with your phone- obviously, you get a subsidized handset when you sign up, and they need to recoup the cost with line rental and call charges.
In the early days of mobiles, the main differentiator between networks was coverage; One-2-One in particular were [...]