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As with my previous blogging attempts, it would seem I’ve been failing to actually post content on here in the last couple of months. It’s hard to imagine that it’s almost 6 months since I kicked off this site’s new existence. In the same vein, I signed up for Twitter to fall in behind other tech-enthusiasts [...]
Well, it’s something of the of an era for me, or at least a hiatus of said era. I’ve had a Symbian phone since I got my Nokia 9210 Communicator around 2001, and I was using the OS before that back in the days of my Psion Series 5. As of yesterday, my main handset stopped being [...]
It’s Upgrade Time for me, and while I find myself quite happy with my Nokia N97, that doesn’t mean I want to pass up the opportunity to get my hands on a shiny piece of new hardware. After all, the sooner I upgrade, the sooner I can do it again next time around – and [...]
I won’t pretend to know how each of these devices perform in reality – development teams count for a lot with a modern mobile device. Factors like the maturity of the operating system, the user interface, the availability of third party software, and so on can make or break any device regardless of how good [...]
GPS has always been a bit of an uncertain technology when it comes to mobile phones. Dedicated units for use in cars have always done a reasonably good job at working out where you are (and a variable job at working out how to get you somewhere), but the ability for a phone to pinpoint [...]
My current phone is a Nokia N97, Nokia’s current flagship N-Series “device that does everything”, and a handset that has received a wide range of reviews and commentaries from wondrous praise through to damning criticism. As with many products with such reviews, every review has some basis in truth. The lack of kinetic scrolling beyond the web [...]
Welcome to Gali, a new blog I’ve decided to put together as somewhere to express some of my thoughts. I suppose it will be considered to be something of a technology blog, but since I find myself primarily in a situation where I only have access to a selection of gadgets. The purpose of Gali [...]