Nokia E6
Nokia certainly know how to make nice QWERTY candybar phones. I'm hoping that the new E6 is the spiritual successor to the classic E71.
LG Optimus 2X - problems ...
I really like the LG Optimus 2X but it has a big problem. When I plug in in to charge overnight it somehow locks and stops working. So the alarm does not go off and I have to remove the battery and re-insert it as the power button does not do anything.
Spoke to LG support and they said it was a fault and I needed to send it back to the retailer. Turns out I'm not the only one seeing this issue apparently as this thread at XDA shows...
Raised it as a Customer Voice issue inside LG so they can get a fix done asap.
Spoke to LG support and they said it was a fault and I needed to send it back to the retailer. Turns out I'm not the only one seeing this issue apparently as this thread at XDA shows...
Raised it as a Customer Voice issue inside LG so they can get a fix done asap.
CloudSponge
This is a cool webservice called CloudSponge, that lets you get all your customers contacts automatically from their various contact lists. Supports Live, Outlook, Yahoo, GMail, Plaxo and AOL. No LinkedIN support though.
LG Optimus 2x
Got my LG Optimus 2X today. First impression is that its really big, but its actually not much taller than my Desire or Trophy 7 and no wider, and a bit thinner. I really liked the separate photo shutter button on the Trophy 7 and think that should be standard on all smartphones as finding a soft button to click onscreen in bright sunlight is a non starter.
No SD card included, but there is an internal 8GB SD card and I inserted my own 8GB card. Takes nice photo's but the shutter lag is terrible. The 1080P video recording is quite good quality and a HDMI cable is supplied in the box. The screen comes with a pre-fitted protector but is apparently made of gorilla glass anyway, so should be scratch proof.
Nice and bright display but absolutely chocked full of LG crapware which doesn't feel or look as good as HTC equivalents (like Sense calendar widget). The dual core makes it feel fast but in reality the extra speed does not seem to buy me anything particularly other than to feel a bit faster, have to see what affect that has on the battery!
No SD card included, but there is an internal 8GB SD card and I inserted my own 8GB card. Takes nice photo's but the shutter lag is terrible. The 1080P video recording is quite good quality and a HDMI cable is supplied in the box. The screen comes with a pre-fitted protector but is apparently made of gorilla glass anyway, so should be scratch proof.
Nice and bright display but absolutely chocked full of LG crapware which doesn't feel or look as good as HTC equivalents (like Sense calendar widget). The dual core makes it feel fast but in reality the extra speed does not seem to buy me anything particularly other than to feel a bit faster, have to see what affect that has on the battery!
Thanks Swiftcover!
Whilst I was in Waterloo today looking for my train I took part in the Swiftcover challenge and won a DAB radio. Double freaky since at first glance I thought the swiftcover girl was my wife, moonlighting as a PR...doppelganger!
Sun Set
Its sad to see the SUN domain disappear, subsumed by Oracle. sun.com will be offically decommissioned on June 1st after 25 years, seems like some kind of end of an era, (like Compaq, Digital, and Sequent).
CertiVox raises $1.46M to make the cloud more secure
Congratulations to Brian on the $1.46M Series A funding for CertiVox, anything good always takes twice as long and costs twice as much to happen but he made it happen!
NoDO (where's my update)
Microsoft is making a huge hash of the Windows 7 Phone experience. I want to like it but its so light on functionality and the update situation is ridiculous for corporate users. I'm still waiting on NoDO update and because my HTC 7 Trophy is running on T-Mobile I'm not even sure I'll get it as they are not a listed operator here . Why is the update not just available on demand to SIM Free users? Waiting on my new Android device.
