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I Need a New Phone
My third Nokia N900 lost the ability to recognize a SIM card recently. And the usual home repair tactics (bending the SIM, adding padding between the SIM slot and battery) had no effect. I tried a...
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Is S40 Nokia’s Future?
source: http://www.cellfanatic.com/ Nokia’s S40 operating system has long been relegated to non-multitasking offerings in its stable of devices. Simple to implement and use, it’s the ammunition for...
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Works for Me
Want to stop productive bug reporting in its tracks? Want to get the trolling rolling? Toss a flaming “Works for me!” into the mix and stand back. I’ve often described the title of this piece as the...
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Confessions of an APPathetic User
I’m going to confess something that’s likely to cost me Twitter followers, kill future career prospects and launch a mild Comment war: I’m not much of an app user. And I can’t understand those who...
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The Nokia Phoenix
I wrote in May of last year asking, only partially rhetorically, if this would be a make-or-break year for consumer electronics giant Nokia. And like many other pundits, I’ve offered my previous...
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Achievement Badges: Not Just for Gamers
A friend of mine in the MeeGo community brought my attention to an interesting concept he calls MeeGoVerse, which translates common gaming elements to real-life work as a sort of “massive multiplayer”...
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Self-Manufacturing: How Close Are We?
When I was a kid, the most exciting Christmas gift my parents got me was a green Honda QA50 mini-bike. Until I was upgraded to a cooler Honda Z50 a few years later, I rode the hell out of that little...
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Nokia’s Design for the Future: Focus on What Works
There’s been a crazy fog of speculation surrounding my previous employer for the past few years, and I’ll admit I’m guilty of contributing. Many of Nokia’s moves during that time have been unusual,...
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Maemo, MeeGo, Mango and Me
Ever since the February 11 2011 Nokia event cheekily tagged as #NoWin and known colloquially as The Elopocalypse, I’ve struggled to cover Nokia’s present and abandoned strategies here with equal care....
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Gary Birkett: A Community Heart
Some of us like to think that systems and data and processes are the bones, brains and blood of any venture. And for the most part that’s true. But what body can thrive without a heart? This isn’t...
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Getting Down at AppUp Elements 2011
In June of this year I was pleasantly surprised when Intel’s Dawn Foster asked me to join a community panel for AppUp Elements 2011. I’ve been admittedly making only rare appearances in the AppUp...
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Me Tizen, You Join?
Mobile Linux characters have been acting out lately like they were in a bad adventure movie. Maemo lopes slowly and reluctantly toward its fatal date with the sunset. MeeGo blinks in the same sun and...
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Thoughts from Nokia World 2011
A few weeks ago, Nokia Connects held a media contest to award tickets, travel and accomodation for some lucky blogger to express why he or she was excited about Nokia World 2011. I already had all...
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My Derailed Journey Back to Nokia
This is a highly personal post so for those whose eyes roll or minds reel at the thought, click past this one and I promise more juicy tech stuff next. As regular readers know, I lost a great job with...
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Nokia’s N9: An Unexpected Owner’s Review
source: conversations.nokia.com I didn’t expect to be able to say anything first-hand about the Nokia N9. I really thought my semi-facetious post a while back would be pretty much it unless I came up...
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A Qt QML Beginner’s Project: MotoRing, part 1 – GPS
I unloaded some Qt newbie frustration the other day detailing my first serious efforts to code for the Nokia N9. Now I’d like to step back a bit and outline the actual project, and in subsequent...
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A Qt QML Beginner’s Project: MotoRing, part 2 – Rewind and Reveal
Finally, here’s the much-demanded second part to this QML beginner-focused series. Okay, one guy asked, but he sounded really interested. I said at the end of the first article that I would progress...
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More Post-MeeGo Musing: Community Echoes
Ever since Intel’s MeeGo-cedes-to-Tizen announcement, I’ve been in a slightly unfocused state. It’s familiar territory– when Maemo was set aside by Nokia for MeeGo, there was the same quandary: what...
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Microsoft + Nokia Babies: Hate at a Distance, Love Up Close
original source: http://www.pop.com.br/ Apologies to QML fans but I’m going to to extend the interruption of that series by at least one more article. Blame a cynical friend’s recent conversion to...
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New Year, New Direction
I want to thank WordPress for the very cool blog stats job they did for the 2011 summary. Saved me a lot of work! Which is especially good since I’ve been working hard on something new (I know, I...
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