If it's not open it's broken.
Prior to last week’s #N97minitour the last locked-to-a-carrier handset that I used was a Fido-branded hiptop that I gave up in 2007. I’m a big fan of unlocked phones and wrote a fairly popular treatise on the subject for a previous blog.
In the interest of due diligence I thought I might have a look and show you what I’ve been missing before this Rogers-branded Nokia is sent back. Prepare to be underwhelmed…
I first heard about Foursquare last summer, when one of my fellow N97 24/7 bloggers informed me that he had just become the mayor of the hotel we had just checked into.
Huh?
I was instantly jealous when I first saw a demo of the Layar augmented reality browser for Android smartphones. Now, a year later, AR has finally made its way to the Symbian OS.
The app that makes it happen is called Wikitude. Let’s have a look…
After seeing firsthand the perils of using an open WiFi network last week I resolved to post about tethering a Nokia smartphone to an Ubuntu-powered laptop or netbook via USB, as a public service to those who didn’t know that they could. Count me among them — or at least among those who didn’t realize how ridiculously easy it is…
And I’m back! Still recovering from the whirlwind of the past week but I owe you a post from my home town, so let’s get to it..
Open attitude is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
.
Recent Comments