Monthly Archive for October, 2011

My first NFC.

I’m really at a loss as to why NFC-enabled handsets are so few and far between here in the west.

Google thinks different about product launches.

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of showmanship, but it’s also nice to let the products speak for themselves now and again.

BIS goes bust for BlackBerry.

BIS wasn’t a bad idea back in the dark times before 3G service, when WAP sites were the order of the day and photo sharing or video streaming weren’t even possible on a mobile device.

Meet my freedom phone.

The humble handset you see above is the answer to a question posed here some 20 months ago: “Is a high-functioning Google-free Android phone even possible?”