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?”

Kenya’s mobile culture.

I was barely off the plane when I procured a local SIM card; here’s everything else I saw pertaining to mobile phones in Nairobi and beyond.

The one before 250.

I’ve a bit of a surprise in store for my 250th post; unfortunately, this isn’t it.

This is CyanogenMod.

Cyanogen has provided a rare jaw-dropping experience that I haven’t had on a mobile device since I got Debian to run on a Nokia N900.