The Samsung Moment…

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…is everything the iPhone should have been!

“In case you haven’t noticed, the Google Android dam has broken. For almost a year, HTC was the only manufacturer to offer handsets with the operating system, but in the past month, Motorola and Samsung almost fell over each other to offer Android smartphones of their own. Moto gave us the satisfying Cliq and Samsung countered with the Moment. Though we’re not sure which “Moment” Samsung is referring to (the company’s product names baffle us regularly), it’s clear that Sammy is taking its Android endeavor seriously. The Moment offers everything you’d expect from an Android phone while adding Sprint-specific media services. Other features are plentiful, and the sturdy design and comfortable physical keyboard offer a nice contrast to Sprint’s other Android phone, the HTC Hero. The Android OS still has its quirks, camera-editing options are nonexistent, and we had a few performance complaints, but at $179 with service, the Moment, aka the M900, is cheaper than T-Mobile’s Android options. ” Source: Samsung Moment (Sprint) Smartphone reviews – CNET Reviews

3 reasons why:

Reliable network
Sliding keyboard
Open, multitasking operating system

Android CES 2010 (robbiz1978.blogspot.com)
Carrier of Choice (robbiz1978.blogspot.com)

February 15, 2010 0

Au revoir iPhone!

Yesterday I said goodbye to the iPhone and along with it, Apple as well. While I was working on the AGCO social media project, my good friend and partner on the project David Sauter of Envano had been kind enough to let me use an iPhone [I think he was secretly trying to bring me back into the Apple fold] until he hired a new account manager and yesterday my love/hate relationship with the iPhone — and Apple — came to an end when I returned the phone to Envano. It takes a lot of Apple to lose the love of a fanboi like me, but at the end of the day, to paraphrase the great Ronald Reagan “I didn’t leave Apple, Apple left me…

It wasn’t so much dissatisfaction with the iPhone that brought me to this point — it actually had much more to do with the iPad announcement. As Alex Payne lamented…

“”The iPad leaves me with the feeling that Apple’s interests and values going forward are deeply divergent from my own. The future of personal computing that the iPad shows us is both seductive and dystopian. It’s not a future I want to bring into my home.”” Source: Alex Payne on the iPad | Smarterware

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February 12, 2010 1

No surprise here!

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Apple is dominating the smartphone market and Google is giving them a run for the money with the Android OS…

“comScore has released a report on the state of the US mobile market from September to December 2009, and it shows that the recently established trends of Android and iPhone growth don’t show signs of ceasing.

In December 2009 RIM was still the leading mobile smartphone operating system in the U.S., with 41.6% market share, a slight drop from 42.6% from September 2009. Apple has risen from 24.1% to 25.3% in that same period, and Google (Google), although still in the fifth place, has doubled its market share – from 2.5% to 5.2%.” Source: Apple Grabs 25% of the Smartphone Market, Android Doubles Market Share

The big losers? Blackberry [RIM], Microsoft and Palm…

Smartphones are an important technology tool for thinkers and thought leaders; picking one that works with your online world is important! More than just a flashy accessory, smartphones can be a key component of an overall communication strategy. Comment, call or contact me to talk about what this means to you and your business…

February 10, 2010 0

7 tools for the mobile journalist

The e1evation/Envano team has done a great deal of work over the past six months on building the ‘near perfect’ toolkit for the mobile journalist. It comes from our award-winning work covering trade shows for AGCO. Here’s an interesting post on tools for the mobile journalist. Read the author’s take and then you can have my list of tools…

“The multi-function playground that is the smartphone has shrunk the capabilities of a van-sized 1970’s news team into the pocket of a single reporter. Today, front-page news can stream from any individual with a cell phone camera and a Twitter account, as it did during Iran’s election protests last summer. Today, major news outlets, such as CNN, have crowdsourced parts of their newsroom to locally-savvy citizen journalists, often armed with little more than a camcorder.

In addition to the standard smartphone equipment, such as a camera and social networking applications, we’ve compiled a list of five additional tools that can help a single journalist rival a fully-functional news team. With these tools, a mobile journalist can record data, edit clips, and broadcast polished stories as events unfold.” Source: 5 Essential Tools for the Mobile Journalist

Personally? I must be cranky today because I think this list is lame! My list?

Apple iPhone [too bad the ATT network sucks so bad! We need a Sprint MyFi as backup…]
Kodax Zi8 HD Video camera
Posterous
uStream
Picasa
A notebook computer
And a Humvee Combat Vest to put all the equipment in!

Our key to mobile journalism is to assign the right duties to the right assets, be they people or products. Comment, call or contact me to discuss how this applies to your business…

February 2, 2010 0

Moms and smartphones…

They’re not just for CEO’s anymore…

“Smartphones may have started as productivity tools for top executives, but they’re quickly finding their way into the hands and purses of “power moms,” a.k.a. the CEO of the household.

As smartphones become easier to use and in many ways more useful, more women, including busy moms, are buying them to leverage all kinds of digital applications to stay organized and to connect with their families, friends, and social networks, such as Facebook or Twitter. They’re also using these Internet-enabled devices to get things done like paying the bills, ordering groceries, downloading coupons, and hunting for ideas for the next family vacation.

And like their corporate counterparts, these women are hooked.” Source: Modern power moms flock to smartphones | Wireless – CNET News

Go to the source to read the rest of the article…

Poll Result: Most Popular Social Networking Tools for Online … (jonggunlee.tistory.com)
ImgTweet.com – Image Hosting For Social Networks | Visit imgtweet.com (jonggunlee.tistory.com)
Myspace significantly reduces staffs to compete with fast growing Facebook. (scotttesta.com)
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Finding friends on Facebook (yodiwan.wordpress.com)

December 23, 2009 0

There Is No Such Thing as Intuitive Technology

“When the Apple Macintosh first debuted, it was thought of as the first computer that did not have or ever need a manual. In fact, it did need a manual, and an ever-growing one at that. The computer that doesn’t need a manual of some sort has not yet been invented. In the case of the Macintosh, the arrogance of the ‘no manual concept’ actually spawned a complete line of third-party books called the ‘Missing Manual for…’

Nobody has been able to solve the problem of increasing complexity in technology. And this is not something new to computers and software, although software, in particular, represents the worst-case scenario for this phenomenon.” Click here to read the full article online…

October 28, 2009 0

Be an iPhone for Halloween!

How geeky do you have to be to build and be a working iPhone for Halloween?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjBqFMwM08

Read all about them here…

October 26, 2009 0

Going mobile!

Here’s a little tuneage from the Who while you contemplate this; if you’re an iPhone, BlackBerry or Android user, you can now view e1evation.com in a special mobile format. Check it out!

October 23, 2009 0

I love ‘Remember the Milk’!

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The hosted task management system with the funny name is one of my favorite tools. Just this morning as I was hacking through my todo list, I tweeted that I was reminded what a great tool it is. Then, as fate would have it, I saw this post commemorating their 4th bday…

“Four years ago yesterday, we breathed a sigh of relief: after more than a year of development, our super-secret project was finally ready to launch! Little did we know that the adventure of Remember The Milk was only just beginning…

Five days after our launch, there was already a crazy 50,000 tasks being managed with RTM. Perhaps that should’ve given us some indication of what we were in for, but it wasn’t until 2007 that we figured out that, well, we might need a little help. (It turns out that two people and a stuffed monkey working full-time on a free app with some serious hosting bills does not a sustainable service make.)” Source: Remember The Milk – Blog

Remember the Milk, or RTM, is everything a task management system should be and it synchronizes with my BlackBerry and iPhone and integrates seamlessly with my Gmail account through their Firefox plugin. Of course I’m a pro subscriber! Question is, why aren’t you?