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Seriously. Why does a color screen become a feature? Yes, some people think that all they need is a color screen on their phone to be happy -- but there's nothing behind it.

I have to point people at things like Semacode, which is a really neat use for cameraphones -- it's a method of encoding a URL into a 2D barcode for printing. Shoot the barcode with your cameraphone, and the applet extracts it back into a URL for easy retrieval.

Also, you're right -- SMS is neat, but not neat enough to be a flagship product. We need data. I need to post my photos without paying my phone provider $.40 for each posting -- it's bullshit.

If you want negative comments about your pics, post them to mobog.com. WARNING: Site is not safe for work.

I blog. I am not a professional journalist, though. That being said, I should *STILL* be able to say what I want, and not have to divulge my sources to anyone. Hell, I could be full of shit, or spot-on dandy. I should not fear being sued or violating other people's personal information for what I post in my blog, however.

It's almost scary, I take lots of pictures with my cameraphone, and it would be too bad if I had to worry about what it is that I take pictures of.

Uh, that's siphon vortex.

I photo blog with my Nokia 3650. Unfortunately, the time the image was taken is not stored in the (non existant) exif headers, so sometimes the story is out of order. Check out my mobog posts and my personal posts for examples. Not quite a literary thing, but hey -- a picture tells a thousand words.

Proof? Here you go. Pud was in the Google offices just a few days ago...

• pic 1
• pic 2
• pic 3
• The tender babes

Proof? Here you go. Pud was in the Google offices just a few days ago...

• pic 1
• pic 2
• pic 3
• The tender babes

Proof? Here you go. Pud was in the Google offices just a few days ago...

• pic 1
• pic 2
• pic 3
• The tender babes

Proof? Here you go. Pud was in the Google offices just a few days ago...

• pic 1
• pic 2
• pic 3
• The tender babes

There's even one of those folding keyboards with bluetooth coming out that I'd love to buy next for it.

And if that's not enough, how about all the neat Symbian programs you can buy for it, like turning it into the ultimate universal remote control

And the camera in it feeds my addiction to mobog.com.

Anyhoo, sucker cost me $420. Someone made some coin on it.

I've owned a few PDAs including a Casio E100, E110, and a Dell Axim. Junk basically, and using imap or pop with pocket outlook is ultra painful. Too big and that resulted in me never carrying the thing. To get wireless internet access through the thing was another hassle.

This (nokia 6600 phone) puppy is just the right size for me.

I used to be a palm zealot. Great design, initially. 68k, 1 meg of RAM, and always on. Thousands of programs appeared on the net for free. I used it for a calendar, and to schedule appointments, and to keep track of my time, and where I was. I used the address book rather violently -- and picked-up hundreds of contacts (imported from my old Casio BOSS, and collected through the years). I also downloaded neat programs, and experimented with development. Truly a neat system 1997, and ahead of it's time. (Of course, I drooled over the Apple Newtons!)

Connectivity is really the thing for me, being able to transfer data/programs easily, as well as to other people is something I need to do. I admit it, I'm a geek, and rely on this stuff. The Palm's serial port, while great, required a special cradle, and even with two, it's still a pain. Don't get me wrong, AvantGo, and the whole syncing thing is great, especially if you spend time on trains, busses, airports, or meetings. Infra-red is a really great technology, and I'd like to see it's use more widely expanded, to include tv-remotes as well as whatever other standards are out there for transcieving via infra-red (ie IrDA, etc).

Bluetooth really takes the cake on connectivity, except for it's bloated stack, and silly implimentation. Wi-Fi or soft-modem technology would be a great alternative. Using bluetooth, I can synchronize my Nokia 3650 without even taking it out of my pocket - nuts a-frying be damned. This is something far more attractive than even more icky cables, and easier than pulling-out the device and pointing it at something.

Having a Nokia 3650, I take pictures all the time, so it's nice to bluetooth them at my workstation, or drag them from my phone onto my desktop. I can do this while my phone is charging in the other room!

All of the features I used to use my Palm for, work on my phone. Plus, I can take pictures, and make calls. This makes me not wonder why Sony stops making PDAs. Why do we need an additional device? Now, having more computing power, that's one benefit, but for special applications, and extended uses, a full-on PDA might make more sense.

The Dell Axim was my latest PDA attempt and I got a bluetooth card for it and connected to the net via my Sony t610. Pocket Outlook still just sucks for use with a regular ole imap server (I'm sure it's great with Exchange of course). It'd do braindead things like want to download all headers even though I'm just interested in last few of them. Syncing was a pain too, since it requires outlook on the desktop and active sync to sync contacts, calendar entries, etc.

I settled on the 6600 and a Mac powerbook using isync and bluetooth and couldn't be happier. For one thing, the 6600's mail app is quick and efficient for what it does, browsing latest messages. I have mine set to just download the headers of the last 30 messages (quick), then only the body if I set it. Since GPRS is built into the phone, it doesn't require anything else. And it's small. The syncing of contacts and calendar is a breeze over bluetooth and isync.

Opera web browser (paid for it extra, since it doesn't come with U.S. 6600s) works remarkably well, reformatting pages to better appear on a small screen device.

The mail has some pleasant surprises, like if you try to send a mail message and it fails due to lack of signal or whatever, it'll drop it in a mail outbox and automatically retry it every 15 minutes.

The camera on the phone is incredible too. Compare this close up shot I took with the 6600 with the same subject matter and distance taken on my Sony t610.

I installed putty, and while it works, I can't imagine it being useful for anything but maybe an emergency login to restart a failed service or something.

And accessing the net from the powerbook over bluetooth thru the 6600 is a real easy affair.

The only quirk I've seen with the 6600 is that file transfers TO the device over bluetooth only occur at about 3KB/sec -- which is way below the bluetooth spec.

The Dell Axim was my latest PDA attempt and I got a bluetooth card for it and connected to the net via my Sony t610. Pocket Outlook still just sucks for use with a regular ole imap server (I'm sure it's great with Exchange of course). It'd do braindead things like want to download all headers even though I'm just interested in last few of them. Syncing was a pain too, since it requires outlook on the desktop and active sync to sync contacts, calendar entries, etc.

I settled on the 6600 and a Mac powerbook using isync and bluetooth and couldn't be happier. For one thing, the 6600's mail app is quick and efficient for what it does, browsing latest messages. I have mine set to just download the headers of the last 30 messages (quick), then only the body if I set it. Since GPRS is built into the phone, it doesn't require anything else. And it's small. The syncing of contacts and calendar is a breeze over bluetooth and isync.

Opera web browser (paid for it extra, since it doesn't come with U.S. 6600s) works remarkably well, reformatting pages to better appear on a small screen device.

The mail has some pleasant surprises, like if you try to send a mail message and it fails due to lack of signal or whatever, it'll drop it in a mail outbox and automatically retry it every 15 minutes.

The camera on the phone is incredible too. Compare this close up shot I took with the 6600 with the same subject matter and distance taken on my Sony t610.

I installed putty, and while it works, I can't imagine it being useful for anything but maybe an emergency login to restart a failed service or something.

And accessing the net from the powerbook over bluetooth thru the 6600 is a real easy affair.

The only quirk I've seen with the 6600 is that file transfers TO the device over bluetooth only occur at about 3KB/sec -- which is way below the bluetooth spec.

Anyway, it's at www.mobog.com/weave.

One of the nice charms of that site is that there is no censorship of content or comments by the site's owner (the infamous Pud of fuckedcompany). It does make it hard to share with some people though, even though I don't get into shoot pics of my dick like some people do...)

My point, yeah, they suck as cameras, but I'm having fun and that's all I care about right now...

1. Pic of speedometer when traveling at high speed
2. Pic of toilet
3. Pic of topless and/or naked chick
4. Pic of food
5. Pic of a computer screen, displaying a message to someone (the ultimate in rube goldberg communication!)
6. Pic of some current event that you can see in real time, e.g. opening day at a baseball game
7. Clandestine pic of someones ass or cleavage.

Ahh, technology.

1. Not allowing a person to upgrade a DVD/CD drive to a Superdrive. I bought my PowerMac two months before the superdrive was released. I get to use stupid DVD-RAM disks, but I can't burn DVD's unless I buy a whole new computer.

Or you could just buy an superiour quality DVD recorder from a third-party. Unlike Microsoft, Apple allows you to use all standards-compliant hardware with their DVD burning software.

2. Apple keeps its iSync API locked up. There are millions of really cool things I could do to make Apple able to synchronize with things like LDAP servers, competing browsers, PC's, etc. But then Apple could use it as a leverage-point to keep people subscribing to the overpriced .Mac program.

Funny that you mention LDAP; Apple supports LDAP in its acclaimed Mail application, so you don't need to write so much as a speck of code to enable it. Getting LDAP support to work is easy as pie.

I don't subscribe to .Mac, yet I can still use every iApp with ease. Perhaps Joe Sixpack needs his hand held, but I don't.

3. USB video cameras, like the ubiquitous Logitech QuickCam, just don't work (well) and Apple seems to have put blocks into place to refuse iChat AV from working with anything but their iSight hardware product. (I exaggerate a little bit here, but not much.)

Such is the price of progress. Face it: USB cameras simply don't have the throughput to push television-quality video the likes of which iChat AV with Pixlet can support. Would you take vacation photos with a so-called "camera phone"? I know I wouldn't. My wife and children enjoy seeing me using iSight: it's a high-quality multivisual experience. Sorry that your piece-of-junk QuickCam won't work with it.

(page safe, but rest of site not safe for work)

If Mobog is anything to go on, then this camera is just going to spew out 50% wang-shots, and 50% shots of girls' arses.

Can't Wait.

My wife has a Samsung SPH-i700 wireless phone from Verizon Wireless (motto: I am your father, Luke), and while it is a great tool to retrieve email remotely, it is an absolute JOKE as a wireless phone. To make a call, you must tap the start menu, then select "Phone" from the menu. My wife, a relatively small woman, finds the handset clunky and impossible to hold for more than a few minutes, so she uses speakerphone for almost every single conversation. The thing also loves to be tethered to an electrical outlet at every opportunity, battery life is dismal.

People who want to create features for wireless phones need to realize that ringtones in the workplace or in the presence of anyone over 14 make the owner of a ringing phone look asinine, camera phones are for perverts, and that anything that chews batteries generally makes my phone less useful.

Give me a phone that is lightweight, gets decent talk time off a single charge (I'd LOVE to be able to carry my phone an entire work week without charging), and that has features I'll actually use, and I'll be a customer for life.

Give me a PDA with a sorry excuse for a phone built-in, and I'll go find another vendor.