Part three of the All About Symbian Challenge

Time for the first full challenge on my $250 to get all my smartphone needs while in America. But before I can do that, I need to get myself a SIM card and a data plan.

 
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Part two of the $250 smartphone challenge

Travelling through Heathrow, I picked up the MicroSD card that many would assume would be in the box of the Nokia 5230 and started to load up the phone for the trip across the Atlantic. how did I get on? Let’s find out.

All the details, and my in-depth diary post on the subject, can [...]

How hard can it be? The $250 smartphone challenge

Normally in March I carry some of the latest smartphone prototypes for a two week, real world review of the latest tech for All About Symbian. This year it’s slightly different, partly because the latest devices aren’t quite ready for me to test, but also because we wanted to try something a little bit different.
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Quote of the Day on my Sanity

Nokia’s X6 smartphone is starting to get some traction in the marketplace, with Ricky over at Symbian-Guru pointing out it’s arrival with them and an upcoming review. In the meantime he’s highlighted some other X6 content on the internet, including my unboxing video from Christmas.
But it was Adam’s comment to the article that made me [...]

Proporta Gadget Bag reviewed on AAS

How do you carry all your toys when you’re going to a conference? Well for me the answer has, for a long time, been the Roadwarror Podzilla. But can Proporta’s Gadget Bag be the answer? I’ve had a look at it today over on All About Symbian:
The Gadget Bag is a good solution, and certainly [...]

The Nokia X6 and Epic Music Phone Fail

So the Nokia X6 I have for review has already had a bit of a rough ride thanks to an unboxing video with Emu, but my look at the core function of the phone, how it works as a music device, has been pretty disappointing.
Yet again, the lack of joined up thinking from Nokia seems [...]

Meet the PsiXpda in Las Vegas and CES

One of the questions asked by many people at Le Web while I was demoing the PsiXpda was if I would be at CES with the machine. At that point there were no plans, but that didn’t stop myself and team wondering if we should get our foot in the door at one of the [...]

Best… Unboxing…. Video… Ever?

I’ll add the question mark, but one of the comments on my Nokia X6 Unboxing Video did suggest the above accolade, which makes me pretty happy.
The Unboxing Video is a rather maligned tradition on gadget sites. Its essential function is to be “first” with a review device and get something up to capture traffic on [...]

C’est un ‘Le Web’ Cadeau

One of the many interviews I did at Le Web was with C-Net France. Interestingly the reporter had a list of four names to track down specifically for the interviews, and I was one of them (the others were Robert Scoble, Joi Ito and Michael Arrington, who I can only assume he didn’t get).
Anyway, it’s [...]

Engadget focus on Manicures not Mobiles

Have to love the commenters at Engadget – they’ve picked up on one of the many demo videos of the PsiXpda that I did at Le Web (more on my experiences of that in an upcoming post). A quick glance at the comments (compared to other sites) show a distinct fetish with my single painted [...]

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