What is MOSH?
December 4th, 2007, filed by Nic Fulton
George Linardos and Todd Bender describe what MOSH is all about.
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Touch screen phones in 2008
December 4th, 2007, filed by Nic Fulton
In Harri Kiljander’s speech at Nokia World he revealed that Nokia “Series 60 devices with touch-screens will be released in 2008.”
An iPhone on stage at Nokia World?
December 4th, 2007, filed by Nic Fulton
You may not believe it possible but the iPhone made a brief appearance on the screen during Anssi Vanjoki’s keynote. Look carefully in this photo (click for larger version).
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo opens Nokia World
December 4th, 2007, filed by Nic Fulton
Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo presents on the stage at Nokia World in Amsterdam on Tusday 4th December 2007.
Tibetan mandala ’sweeping’ ceremony
November 11th, 2007, filed by Nic Fulton
Tibetan Buddhist monks perform the final ’sweeping’ of a mandala in St John the Divine cathedral in New York city.
The mandala is made by hand pouring colored sands onto a table. The design is memorized by the 4 monks involved and took 7 days. At the end of the ceremony the sand was swept into a vase and then was taken to a pond in a park and poured into the water.
David Isenberg on net neutrality
November 7th, 2007, filed by Nic Fulton
I caught up with David Isenberg for a coffee and he had these words to say about net neutrality.
The Mobile Journalism Toolkit contents
October 22nd, 2007, filed by Nic Fulton
So what is in the Mobile Journalism Toolkit? First of all the phone. This is a Nokia N95 which now comes in three different versions. The original European version that we used for most of the trial (image on left). Then there is a the US edition which adds more memory and support for US carrier frequencies. Finally there is the news 8GB version which can store much more music and videos, and for our journalists more raw materials.
The next part of the toolkit are the peripherals. A key component was the bluetooth keyboard that we used. This made it much easier to enter text-based stories in the field. For this we used the Nokia SU-8W (see image on left). This folds up and has a bracket to hold the phone.
We also supplied a basic tripod to help in video interviews and a Sony microphone for directional audio recording and reducing background noise in interviews - this required a special adaptor plug that was made by Nokia for the project. Finally to deal with power issues we also used Power Monkeys, both basic and Explorer versions (see photo). The Explorer has a solar charging system which was particularly useful in Senegal
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Is it a toy? Is it a phone? No, it's both.
October 4th, 2007, filed by Nic Fulton
At Stream 2007, a WPP sponsored event in Greece, Jit Hoong Ng presented the latest gadget from China - a mobile phone that is also a toy. With a touch screen and excellent audio quality the phone is not just for big kids, although it could be easily left in the toy box by mistake.
