Checking the stats on MobileBurn, in the six hours that my Apple iPhone article has been up, it has received as many hits as any other release story from CES has received in the full 24 hour period after publishing. That’s on track for four times the popularity of its nearest competing story, the Nokia [...]
Travel Day
[Update: Thanks Kent and Richard. Keep it coming!] [Update 2: Jenith (a former MobileBurn employee and fellow Australian) weighs in, as does James Kendrick.] Today is a travel day, as Ze Frank would say, and while packing up for the impending journey I am faced with the decision of what gadgets to take with me. [...]
Motorola KRZR K1 Video
While I had the equipment out, I decided to film a quick video of the MOTOKRZR to give people an idea of the size of the device and speed of the user interface. Click below to watch the video.
New Additions
Following the break-in of my house on Saturday night, I went out yesterday and purchased a new notebook computer. I am now the proud owner of an HP dv2040XT – Intel Core Duo 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 14.1″ widescreen display, nVidia GeForce Go 7700, and an 80GB SATA hard drive. The hard drive is a little [...]
Marketing Mobile Handsets
One of the hardest parts of my job is remembering model numbers of handsets. For a long time, confusing numbering has been the norm, but finally some of the marketing folk that work with handset manufacturers are waking up to the fact that model names, rather than numbers, are the way to go. Samsung are [...]
Tattooed RAZRs
I know I am known for a little Motorola bashing in my time, but what do you expect when you are presented with a company whose business plan is to continually rehash an old handset? After the announcements of the MOTOKRZR K1 and MOTORIZR Z3, I really thought that Motorola was going to give me [...]
Random Things
Things have been hectic around the global HQ this last week or so, and I have hardly had the time to scratch my left ear – which has been surprisingly itchy lately. On the MobileBurn side of things, I have reviews for the LG M6100 handset and the Motorola H300 Bluetooth headset in my to-do [...]
Motorola’s Shock Alert – Prior Art?
I received an email from Daniel Holth this morning, pointing me to this page on Halfbakery. It seems as though he described almost the same device as the Motorola shock alert system for mobile phones that was patented a couple of days ago, back in July 2004. See my article on MobileBurn about the patent [...]
Journalistic Integrity
Note: Re-posted due to an accidental deletion When I woke up this morning, I was greeted with a couple of emails questioning me on a source for an article I wrote for MobileBurn yesterday – Motorola Patents Shocking New Silent Alert System. It seems as though both Allen from Mobiledia and I had published similar [...]
I Tire of Motorola
Having not seen the Motorola announcements before they happened at CTIA, I still held a glimmer of hope that the manufacturer would release something decent from the show, after a string of nothing but new colors, and missing 3GSM totally. What did I get? New colors. The only announcements from Motorola were three new colors [...]
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