Any "NIB"s - News In Brief - snippets which we get, will be discussable in this topic.

A 'flat-rate' camera phone - what's so remarkable about that? But the research company ABI Research thought it was the story of the day...

Three months with a Nokia 9500

Steve Litchfield has written the full review: here's my summary of it.

It's a big phone, but worth trying.

The Orange version of.. T-Mobile?

Maybe. Probably... or maybe not. Well, it's bound to happen one day.

Look, it's a rumour, OK?

Please don't use this with PowerPoint!

By all means use this remarkable software to play music, or even Windows Mixer... but not PowerPoint!

There are already too many PP presentations in this world...

RE : Sony Ericsson switches phone connectors, goes for USB 2.0 - nearly!

Huh? I have a third-party USB cable which transfers data and charges my T39(!) off USB 1 or 2 ports and has been doing this for nearly 3 years now.

Maybe Steve has been going through some old stuff in his in-box ... or maybe he is tryimg to cover up the obvious which is that the engineering involved in using USB ports on the phones themselves is a piece of cake and USB has long been able to supply more than enough power for devices like mobile phones.

The real problem here is that the margins on many phone accessories are going to crumble if consumers can connect them with off the shelf USB cables instead of proprietary connectors.

Of course, Microsoft (HTC-built) phones use perfectly standard USB cables. So does the new Blackberry 7160 (is that right? I'm hopeless on numbers by memory!) and so do most digital cameras, these days.

But the real point is that this port follows USB2 protocols, but won't run at full USB2 speeds. Maybe, later this year, or next year, says Walker.

Monitoring your phone calls

How short a step is it from forcing ISPs to monitor your downloads - to asking cellphone companies to keep records of what your conversations were about?

Someone said that it was "far-fetched" to compare this sort of spying on citizens to the approach of the Stasi secret policy in East Germany. I don't think it goes far enough, frankly.

Edited by author 03-19-2005 05:35 AM

Is the IEEE running out of relevance?

This sad tale of politics inside the WiFi parts of the IEEE does make one wonder - what happens if the group says "Sod it, we're going to have our own standard!" and moves away?

Edited by author 03-20-2005 03:53 AM

"Fly this plane to Cuba - or I switch on my cellphone!"

And if that threat doesn't work, well you can always tell them that the radiation will get to them and they need a headset.

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