My two-year contract expired in May, which means I’m looking for a new phone. I’ve decided on a Google Android-based phone from my current Motorola Q with Windows Mobile. I wasn’t thrilled about Android’s version one release and now version two is coming out which is a lot better software-wise, I’m just not sure about [...]

Google’s Android mobile phone platform is getting closer to making it into actual devices and with it comes new apps that we can expect to see. Some initial ones were selected through the Android Developer Challenge. Here are five of them that I thought were particularly interesting: PhoneBook 2.0 – Seems like where cell phone [...]

It was that time again for me to look at new cell phone options. My two-year contract with Cingular was over and I already decided a while ago that Verizon Wireless was looking better this time around. It also meant it was time for a new phone. I had a Windows Mobile-based smartphone the last [...]

“No one is podcasting.” — Old Media (Newspapers) “Everyone is podcasting.” — New Media (Web, generally tech geeks) Well, both sides are right. The confusion seems to be with the perception of what podcasting is. Podcasting is audio or video content recieved through a subscription, or feed, and then synced, or downloaded, to an iPod. [...]

A Google Image Search has sent me into the future of NEC technologies. Upon closer examination, the Internet Archive shows this area of the NEC Design Japanese website was originally launched in 2003 to show “Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers.” Some of the potential products described are pretty interesting. The mobile phone and [...]