Nokia
Further afield – NFC still missing?
Rumours are circulating that the iPhone 5 will not now have NFC (Near Field Communication). It’s a big ‘Stand Down’ message for all those excited by the potential which stood to be unleashed by the new over-the-air medium which revolutionised quick payments on London Underground system. You can almost hear the disappointed groan, like children [...]
Life in the long tail
Hopefully temporary downtime for the excellent Twitter client, Dabr, led me to seek out an alternative through my Nokia E71 yesterday. Dabr’s brilliance lies in the simple provision of everything I want from a mobile web Twitter client, which renders excellently on my E71 and most other devices, as well as the traditional web. It’s [...]
Ovi baked but still cooling down
Late the other evening I took another emotional journey with Nokia’s Ovi Store, the Finnish giant’s answer to the iPhone’s gamechanging original App Store. It’s a store of applications contained within an application that needs to be downloaded and synchronised to a mobile handset in order to work. After giving it a brief play around [...]
