Rob’s Digital Life

This is a great piece of news, Fring on the tablet. I’ve used Fring on several S60 device and it’s great, it’s the one and only IM client and VoIP client you need. Now it’s available on the N800 fantastic, as soon as I get 5 mins I’ll be installing it and letting it [...]

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My Proporta Mobile USB charger just turned up and in the package was an Earl Grey Tea Bag!
The device is pretty neat too, it used mini usb to charge, so I can carry just one mini usb cable around (the same one as used to connect the Phone to the PC) and I can [...]

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This is a bit tricky as I work for Orange, but I was checking out 3’s mobile broadband products and they look pretty neat. Why you looking at 3 you ask, well, I’ve got unlimited data on my Orange account, but there are places where it’s not great or there’s no coverage. Therefore having a [...]

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I mentioned in an earlier post that our vacation was fast approaching and that I was clearing off memory cards ready. I’ve made an effort to fit all the kit into one bag this year and make it easier on me to remember kit and transport it, it’s a Lowe pro Stealth Reporter camera bag. [...]

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Our vacation is fast approaching so it’s time to get the kit sorted out ready. I’m currently wiping all the CF memory cards for my Canon 400D, that’s 2 x 2GB and 1 x 4GB cards, which is plenty even shooting in RAW for me. We’ve got a wedding down in Cardiff straight after our [...]

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Just been watching the iPhone news hit the web and walt’s video is here and in the video he mentions that on several occasions his iPhone didn’t even last a full working day. So it sounds like the 3G has impacted the battery life considerably then if it can’t even last a full working day. [...]

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I’ve now had the brand new Nokia E66 for just over a week and..I haven’t been able to put it down. It’s one of the best phone’s I’ve ever had. So I’ll kick off with the bad points first of all then cover the good things about this device.
First off, the firmware has a [...]

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I purchased a 8gb SDHC card yesterday along with a 1100mAh to replace the 950mAh standard battery, now I just need to find the black model paint.
The 8GB SDHC card is very fast, zooming through pics on it is very quick indeed and we’ll see what impact and extra 150mAh actually means in the real [...]

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Looks like Dell is hitting a tricky patch. This is the second article I’ve seen chronicling the demise of Dell $3bn saving is a big job and when you’ve had razor thin margins like Dell and a pretty slick operation already, there’s not going to be lot’s of fat in the business to get that [...]

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Apple have just announced the SDK and the enterprise improvements to the iPhone software. The exchange services look the most interesting to me, which round off the connectivity requirements of the device. The App store is a shrewd move to control what goes out onto the devices and skims 30% off every single sale, nice.
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I’ve been pretty busy here over the best couple of weeks, we got a couple of big projects on the go. so blogging. as it takes the longest amount of time of all online activities, has taken a back seat of late.
So I thought I’d write an update on the windows home server project..
Just for [...]

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I sent the Nokia N800 back last Friday and I’m missing it already. I’m seriously considering buying one. I’m missing the casual surfing and listening to my music via orb and the N800’s wireless network.
I took some pictures of the device as I was packing it up;

The above shot was taken whilst checking the [...]

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You might remember my post about Dell not updating me as a customer with why my PC was reportedly delayed.
At first, I got an email stating that due to demand my delivery date has shifted to the middle of October. Then I got a call saying that my PC would be delivered today.  This was [...]

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I was driving my car a few days back and using my Tom Tom connected to my N73 for the Traffic feature (almost real time traffic updates and immediate re-routing). All fine except the phone also showed the headphone symbol indicating it was connected to the car’s Bluetooth phone setup at the same time.
Can a phone [...]

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Jay over at the Nokia NSeries blog follows up losts of recent posts on why the battery on the N73 is so good.
I have to agree, with minimal use I’ve got 4 days out of it.
Normal use it’s two days.
That’s good in my book too.
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