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My favorite walking bridge

nobody@vox.com(xmangerm) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:23:50 -0700

This is my favorite walking bridge. I just love the architecture. Fluffy and I have crossed it many times over.

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Nokia is starting with unified accounts, get one now!

nobody@vox.com(snoyt) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:41:23 -0700

AAS had the scoop I think. Anyway it means one login for all their services. Pretty neat. However currently the create-new-account is disabled. Still you can register an unified account by following this procedure:

Go to http://my.nokia.com/nl create an account. Then go to https://account.nokia.com/ . Then click on

"Have you already signed up to My Nokia? Sign in here to complete your Nokia Account registration. "

Do so, enter your mynokia details and voila. You have an unique acount.

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The N82

nobody@vox.com(xmangerm) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:46:05 -0700

More to follow

The N82

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Protection from the sun

nobody@vox.com(xmangerm) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:42:20 -0700

Yes, today is hot but thanks to the Weiden trees the heat is bearable:)

Protection from the sun

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Overturned

nobody@vox.com(Al Pavangkanan) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:06:47 -0700

Overturned
Originally uploaded by Dr Tran!

Overturned big rig. South bound traffic was all the way to Nevada.

What I love about geotagging is that I know exactly where this happened.

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Nokia 5800 ExpressMedia = Nokia Touchscreen device

nobody@vox.com(snoyt) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:06:47 -0700

Hi Folks,

The internet has a few more rumors going more and more solid:

Nokia 5800 Tube
- Quad-Band GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz), EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity
- 3.2″ 640×360 px (16:9 ratio) 16M color touchscreen display
- 3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus
- Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0
- 140 MB of internal memory
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
- TV-Out
- Dimensions: 111×52x14.5mm
- Weight: 104g

The specs look great. The tv-out is a great addition. Particular with the lovely new screen resolution ;-) With the 3.2 Mpixel camera I doubt if there will be video recording too. It looks like the upper segment of midranged phones. Now where is that 5 MegaPixel version with a mini-qwerty keyboard?

Let's keep our eyes open for a real review of the device. And there seem to be some pictures in this post.

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Sportstracker at 35000 feet

nobody@vox.com(Al Pavangkanan) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:44:33 -0700

I recently flew home from Houston to Los Angeles. I got myself a window seat. I was pleased to find my seat had two windows. Inspired by a post by Monadi at phone-rush, I wanted to try GPS in mid-flight for myself.

Before takeoff, I set the N82 to offline mode and then turned it off. When the pilot started talking, I first turned on my N95. It took a few minutes to get a GPS lock. I couldn't move it around without losing the signal.

I turned the N82 on and it didn't take long for it to get a signal. I was able to keep the N82 in my shirt pocket and maintain a signal lock. I turned on the GPS data application and got this screenshot:

Taking a que from the great position artist Stavros, I turned on the Sportstracker application to make some of my own position art.

I first changed a few settings. I set the units to imperial and the GPS filtering to low. I then activated the Sportstracker. Here is a map of my position art:

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As you can see, Sportstracker logged my journey from mid-Texas to Southern California.

There is a log of the journey with a few images at the sportstracker website:
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=236804

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Dutch NOS starts streaming news and 6 channels of live Olympics channels video for mobile phones

nobody@vox.com(snoyt) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:19:50 -0700

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The dutch NOS (national broadcast service) has now started streaming their news videos as well as live streams of the olympics for the mobile phone platform. At the same time they upgraded their mobile site and added a dedicated new application as a download option. It features an enhanced news experience including live video media streaming of the Olympics.

website

Their all new refurbished mobile website now presents the topics news, sports, weather and traffic information. In addition the latest newsvideo broadcast can be streamed from the site directly onto your mobile device. On the Nokia N95 it is done using realplayer. The mobile site also features a download section offering a dedicated news application to be downloaded. For my N95 this was a properly signed *.sisx application.

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news application

The dedicated news application the information of their mobile website and extra articles and videos. The interface is a bit more slick that their mobile website and features a 'news ticker' with the latest info. Additonally they are offering several video streams: the news in the last 24 hours, the latest news, separate news items (about China, Birma etc..) as were already possible to view with the flash-enhanced webbrowser of the N95, live political streaming of discussions from the Hague (yuck) and upto 6 live streams from the Olympics and Roland Garros. The Olympic channel selection for the mobile consumer is now wider than that of the tv-consumer. The application installation went flawless though it did gave a message that it was, at the least, free until end of 2008. Let's hope it stays like that.

Upto now I was annoyed that the Brittish and the Germans could watch their national news broadcasts on the Nokia n-series but we as the dutch could not. In one step we are on par or perhaps even slightly better off ;-)

In the last few months I have seen an increase of dedicated mobile websites delivering to the point efficient information with only minor ads. Anything from cinema guides, TV-guides, weather, news to traffic information. Many of them I prefer over using RSS and the larger PC oriented sites. RSS often has randomly abbreviated information) bits luring you into going to PC-oriented sites with obnoxious popups, flashmovies or mindless jabber to get to the real bits. Mobile sites lets people reinvent the art of using limited screenspace useful.

I will regret the day my phone gains 1024x758 pixels of resolution.

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Damn hot today (32 Celsius)

nobody@vox.com(xmangerm) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:24:01 -0700

Hot outside

Everyone in Vox-Land if you haven't notice I have been genitically born with a life time tan, therefore, I am one that almost never,never will lay out in the sun to catch a few rays (suntanning). In fact, I avoid the Sun for the most part if I can help it. And since I am on this subject, guess which side of the sidewalk I used to walk Fluffy back home with?

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Golf Tour a free golf game for the N95 and others

nobody@vox.com(snoyt) — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:58:00 -0700

A post in AAS called my attention to a nice, simpel and free java golf game. It's really a nice game you can play by your self or with others. A such it is a great pub game for the mobile phone to play with very good friends when having a beer, perhaps not in the league as 'Worms World Party' but differences in skill are more easily levelled in a game of golf. Here are some screenshots:

The game has one annoying habit, the startup melody is loud and annoying, however it falls silent after it has run its course. The sound level can not be adjusted. However you can use the silent phone profile to prevent drawing the attention of an annoyed crowd.

Cheers and enjoy,

Snoyt

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