Category Archives: Research

Nokia Lumia 920 conclusions

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Andrew

Amazingly a month has gone by since I did my test drive of a Nokia Lumia 920 thanks to Nokia_Connects. I didn’t get a chance to post my final conclusions until now. How did it go? tl;dr: It’s not a … Continue reading →

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Firefox OS and geeksphone

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Andrew

The new Firefox OS phones from geeksphone are nearly here, with the announcement that next week they will be available from the currently-dormant online shop. ~ It was back in 2009 that I got a Palm Pre, perhaps the first … Continue reading →

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Nokia Lumia 920 Week One

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Andrew

You’ll recall that Nokia Connects invited me to Trial a Nokia. I previously wrote about my initial thoughts on the Lumia after one day with the phone. Here’s some thoughts after just over a week with the phone, a timeframe … Continue reading →

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Poster for iPad

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Andrew

I’ve been trying out Poster for iPad. It’s a beautiful if minimal text editor, and the preview mode is gorgeous. But I think it will be a short-lived love affair, because a more recent draft of my BlackBerry post was … Continue reading →

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Selling the BlackBerry Z10

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Andrew

I’m a big fan of BlackBerry. I think they do good stuff: taking care of developers with free devices at dev events, hackathons, and brave and unusual outreach; daring to produce different devices (everyone including me said the PlayBook would … Continue reading →

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PhoneGap and Android on Windows

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Andrew

It seems there’s quite a lot of confusion on how to get up and running using PhoneGap for Android development on Windows. There’s a Getting Started with Android guide which is comprehensive, but doesn’t seem to resolve all problems. I’ll … Continue reading →

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PhoneGap build with iOS from the command line

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Andrew

PhoneGap lets you create mobile apps using web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS) whilst still accessing native device functionality that’s not currently available in the browser. PhoneGap Build is a cloud-based service that generates your app for multiple platforms at once, … Continue reading →

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Scala sbt

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew

If you’re following the Coursera Scala course, you may come across this problem during the example assignment: cd example sbt > console [error] java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space (Lots of [info] stuff omitted for readability.) The nicest way I found to … Continue reading →

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What HP did next

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Andrew

The always awesome Terence Eden writes about HP’s smartphone conundrum; he makes some excellent points and I recommend you go and read it. Read it now. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Ok, welcome back. There are a couple of things I’d … Continue reading →

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Mobile platforms in 2015

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Andrew

Tomi Ahonen made a bold prediction of the top three mobile platforms in 2015: Android, Tizen, and iOS in that order. I disagreed, and made my own prediction: 140 characters were not enough to cover this, so here are some … Continue reading →

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