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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: take 2

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Andrew

In my first writeup on Firefox OS and geeksphone I wrote: It depends very much on Mozilla’s and Telefonica’s ability to execute I should have added something about their partners’ ability to execute. I tried to buy a geeksphone this … 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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Nokia Lumia 920 Day One

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Andrew

Earlier this week, Nokia Connects invited people to Trial a Nokia. I’ve not used Windows Phone 8 or the new Lumia devices, so I eagerly volunteered. Here’s what I pitched: My idea is simply to live with Windows Phone as … 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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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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Firefox OS build on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Andrew

I’m trying to get Firefox OS built on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. It’s not going too well! I checked out the code and ran ./config.sh emulator, then I ran ./build.sh and waited. After a while, I got:  25 52.4M   25 … Continue reading →

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gcc and homebrew on Mountain Lion

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Andrew

I’m trying to get B2G built, and one of the steps on OS X is to install gcc (this install is all automated in the bootstrap script). I am on a (relatively) clean install of Mountain Lion. Unfortunately during the … Continue reading →

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