Took this with a camera-phone (Nokia 6600) using Celebrity Snaps by Starwave Mobile. The idea is to pose, in this case with one of The Muppets, and send to a friend’s phone or email. 

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I’ve no idea how much battery life is left in my headset, as it has no display. It would be useful if the battery level were available via the handset.
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I got an invite to a public meeting about mobile content. Here’s an extract:
“Complex settings, confusing interfaces and disabled functions show that the customer seems to be the last thing on the minds of the mobile operators and handset manufacturers.”
Actually, the last bit isn’t true. Nearly all the revenue comes from talking and texting, so […]

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After a long day in Morocco telling the operator how to deploy 3G apps, I tried to blend in with the locals in preparation for bargaining in the hotel gift shop, which didn’t work of course - no one appeared to wear those hats. This picture was taken by my colleague on his Moto SLVR […]

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My son built this lego plane using the rather clever 3D lego builder on their site. After building any model, the site allows a kit to be ordered to build it! Could it also be exported from there into a mobile game for a round of mindless laser zapping? 

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The last couple of posts talked about exploiting the “bump into effect” (BIF) to encourage phone users to make calls to people not called recently, such as the “tickle list” of contacts. The BIF can be very powerful in its own right - on average I view (by which I mean click to enlarge) a […]

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In my previous post I mentioned how I like the Google sidebar widget that cycles through my pics. This is a “bump-into-effect” app. I mentioned doing this on the phone, but to remind me to call old friends - just pop up their picture on the phone with a note “it’s a while since you […]

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The sidebar for Google’s desktop tool has a nice panel called “photos” which continually cycles through thumbnail images of the “My Pictures” folder and sub-folders. If you see one you like, it can be opened in a jiffy. As these are my photos and not ghastly banner-ads, I tend not to blot them out of […]

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Just got it and love it. Patent woes aside, the BB is a great product. Why? It’s simple - it works! It just works out of the box, very intuitively. I always get my email and can always respond.
– Sent from my Blackberry

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I have often used my Blackberry as a scratchpad for notes to myself, but I want to be able to “sync” to my desktop without actually doing a sync, as all that messy cable stuff is way too cumbersome.
I recently discovered that Gmail will handle extensions to the email address, so that I can send […]

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This has probably already been done (in Japan), but it would be great to turn my mobile into silent mode simply by turning it over on the desk. This seems much easier than fiddling around with settings, half of which I can never remember - is it “silent mode” or “meeting mode”?
OK, so I wouldn’t […]

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