Inside View

Tweetcaster Android Client

TWEETCASTER, THE TWITTER CLIENT for Blackberry and Android, has given me very stable performance during a month of constant use. I recommend it as an Android application. In addition to standard Twitter functions, TweetCaster allows me t...

More Control for Your Phone

IMAGINE A PHONE YOU CAN CONTROL--really control--from its opening screen. Imagine a phone that let you see whether your friends were within a half mile. Imagine a phone whose desktop you can set up quickly and manage efficiently. Imagi...

The Day Android Moved Ahead

THE ANRDOID PHONE in my bag now represents the biggest slice of the mobile smartphone market. In today's Canalys report, final Q4 2010 global country-level smart phone market data shows Google’s Android has become the leading platform. S...

Carrying Creative Media Production Tools #mojo

Image from Trusted Reviews. WE ARE SPECIFYING a suite of creative media production tools that will help university students produce broadcast quality content while on remote assignments. For the past six years, I have used an iPad Mini ...

Using Two Wireless Rigs

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel If you follow my Instagram or my Flickr photos, you'll know that I have a lot of old equipment along with some new stuff. I talked about both of those types of equipment and also about how we are setting up...

An X10 Flagship Experience

FIVE DAYS OF USING the SonyEricsson X10 have transmogrified my index finger into a stylus. As much as this disrupted my old school relationship with small computers, the X10 has given me ideas about touching and swiping my way through a ...

Irish Sunday News

BACK FROM BERLIN with a nasty cough and a raspy voice, I'm making a short [28 MB 3GP file] video about technology items found in today's Irish Sunday papers--then I saw Sean O'Grady viewing my videostream on his newly-christened 22" moni...

A Superphone User

MOBILE BEAT produced a chart (above) to draw distinctions between superphones like the Xperia X10 and the smartphone like my Nokia E90. Superphones have more powerful processors and they are much more extensible than any previous mob...

Sixty Minutes with X10

FIRST IMPRESSIONS FADE AWAY easily so I wanted to scratch out a few comments about the SonyEricsson X10 after using the phone for a little more than an hour. I inserted my O2 SIM and followed the instructions on the screen, typing a few ...

Impervious to Deathgrip

AFTER USING THE SMALLEST Android phone on the planet (the SonyEricsson Xperia X10 Mini at left) for a fortnight, I can proudly assert that it is impervious to the Deathgrip that Steve Jobs showed with the iPhone 4. Even though Apple's ne...