Inside View

Phony iPhone Queues

I SPEND A LOT OF TIME in my corner shop, often chatting with a Polish shop assistant. She's sharp, witty and quite observant when it comes to consumer psychology. We got talking about the iPhone because she saw my brick of an E90 (at lef...

Multitouch

FOR THREE YEARS, I have used a multitouch routine on the touchscreens of SonyEricsson mobile phones. Although that's a reliable way for someone to maneuver on a menu with small fingers, most people need the tactile response of a keypad t...

Seduction Is Tactile

LIKE LEO LAPORTE, I think you have to touch technology in order to really appreciate it. Leo has an iPhone. He also has a jaded perspective because he has owned more technology than most readers of this blog. On his Jaiku account, Leo ex...

iPhone C902 Vodafone Settings

TO SET UP AN iPhone so it can use Vodafone Ireland's network, you need to go into Settings> General> Network> Edge and enter three fields. The ISP APN settings are as follows:APN: isp.vodafone.ieUsername: vodafonePassword: vodafoneWe use...

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...

Who Looks at My Cameraphone Shots

LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE, I tap and accept app prompts when asked by apps for permission to access my phone's photo album. Doing that may allow an app to copy and store my images on another server. And if you believe Nick Bilton, after you ...

Another Reason to Buy Nokia

WHILE CHATTING with Brendan Coleman inside my fav mobile phone shop in Thurles (+353 504 21222), I noticed the Nokia N80i's WiFi phone services. When you get an N80i from Brendan, you get SIPphone installed. This means you can use the N8...

Confused by Big Apple

TRYING TO BE GREEN, like in the Big Green Apple, the logo for New York City's GreeNYC campaign is too close to the trademark sherrif inside Apple Inc. The blurring of distinction between the Apple Mark and the GreeNYC mark forms part of ...

3.5G Qik Take on Tech

ONE REASON I BUY newspapers on Sunday is to follow the crowd noise about technology. I flicked through three Irish broadsheets today, finding no mention of the most talked-about technology from last week. Specifically, no one wrote about...

Sunday News from Ireland

WITH A WINNING Irish rugby team and a weeping Eamon Dunphy on the front page of most broadsheets, many in Ireland believe the recession is well and truly beaten. In a 10-minute Qik video clip [27 MB MP4 file], I run through three Sunday ...