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Mobile
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09.28.07Building a country wide wireless network is environmentally friendlyI do quite a bit of travelling. Most places in Norway are accessible through public transport but I used to prefer using my own car because that is much faster. Especially if you have to change transport on the way. Using public transport you’re also limited to specific schedules. But lately I have started preferring the much more environmentaly friendly public transport like trains, boats and even long distance busses. Now it saves me a lot of time. Why? Internet connectivity. Two hours in a car driving gets you there. But apart from that it’s a waste of time. Two hours on ...
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08.03.07Mounting your N95 on the dashboardAfter my article about how to entertain your kids with the navigation system in your phone several people have asked how I mount the phone on the dashboard. I use a simple magnetic mount. My wife use one as well, so together with the iPod our dashboard gets slightly crowded with gadgets. The system consist of a magnet that you mount at the place you want it using a form of double sided tape. Then you tape a small piece of metal on the back of the phone. And it will sit nicely on the magnet on your dashboard. I don't know if ...
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07.09.07Time lapse with Nokia phonesThe people that are lucky enough to run around with iPhones in their pockets probably wonder what to do with their old phones. Here is a suggestion. Regular readers will know that I like photographic experiments. So first, the ones that just retired their Nokia N95. It has built in time lapse photography. Something called "sequence mode". Simply choose what kind of sequence you want, click the trigger and let the camera snap an image at the selected interval. I did an experiment and placed my N95 in the window of my car while out driving. It happily snapped an image ...
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08.25.06Quick image comparison – Nokia N80 vs N73I just did a very quick image quality comparison between the Nokia N80 (left picture) and the Nokia N73 (right picture). Snapped one picture with each camera. Under quite poor conditions. Both are 3 megapixels. For me it seems like the two biggest differences in addition to the form factor on these two phones are better image quality but no WLAN on the N73. So what do you want - WLAN or high quality images? As usual, we want both. Good camera and WLAN... You can download the original pictures here.
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08.01.06Mobile phone tennis...or, augumented reality tennis. That's what the creators of this nice application want to call it. It's a game for Symbian based phones like the Nokia 6630, 6670, N series etc. The application use the camera in the phone to read the pattern on the table. It then analyze this stream of information and renders a tennis court on the screen of the mobile. When you move the mobile in any direction the tennis court will adjust. Meaning that the phone works like your tennis racket. It uses both sound and vibration in the phone to give feedback to the user in ...