Nokia Shorts 2006

I wrote about mobile short films [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/08/04/mobile-movies/] in brief last year. This year, the Nokia Shorts 2006 [http://www.nokiashorts.com/finalists/] competition (15 second mobile handset-shot films) has announced the finalists of the Handset category. The shorts are also now screening…

Palm Treo 680

Since I’ve been using the Palm Treo 600 [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2006/09/27/moblogging-soon/] for a while now and loving this “retro smartphone”, I thought I’d mention that Palm has announced an all new Treo 680 smartphone [http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9035/palm-announces-the-treo-680/] (after…

Save electricity by hoarding it

In the May 2006 issue of Fortune Small Business, there was this great article [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/05/01/8376209/index.htm] on how, inspired by TiVo [http://www.tivo.com/], one company decided to create a device (GridPoint Protect [http://www.gridpoint.com/…

Apple iPhone

[http://www.appleiphone.blogspot.com/] There are so many speculations about Apple’s iPhone [http://www.appleiphone.blogspot.com/] around the web and lots of fake images as stylish as Apple can make.…

MoBlogging Soon

For the past few days I’ve been playing with the Treo 600 [http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=343] “retro” smartphone running PalmOS. After much tweaking, I’ve configured GPRS/WAP on it so that I can moblog (mobile blog, with phone cam pictures) from anywhere. I’…

Tiny USB Drive

[http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.solidalliance.com%2fpress%2fpress7.html#1101] After the smallest mp3 player [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2006/05/26/smallest-mp3-player-in-the-world/] in the world comes the tiny USB drive. iDisk Diamond [http://babelfish.altavista.com/…

Smallest mp3 player in the world

mobiBLU DAH-1500i [http://www.mobibluamerica.com/dah1500.html] is the worlds smallest full featured digital audio player. Slightly less than 1″ square, OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display, FM Radio, FM Recording, and Voice Recording, supports MP3, WMA and protected WMA (DRM) and much more at $100 (US) for the…