Paul Jacobson

Category: Devices

  • The Nokia N900 is …

    I’ve had a Nokia N900 for a couple weeks now. Initially the idea was to try it out and share my thoughts and experiences but with the understanding that the N900 would not be available in South Africa for sale. That changed shortly afterwards and I received word from Nokia’s Tania Steenkamp that the N900…

  • My experiences with a Nokia N900

    You can find my N900 pseudo-review post right here but feel free to continue reading and read my initial thoughts too. I picked up a Nokia N900 yesterday to test for a couple weeks. I’ve been looking forward to using one of these devices for a while now and what I saw at the recent…

  • The way we live next according to Nokia

    Nokia invited me to be part of a Joburg-based focus group based on its event in Finland titled “The Way We Live Next 3.0” which took place in the last few days. Its video pretty much sets the atmosphere for the event and presents a number of exciting possibilities for future mobile devices: Rich Mulholland…

  • Is history repeating itself with Nokia?

    I just saw a line in a post on the Android Community site that caught my attention: We all know Microsoft was the biggest player in the mobile OS arena for a long time, not because WinMo was the best, but because it was a lonely business in the past. One of the more interesting…

  • Memory leak shutting down my Nokia N97?

    Update: It turns out clearing the cache in my phone’s browser cleared about 10MB of data on the phone memory. Solved that problem. Sigh. This is one of those days it is a little difficult being a Nokia user. I have been using my N97 since I figured out how to configure Mail for Exchange…

  • Hey N97, let's be friends (its not me, its you)

    This post has been an idea in my head, bouncing around while I debate what to write about my Nokia N97. I was hoping I could tell you that the phone performs even better than I expected, satisfies all my needs and is undoubtedly the best phone ever … like, ever! Sadly, I can’t do…

  • Nokia launches the N97, N86 8MP and Ovi Store in South Africa

    Nokia launched the much anticipated N97 as well as a hot little camera focussed phone, the N86 8MP at a launch hosted at Turbine Hall in Newtown, Johannesburg on Thursday, 16 July 2009. It also made a number of announcements about the Ovi Store and a competition launched for local developers. I captured some of…

  • Looking under the hood – the Symbian OS

    I have been given an opportunity to chat to David Rivas, Nokia’s Vice President Product & Technology Management about the Symbian operating system. There has been quite a lot of talk about how shoddy the series 60 user interface is and it got me wondering about the operating system itself, under the UI, so I…