Paul Jacobson

Category: Devices

  • Working with a laptop on my lap is appealing again

    My wife is reviewing the Logitech N700 for Girl Guides and I have snuck in a quick demo after coming home early. I still have some work to do and I’m not feeling well (sinusitis to accompany the tail end of a 2-3 week flu) so I thought I’d try the N700 on my bed.…

  • Preliminary thoughts about the Nokia N8

    You probably noticed a rush of preview posts about the Nokia N8. This was largely because a group of bloggers and journalists had some time with Nokia SA’s Patrick Henchie and Tania Steenkamp last week and, of course, a Nokia N8 pre-release model. There are a number of things I really like about the N8…

  • An iPad contrarian ramble redux

    I thought a bit more about my somewhat disjointed ramble about iPads, Kindles and other devices over the weekend and thought I’d do this follow up after a conversation I had yesterday about the unfashionable iPod classic. I was chatting to a friend about iPods and we started comparing the iPod classic to the iPod…

  • An iPad contrarian ramble

    You may know that Amazon released an updated Kindle DX recently. I was pretty excited when the original Kindle DX launched just over a year ago. It was the first real device that took what the smaller Kindle offered and made it more useful for students and, arguably, professionals. What I like about the form…

  • Preview of MeeGo for tablet devices

    I came across this video preview of a pre-alpha MeeGo version which looks pretty exciting: MeeGo is the love-child of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin operating systems. I was hoping that Maemo would develop further after spending some time with the Maemo 5 powered N900 last year and was disappointed to discover there would be…

  • Lest we forget about Nokia

    If you are taking a casual look ahead at the smartphone landscape in the coming months you would be excused for thinking that its really about the next generation of Android devices and the iPhone 4. These two platforms are benefitting from increased competition between the two and the newest devices emerging from both camps…

  • MTN has really impressed me today

    This is a re-post from my personal blog. MTN did a good job with me today and I want to share that. My MTN experience started off at a real low this morning with an inability to get any information about the HTC Desire’s availability in MTN stores. I was so frustrated I posted my…

  • HTC Desire and the Motorola Milestone

    The local Android smartphone marketplace is about to become even more exciting with a number of new Android phones from HTC and Motorola entering local channels. I was invited to both the HTC/Leaf and Motorola launch events and was pretty excited by what I saw and was told (well, with a couple exceptions). HTC devices…