I was breezing through the Locale plugins on the Android market and stumbled upon RemoteStick, a free app (or you could spring for the $1.50 donation version) which is a companion, a client technically, to the TellStick system, $90 or so bucks from the Swedes, $95 from the Brits, which is a little USB stick … Read more
From: Micah To: Doug Simmons Subject: address I need your address so I can send you your wedding present. You don’t have Google TV yet, right? On the way. Micah Jackpot. Rivals the 1964 Gibson Hummingbird guitar in terms of the best wedding present, can’t wait for this thing to show up. Really, I can’t … Read more
I tend not to give money to beggars when I’m riding the subway. In my defense I give more than my share outside of the subway, but nothing spoils a New York City subway ride’s mood like some man or woman opening the car door to recite their hard luck story and since I regard … Read more
So my wife (we’re fresh newlyweds) and I rent in NYC’s Manhattan Valley, doing our share to contribute to its gentrification and raise rent prices for the natives. One thing that had been bothering me for a while was that our bathtub/shower drain drained more slowly than the shower sprayed, so by the end of … Read more
Great article on ZDNet going through the thought process behind helping your dad to buy a smartphone and the conclusion reached is that there’s a mega demographic out there of the elderly Baby Boomer generation that are adapting to smartphones and when you lay them all out there, Windows Phone actually makes sense. From an … Read more
It’s that simple. Think I’ll let the video do the talking this time. BlindType website here, rumor mill / speculation / wow XDA thread here. Suck it, Swype nuts and hard keyboard hippies! Doug Simmons
If you like Snood then you have to try out Bubble Birds since it’s pretty similar, and it’s free. It’s from the same guys that did Droplets and again, the graphics are buttery smooth even on Windows Mobile. You have to connect chains of at least 3 of the same color bird and everything that’s … Read more
When we were first provided with the specs for the Samsung Focus, Microsoft had listed it as 3 hour talk time, 250 hour standby. time I couldn’t wrap my head around how it could be so bad when other Windows Phones were better and they’re all essentially the same specs (chipset wise at least). Well … Read more
Few weeks ago we published a short poll trying to figure out how important is Flash to the readers of MobilityDigest and The Mobile Spoon.
The answers were a bit surprising as I knew many people will say they want it, but the numbers turned out to be really high.
Wait what? Was the (Phone Who’s Name Is Not Spoken) not Microsoft’s best attempt at having a Facebook phone? Well I didn’t think so and apparently someone else agrees. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is a Social Phone Done Right! Gone are the dark days of having to wait for an official app to be released, … Read more
Apparently MS learned that the ad campaign Old Spice was using with Isaiah Mustafa led to them increasing sales by 107% and even though this has to lead to a million jokes about covering up odors, they still went with it. Here’s the spot: Brilliance? I don’t know, but it is funny. via Engadget
AT&T published their video footage of the launch event on Monday. They managed to capture the overall atmosphere of the event within this short video. We even got a little face time (face time, ya get it?) at the end, and even a nice catch phrase! Take a look! AT&T’s Windows Phone launch event coverage … Read more