What’s Doug Running?

On my old and proudly abandoned WinMo website I had a section called What’s Doug Running? which people liked partly out of voyeuristic titillation but also for app inspiration using me as an apps role model given how apparently sturdy an authority on the matter I appeared to them from the rest of the sections including the fanmail page where I’d post only the nice emails people sent me, most of which I wrote myself.

So now I have this Google phone and with it I can say sianara to the need to help people desperate to get their phones less crappy because Google phones simply aren’t like that out of the box whereas Microsoft phones are. So, no third website from me on how to tweak your registry to get GPS working right with Android and all that other WinMo crap. But that particular section, that’s worth mentioning right here, but for my Android collection. Top Ten Android Apps lists are a dime a dozen and you’re only going to find a top ninetysomething apps vouched for and used by Doug Simmons list here.

So after the break, if you’d like, I’m going to hit you all with an annotated list, complete with market hyperlinks if you’re reading this on an Android phone, of what I’m running at the moment, things you may want to consider running too. Things to consider being able to run were you to take the plunge and buy a Google phone like so many others including our own Dr. Jim Taylor (PhD doc, don’t ask him for Percocet scripts) who gave himself extensive psychotherapy to break out of his Microsoft Stockholm Syndrome which sadly still afflicts a handful of our other writers.

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On the Fence: A fragmented future with Windows Phone

I’m definitely not done making decisions, especially with how awesome and free the Samsung Captivate is probably going to be when I’m ready for my upgrade.  However, in the spirit of this whole me-sharing-my-upgrade-experience thing I wanted to let you in on some of my internal thought process about the long term development of mobile operating systems.  … Read more

Mobility Digest Review: 7" Philips PET741B Widescreen Portable DVD Player

Welcome to another review on Mobility Digest, this isn’t a phone, but this is Mobility Digest, not Phone dvd1 Digest meaning that anything mobility counts right? We should diversify and not just review phones, but we should review anything that’s related to being mobile. Yes we can have a larger focus on phones, but i think we should think everything mobility related and not limit ourselves.

Today for review I’ve got one of Geeks cheap portable DVD players, it’s the Phillips PET741B model actually and it’s a widescreen player that works fairly well overall. It’s small, it’s portable and it works well. The player is a basic one yes, but it works for playing DVDs and CDs, and what more could you ask for right?!

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Windows Phone Notification

One of the features of Windows Phone 7 that doesn’t get talked about much but does play a part in the overall experience users have on their phone are notifications.  Microsoft delivers notifications in three flavors and they all work well together.  The three types of notifications are 1) Tile 2) Toast 3) Raw.  Check … Read more

Windows Phone 7 requires Zune 4.7

In case any of our faithful readers and admirers of Windows Phone 7 didn’t already know your future Windows Phone 7 requires the latest version (v 4.7) of the Zune software to recognize and sync with your PC.  I know what you’re thinking..so what cool updates are included? There you have it, the very first … Read more

News for July 23rd 2010

hey, hey.. happy Friday to you all! it’s time for the news once again from all over the world, read it and news enjoy it…

I’m working on several reviews for here, hopefully I’ll get one up tonight, if not it will be tomorrow.. It’s just a little one of a Phillips portable DVD player, but then next week I’ll have a couple reviews of Motorola stuff for you.. Then another GPS, a 802.11n router and something else that I totally forget what it is.. I’ve just got too much stuff floating around here to even keep track anymore..

I do have the Samsung Captivate for AT&T for review, but not for here though.. still though it’s the first decent Android phone on AT&T, but from my time with it you still can’t install anything but approved apps, but of course there are workarounds for that..

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Spinner Space Game Demoed For WP7

Here’s a demo of a space shooter game also coded in Silverlight. You need to get to the end point without hitting too many obstacles (your ship has the life meter on it). Looks good so far. Let’s hope that Silverlight can handle this many touch events…if not then it’s headed to XNA world I … Read more

Billiards for Windows Phone 7 Previewed

Here’s a good start to a Silverlight billiards game. Multiplayer would be sweet Another simple game I am building for Windows Phone 7, based on a Silverlight version I created previously. I would like to make a multiplayer version in which players can complete between the web (using Silverlight clients) and a phone.

The fallout from Google’s mobile store shutdown

When I purchased my Nexus One, the only phone purported to give customers the true “Google Experience,” I knew by that point that it was not selling well or at least not selling up to expectations. I was unsurprised but undeterred. Paying for unlocked phones was an old habit of mine, as I had spent … Read more