Third Time’s the Charm? Blackberry Bold

I recently had to part ways with my Blackberry Pearl – some heartache, I suppose, but time and product innnovation march on. There is a lot to like about the Blackberry Bold – I am definitely happy to have made the change …

<aside> … although my inner conspiracy theorist sees a case of planned obsolescence. [...]

Thoughts During a Power Outage

I am sitting in the cube outside my office, connected by wireless to our corporate network in an otherwise darkened office. The power is out – started around 3AM, and it is apparently affecting a large area, not just this building.

Kudos to the infrastructure team that strung up the wireless access points here – thanks [...]

New Twitter features starting to make things more relevant

Here’s a new plugin for Firefox that’s helpful for my use of Twitter – twitterbar. Yes, there’s a number of plugins designed to integrate Twitter with Firefox, but this one seems to work fine. Note that it works better now that I’ve upgraded to Firefox 2.0 – always a good idea to keep up with [...]

Rare event: Design problems with my Blackberry Pearl

I’ve finally found a design issue or two with the Blackberry Pearl. That’s an accomplishment of a sort – I’ve written about how I like this thing, it’s been quite handy.
However, today I was calling for technical support for something (not the Blackberry …), and I was prompted by an Automated Voice Response (AVR) [...]

Noisy little Blackberry Pearl

attributed to RIM) …

Unfortunately, this “buzzing” is a characteristic that is
unavoidable on any mobile phone that operates in the GSM 850/1900 MHz
range (not just BlackBerry, but all other phones also).

Essentially, whenever the phone transmits or receives on the
850/1900 MHz band any nearby speakers are “excited” and there is [...]