Convertcast - Episode 47 The Love of Tech - Episode 3 July 10, 2010 Apple Mystique - What is it? Why is it important to marketing of Apple products? Has it been tarnished with initial iPhone 4 problems? Has it! Consumer Reports: We reached this conclusion after testing all three of our iPhone 4s (purchased at three separate retailers in the New York area) in the controlled environment of CU’s radio frequency (RF) isolation chamber. In this room, which is impervious to outside radio signals, our test engineers connected the phones to our base-station emulator, a device that simulates carrier...


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The same settings, lighting. Only point and shoot. No attempt at focus. I tried to hold the 4 devices in as close to the same position as possible while still just fitting the subject in the frame. Hold your mouse over each photo to see which device took which photo: iPhone, Pre, HTC Diamond 2, HTC Touch Pro 2. I want to hear your opinions on the photos. The only comments I’ll make are that the Diamond 2, with its 5 megapixel camera took much longer to “develop” the photo than did the other 3 devices. Tapping the screens of all but the Pre took the picture...


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Episode 12 Sept. 28, 2009 Guest Joel Johnson - @j2inet on Twitter Jerry is now an internet marketing consultant for WSI - Congrats and good luck, Jerry! Joel's mom is using a Mac Browsers for the family - Firefox or Chrome while Joel sticks with IE Surprise, family! You're using Windows 7. Alli moans and complains about monitoring at school Joel moans about corporate monitoring Can you install software without agreeing to the EULA agreement? Joel would never suggest his relatives use Windows Mobile Everyone is on a different network At Joel's house, you don't find...


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SPB has finally released the long awaited update to its wildly popular Mobile Shell. Version 3 is now available for $29.95, or for an upgrade price of only $14.97. I forget why I had stopped using the older version of Mobile shell, so I won’t be making any comparisons here. What I will say is it’s beautiful, and nowhere near as difficult to set up as some other reviews have made it seem.   I have run into a few little problems with SPBMS3, but I have a strong suspicion that they have more to do with the bizarre behavior of my Treo 800w than the application. For instance, following a phone...


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This has been my goal since the day I first started seriously toying with the notion of switching to a WinPho. I have always admitted to hating Outlook, even though I really can’t explain why. I prefer my email viewed in Mozilla Thunderbird. Thunderbird actually gives me far more control over the layout. I liked using the Palm Desktop for my contacts and calendar: more precisely, I preferred using Agendus. Iambic offers an Outlook version of Agendus, but it’s still just Outlook with a pretty wrapper.   So what changed? As most of you know, my love of Agendus was so great, that about...


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This morning we had the pleasure of having Eric Lin from HTC as a guest on the msmobiles podcast. Eric was battered by questions from our panel, and answered most of them. Following is a list of the questions he was asked: Everyone wants a 3.5mm headset jack on their phones, why do HTC keep using the EXT USB connector? Will HTC adopt the universal charger ie microUSB? How much of a game changer has The Touch Diamond been for HTC? Where are the best areas for sales of the company? Video playback performance of HTC devices has always been poor compared with other manufacturers, eg the Touch...


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