Things that work and do not work out very well
by Volker Weber
There are so many things on my mind that I don't want to post in a string of entries here on vowe.net. So I am making a list, in no particular order:
- When I was in Palo Alto, I bought a LunaTik. I love it. With long sleeves, I just run the wire of my headset down to the iPod. That's sort of an invisible iPod.
- The iPhone 4S camera is just wonderful. Have not done any video yet, but even nightshots turn out beautifully.
- Siri does not get me. Or I don't get Siri. It's sort of like the Newton trying to understand my cursive writing. Dictation works, but I don't know what I want to say, unless I can see what I type.
- The Nokia N9 is nicer than the new Lumia 800. But the Lumia is going to be a lot more useful. It's already there today: MusicMix is Last.fm without user accounts plus offline use.
- Nokia will sell a ton of Lumia 800s. The N9 is going to be a collector's item. There are a couple of things to tell them apart. The 800 has a dedicated camera button. You don't need to wake and unlock it. It's going right there. The flash is inline with the silver strip right in the center line of the back, on the N9 it's above the camera lens on the left side of the back. The 800 does not have the front facing camera, which the N9 does not have any software for. That's a tie.
- I continue to love the Nokia BH-905i headset for long travels. There is no match. At least I have not found one.
- NFC is in it's infancy. If you tap a Bold 9900 and any Nokia handset nothing happens. Same is true for the Nexus.
- I read about 10% of Isaacson's Jobs biography. So far it has been boring.
- If you go to a Nokia event, bring an old school notebook with Ethernet port. Everything else fails. Make sure your battery is charged. I should really have brought the PlayBook. That would have worked with the BlackBerry. Which despite the October outage continues to be my mainstay while abroad.
- Speaking of the PlayBook, RIM isn't going to ship Tablet OS 2.0 until next February. What a stinker.
Comments
Just a curiosity: are you talking to Siri in German or English language?
My understanding was that also a german version was shipping whit the early units..
Pieterjan Lansbergen, 2011-10-28
