Archive for the 'Devices' Category

Nokia E71 and new Twitter client

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

I finally upgraded my phone from N80 to E71. The new Nokia E71 is a really nice. Even the Symbian S60 feels much better now that the phone has enough memory to run it. Operating system still has not changed that much compared to my first smart phone, Nokia 7650 which I had in 2002. [...]

How to fix Nokia 770’s 3.5mm audio jack?

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Nokia 770 3.5mm audio jack
I have used my Nokia 770 as a portable media player since the Canola player was released. The Canola player was also the reason I was forced to disassemble my device.
I’ve been using the player during the bus trips to work and even though the device is quite small it is [...]

BlackBerry JDE, NetBeans IDE 5.5 and Vista

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

I’m just about to release the next version of the RSS Reader MIDlet. I had a bit of a trouble when I tried to get a BlackBerry JDE to work with NetBeans IDE 5.5 and Windows Vista. As I wrote earlier it was rather easy to setup for Windows XP.
I set up the environment like [...]

New laptop running Windows Vista

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

I bought a new laptop and just finished installing Windows Vista’s Ultimate edition on it. Vista was released for MSDN users a week ago and it seems that it will be available to general public in February 2007.
It is good to know that NetBeans IDE seems to work with Vista without any problems whereas Microsoft’s [...]

RSS Reader for BlackBerry

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

There were some anonymous requests for releasing a BlackBerry version of the RSS Reader MIDlet so I took the challenge and was able to build a version for BlackBerry. The application seems to work with the BlackBerry emulator and according to the anonymous comment it installs over the air on the actual device. Here are [...]

Internet in a tablet, Nokia 770

Monday, June 12th, 2006

I have been using the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet for a few months and I’ll have to say that it is a fantastic piece of hardware. I was quite uncertain that I would keep using it after the “wow” effect but it has indeed become very handy device that I use daily for checking emails, [...]