Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

A Great Little Phone – Nokia E6 Unboxing and First Impressions

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E6 and Sharpie

WOMWorld/Nokia has loaned me a Nokia E6 to evaluate. Here are my initial impressions and few unboxing photos. Hardware: This is one solid little phone. Mine is black with white and stainless steel trim which I think looks quite nice on this particular phone. The battery door and sides are metal and the front is all glass. The body of the phone appears to be a high quality plastic that is almost indistinguishable from cast metal.  The back of the … Continue reading →

Stay Away From Travelocity’s Mobile Site!

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Travelocity Mobile Flight Status Fail

I don’t know about you but when I travel I tend to use my mobile browser a lot. Checking flight status, finding hotels and restaurants are common tasks for the traveler and even if you have a laptop with you it’s  usually easier to  just pull out your phone. I’ve never actually tried to book a flight using only a mobile browser but it is possible on many airline and online travel booking sites. However, the latest version of Online … Continue reading →

L. L. Bean’s New M-Commerce Webapp

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L. L. Bean Mobile

L.L.Bean, the 100 year old “Down East” retailer of outdoor apparel and gear has finally joined the mobile world with a smartphone optimized m-Commerce web app.  It’s surprising it took Bean this long as the company has a long history of innovation.  It pioneered the now common concept of free shipping for all products and is often cited as a model of customer service excellence. Created by m-commerce specialist house Usablenet, the mobile site lets you browse and search the L. L. … Continue reading →

Nokia’s Mobile Site Shows the N9 As Available Now In The US!

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N9 Mobile Site

I fired up a Nokia N95-3 yesterday to test a mobile site’s compatibility with the old S60 3rd ed FP1 browser and look what came up when I opened the browser (images above). It’s a full screen ad for the N9. I believe that it will appear on any N95-3 where the user hasn’t altered the default homepage. The North American N95-3’s default home page is www.nseries.com/usportal/ which redirects to http://nokian9.12dld.mobi/n9/view.do?name=NOKIAN9, a promotional site for the as yet unreleased N9 MeeGo … Continue reading →

Nokia’s N950 Developer Phone Looking Consumer Ready – Will Nokia Reconsider and Release It?

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Nokia N950 Developer Phone

Image – FoneArena.com Two week’s after Nokia’s N9 MeeGo phone announcement the platform is still generating considerable buzz.  The N9’s not released yet but its developer only clone, the N950, is starting to show up outside of Nokia – and its getting rave reviews. FoneArena has just published an extensive hands on report by Dhruv Bhutani covering the N950. Laced  with dozens of high quality photos and videos it’s phone porn at its finest. Dhruv says he’s “in love”  with the N950, … Continue reading →

Download Free Mobile eBooks From Project Gutenberg

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Project Gutenberg Mobile

Project Gutenberg now has its own mobile webapp at m.gutenberg.org.  The project, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2011, creates free eBook editions of books that are out of copyright or were published under a license such as Creative Commons that allows them to be distributed freely. The catalog currently has over 36,000 titles. Dubbed “PG Mobile”, the mobile version carries the entire Gutenberg catalog.  Author, title and subject search makes it easy to find your favorite authors and books. … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 6.1 and Opera Mobile 11.1 – Resizable Text Selection and More

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Opera Mobile 11.1 Text Selection

Today Opera Software released new versions of both its mobile browsers. Opera Mini 6.1 is now available at m.opera.com for Java, Symbian (2nd edition and later) and BlackBerry (OS 4.2.1 and later) devices and in the Android Market for Android 1.5 and later. Opera Mobile 11.1 is available from the same locations for Symbian (3rd edition and later) and Android 1.6 and later. My favorite improvement in both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile is with the way text selection for … Continue reading →

GeoFanPage – Facebook Driven Local Search

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GeoFanPages

Coded in 24 hours at the Muther of all Hackathons in Silicon Valley this mobile web app finds nearby businesses by searching Facebook Fan Pages.  It won its co-creators a pair MacBook Airs as the best mashup using fitml.com‘s cross-platform mobile web platform. Clicking a search result displays the businesses address, click to call phone number and a mobile formatted view of their Facebook Wall and Twitter timeline The cross platform app works only in browsers with geolocation support, there’s no … Continue reading →