Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
A little over a year ago I turned off my iPhone 3 and fired up a new HTC Evo Android handset, the initial experience I wrote about here. I recently upgraded my handset from the Evo to the just released Samsung Epic Touch and wanted to share some thoughts about Android after having lived with it [...]
2 weeks ago I wrote about switching camps from iPhone to Android, and with the news today that Android is now outselling iPhone I figured I could either take credit for the shift or do something far more useful and write a short post about my experiences so far. To recap, I dumped iPhone/AT&T for [...]
This week I picked up an HTC Evo to replace my trusty iPhone 3G. My reason for doing this is twofold, featuring a technical and a philosophical reason. I should also take a paragraph to explain that this post isn’t about what device is better because better is an entirely subjective quality but more significantly [...]
James wrote something yesterday that included this graphic: What caught my attention, as was the intention of the graphic, was the Android traffic number climbing from effectively zero to more than 40% in just a year and a couple of months. Obviously this was the intention of the graphic (note the green color of the [...]
My wife came home with a Droid yesterday, which on one hand was pretty cool while on the other very disturbing as she is by no means a geek and not once did she ask for my opinion on this device. I suspect that some kind of counseling may be necessary. Having had the opportunity [...]
I just read a very interesting op-ed about the opportunities and hazards of cloud computing and it resonated with me on several levels. Some are in plain view. If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you. For example, if your favorite music is rented or authorized from [...]
When I saw this on Drudge I thought the picture was related to the story, when in fact it was attached to a story about North Korea. There is something Orwellian about any mobile service that enables detailed information sharing with advertisers.. if a carrier wants to offer a free version of their service that [...]
Gloves are a problem as well. I was in NYC last week and found myself increasingly annoyed that I had to take off a glove in order to use my iPhone. San Francisco attorney Claire Choo wouldn’t trade her iPhone 3G for anything. But she’ll be the first to tell you the phone’s touch screen [...]
Interested in a unique insight on why writing iPhone apps isn’t for the faint of heart or the novice? Brent Simmons is one of the most respected developers in this space for good reason, he knows his stuff and continually one ups what others are doing. I’ve been working heavily and steadily on iPhone code [...]
Phoneflix has completely changed my interactions with Netflix. Now, wherever I am I can open it on my iPhone and manage my Netflix queue. It’s as random as while watching television or at the car wash or even sitting is a movie theatre watching previews. TweetDeck (and Thwirl before it) accelerated my twitter usage. Yammer’s [...]