Jim Bray: “I’m down in the mountains of Western North Carolina these days, using my new Nokia 3650 for e-mail and primitive web-browsing, and as a camera, video-camera, tape recorder, notepad and general PDA. Gotta love it.” (I linked to this once before, but he’s since updated it with a bunch of pictures)
I was just repaving my Thinkpad, and I went to AT&T Wireless’ web site
to install the communications manager for my Nokia 6200, when I noticed
two things:
T-Mobile
has announced that they’ll offer free Pocket PC 2003 Phone Edition
upgrades for “all existing T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition customers.”
This is great; I believe that the 2003 upgrade will finally give you the
ability to use the phone as a modem. (via msmobiles.com)
Robert Hurlbut has some coverage
here and points to Benjamin
Mitchell’s coverage.
Sam Gentile posted his notes on the Rotor BOF that he co-hosted
last night. Thanks, Sam, for helping to run that BOF!
Eric’s Weblog: “JNib is a set of Java
classes that translate Carbon nib files into a Swing UI at runtime, much as IBCarbonRuntime translates the same nibs into
a Carbon UI.” (Eric is looking for someone to take this over and put it up somewhere like SourceForge.)
Boing Boing: GPS-tagged jpegs: location-indexed phonecam pics
Jim Bray has been posting some
Nokia 3650 videos from North Carolina. Ernie Rothman has a wonderful
picture of the Newport Cliff Walk.
It’s been a pretty sad few weeks. My grandmother entered a hospice in
Providence a couple weeks ago, and she passed away last Thursday. I’ve
decided that I’m going to skip the PDC. There are a lot of folks I was
looking forward to seeing again, and some, to meet for the first time.
But, I need to be around my family this week, and that’s what I’m going
to do. Airborne Express willing, I’ll be getting a Minolta
Dimage Scan Dual III film scanner Monday, and I’ll be filling up a
CD-ROM with family memories that are sitting on a bunch of slide rolls
from the 60s and 70s.
So, I’m sorry that I’ll miss you all at the PDC, but please have lots of
fun there for me. BTW, the Rotor BOF is still on for tonight; John Osborn will Emcee,
and Peter Drayton will
fill you in on the future of Rotor.
Russell
Beattie: “Telematics is going to be *huge* in the U.S. Please get off
your asses.”