atmaspheric | endeavors

I spent some time with the G1 over the weekend and am still a bit underwhelmed. Overall the OS seems very polished compared and compared to my experimental install on the Nokia N810 it’s night and day. Still my view is that Android is far more designed for the power user rather than [...]

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I’m days behind on feeds and discussion, but I definitely saw some news on the Google G1 phone and find it pretty disappointing. I know it’s absolutely a first generation product and there are certainly nice features in the UI that I’ve seen, but what’s been left out is pretty poor.
Sure the Google phone [...]

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In the beginning of August, Nokia invited me along with Alec Saunders, Jim Courtney and Jason Harris to Toronto for a behind the scenes look at a new project called Nokia Legends which launches today.
From our briefing doc:
Nokia legends are engaging stories of future innovations and technologies, which may sound far-fetched today but will be [...]

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I’m finding the iTunes Genius feature to be pretty disappointing … The sidebar function is simply a re-branded mini-store from previous versions offering a mix of things I own and offers the usual :30 sec sample limitation. The Genius playlist function could be a whole lot more interesting than it is, but [...]

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CNET reports on the release of Yahoo OneConnect in preview form for the iPhone today. OneConnect is a social networking aggregator allowing you to maintain contact across networks from a single mobile application.
I’d seen this running in a much earlier state back in February on an N95 and I thought it looked [...]

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Nokia has just announced that the free Mail For Exchange (MFE) client is now available across the full range of S60 3rd Edition devices.  This brings enterprise sync to over 80 Million active handsets across 43 different models considerably enhancing the potential scale for enterprise communications.  Mail for Exchange runs over Microsoft’s Active Sync protocol [...]

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We are well into the second and final day of DEMO and my brain is swelling with information. There’s a great deal of excitement across a broad range of technologies whether hardware, software or service. Since the format of the event groups like companies into the same cluster you get a very interesting [...]

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The most interesting thing about today’s Apple announcements are that the iPod can do “voice” with the new headphones. Pricing is particularly interesting at the 16GB range where the iPhone and iPod Touch are identically positioned at $299. The focus seems to be on voice memos for the iPod, but it’s going to [...]

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The morning has been great so far with quite a few companies strutting their stuff on stage. Every company has done a great job so and there’s a great deal of interesting material here, but the clear winner for most exciting technology is the Plastic Logic eReader. As you can see in this [...]

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I’m at DEMOfall in San Diego and we’re T-minus 10 minutes to start. As you can see I’ve ben lucky enough to get a nice close seat. The show should be great and I’ll be reporting as much as I can through the next two days. Stay tuned!
Technorati Tags: demofall, events, san [...]

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I was actually getting a much better connection in my room, though it was still less than 1MB down. Much better of course being quite relative.
Because we can is not a sufficient reason to charge for broadband. You need to provide something of substance and 1MB (if that!) is not acceptable when you [...]

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When I was confirming my seat earlier in the week with Continental I saw there was an option to get a mobile boarding pass and I decided it would be pretty cool to go paperless and signed up to receive my boarding pass on the phone. The way it works is that you get [...]

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Recently I’ve been traveling quite a bit and really thinkng about the Kindle.  I like that I can get magazines as well as books as I go which would make always having something to read a non-issue.  From the rumors I’ve been reading there does not appear to be a new device coming this year [...]

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Sometimes things happen online that are simply too close to who you are not to believe that your data is being collected, collated and used for marketing (or observation) purposes.  
For my recent  trip to Dubai, I spent quite a bit of time researching things via google and even spent some time on the local [...]

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I was very excited for the Chrome release today.  Spending as much time in the browser as we all do now the experience and performance are critical parts of the online experience.  While it’s a very early release, I definitely like what I see so far and look forward to tracking the progress forward as [...]

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