atmaspheric | endeavors

Location based services are something that’s been hyped for a years now. While everyone has heard of the coupon from Starbucks example, how about a real world practical use case?  The emergency system in Israel is the first time I’ve heard of anything like this and sounds very impressive.
The 10 minute warning system that [...]

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A team at VentureBeat was able to get Android running on an Asus EEEPC 1000H netbook, which is certainly a cool hack.
I’m not sure this is something I would personally want in the current state other than as a proof of concept. Though once things are perhaps more optimized for a larger touch screen [...]

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In my regular commute on the train it’s not uncommon to see people with two phones - and like the cited UK survey notes one is the typical work Blackberry. The other varies from a freebie looking flip to an iPhone.
The average mobile phone owner now has an average of 1.8 handsets and [...]

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Mark is VP Industry Collaborations for Nokia and a very well spoken guy and definitely worth a watch. In this interview Mark talks about his role collaborating in our evolving mobile world. Who owns the customer is a particularly interesting topic discussed.

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Kevin Tofel brought a new 3G modem to my attention today and I got very excited about the possibilities as it supports Tri-band HSDPA (850, 1900 and 2100) which would work in my global travels.
It was impossible to tell from the AT&T site whether the device was locked so I picked up the [...]

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Figured it was worth a try …

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Andy Abramson just posted the most amazing list of his accounts, devices and methods for staying connected globally. Impressive does not even begin to cover it.

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via jkkmobile of course!
This new MSI Wind U120 system sounds killer!

10 inch 1024 x 600 screen
1.6 GHz Intel® Atom™ with1GB RAM
160GB HDD
Wifi b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.0edr
3G HSDPA/HSUPA
3 x usb2
4-in-1-card reader
1.3Mpix cam with mic
4400mAH 6 cell battery
XP Home

Of course I’m still more than capable of being swayed by a surprise from Apple if they feel up to [...]

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I just got an email about Tuneroom,(redirects to http://www.sideload.com/m) the latest idea from MP3tunes and it’s pretty slick. You just search for a track, choose your file quality and download away. All for free!

I gave it a quick try and it’s definitely worth a bookmark for when you want to grab something on [...]

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As simple as the layout is on del.icio.us it’s remarkable that it’s really not a very mobile friendly site … at least until now. There’s finally a true mobile version of the site and it looks great! The only thing we actually need now is an easy way to add bookmarks rather than [...]

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Here are some shots captured at the briefing I attended last evening …
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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(more pictures to come - need more connection speed!)
Today Nokia announced the Nokia N97, the new flagship of the Nseries line.  The N97 brings a QWERTY keyboard to Nseries for the first time as well as continuing the touch UI (S60 5th Edition) introduced in the 5800 Express Music.  The home screen is all new [...]

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It’s easy to maintain a single status line across services which lets you report the same update across your social services.  I tend to use Ping.Fm mainly which lets me deliver cross-service updates via email, IM and web including mobile.  What’s missing in this age of unified communications though is the ability to share a [...]

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Do you use more than one sim and more than one device? If you do then I would imagine you’ve also experienced the pain that’s associated with re-configuring EVERY data-centric application to a new access point each time you switch!
Why can’t phones be smarter to see that once the SIM has been [...]

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I have two active phones - A Nokia E71 running on an ATT SIM and an N96 running on a T-Mobile SIM. Because the T-Mobile SIM was initially provisioned for Blackberry service it seems to only have access to the T-zones access point which absolutely sucks. For starters, you can only have two [...]

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I’ve been traveling rather extensively for the past month and it’s not always easy to find a WiFi hotspot which is not that much of an issue when you have a DUN capable 3G mobile. The Nokia CA-100 accessory (above in action) is a killer addition to my gadget bag as it uses my [...]

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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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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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