Purple3

I really like twitter! I sometimes like to say things, but not to a particular person, just thinking a thought to some space. And updates via sms are amazing, they must be quite expensive for twitter and I don't know how they are paid for, but I enjoy them anyway.

Now I discovered twitterfeed.com. It checks for updates on RSS feeds and posts them to twitter, if you give it a valid username and password that the update will come from.

I can now have the RSS updates posted as some user, and follow it with the user that's actually me. I will therefor receive updates on my favorite RSS feeds.

If anyone can agree with my choice, feel free to follow giveMeSomething to sometimes be updated!

Feeds right now:

• OPERA-DESKTOP-BLOG
  
• FSCKLOG
  

It's very sad to see what mobiles they sell these days. I get to see a lot of them, and a lot of friends ask me about what mobile they should pick if their contracts run out. And it's obviously a very tough choice.

Very scary part 1: The Nokia 7500 Prism
Nokia claims the 80's retro-style is done on purpose. It is very ugly. The OS is called Serious 40, a Nokia home-grown thing that hasn't changed much for years. And to make it short, its not worth a closer look, because the 4-way navigation joystick is completely unusable, its almost impossible to hit the "up"-direction without pressing "fire".

Very scary part 2: The SonyEricsson P1i
The problem in this phone consists of various components. At first, every button on the keyboard can be pressed into ether the left or right direction. That might sound like it saves a lot of space, and still gives you full QWERTY keyboard, but in reality it feels horrible. Because even if you're in a mode when you only press numbers, the key still moves left or right under your finger.. I'd rather have an on-screen keyboard then.

Much worse: The software. The phone uses UIQ3. I haven't seen such a bad look and feel since Windows 3.1x. Visually its actually quite compare able to that, whereas it's actually a lot less usable. It's not easy to point that down to one certain way it behaves, but it seems every click you do takes long to process, and it probably won't lead you to where you thought you'd be going. In addition, everything on the screen is really tiny, so you have to pull out the stylus for a lot of things. Summing it up, I think I can say they made every mistake that they could in the OS.

Relief
comes from SonyEricsson's walkman platform. There's a number of models, for example the W880i, that use their own proprietary OS, and that works kind of well. It hasn't changed to the better in the past years, they seem to make a lot of mistakes too, but all in all I guess it something you CAN use.

I shouldn't have to say how much of a relief the iPhone is, but not everyone is a) in the right country b) willing to change the operator or c) willing/able to spend THAT much money (as its contracts cost in Germany for example).

Conclusion: Don't ask me anymore.. I'm kind of frustrated about mobiles '08