I’d like to buy a new mobile phone (GSM), the problem is I can’t seem to find one that fits my needs.
I currently own a Sony Ericsson P800 which I bought at an extortionate price practically the first day it came out in Belgium (Gadget lust). And, to be honest, I think it’s a very expensive piece of shit. As powerful as it may be, the interface feels like it was built for engineers, not users. The pseudo-keypad broke quite fast, and I’m now running it in virtual keypad mode, which is very nice sitting at a desk, but another story in the street. I’ve gone through at least 10 stylii, luckily the Sony-Ericsson center seem to like me and I get new ones for free or that would have been quite an expense already. Granted, some of these things were fixed in the P900/P910 but were no quantum leap either and certainly not reason enough to upgrade. The P950 looks better but is overkill for me.
My needs have also changed and I don’t need a phone that can call the space shuttle or make toast in the morning.
So, what’s my ideal model like?
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23.11.05 - 22:37
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There’s been a renewed interested in statistics recently. First we had reinvigorate, which has since then shut down and gone into closed beta testing, then came shortstat which mutated into mint and hit the internet by storm (hey, it’s running here so it must be good *cough*). Just recently, adaptive path announced the good-looking measure map and, last but not least, Google just hit us with Google Analytics, based on their recent purchase of Urchin.
Google Analytics is free, that’s going to hurt a lot of other services out there. I used Urchin in my previous job and it was an extremely well thought-out stats package, if you get that for free now it’s one hell of a deal (notwithstanding the whole “Google owns all my information” uneasiness, that is).
Who will make the next move?
14.11.05 - 12:38
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I thought we’d witnessed the death of the whole custom start page thing after the first bubble burst (am I subconsciously expecting another? <Scottish innkeeper from Little Britain voice>Yessssss...</voice>, but I digress...), however they’ve been resurrected with a vengeance. They aggregate external content now instead of following the old walled garden model of their predecessors and they’ve been spiced up with flash or all kinds of ajaxy eye-candy goodness, but the principle remains the same: a single start page condensing everything you read or need into a bite-sized chunk of html.
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06.11.05 - 00:49
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