Next

What a palaver with this Xda Orbit 2 car kit!
After some Twitter exchanges today, fellow blogger-tester Sarah Blow posted a video in response to mine at the weekend re the difficulties I’m having in getting the phone cradle to fit with the pole thingy.
A brilliant video, Sarah, showing how easy it should be!
Yet no matter [...]

Last Monday, I received an Xda Orbit 2 mobile phone courtesy of mobile operator O2 and their ad agency VCCP.
So I’ve been playing with this gadget all week, trying it out mostly with wifi. It’s very nice indeed.
As a phone, it does what all phones do (let you make and receive calls) and it does [...]

I took part in an experiment today to try out ooVoo, a new video conferencing and messaging service that, according to its Wikipedia entry, is similar to Skype video calling.
Similar indeed as both services use the internet for their connection and a webcam to communicate. Both also offer additional features, notably phone calling and text [...]

Last week, I started testing Profy, a new social blogging platform that’s in by-invitation alpha testing.
All things blogging in one application, is how the service describes itself with services that include a blog, RSS reader, and social network tools like messaging, all managed from a central dashboard.
I’ve done only a few things so far [...]