cellphones

Well, after an extended sabatical, I have finally returned.  There really aren't a ton of excuses for my prolonged absence from imparting my words of wisdom.  However, let me offer some tepid explanations.

My original hiatus began because of just shear workload.  As you may recall, I am implementing the platform technology to support the Mobile MUSE projects.  The platform provides various services that are ostensibly valuable for content developers in delivering their applications to mobile users in the cellular environment.  Well, as is the case with most technical projects, the task became bigger than I had hoped for.  I continued to experience problem after problem after problem.  Some were attributable to my own inexperience in some areas.  Some were attributable to changing requirements from the MUSE projects.  Some were attributable to hardware failures.  And some were attributable to arcanery in the mobile networks.  Whatever the reason, I was spending WAY more time on this project than I had planned.  I decided to bail on least pressing of the issues - namely my blog postings.

I know there are million sites out there that do reviews of cellphones.  So I suppose this blog is not particularly unique in its topic.  However, I wanted to give you my personal perspective on a new device I've been recently playing with: the Nokia N91 mobile phone.  I wanted to describe how this device is becoming closer to my ideas for a media-rich mobile device suitable for the work we are doing in Mobile MUSE.

I have to preface this blog with the admission that I served as the Chief Architect of the Nokia Vancouver product creation centre here in Vancouver for about 4 years, so one can assume what biases you wish.  But let me just say while at Nokia, I tried very hard to make the best product possible and that never involves self-prostelizing ones own creations.