I’ve been traveling a lot lately and apart from packing my iPod with 8 hours worth of music, I’ve come to grow into the whole audiobook thing. Yeah, they’ve been around for a long time – audiobooks – but its been loads easier to load them up on an iPod from a seller like Audible.
Audible is probably the biggest seller and producer of audiobooks to the point that iTunes has built in an Audible authorization feature onto its platform. But I’m wondering though if people use their mobile phones to listen to podcasts – the Nseries of Nokia for instance …read more

In this podcast, Mike Abundo and I talk about the great technology divide. Among many other topics for his blog, we also talk about Apple’s 1.1.1 patch and the Google Phone.

PayPal sends money to the Philippines, and how we eliminate the middle man
Cash for video embedders
Online video product placements
Jayvee’s bipolar reaction to Apple
Yahoo’s new stratplan
Google Phones and advertising

So yeah, this is a blog all about cellphones. So why are we talking about the iPod touch? I managed to try one today at a media event and all I can say is that one needs to take a step back and think about where the iPod touch falls in comparison to the iPhone and the rest of the iPod line.
The iPod touch is a tad slimmer than the iPhone. It doesn’t allow you to download files via the web browser, and the Starbucks WiFi store partnership only applies to countries where Starbucks chooses to participate. With the iPhone …read more

I’m in Singapore! Although the Nokia Go Play event ended several hours ago (we took a post event trip to Equinox, a bar located at the highest peak of Singapore), there are a lot more things happening tomorrow. In the meantime let me give an overview of what took place today as Nokia launched several new products and services.

If you’re the type who wants to do mobile podcasts and record interviews, you may want to forego the bulky hassle of bringing along your laptop and your microphone. A tape recorder will always do but why not try recording your podcast straight from your mobile phone. If your phone supports 3GP video recording, this is what you do:
Step 1
Make sure you have a black cloth with you. Run the video recorder application and place it in between the conversation.
Step 2
Cover the phone’s video screen with the cloth so that the phone will technically be recording “nothing.”
Step 3
Use an audio …read more

Two notable products are pushing the strong winds for Sony Ericsson to sail forward. The niched Walkman phones for music have been prevalent on several price points bringing it down to all levels of consumers. The second products are the Cybershot branded cameras which are the “king of the hill” when it comes to camera phones.
With digital audio and video tightly integrated onto mobile phones, as seen in SE’s huge profits, what will the future hold for us? Mobile blogging? No, because that’s there already. How about mobile podnetcasting? Multimedia phones have so much memory built in, it is …read more

So one year ago, I started Cellphone9 with the help of Jeremy and the guys from b5. Today I decided to launch the first podcast for C9 as a personal project. Guesting with me is Rico Mossesgeld from The Smart PDA.

You can download the podcast here.
In this first episode we talk about:

- reminiscing the past
- introducing my guest
- the “death of the PDA?”
- overlooked features in mobile phones that are a must have