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iPhone from a webOS User’s Perspective, Smartphone Round Robin

December 16th, 2009

So the suspiciously familiar Dieter Bohn of PreCentral.net got a guided tour (check out the video) from yours truly to catch him up on all things iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3.0 , and he shared his preliminary thoughts on Monday (same link). Of course, there was only so much help I could give him, so he went on over to TiPb’s iPhone Forums for the real experts — you, and boy have you given him some ninja-level instruction. He still needs you, however, so keep posting in that thread — and remember every day you do you get another chance to WIN AN iPHONE 3GS! (smartphoneroundrobin.com has all the details on that).

As for me, I’m still struggling with Nokia, the S60 N97-mini, and N900. Yeah, wish me luck with that. (Or give me some help and maybe win a Nokia smartphone as well!)

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iPhone from a webOS User’s Perspective, Smartphone Round Robin

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TiPb Invades PalmCast Live Tonight for Round Robin — 8pm ET/5pm PT (1am GMT)

December 15th, 2009

Precentral.bet PalmCast

Okay so the PreCentral.net PalmCast called again (I’d changed my number, but that darn Synergy just yanked the new one right off of Facebook. Thanks Zuck!) and they’re like:

“Hey, iPhony, we have your precious little slab in the Round Robin this week, why don’t you come on and watch us torture it with multitasking?”

“Sorry,” I said. “I just received the script via email while I was on this call and now I’m tapping through the web-links without having to hang up on you, what were you saying?”

“How great this Google Voice connection is.”

“Really, sync’ed it over from iTunes, did you?”

“Side-loaded. Now shut it and listen — you show up for 8pm ET/5pm PT at http://www.precentral.net/palmcast-live and Dieter, Derek, and Keith will make sure you’re taken care of.”

“Dieter’s our editor-in-chief as well,” I said. “He loves all his children equally. He swears it.”

“Keep believing that, virtual keyboard boy. Gotta Sprint.”

Then it hung up. Or it needed to connect to the ‘net. Whatev.

But seriously, the 3rd Annual Smartphone Round Robin is on. Don’t miss PalmCast Live.

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TiPb Invades PalmCast Live Tonight for Round Robin — 8pm ET/5pm PT (1am GMT)

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Nokia N900, N97-mini Hands-on Video, Smartphone Round Robin

December 14th, 2009

TiPb-verse, the 2009 Smartphone Round Robin starts NOW! And for me, it starts with what’s likely the biggest challenge — Nokia and its dual platforms of Symbian S60 and Maemo as represented by the N97-mini and the netbook-that-thinks-its-a-smartphone, N900. Hugely popular everywhere that’s not North America, it wasn’t in last year’s Round Robin, and truth-be-told, I’ve barely ever seen it before.

To get some extra help, I’ve got a post up at NokiaExperts.com, where I’m really hoping to get my understanding expanded a notch (or ten).

Dieter Bohn, on duty for Palm webOS has likewise triumphantly returned to TiPb’s iPhone forums, and you folks really need to get in there an get him up to date on all things iPhone 3GS and 3.x.

(As extra incentive, remember that every day you post a reply on those threads (or the other Round Robin threads) you get another chance to win on of six (6!) smartphones — one per site!)

To get things kicked off right, we’ve got a video after the break where likely the best man on earth for the job, Matt Miller gives me a guided tour of the N97-mini and N900, helps me with the interface, and reveals the awesome power of the platforms.

Next up, I spend the week figuring out what Symbian S60 and Maemo mean in relation to the iPhone, the smartphone space in general, and to new users considering their first platform, or veterans considering making the switch. That’ll all be summed up right here on Friday. Can’t. Wait.

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