Video and Podcast

Here's a quick audio preview of content for upcoming posts, that I recorded on a brand new Nokia E71.

• I'm OK with 3 year cell phone contracts here in Canada (this is going to be a post)
• I like the E71 (this will be another post)
• Rogers is the devil, Fido is the anti christ (and for hipsters)
• "They do have dogs, which is why I signed up for them in the first place" - Stewart Marshall.

Here's the audio file. My dad is heading back to Spain for another walk along the Camino, so he's learning his way around the E71 in wifi only mode, while I'm still on the Nokia N78, except now with a data plan. I need to also do a final review post of the N78.

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Update: so, yeah, if you type in JUST "Boston" into Apple's Accuweather widget, you'll get weather for Boston, Georgia. It's nice and warm there this time of year, apparently :P Turns out we're going to need to go to Target and buy some sweaters and stuff.

Here's me in a snowbank in Boston, MA and a screencap of the Boston, GA, forecast:

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Rob Lewis from Techvibes and I talk about the Strutta launch. Or at least, the super sekret alpha launch. It's been fun to see the buzz build, and start to see the first initial pieces of the Strutta story come out. I'm looking forward to the whole story being revealed.

Disclaimer: I'm an advisor to Strutta

I've now got ShoZu on my Nokia 6630 setup to easily send video to my blip.tv account*. Lots of Gnomedex video going up.

Most fun was lamenting about the lack of Nokia smartphones to buy here in North America with Bre Pettis (someone *needs* to give Bre a phone for his Phonetagger alter-ego) and Will Pate. Short story here is: Nokia, forget about buzz marketing to give away phones -- there are people that just want to *buy* your high end phones.

Watch the Video

And I'm going to repeat what I said to Nokia before about encouraging carriers (especially in Canada):

My top hint on what Nokia should do? Forget the free phones: continue to sell great phones, but pressure Fido and Rogers to offer a "citizen journalism" data package so people in Canada can use all the cool features. The HipTop plan from Fido is $25/month for unlimited data...I think there would be a ton of people that would pay that to be able to upload pictures to Flickr on the fly and use all of the other great features that Nokia phones can enable (*cough* ShoZu *cough*).