Contract v Prepay OR E71 v Diamond v iPhone 2

I've been wondering why Italy is mostly pre-paid so I looked at my T-mobile plan.

3 lines, 1000 minutes, t-zones on my line, 400 texts on the daughter's line.

After fees and taxes that's about 100$

Well, If I'm on pre-pay 100$ gets me 1000 minutes which is exactly my current
plan.

Now if I pretend I do not have the SMS package and tzones and I'm using 600 to 700 minutes I pay more than pre-paid at 10 cents a minute. On top of that IF sms is only .05 on pre-pay I may actually be able to convert all my lines this August when my 2 year contract expires and spend less. That said if the rumors are true and and the HTC Diamond is coming to T-Mobile with 1700Mhz 3G support all bets are off. If Microsoft continues to subsidize HTC sales I may sign up for a year contract through the Business Unit and pay a lot for a vga smartphone.

But as always there are other factors to consider. The E71 and iPhone 2 could convert my family to the death star network. I should get a ~12% discount on ATT plans through work, but they really jack up the prices of the devices when you get a corp. discount which sucks balls. Being true bastards they will not discount the iPhone plan at all.

I'll skip the E71 speculation for now. If using the E71 means ATT bloating up the firmware and taking a year to qualify the device like the beautiful N75 I'd rather have the Diamond with it's painfully limited software library and shit battery.

btw - There will not be a 200$ iPhone2. No way. It would screw up Touch sales.

N80 v E51

I'm trying to resurrect my N80, become a two device guy and leave my MBP at home.

Management has stated anyone brining devices to work is at risk of property  to seizure.

I have hard-reset my N80 and formated the 2GB miniSD.

Yesterday I upgrade the firmware on my E51.

Now I'm trying to understand how I can separate functions between the two.

I'll be using Divx mobile, mobbler, Opera Mobile and ShoZu on the N80. I do not have a SIM in the N80 I'll need wifi to get it online. 

The E51 camera is terrible but it's usable for kyte. I'll try to use the E51 for IM, CalSync60, mymobilesite, vox, google maps, and nokia's podcasting for now.

two beautiful devices shipping soon.

If I had the budget, which would I prefer?
I'd be elated to have either.

HTC v Danger

I've often wondered why someone like Samsung or Nokia has not picked up HTC. Whoever owns HTC owns the chumps at Microsoft. It's obvious the Danger acquisition was great for the lumbering jackasses but HTC would have cemented enterprise dominance in North America where Windows Mobile serves as something of a email-feature-phone hybrid.

Did Microsoft move Sidekick manufacturing from Sharp to the ailing Motorola because Sharp is building Symbian devices for NTT? If that level of manipulation is legal I believe MS could easily crush Palm with an HTC takeover. What's the holdup?

I'm pleased MS is subsidizing sidekick LX sales through T-Mobile's business unit on a 1 year contract. I can add a line, pay 120 for a year of service and sell the sidekick for 300$. Thanks MS. I will never doubt your wisdom.

This is only a rough draft of what I'm trying to commit.

S60 ambassador program take two

I'm impressed.

I may actually start sending in reports. I signed up after An Evening with S60 in SF last year. Nobody really ever said anything. There was no way to see what other people where doing. Nobody is WOWed by my N80 as the display failed and nobody in the states has any idea what the E51 can do. What to do? I have shown my E51 and SU8W at Mobile Monday, a half dozen people at work, the local coffee shop and I've only had it a couple/few months.

I really need to get back to more serious posts. Between the massive projects at work, my posts to a private R&D blog and my screenshots over at vox it's painful to find the time and place.

installs

quick note of everything i've installed. most applications are not used daily. some are not used at all.

Google Maps

Palringo

Opera Mobile 8.65

Oggplay with flac support

pyRestart

emTube

mIRGGI

Y-Browser

Screenshot

Vox

Podcasting

MOSH

MobiReader

Internet radio

LightNotepad

quik

PhoNetInfo

GIZMO

Syntrax

MyStrands

Slick

putty

CalSync60

OctroTalk

M!Weather

Widsets

Talkonaut

kyte

Yeigo

Google Search

Slingplayer

EQO Mobile

Divx Player

Web Server/mymobilesite

ShoZu

Headlines

iSkoot

guardian

Opera Mini

Nimbuzz

Video centre

Truphone

Sports Tracker

I do IM, browser and podcatch daily.

the LX is 1080p

What about he LX is HD? is qvga now defined as HD? No!

I have no clue what this ad should mean.

random notes from Mobile Monday

This has nothing to do with my opinions or fanaticism. These are statements made by the moderator and four person panel.

• Application distribution is painful
• Mobile markets are not as global as they seems ex: Japan, Korea and the United States are unique.
• we will not see a dominate platform soon
• limo to much like symbian to succeed
• LTE and Verizon's 700Mhz bloc are not the basis of a strategy ex: could take years to come online
• Same goes for Android. There are no handsets out. Who knows if it will last. No reason to bed the farm on LTE or Android
• wifi going the way of the payphone when LTE and HSDPA improve
• wimax could be the new CDMA
• operators have blocked admob
• do not compete with operator profit. they can cut you off.
• do not have your users in Indonesia and developers in San Francisco
• operators matter
• mobile data ~150B USD / year in the states
• dont get to wrapped up in your N95 or other low volume device
  

I had fun showing off my SU8W and E51. People in the states are mostly unaware of S60 and Nokia. People with operator relationships /really/ dont care about Nokia.

drowning in beautiful applications

This is an idea of what I'm covering on my internal blog @work. I'm trying to get these applications tested and documented with screenshots and on notes on issues/features.

Whisher, MyStrands, Yeigo, EQO, Divx Mobile .90, SlingPlayer Mobile