Somebody noted that it is raining tablets nowadays. How true! Now, before you get your lines crossed, note that I am referring to Tablet Pcs!. All the major computer manufacturers are falling over themselves to bring one to the market .  The rush, I suppose is attributable to the runaway success of the iPad, followed…

I was in a friend’s office some time ago. In his secondary school days, this friend  was  like me -  addicted to novels. The ornithological specimen of identical plummage invariably consummate together with greatest proximity. Meaning? Birds of the same feathers... Reading  James Hadley Chase, Frederick Forsythe and  Robert Ludlum was of higher priority that…

Yes, this is a raging debate and it  has drawn a lot of passionate arguments and fights for or against  the different input types currently available on our mobile devices. Modern  trend  is that mobile devices, especially handhelds like smartphones and tablet PCs such as Apple's iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and the likes, are being…

Love it or hate it, the Blackberry has indeed become the device of choice for a lot of mobile enthusiasts, especially those who want to conduct business on the move.  Another category of users are those, who more out of peer pressure than anything else, find themselves clutching one, not considering the fact that they…

As a follow-up to the article "Are you making use of that Smartphone? ", this is a post on how to further save money by making better use of your smartphone. We all know that feeling, you have just loaded "credit" on your phone, accessible and available for 'burning', inexorably leading you into temptation! Never…

Going through my gadget junk yard over the weekend, it is amazing how much junk i have acquired over the years. The oldest is probably the Philips TurnTable and a pile of records i got from my Pop (Never been able to bring myself to encode the records to Mp3). I still have my hifi…

Many people these days crave the newest, shinniest and sleekiest model of just about ANYTHING. I call it TECHOMANIA. I doubt if it is cure-able! There is a marketing line from a company that says “you can separate the MEN from the BOYS from the prices of their toys”. Bang & Olufsen, I think. Show…

While we wait for the launch of the first set of Meego devices come 2011, i will be taking a cursory look at a couple of what is on offer at the moment. One OS that has piqued my curiosity is the Windows Phone 7 (WP7). The only thing the new smartphone OS has in…

Nine years after the launch of GSM technology in Nigeria, I feel so disillusioned about expectations not met. Sure, its pluses has been pointed out to me countless times, that apart from it been the major (somebody said only) achievement of the Olusegun Obasanjo 8 year administration, it is also said that the boost it…

Nokia announced it will retire Symbian for the popular N-series smartphones in favour of MeeGo. MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system that merged Intel's Moblin OS and Nokia's Maemo OS. Refer to the write-up published a few weeks ago on this site about Nokia's intention to introduce the MeeGo OS to it's…

There's been so much talk about the impending demise of Nokia's Symbian platform, the operating system powering almost all the phones in the Nokia range. The Symbian operating has come in a lot of iterations over the years but the relevant ones today are; SYMBIAN S40 - Introduced in 2002. It is regarded as the…

There are indications that there is going to be a ban on some blackberry services in the UAE effective October 11, 2010 because of the inability of authorities there to monitor blackberry's encrypted services. Services affected include blackBerry email, messaging and web services . The UAE ban will also cover foreign travellers passing through Emirate…