I was standing in the gym this evening stretching about to watch the France V Spain match on the crosstrainer.  There was a chap in the corner on one of the mats going through a load of warm down stretches.  He was taking a long time about it.  At the end of my work-outs, there [...]

Link: PCWorld.com – Mobile Phones to Get Tactile Touch Screens. Oh this could be fun… Press your finger on a cell-phone touch screen in 2007 and the screen could press right back. Immersion–a developer of tactile or haptic technologies–said today that it plans to license its new force-feedback technology to handset makers, to make virtual [...]

Ah well.  James Blunt was excellent, so were Zero7 — according to a colleague of mine who went to the o2 Wireless Festival.  He took along his cheap-as-chips i-mode handset hoping to get access to the o2 VIP section. BUT he hadn’t put any credit on the handset.  WOOOPS! Not a good idea when you [...]

You can always count on The Register for interesting stories.  They haven’t failed to deliver this morning with news of the Mobile Phone Throwing championships.  Put the date in your diary: 20th August. I reckon I’d be pretty good at that.  I’m at my best when the phone in question has finally synched with my [...]

Link: The Mobile Technology Weblog: Nokia 770 Tablet To Get Additional Upgrades. Scott at mobile-weblog refers to the Nokia 770 internet table as an ‘intriguing device’. He’s not wrong. He writes that there’s a few more upgrades planned… The most recent upgrade to the intriguing device added GoogleTalk and VoIP functions, but the 770 remains [...]

Pierre Demesmaeker whacked me over a note about their new device, the RASPIE XD-1 (pictured left) which gives dual-gsm, dual working SIM capabilitiy (each tri-band – 900m/1800m/1900m). Very cool.  If you’re like me and have about 10 different mobile phones on your desk at any one time, you’re bound to have one or two ‘favourite’ [...]

Link: BUSINESS . In case the mobile phone is stolen and the SIM card on the phone is replaced, the handset sends an automatic SMS to 2 pre-selected numbers, giving the contact number of the new user without the owner’s knowledge.

Link: Buffalo News – Cell phone as fashion accent. Got this one from Krystal who caught it — she knows I like to read opinion pieces about mobile from US publications such as Buffalo News. This piece by Kelly Boquard explores mobile fashion attitudes. (Obviously I’m a total sucker, walking about with an N90) It [...]

I almost impulse-purchased an 8700 on o2 this morning.  I need to upgrade my really, really old T-mobile 6000 series one.  But I think I’ll give the business to T-mobile after being shocked at the o2 pricing structures.

Earlier today I posted a note speculating as to whether the Nokia E61 (recently launched here in the UK by Vodafone) could possibly replace the Blackberry.  Anders posted this comment saying it most definitely could!  I checked out his blog which contains a veritable riot of details about his new E61.  I certainly recommend hopping [...]