Considering the Asterisk PBX in your SOHO, but unsure of which Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) hardphone to buy? Here’s a look at two different models to help you decide which might be better for your home office: the Grandstream BT-101 or the Zultys ZIP2×2.
The Nokia N93 (with crazy transformer form factor, not for normal users definitely!) looks like a perfect phone to run ShoZu! I want one! This phone basically implements my 2010 dream phone (3 megapixel, 3x optical zoom) 3 years ahead of schedule . And it does 3G as well as GSM and EDGE so it will work with our cr*ppy Canadian cellphone networks that currently offer GSM and will soon offer EDGE. Question: Is there a CDMA 1X or EVDO phone that's this compelling? Hmmm I think not! I really don't understand why CDMA and EV-DO continue to exist other than as a futile, desperate attempt to stem the GSM and UMTS juggernaut. As Alex blogged CDMA and EV-DO phones continue to s*ck (mostly clunky and cr*ppy BREW and Windows Mobile phones).
I doubt the N93 bundled Flickr client is as good as ShoZu. Specifically, I doubt the bundled flickr client has suspend/resume functionality when you lose and regain mobile connectivity. I hope to be proven wrong on this one! Nokia, please bundle ShoZu with future phones!
FROM Review: Nokia N93 (MobileBurn):
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Starting with multimedia capabilities, the new Nokia N93 includes a 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics and 3x optical zoom, a 2.4" QVGA display, and full audio/video playback capabilities. The camera is worth noting, not only due to its still image capabilities, but also its ability to capture video in VGA resolution at 30fps - enough for a good experience while utilizing the built in TV-out functionality. As with the other two devices announced from Berlin today, the N93 supports direct uploading to the Flickr photo-sharing site from the handset's Gallery and Camera applications. Storage-wise, the N93 includes 50MB of on board memory, and miniSD expansion.
On the connectivity front, the 3G capable Nokia N93 again has everything covered. Bluetooth and Infrared support is complemented with the inclusion of 802.11b/g WLAN connectivity, with UPnP for simplified streaming of media to compatible devices.
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Flickr rocks but this piece really adds no information (the time to write about how great flickr is, what great people Stewart and Caterina are and how much money they got would have been in Spring 2005 just after the acquisition not Spring 2006). Instead of concentrating on yesterday's news, the Globe and Mail Report on Small Business should be covering today's Canadian small businesses i.e. EQO, Dabble DB, etc rather than last year's small businesses like flickr.
From globeandmail.com : Exit strategy: Cashing out, staying in.:
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Thanks to Yahoos traffic, Flickr membership has quadrupled to
2.5 million, and the site has emerged as the linchpin of its new owners social-networking strategy–that is, to reposition Yahoo as a venue for people to connect and share experiences, rather than simply as a place they go to search and shop.
Because of that shift, Yahoo is closing in on Google, the do-everything juggernaut a few kilometres down the Valley. Which raises the question: Given Flickrs strategic significance, did Butterfield and Fake sell out too soon?
If they did, they dont seem to be regretting it. Money is clearly not this couples primary motivation. Instead of blowing their cash on Porsches or a sprawling manse, they rent a modest house in San Franciscos still-gentrifying Mission district. "We have a Prius for the fuel economy," he says. "And we share it."
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ShoZu 2.5 is even better than previous versions (not perfect yet, e.g. need the ability to reply to flickr comments and the address book feature is irrelevant to Mac users; that’s what iSync is for!). If you have a cameraphone and an unlimited data plan, then you need ShoZu. After uploading 2500 photos with ShoZu, I can honestly say that if ShoZu doesn’t run on your phone then you bought the wrong one! I personally can’t recommend any camera phone that doesn’t work with ShoZu.
From Shozu now shows more features.:
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Not satisfied? Neither were the Shozu developers. That’s why they added the one additional feature that makes this application worth at least fifty bucks a copy in my opinion: you can back up your address book to your Shozu account and retrieve it should your phone get lost or stolen or simply upload it when you replace your phone. Gone are the miserable days of transferring your address book entries one by one. Good by arthritis, hello Shozu. And if that doesn’t sell you on the application, which, as you can see I like an awful lot, it can only mean one of two things; either you’re trying to build a competitive application or you don’t have a camera phone. In either case it’s your tough luck.
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I am sure this is old news to some, but Antony Pranata, a Nokia employee at Nokia’s lab here in Vancouver (unfortunately they are in suburban Richmond and Burnaby and not Vancouver so I don’t see them at our “second office” Take 5 Cafe 
! ) is blogging, both S60Tips, a mobile blog as well as a personal blog. Are there any other Nokia Vancouver people blogging? I have personally been underwhelmed by the amount of blogging from the local Nokia folks and the amount of involvement at Vancouver grassroots activities like Mobile Monday Vancouver, but hope lives on! Perhaps with Antony’s cool example and the fact that the N91 has shipped (which I believe was developed partially in Vancouver), the Vancouver folks will start coming out more! Love to see you and love to meet you all! (Antony wir können unser Deutsch üben! I see you did your masters in Germany in Stuttgart not far from Friedrichshafen where I lived from 95-98!)
[Cross posted automagically from blip.tv to test out the relatively new blip.tv cross posting to Drupal feature! Have I mentioned that blip.tv rocks? It does, they don't get the press of YouTube but they have many more features (like post via email, could we please have a video upload API that ShoZu can hook into) and are the service behind Geek Entertainment Televison and many other cool video blogs. Back to normal tech blogging, nothing to see here!]
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Actually, Ethan, “MySpace Killer” is not the new black it’s the new “Flickr of…” ! Remember the good ‘ole days last year when everything was the flickr of something? e.g. the flickr of video (which still doesn’t exist IMHO) !
From TechCrunch » AOL To Launch “Myspace Killer”.:
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TechCrunch » AOL To Launch “Myspace Killer” being a myspace killer is the new black it seems.
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Which event should I go to tonight, Vancouver PHP on CMS Systems (EZ Publish and Drupal) or Bridge Vancouver - Networking Young Professionals Doing Business in Asia-Pacific at Hapa Izakaya? Unfortunately, they seem to overlap (both occur between 6 and 8p.m.). I am leaning towards Vancouver PHP because at 41, do I qualify as young ?
Zimmer Twins - powered by Drupal and by Flash. But who cares about the tools behind it ? The important thing is that the site is fantastic. Check them out. Register and vote for the Zimmer Twins in the youth category if you like what you see!
From Help Make the Zimmer Twins (even more) Famous.:
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The Twins have been stars of the web for years now, and more recently on Teletoon TV.
It would only be right for them to win a Webby: they're fun, funny and Canadian (well, they're from Toronto, but that's ok).
Check out their web site and make some movies with Edgar, Eva and their cat 13, and you'll quickly see why they should win.
The Webby's have a juried award and a People's Voice Award, and that's where you can help. Every vote in the People's Voice puts them one step closer to the red carpet.
Comon' Canada ! Register here and vote for the Zimmer Twins now ! They're in the youth category.
You only have until May 5th to vote.
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Opera is free for the N70 and many other Series 60 phones! I was wrong in my previous post about this.
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