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Using the Internet my mobile way

wmseto | 19 October, 2008 02:37

friendfeed.pngLike many tech people, I carry multiple devices with me... I have my Nokia 95, Nokia N810 and iPhone in my bag most of the time. I too want one "swiss amy" phone, but it is never going to happen and each does something better in its own way. Anyway, this post if not to compare them. I just want to put down how I use them to access my Internet Services... I think I have the major ones covered, but if you know something fun I've missed please tell me...

 

JoikuSpot

Technically this is not an Internet services, anyway. 1st, the N95 8G is my only 3G phone, because my iPhone is first gen. (since I mostly use it to check out apps, and the 1st gen seems to give me everyone I need so far). Now to share my 3G connection, I've installed JoikuSpot. The software that allow any WIFI enabled devices to share my 3G network. JoikuSpot has been availabe for a while, so nothing new here. Now good, my N810 and iPhone can have 3G (or sometime 3.5G) speed. Only issue is I have to manually turn on JoikuSpot every time.

Twitter (link to my Twitter)

I have not installed any twitter app on my N95. I only use the Twitter mobile web. Please let me know some good apps to try. On my N810, I have an app called Mauku. It supports Twitter and Jaiku, It works pretty good. On my iPhone there are many options and variants. I have tried Twittelator, Twitterific, Twinkle. They are all good and all location enabled.

Friendfeed (link to my Friendfeed)
Okay, I like Friendfeed. I can almost share all my online activities there, almost... I don't think they have any app out there, but the site is mobile friendly enough to render on all my devices, okay they do have an iPhone web page.

Facebook
On my N95, I use the mobile Facebook page, and on N810 I access the full page... The mobile web versions are reasonably okay...On the other hand the iPhone Facebook app is really nice to use, friendly, quick and well-thought out.

Last.fm (link to my Last.fm profile)
Let me see... This one also has a lot of different clients on many platform. Usually when that happens, it means it is a really good service. And I agree in this case. :-) On my N95, I used a free application called Mobbler. It does the job very well! On N810 I use Vagalume and Canola2's Last.fm plug-ins, which is a bit limited compare to other clients. One iPhone, there is an official Last.fm client. again it does a good job... Now here is the issue... I cannot do anything else on iPhone while listening to Last.fm, because there is no multitasking... :-(

Pandora
So far I only know of iPhone app for this service. If someone knows better, please let me know.

EverNote
EverNote is a very popular iPhone app, which allows taking notes and sync with web site and Mac and WinXP clients. On N95 and N810, I can only use a mobile version of the web site. It's okay but limited.

YouTube
My N95 8G with updated firmware support Flash. I can use my browser to view the movies. Now YouTube also has a mobile J2ME app which offers streaming. It is usually a bit faster then looking at the web site with my S60 browser, since the app doesn't load the extra stuff from the site. I have also emTube installed, just in case I want to download a keep a movie. On the N810, the browser can handle flash no problem, but I have also use Canola2's YouTube plugin and mYTube application to search and download YouTube movies. On the iPhone, the default YouTube application does an okay job, but the fact that I cannot login to my own account and watch my favorites is a disappointment. There is also a jailbroken app name mxtube on iPhone. MxTube let me download the movies as mp4 files onto my iPhone also.

Gmail
Gmail has a mobile J2ME client which works every good on mobile phones. That is what I have on my N95. Their mobile web site for Gmail does a reasonably good job also. On N810, I just go straight to Gmail website with the browser, no different then on my computer... iPhone native email app works well with Gmail. The only think I don't like to that I cannot flag/star my messages from the native email program... (or have I just missed it?)

IMs
I have been using IM plus on my N95 for IMs. It is a good app. N810 has Pidgin, which is everything you need to IM. I believe they have now also a Facebook plugin already. On iPhone IM plus is actually free. There are other can do the job too, including Fring (which is also available on N95, as many of us know already). Once again, IM is one of those thing that is much more useful if it can run in the background, which in the case of iPhone...

Company email
Well technically this is not Internet Services, but it is quite important. Mail for Exchange is available on my N95 and Exchange is also available for iPhone. Honestly, it is better to have a bigger screen and HTML support... N810 is not going to have the Exchange client blessing, but I was able to set up Secure IMAP. It works okay, a bit slow and not quite push email...

Ovi
N95 is the only winner here. There is a share on ovi client which plug right into the Gallery and enable sharing of pictures and video. And now, with the SyncML feature on Ovi, calendar and contacts can be sync up too. It is really no reason why other SyncML enabled devices cannot use Ovi, but let see about that.

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Map
How can i forget about this one? On N95 Nokia Map 2.0 and Google Map are head to head. For simple routing and quick driving, I just fire up Google map... The fact that my location is shown as a dot and I just following the mapped route is good enough, and fast... Nokia Map nagivation is more traditional looking nagivation UI, once you have started nagivation, it hard to look back at the overview map. I use it when I have a long trip, so that I only listen to the voice nagivation, but not looking at the screen. N810 has a built in map software and Maemo Mapper for free. I have tried them, but the device still have a long TTF... very long... Usually, I am almost arrive at the place I want to be already when it has fixed the location. Tongue out iPhone has Goolge Map... Nothing more to add... It is just good... I don't have the 3G model so cannot say anything about the time to fix. I imagine it should be reasonably well.

That's all I can think of right now. If you feel something important is missing, drop me a line.

 
 

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