Marc Settle [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/academy/entries/fafb0b78-b9cf-4218-81ec-b3f109d85225] : > […] if the money on just one coffee a week went instead towards an app, within a few months that smartphone would have acquired new powers (and you might even have lost a few pounds from your waistline). Marc,
apple
Well, if you’re having problems choosing a gift for your iPhone-using digital journalist, Apple have just solved the problem for you [http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MGQL2ZM/A/iphone-6s-smart-battery-case-charcoal-grey?fnode=99] : The battery case, which charges with the phone, claims to over double double the talk and
mobile phones
Spotted while doing the tourist thing with American visitors outside Buckingham Palace: [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/09/selfie-cam.jpg] Yup – it’s an extensible selfie pole, for mounting and using your phone camera…
iPhone
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2013/09/cloudy-adur1-3285.html] Rather to my surprise, I took delivery of an iPhone 5s from 3 yesterday. Why surprise? Well, according to the last e-mail from them, it wasn’t due for another 12 days… Still, I’m certainly not complaining, and
culture change
Interesting idea in a New York Times Bits blog interview with the woman behind the I Forgot My Phone video [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/disruptions-more-connected-yet-more-alone/?_r=1&] : > Ms. deGuzman’s video may have landed at one of those cultural moments when people start questioning
lifelogging
About as beautiful reminder as you could ask for that sometime we need to live in the moment, and not mediate every experience through our phones.
Android
Paul St John Mackintosh responds to my earlier post [http://www.teleread.com/android/android-app-development-really-pricier-than-ios/] about the BBC’s Android costs [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/07/android_triple_the_development_costs_of_.html] : > Naturally, 3,000 different device sizes and capabilities are going to be harder and
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/peter-deng.jpg] David Kirkpatrick [http://techonomy.com/profile/david/]‘s chat with Peter Deng [https://www.facebook.com/pxd] about Facebook at Le Web last week looked, at first, like a ho-hum product announcement, but the more I think
Android
I don’t often go out of my way to link to stuff I write elsewhere – but this once, I’m going to. I’ve done a piece for the NEXT Berlin blog on why I think the iOS versus Android fanboy wars are deeply unhelpful [http://nextco.nf/Ujmwl6]
hipstamatic
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/tumblr_mcthwadRKs1r40y78o1_1280.jpg] Great interview [http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/06/time-magazine-cover-shot-with-iphone/] with the photographer who shot a Time magazine cover with an iPhone and Hipstamatic [http://blog.hipstamatic.com/post/34814095006/reportagebygettyimages-the-latest-cover-of] : > I asked him
iPhone
I’m a little bored of the infographic onslaught we’ve seen over the past year. But this one caught my eye: [http://frugaldad.com/digital-cameras/]
Android
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/scmidt.jpg] Eric Scmidt, the executive chairman of Google kicks off the afternoon session, and he’s backing the conference theme of “social, mobile, local” . Is it just a fad asks Loïc? No, says Schmidt. has been with us