Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

Experimental Thunderbird on Nokia N810

Check out what Dolske did. Cool!
Interestingly, I had another interesting conversation today about the need to think about adapting Thunderbird for use in small form-factor devices (like the subnotebooks/netpc’s that are coming out). Not coincidental, methinks.

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iPhone w/ old firmware anyone?

Given the sad state of the canadian mobile industry, I’m looking for an 8G iPhone with the old firmware — my guess is that by now the units in stores will have been upgraded by the time I get to one…

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Is it possible to use the “direct GPRS” connection to talk to the net on Fido.ca?

I’m trying to get the Gmail mobile app to work on my BenQ-Siemens EF81. I have a Fido account with a GPRS plan.
I can get to the web using the built-in browser by setting up a “Connectivity Profile” that points to wap.fido.ca, and creating a “Internet Profile” that specifies a proxy address of 172.25.0.107 [...]

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