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What’s Wrong With My Mobile Phone

I want:

A normal headphone jack so i can use my own headphones. And one that will also handle a mic input if a handsfree is used.

Easy, standards-based, phone-to-phone syncing of data/contacts/sms/pictures/etc..

The same memory cards as everything else. SD preferably. Normal size, high speed a bonus.

The ability to use my 3G data connection with my laptop over Bluetooth.

An actual USB port, yeah alright the mini version. USB 2.0 too please!

A joystick that you can press inward to make selections without accidentily moving the cursor up or down.

Oh, and of course, Symbian (Series 60) and come with Flash Player as standard, for free.

I don’t think these are unreasonable requests.

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Web 2.0 Is Psychological

So where did web 2.0 come from? I’ve just signed up for Andy’s conference, d:construct, and I’m quite excited. Not because it’s going to be interesting to hear about everybody’s projects and how they wrote and, I guess, are marketing them, but because, I want to hear what Web 2.0 means to people. I hope that these are the people that will help me understand what all the fuss is about.

I consider us to be at Web 1.5, and that in itself is generous.

To compare it to mobile phone technology, Web 0.5 (web beta?) was analogue GSM, 1G, which then became digital, or 2G, then we added GPRS as an interim fix while we all waited for 3G. GPRS became known as 2.5G. it didn’t do a lot more, but maybe a bit quicker, ok and the pricing structure was a bit different… Maybe this isn’t the best analogy…

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