Phones
Nokia World looks promising for all the wrong reasons
Oh we love a little salacious scandal here at The Guide. But in its absence, we’ll happily settle for some corporate intrigue. Until last week, we were looking forward to attending Nokia World – the Finnish giant’s annual product showcase and development forum – mostly as an opportunity to get our hands on a Nokia [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 13 September 2010
The top five watch apps for iPhone
You’re reading The Prodigal Guide so we’re going to take a wild guess here: you like watches and you like gadgets. Well, what about watches on your gadgets? Of course, why not right? What’s not to like!? So today, we’d like to introduce you to the top five watch apps for the iPhone. The watch [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 22 July 2010
iOS 4: When new isn’t better
Only a fool (yeah, OK you’re right, we’ve been called at lot worse than that) would argue that iOS 4 isn’t a tangible step forwards compared to its predecessor, iPhone OS 3. The new OS – which Apple released to the world yesterday – brings a slew of welcome enhancements to the iPhone platform. The [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 22 June 2010
Forget the lightening: Nokia E72 steals the iPhone’s thunder
If we had approached you, as the organizer of a major navigation/smart-phone launch event, and slurred our way through the tale of how we dropped our Nokia E71 into the porcelain throne late one night and were still fiercely proud of it despite weakened battery life, what would you have done? Kicked us in the [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 15 June 2010
Dammit. They’ve done it again
Do we need to say any more? You’ve read it all elsewhere already right? No? Then, head on over to the mothership or for an only ever so slightly less biased take, the excellent Engadget roundup. Bottom line? Apple has made good on most of our very high expectations and then added one delicious little [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 8 June 2010
Warm sound, great comfort and beautiful build-quality from Nokia’s BH-905
As you may have seen in our video yesterday, as part of Nokia’s #NokiaNav promotion, we’ve been given their latest Bluetooth noise cancellation headset to try out. We’re hugely impressed. From the moment you open the box, this headset reeks of quality. It has a satisfying heft and bulk to it but it’s still smaller [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 13 May 2010
We successfully complete challenge two of #NokiaNav
#NokiaNav week is proving a lot of fun. Today, we woke to an email from Nokia with instructions on the next challenge. Using Ovi Maps’ syncing capability, we had to download the details of the next meeting point and make our way there using the Nokia N97 mini. On arriving, we were given a…. Wait [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 11 May 2010
Welcome to #NokiaNav week in a Porsche 911 Carrera S
OK look, if you’d like, we could pretend that it was just another week here at Prodigal Towers. But guess what? It’s not and we won’t! Yesterday the good folks at Nokia delivered a….a….a….Porsche 911 to our door and handed us the keys. Excited? Oh yeah you could say that! But wait, we almost forgot: [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 10 May 2010
Nokia Nav: What’s this?
A mysterious video arrived in the Prodigal inbox yesterday. What’s it all about? Any ideas? The game’s afoot.
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 7 May 2010
Just because: Photos of the Nokia N900
Just because we were cleaning out the memory card in our Nikon D80 and came across these photos we’d shot of our trial Nokia N900, we thought we’d share them with you. If you missed our review of the N900, go check it out here. It’s fair to say this impressive smartphone left us more [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 6 May 2010
