Left: Nokia 6220 Classic – Right: Nokia N82

My initial impression of the Nokia N82 was not very positive. It seemed to me, the N82 was nothing more than a N95 in a different casing and I just did not see the point to it.

Further, I disliked the casing chosen for the N82. I think the N95 is “chubby” in a cute way that fits the hand perfectly. I found the N82 to be big and clunky, and its “stick” keypad wonky.

Lately, I have been given the opportunity to revise my take on the N82. For over a month, I have been using the N82 as my everyday phone – ever since putting my 6220 Classic up for sale – and I must say, the N82 has been growing on me. I have really come to appreciate some aspects of this handset … maybe even love it?

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The Map View is a new feature on Share on Ovi.

Once again it is hats off to the team behind Nokia’s “Share on Ovi” service, because once again they have seem to have looked at how others have implemented a particular feature, before providing a superior implementation of the same feature.

What I am referring to is the “Map View” that was recently introduced at “Share on Ovi”. The Map View is available for each channel and provides a map, showing all geo-tagged media in the channel as overlays.

The image to the left shows what a Map View looks like – pictures and videos (BTW, I was not aware videos could be geo-tagged – were you?) recorded at the same position are lumped together and shown using a single marker. The granularity of the Map View changes as you zoom in and out.

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DivX Mobile Player has been upgraded to v0.91

As I opened DivX Mobile Player on my mobile today, I got the message shown to the right.

The current v0.90 version has expired because a new version has been released. The new v0.91 version does not appear to bring about many new additions or changes, but since the old version has now stopped working, you are forced to upgrade regardless.

I have upgraded and basically, there are two way to upgrade: by downloading and installing directly on the handset, or by sideloading – more on that further down.

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Last week I sold off my 6220 Classic.

I did not let the 6220C go because I did not like the handset - I actually liked the 6220C's feature set - and the implementation of it - especially because the form factor makes it a handset you just slip in and out of your pocket. I am sure the 6220C - and its companion, the 6210 Navigator - will play a big part in promoting GPS and nice cameras.

Both handsets can now be had quite cheaply here in Denmark - both are about 400 $ SIM free. In the past week or so, the 6220 Classic has climbed from being the 10th best selling handset in Denmark, and had a brief stint at #7, according to the site mobilpriser.dk.

No, I sold off my 6220 Classic for two reasons: one major and one minor issue.

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Development of Motorola's market share from Q1 2004 to Q2 2008

Techcrunch.com had a story yesterday about how Motorola is going full throttle with Android. According to the article, Motorola currently has about 50 developers on its Android team, but expects to grow the team to some 350 developers.

The story immediately reminded me of some comments Russell Beattie posted on Motorola about a year ago. Beattie noted how Motorola seemed to release handsets with every conceivable OS there is, and went on to attribute Motorola's market share decline to lack of platform focus. The numbers certainly speak for themselves. Between Q4 2006 and Q4 2007, Motorola's market share went from 23% to 13% of the global handset market. This decline is really bad considering the global handset market had yearly growth rates at about 10% during the same period. Losing market share in an expanding market is bad.

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HTC G1

What do you think of the HTC G1 that was released today- the first handset to feature Google's Android OS?

I have not taken a closer look at the G1, or its specifications until this evening, but now that I have, I really think it is quite an attractive handset. I did not realize the G1 had a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, but it looks very cool.

And you cannot really argue about the price point - 180 $ (w/o taxes and fees) with a two-year plan on T-Mobile in the US. Pretty interesting what that will translate into here in Europe - I read the G1 is slated for a November UK release.

I for one might be very tempted…

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SanDisk 16 GB microSDHC card

I have just received an email from the price agent I set up to alert me when the 16 GB microSDHC card came into stock at blueunplugged.com.

That just happened and now the million dollar question of course is: which handsets will support the 16 GB card?

I am pretty sure the recently announced Nseries handsets - the N79, N85 and N96 - all support it. Without actually saying so, Jonas Geust (Vice president, Nokia Nseries) hinted at precisely this during a QA session that took place as part of the recent online  launch event.

Other than that, the 16 GB card is currently priced at €80.23 inc vat, at blueunplugged.com.

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