Entries tagged with “mobile phone” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

A while ago, I wrote a post where I said that using Skype for interviews was a bad idea. I still stand by the premise of that piece - that Skype-to-Skype connections should not be used in most situations - but a few things have happened in the last few months to change my mind about the blanket statement "Skype is bad for recording interviews."

that's right, it's my blog, and i say what i want! (and hey, if i don't, who will?) so, here's a few odd places my work has shown up in recent popular culture: 1. Night At The Museum i'm particularly proud of this one, because the kid in me loves that movie. my grandmother lived on riverside drive in new...

O'Reilly Missing Manual editor Pete Meyers tries reading on his new iPhone. Check it out....

Loops OK, so, my relationship with loops is, uh, complex ... on the one hand, they've saved my professional ass on many occasions, enabling the delivery of lots of music and sound effects in a minimum amount of space. they have also been crucial to many interactive audio projects i've worked on. i love loops so much, my new audio...

Most of us have camera phones. A few of us use them. I have a practical application for your smartphone that's bound to help you at least once: Use your camera phone to photograph your parking locations in a gigantic garages so you don't lose your car. I started doing this a while back, and suddenly became enamored with...

this (for me) has got to be the number one, top of the list, first and foremost, craziest, stupidest, and by FAR most annoying interactive audio issue in the wild and whacky world of ringtones. right now, there are *at*least* fifty (50!) different ringtone formats being sold to consumers on over 500 different models of cell phone. how did this...

hello, peter drescher here, i am currently sound designer at danger, inc., makers of the hiptop wireless internet device (aka the T-Mobile Sidekick), and o'reilly has been kind (and brave) enough to let me speak my mind (unedited! holy crap, batman!!) on interactive audio technologies, with an emphasis on the mobile space ... oh, this should be interesting! while i...

Just when you thought things couldn't get more bizarre -- listen to this. If you can believe it, an increasing number of mobile users are mistakenly hearing their ringtone, even when there is no incoming call. "This audio illusion - called phantom phone rings or, more whimsically, ringxiety or fauxcellarm - has emerged recently as an internet discussion topic and...

Looking for a few good Java apps for the Motorola Razr...

I get amazing requests from people who read my how-to articles, but this was one of the funniest. And it has practical applications for podcasting as well.

Related link: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/arts/2005/03/11/ohbearme.jpg Dying might very well be like getting your first cel phone, I think. It seems like everybody's doing it, despite the fact that they were fine before. You put it off for as long as you can, but it's inevitable. You're going to do it. And you know what? Once you do it, it's probably going to...

I was consulting for a company a while ago that was predicting this - and now it seems like it's going to go mainstream. Once you have flat fee data over your mobile phone, why not use a Vonage or a Skype over that link? And the first cell provider to dodge that bullet by embracing it will hopefully not cannibalize their own per-minute-billing business.

Promotional video on the East vs. West cell phone technology gap and Earthlink's new partnership with SK. You can also Google Earthlink + SK

New consumer electronics devices leapfrog their predecessors by incorporating new types of functionality that re-define the "problem" their predecessors solved. Just think, for example, how TiVo has re-defined the VCR experience. Well, if the embrace and extend strategy can work for the innovator, then such a strategy can work for the predecessor. Along those lines, I have been ruminating on the question of what would the cordless telephone look like if it were to be re-invented?

The keypad flips open to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. I wish I had thought of that.