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My tablet dilemma is over. I purchased the latest Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1. What a feeling! This thing is a breakthrough. Have been playing with it just for two days now, and it feels like the iPad 3. Yes, 3. Physically it is a marvel. Thinner and lighter than the iPad 2. With bigger screen (1280x800). Room filling stereo sound. And the Android 3.1 just flies! It is a beauty. The browser runs Flash. All the settings (including things like WiFi passwords etc) are saved to Google account (hello, iCloud!). The device has entirely autoconfigured itself just after I supplied my GMail name and password (of course, with all Android devices having GMail account helps). It downloaded all my Picasa photos. Later on let me add my second GMail (Google Apps) account and switch between them seamlessly. Wow, wow, wow... It has been worth waiting. The only difficult decision to make was which case to buy, as the device is so thin and light, that even the slimmest case doubles its size and weight. In th...

eComm 2011 is coming. I am very excited about this conference and hope no volcano will mess up with my travel this time. And even if it does (knocking the wood), I hope the travel business had enough time to upgrade their communications infrastructure. eComm is one of the most important events for anyone who has any relation to telecommunications and the Internet. Yes there are other events, but this one is about the creativity of the future. Fantastically inspiring and a joy to attend. In its nature the eComm is very close to TED, just focused on one (albeit very broad) industry. The beauty is people come there and speak about their passions and hardly anybody is selling anything. If you are not going and there is still a chance you would go if the opportunity knocked... Here it calls: as a speaker I have two priceless tickets for the event to spare. Please email me at szymon _at_ slupik.com if you are interested.

People just do not realize the speed and magnitude of the collapse of Nokia. Last week I attended the Mobile Monday Poland conference, which by the way was a great reactivation of the event. But I could not (and still can't) believe what I heard there. About Nokia and Symbian and how both dominate the mobile market. Industry experts during the discussion panel pointing out Symbian still has the biggest market share among mobile web users down here. Yes it was true a week ago and it still may be true today. But I am not so sure about tomorrow and certainly it is a matter of months Symbian will be wiped out. Application development takes weeks, months. And they are developed to last for years (I mean, more than a year). So selecting a platform based on yesterday's market share is like driving a twisting mountain road looking at the rear view mirror. Absolutely irrelevant perspective, ending up with a crash. Well, I am talking obvious things. But there was nobody who cried "w...

After formulating the Quality versus ROI statement, I have started noticing a great deal of real world confirmation cases. So excuse me my dear tech / gadget followers, from time to time I will be returning to this subject, which I consider fundamental. This week's case? I lost my cellphone connection. I live just 15 minutes from a big city. Just a mile from a main road. And despite having four mobile network operators (MNOs) in Poland, I have no coverage. True, the terrain is a bit unfortunate (a valley). True, there are just a few houses down here. But I have been cut out. And this turns out to be a problem nowadays. I have a copper landline, delivering DSL Internet and fixed voice service. Theoretically I could set up a call forwarding rule to the landline, when my cellphone is out of the network, even if this costs extra money per forwarded call. But I cannot forward SMS messages, which is a blocker in most Internet banking operations, as almost every transaction today has to ...