Archive for January 2010

T-Mobile Customer Support at It’s Best

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

This morning, my Nexus One stopped receiving emails. When I tried to refresh my Exchange inbox on the phone, I got a “cannot connect” error. Powering down and rebooting did not help. Any attempt to browse the web would just bring up the page shown below.
I called the T-Mobile Customer Support number while at a restaurant waiting for my [...]



Top 10 Android Issues – For Future Nexus One Owners

Jan 19th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

My Nexus One was listed on eBay twice, but I cancelled the auction each time. That’s the kind of love-hate relationship I have with my phone. I finally decided to keep it and love it, but I cannot stop browsing the issues on the Android site so that I can at least hate it a [...]



Bye-Bye Nexus One

Jan 12th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Open Source, Smartphone

I guess it was too good to be true. A phone that does everything that I want and need and could possibly ask for and is not an iPhone? Not the Nexus One. Or at least, not yet. Mine went on eBay today, and I hope that I will be at least able to get [...]



Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Deadlock

Jan 11th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Web

I frequently run into this very annoying bug in IE. I configured the browser to ask before writing cookies of unknown sites. When I hit a site that has both a Javascript error and a cookie warning popping up, there is a deadlock situation, since neither of the dialog boxes responds to input. The only [...]



Google’s Nexus One for (potential) Windows Mobile converts

Jan 10th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

If you, like myself, resisted all the peer pressure out there for joining the iPhone crowd, and instead held on to that funky Windows Mobile device, this may be of interest to you.
Microsoft had an opportunity with Windows Mobile 6.5 to set the first step of the many needed for maintaining the gap between its [...]