Geekblok

For too long, I have ran around with cellphones that weren’t considered hip or cool. Only once before did I have a camera on my phone, but without an USB cable or bluetooth, transferring the horrible quality pictures were a no-go area. Time to change that! And so I did. I got a nice Nokia N95 8GB and am loving it every day (note: I have no experience with cool phones, so anything would probably be awesome to me).

The thing I like best is the WiFi adapter in there. Followed by the equally aweome GPS receiver. A new world opened, for there are so many nice things online that mobile users could use. In the few days I have been the owner of this device, I found the following great apps:

• ZoneTag
• FireEagle
• Fring
• Yahoo! Go.

ZoneTag let’s you upload your photos to Flickr, while geo-tagging them staight away. Woohoo!

FireEagle can record and share your physical location (which can be set by the previously mentioned ZoneTag). It’s fairly new and open by invitation only (if I am not mistaken). Since it’s so new, there’s not a whole lot to see yet, but imagine the possibilities for a programmer. No doubt this will expand fast and really cool applications will be build around it.

Fring is a nice messenger. If you’re online, why not have the ability to chat (and/or update your twitter account)?

Yahoo! Go, again a Yahoo! product, is as they say “everything you need, all that you love”. You can browse Flickr, send emails etc. etc.

Of course I’m biased and appreciate Yahoo! applications, but seriously, what companies beside Yahoo! really focus on the mobile market?

What other mobile applications are there? While waiting for comments, I’ll go play Monkey Island again, for ScummVM also works on the Nokia N95