MobileViews Blog

Year: 2007

  • Flickr Popular Cameraphones List Missing Phones without Exif Data

    If you scroll to the bottom of…

    Flickr Camera Finder

    …you will find a list of popular cameraphones used to take photos submitted to Flickr. In a list of 5 there are 2 Nokia phone models and 3 Sony Ericsson phone models. One would guess that these phones are listed because they all have good cameras (for a cameraphone). But, I began to wonder why there were more Sony Ericssons since Nokia claims to make the most digital cameras in the world. Shouldn’t Nokia have a slight edge just based on total cameraphones sold? Ok, maybe not. The next question was why no Windows Mobile Smartphone had made the list. They seem to be selling well. I submit photos from my Windows Mobile Smartphone (a T-Mobile SDA at the moment) to Flickr. So, I know it can submit photos.

    One possible reason may be that many popular cameraphones do not provide EXIF data in their photos. I took a look at photos from a number of phones I’ve used over the last couple of years and noticed that photos taken with the Nokia 3650 (Symbian), Motorola MPx220 (WM2003), and T-Mobile SDA (WM2005) all lack EXIF data in the JPEG files. Photos taken using an i-Mate JasJar and i-Mate K-JAM Windows Mobile 5 Phone Edition devices did have EXIF data in their JPEG image files.

    So, it may be this lack of EXIF photo identifying information may be the reason why some very popular phones will never be listed in social network sites collecting camera model information. Too bad.

  • MobileViews iPod Troubleshooting Reference Page

    Way back on May 11, 2006 (forever in Internet time), I posted a blog item on the MacDevCenter asking…

    Cause for iPod nano Spontaneous Reset?

    Although the cause of the problem is now known and resolved, this blog item continues to attract questions from people with, apparently, all kinds of iPod issues. It doesn’t seem appropriate to use that blog item as some kind of general iPod issues forum (especially since there are other sites better suited and more focused on that topic). So, I put together a page here (look at the left side bar area under Pages) titled…

    MobileViews iPod info

    …to help people find iPod troubleshooting information and discussion areas.

    I’ve listed a small sampling of the questions my original blog item attracted on that page and will, as time permits, provide specific pointers for some or all of them. Hope this helps the various people with iPod issues that posted to my old blog item.

  • Happy New Year! Get Organized & More Out of Your PDA!

    Fellow Microsoft Mobile Devices MVP Jaap van Ekris has an article to help you get started with 2007 on his MobileNomads.info site…

    Get more out of your day using a PDA

    The article focuses on maximizing what you get out of the PIM (Personal Information Management) and Communications features of your PDA.

    After reading Jaap’s article, you might want to consider visiting an article I wrote for Microsoft.com last year…

    Get Organized with Windows Mobile

    In it I point you to some third party applications you can add to your Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone to organize your life in 2007.

    Have a safe and happy New Year everyone! And, thank you for visiting MobileViews.com (and maybe even clicking on the ad links or buying from the Amazon affiliate store to help support this site).