If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Image via Wikipedia

I’m looking for a new mobile phone for my wife and the must-have features are:

1) 3G (must be used with Three)

2) very robust signal reception

After the birth of our second son we moved downstairs in a cellar-like floor, with many windows but underground, so the signal reception is not that great. Different mobile phones had quite different behaviors in terms of signal strenght:

Nokia N93: 1-2 bars, overall good, but now broken

Nokia N95: unusable

Nokia N73: unusable

Nokia 6120: 1-2 bars, not bad but the N93 was better

Any idea on the best 3G mobile phone in terms of signal strength? I look forward to your comments and recommendations! It doesn’t have to be a Nokia, whatever brand is fine.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Pros and Cons of Using a Mobile Phones
• Don’t Leave Home Without a Charged Cell Phone

Technorati Tags: 3G, Cell Phones, luca filigheddu, mobile phones, signal strenght

Image via CrunchBase

I read today about an interesting iPhone application which basically changes the natural behavior of the iPhone and lets VoIP applications use the 3G network instead of the default Wifi.

This application, Voipover3G, works with the alternative installer Cydia, specifically designed for jailbroken iPhones 3G.

After installing this app, VoIP apps which used to use the Wifi connection, like Fring and Truphone, will be forced to use the 3G data channel. Not having an iPhone 3G I couldn’t test it out, anyway I find it useful in certain contexts even if limited to jailbroken iphones only.

Related articles by Zemanta

• iPhone Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 Available Now (Jailbreak and Unlock) [Iphone Jailbreak]

Technorati Tags: 3G, Apple, Cydia, fring, Installer, iphone, jailbreak, luca filigheddu, truphone, VoIP

Do you want a cool new Apple iPhone 3G (unlocked, of course!)? Ok, this is the right place to get one. My company’s micro video blogging service Hictu is giving it away to a lucky user.

How to apply? Since many people are taking a break in this period, you may want to wish them to enjoy themselves (or maybe not, if you are at your desk and your colleague just left to the Caribbean…).

Ok, now you can do that. You just need to subscribe to Hictu (if you need an invite, please just drop me a line or leave a comment to this post) and to record your video with your vacation greetings for your friends and family, from today July 28th to Aug 20th, 12am PST. Then, share it with them (you can easily find the “share” link on your video) and ask them to leave their video comments on Hictu. For those that are subscribed to Twitter, I also remind you that your posts can be automatically shared on Twitter too.

If your friends are not subscribed to Hictu yet, you can easily send them an invite from your personal page.

The video greeting that receives more video comments (from unique users) is going to be the lucky winner of a brand new Apple iPhone 3G. The winner will be officially announced at the end of August on this blog.

If you have a blog with many visitors and you want to leverage them, just install the Hictu Video Comments plugin for Wordpress and publish a blog post with your video embedded on it. Video comments to that post made by using the Hictu plugin are allowed too!

What are you waiting for? Go to www.hictu.com and record & share your video for your friends, family and colleagues, it’s gonna be fun.

BONUS: the best video (i.e. the video the Hictu team will like most) will become the “favorite” and will appear on the Hictu homepage for 1 month.

Technorati Tags: 3G, Apple, giveaway, hictu, iphone, luca filigheddu, micro video blogging, video blogging