Living the mobile lifestyle

While it’s been really hard to find the right voice for The Mobile Lifestyle blog, I have found that the mobile lifestyle in general is an interesting and rewarding experience.  The ability to work where and when you please is the biggest part of that.  But it’s more than that, its also the ability to do what you want when you want to do it rather than according to someone else’s schedule.

I’ll admit for the moment that this is still a new venture for me as I only left corporate life two months ago.  I still want to say “real job”, but that is only a leftover of what we’re all conditioned to believe and think of as “normal”.  The reality is that to gain that control, you need to think outside the “normal” parameters of life.  For problem solving, this is usually called “thinking outside the box” which regular businesses want employees to do very seldom.

So while still new, the novelty is not wearing off as I really enjoy adjusting to this new model of personal and professional life.  The trick, of course, is making a living which can be daunting, but very achievable.  It is with this perspective that I’ll be posting to The Mobile Lifestyle, more of the how, where, and why of being mobile in life.  As for frequency, I’m not sure yet – the goal is to be a daily blog here at TML, but it will take a little while to get there with useful content.  My vision is a Lifehacker-esque style of content that also tells a story as well as helpful ideas.

Rick Mahn

New Poll at PPC Thoughts

Pocket PC Thoughts Ed Hansbury over at Pocket PC Thoughts has a good poll on what input method people are using on their smartphone.  Head on over to “What Is Your Primary Input Method On Your Pocket PC” and get your vote in.

Personally, I use the slide-out keyboard on my T-Mobile MDA, but you may prefer otherwise.  Head over and cast your vote.

Via: Pocket PC ThoughtsWhat Is Your Primary Input Method On Your Pocket PC

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HTC Announces ‘Touch’

This is the announcement that we were expecting today from HTC. Basically a new HTC device featuring multi-touch technologies that allows more intuitive functionality of a given device. Cool stuff!

clipped from www.infosyncworld.com
HTC today announced the HTC Touch, a new multimedia smartphone featuring touch screen navigation and Windows Mobile 6.
Building on its ten year history of developing Windows Mobile smartphones, HTC aims to offer a unique way of controlling touch screen based devices by recognizing and responding to the sweep of a finger across the screen. According to HTC, the Touch distinguishes between finger and stylus input and then respond accordingly.
The HTC Touch is the first device to feature TouchFLO, the new underlying touch screen technology developed by HTC. Users sweep their finger up the display to launch an animated, three-dimensional interface comprising three screens: Contacts, Media and Applications.
The interface can be spun by swiping a finger right or left across the display, in order to provide efficient access to the most used features. TouchFLO is also claimed to enhance finger touch scrolling and browsing of Web pages, documents, messages and contact lists.

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iPhone on June 29th

image Or so Engadget is reporting. For around $600 on AT&T, you’ll be able to get your own Apple iPhone at the end of the month.  Will it be worth it?  Who knows, but at least it’ll look cool in your hand.

Personally, I’m not impressed with the device but I’m sure that the iPhone will have Apple’s trademark style and panache that it spends innumerable hours on during the product development cycle.  Should be interesting to finally see it in the wild, but I’ll not be pursuing a test unit myself.

Via: EngadgetiPhone release date confirmed: yours on June 29th

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