- Visit the Nokia N93 Site - If you couldn’t tell by my couple comments here and there, I love the idea of video blogging. They’ve popped up all over this past year (many thanks to Ryan and Co. and their baby, Node 101), and I’ve got a few of my favs listed on my blogroll. And like any blog, be it based on text, photos, or video… some are thoughtful and progressive, some are silly time-passers, and some are just really damn boring. And whatever Bravehound is becoming, I’d love to add video to the mix.My problem has always been that I want to be able to capture photos (and now video) wherever I am, which no extra hubbub. This of course means I gotta have one bitchin’ phone. Papa don’t carry no extra devices.Here we are, 2006. I’ve given Nokia and Sony Ericsson (the only real mobile players in my book) over a year since I’ve demanded a decent video phone as a consumer. Now that both companies have their 2006 announcements out on the table… is the Nokia N93 my only option for movlogging?

Nokia N93 Video Ad

I haven’t heard that term used yet, but I’ll go ahead and go there. For those of you we need a little push on this one, here ya go. Blog = Web Log. Moblog = Mobile Blog. Vlog = Video Blog. Movlog = Mobile Video Blog. Andrew = geek.

There had been rumors that following Sony Ericsson’s line successful Walkman branded music phones (including the Sony Ericsson w800i that I currently use) was a line of Handycam branded video phones. All of us in my phone forum (see end of last paragraph above, I wasn’t joking) had our fingers crossed hoping it would happen. It didn’t. Not for 2006. [insert frowning forum emoticon here]

So Nokia is my option for video if I want it. But after my brief affair with the Nokia N90, I learned that it was difficult for me to have a flip phone, let alone a large, lawn-chair shaped monster. Throw in Nokia’s best (at the time) camera optics showing far too many inferiorities next to Sony Ericsson w800i, and I was not pleased. I sent her flying.

I’m hoping the past year has been good to Nokia’s camera modules. Come on… I know you’re hoping the same thing.

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Pick up the pace, with your cracked out face.

Uffie is fun electronic artist I found on myspace. She’s Peaches Vs. Tigre and Bunny (remember the cars that go boom?) Check out Pop The Glock on Uffie’s MySpace.

Aside fromt the fake-profile-eye-candy photos and the joy that comes from pressing a button that says DENY when you get friend requests from uncompelling strangers… myspace’s big redeeming quality is still the tunes. Perhaps it’s because you’re force-fed everything from pop music to indie rock as you browse. It’s part of the experience for sure. But every now and then you find something really great.

It’s like rummaging through a barrel of crap for a twinkie.

Sometimes I discover new artists I like. But more often they’re playing Cascada - “Everytime We Touch” and I quickly block them forever. Love me that button.

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