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The first in my occasional series of videoblogs where real people review smartphones. In this installment, Zak Greant reviews the Sony Ericsson W810i. He likes it but it's still a bit rough around the edges (e.g. no real integration with iTunes or any other music player app). As an open source evangelist for eZ Systems and formerly sxip and MySQL as well as doing work for Mozilla Foundation and others, Zak travels a lot, so he loves the quad band. Of course Zak bought the phone outside of Canada since it was not available in Canada at that time. Finally, come on Sony and Nokia, put standard headphone jacks in your music phones!

[NOTE to self, turn image stabilization on next time and film in a place with more light than Take 5.]

6 minutes 10 seconds, recorded 19 December 2006 at Take 5 Cafe at 429 Granville using a Nokia N93 at 640x480 30fps in MPEG-4 format

Which event should I go to tonight, Vancouver PHP on CMS Systems (EZ Publish and Drupal) or Bridge Vancouver - Networking Young Professionals Doing Business in Asia-Pacific at Hapa Izakaya? Unfortunately, they seem to overlap (both occur between 6 and 8p.m.). I am leaning towards Vancouver PHP because at 41, do I qualify as young :-) ?

The Open Source CMS and Blog Tool Summit has started! Lots of fantastic Drupal, Plone, ezPublish, Joomla, tikiWiki, WordPress energy in the air and over 150 people! Wow! Next up is Northern Voice Moose Camp on Friday and Northern Voice on Saturday.