John Walton

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John Walton

John Walton is a student and writer who spends most of his free time fingerpicking an acoustic guitar and authoring biographical snippets in the third-person. He lives with his wife and their cat, who are, like him, compulsive movers/travelers. He is passionate about open source software, learning to speak Thai, and watching poker tournaments on television (WPT).

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Ladies and gentlemen, the myTouch 3G

Actually, the full title is T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google, and it comes in black, white, and merlot. Penguins: the official mascot of Linux. Nice choice, T-Mo. Finally, we can separate the wheat...

Vodafone's CRBT: what about us?

Vodafone launched it's upgraded Caller Ringback Tone (CRBT) service on the 16th, offering users a new interface and shuffle feature. A lot of us in The States are unfamiliar with CRBT. If there is a...

Land Rover S1 is everything-proof

The handset, built by Sonim, has a three-year warranty, 15 hours of talk time, 2.5 months of standby, a 2MP camera, push email, Opera mini, an accelerometer with auto-call for safety features, and...

T-Mobile, you've changed my tune

I've been a T-Mobile customer for five years. I have always been happy with their customer service, and with the company in general. That is until last fall when I returned a defective phone and got...

John's Nokia 5800-XpressMusic Blue review

Overview What's good: form-factor looks nice, fantastic in-line music controls, 3G (AT&T only for US), secondary camera for video calls, full touch screen, landscape mode, proximity sensor, Carl...

High-res Morrison pic

I'm not a big fan of the grid-style QWERTY layout, but I know a lot of people like it. Thanks to Android Guys for bringing this image to my attention. And also for making me realize I fell into some...

US Android announcement coming next week

There has been a lot of rumbling going on since I posted on the rumor that we'd see MyTouch by the end of the month. So much that I've got to toss out another nutshell post just to touch on as many...

Elementary MIDI controller for Android

The software synthesizer in the background, Reason, is doing the heavy lifting here. But it is cool to see Android used as a MIDI controller - working over Wi-Fi, BTW. Looks like he's adjusting the...

A solar-powered Android phone?

I4U reports that a solar-powered Android phone will be coming out of China, but information on the device is sketchy at best. The little we have (a picture) is subject to change, and could be nothing...

Android: Huawei U8230 coming soon

This one has been rumored about for some time now. Finally, PCWorld has locked in a third-quarter release for T-Mobile UK, as well as some specs. 3.5" touchscreen, Qualcomm chipset, 3.2 MP cam, and a...

Android: GPS ads, Magic battery, Flash

Michael Martin of Google and Blog was at SMX Advanced in Seattle over the last week, and WebProNews got an interview with him - embedded below. There is some interesting talk about location-based...

Cestos - multiplayer Android app

Cestos is not the only multiplayer game in the Android Market, but the multiplayer functions are more well-integrated than I've seen in any other app. Gameplay is fun and a little addictive. But...

Another augmented reality app for Android

It seems to be raining augmented reality apps in Android land. Layar, nru, and now Seer. The Seer program comes from IBM, and while many, many practical applications of the software are possible,...

Opera Unite just might change the web

I slept right through the 6/16 webcasts, scheduled at 1 a.m. and 9 a.m. my time. Good thing for me that Opera has offered up this cool promo spot in addition to an instructional video and informative...

nru plots restaurants, bars on Android radar

If Layar doesn't suit your needs, check out an Android app by ZAGAT and lastminute.com called nru - spoken as near you. It uses GPS, an accelerometer, and a compass to give you 360 degrees of...

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