Mobile Ministry Magazine

As stated before, the Nokia E71 Review has been published at Brighthand for your reading. In addition, I also reviewed the new Palm Treo Pro smartphone in the same week (yea, busy one there for me).

Some general thoughts:

• The E71 is one impressive piece of device. The metal body, the battery life, and the number of features is absoutely incredible. Its amazing where mobile devices have gotten to.
• The Treo Pro is probably Palm's best Windows Mobile device yet. While it does miss some of the Palm tweaks that other Palm Treo devices have, it feels and looks the part of something that iPhone users would be willing to move to in order to be more productive.
• Both devices are a distraction during church, the Treo Pro moreso because of the color and sheen.
• Neither device is available on contract (in the US), and this works to your advantage especially of you have contract terms that are in your favor right now.

Both devices have strengths and weaknesses, but only one of them really stole the show for me. Check out both reviews at Brighthand. Feel free to ask any additional questions and look forward to some other E71 impressions in the coming weeks.

Labels: Brighthand, E71, Nokia, Palm Treo, review, smartphone, Windows Moible

I've been playing/working with the N800 for a good while now, and have recently combined with Tiffany Boggs of of TabletPCReview for a review of the N800. Here is a snippet:

...The N800 is great for catching up on those emails and other business uses, but it has some nice entertainment features like I mentioned before. You can watch videos, listen to music and have Web chats, thanks to Internet calling and the Web cam.

It has taken me a while to figure out a place for the N800 in my world of computing, but it does remind me a lot of the Palm T5 that I used to own: powerful in its own right, but with the Internet comes a personal window to a lot more. The included software is easy to learn and the battery life just makes you want to use it more...

Read the entire review at TabletPCReview.

Thanks to the Nokia Blogger Relations Program for lending MMM/me the device for my parts of this review.

Labels: Brighthand, internet tablet, N800, usability

No, not from MMM. At least I don't think so. But I am moving. Taking a chance to follow a long time dream and vision that I've had to go to Charlotte and start that what will probably be the legacy of my family.

I'll be going with mobiles in hand (thanks Brighthand and Nokia's Blogger Relations). But more than that, I'm going with all that I've been learning for a long time (saved nearly 10 years). Going with a love of kids; a love of meeting people where they are and just living the Gospel beside them; a love of connecting churches and ignoring the divisions that sadden our Lord.

I've wrestled a lot with writing this on here. No, not because I didn't want to share it, but because I don't know how to share it. I'll be going with no job, not sure of where to live, and just enough faith for something to happen.

When I go there I feel at home. When I last visited there (last weekend), my heart was burdened with the attitude of the west side of the city. There were rich and poor, ethnicities of all kinds...and division. It's not me to want division. It's just my heart that we'd be on earth, as it is in heaven - united under God.

So I'm posting this now, in the mist of a service at my church where the former young adult pastor is speaking on a church planting vision. It burns in my heart. And I don't know how MMM will be effected. I don't even know if I will have the gumption to go. Yes, in two weeks I'm slated to move. In two weeks, I'm slated to meet a dream I've had for a long time, and further more of what God's talked to me about for years.

I ask for your prayers. I don't want to ask for much else. I don't really know what more to ask for except that I can walk with God in Charlotte. That I can be a light for my family now, and the family I wish to have. This move has been a bug for a long time, God said so at too many other times, and now I'm primed to move on.

Mobile ministry ...more than just a magazine to me; hence I'm moving on.

Labels: Brighthand, devotion, mission, mobile, Nokia