Stall The Ball

Nokia’s wildly anticipated “Tube” phone has been leaked onto the internet. It has been dubbed the iPhone killer.

Measuring in roughly the same size as the N73 it features a full size screen, Nokia’s “Tactility Feedback” essentially two mall piezos under the screen that make the screen feel like it’s been clicked the same as a keyboard key.

It has Quad Band as well as Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE, UTMS, HSDPA and WLAN.

The camera is supposedly better than the iPhone but not quite up to top of the range Nokia phone cameras.

The Nokia Tube will feature direct video uploading and support for Java, both things that the current iPhone does not offer.

The “Tube” is expected to be released in Q1 2009.

Running the Symbian OS expect a ready made list of applications to be available shortly after it’s release.

Shown in a slide at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California., the “Tube” looks similar to the popular iPhone. The Nokia device showed graphical displays, such as a promotion for the movie Shrek the Third. Other capabilities will be featured, such as the ability to upload photos.

“It’s our first touch device,” said Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia.

However there does appear to be confusion as to whether the screen is a full touch screen like the iPhone. It certainly appears to support it and comes with a stylus as well but doesn’t support multi-touch.

We’ll have to wait and see.

You may remember a few days ago I posted about Novara and Digiweb merging and I said “but maybe we’ll see the big boys acting their age and consumers benefiting.“

Check these out.

http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2008/04/09/infamous-at-last/

http://www.eoincostello.ie/Michele-Neylon-Blacknight.html

Well that hope was short-lived wasn’t it?

The word Puerile comes to mind.

I think Michele should be commended for limiting himself to the one dig in his post.

On foot of the previous post concerning my angst regarding FaceBook I went ahead to remove my profile.

After logging in and clicking on Account you have an option to Deactivate the profile. Further there is a little message telling you that you can login again using the same email address and password to reactivate your profile.

Seemed a bit suspicious that you could reactivate a deleted account so I did a bit of Googling to discover I wasn’t alone.

There are mountains of posts, blogs, forums and articles explaining just how difficult it is to actually delete your FaceBook profile.

However one article offered a ray of sunshine, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/business/18facebook.html

Apparently there is a magical form that will get facebook to delete not deactivate your profile.

And here it is,

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

Login in to FaceBook and then use the link above.

Voila all done. Next up was an email from FaceBook as follows.

Hi,

Facebook User Operations has received your inquiry. We should get back to you soon. In the meantime, we encourage you to review our Privacy and Security Help page (http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=433). There, you’ll find lots of information about Facebook as well as answers to many common questions.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Facebook User Operations

Now the waiting begins. I did all this three hours ago. I can still login to FaceBook.

I will post an update if I get further along the deletion route.

EDIT 24 hours later and still no further communications from FaceBook but attempting to logon gives this.

Incorrect email/password combination.
Facebook passwords are case sensitive. Please check your CAPS lock key.