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Blogging about the iPhone is a popular thing to do, for many reasons. You have the people who think the iPhone is a gift from god without realizing it is probably the most locked device to ever be released on to the market, you have the people who think that the mobile websites built on jawsome Web 2.0 scripting languages are cool and then you have the people who know about the first two groups and try to build something that will get them written about on TechCrunch and increase their Adsense revenue at the end of the month. Yes the iPhone is beautiful, yes the iPhone has a large screen which makes these “applications” work well, but to call the iPhone a revolutionary product because of that is simply false. The iPhone’s web browser is built on the WebKit browser engine , something that every Nokia owner running the the last few versions of the S60 operating system have had for some time now. Nokia published a press release on April 16 of this year announcing their new “widgets” platform for S60 that uses their WebKit based browser implementation. I put the word widgets in quotation marks because at first I thought what you’re probably thinking right now, who the hell cares about widgets, right? Widgets is Nokia’s way of saying that they are letting web developers build applications in scripting and mark up languages (AJAX, HTML) that they already know, instead of having to learn how to program in Symbian.c++ which can cause your brain to explode. Nokia’s widgets = iPhone’s applications. Did I mention that unlike the iPhone they can run offline? There are two podcasts that developers and enthusiastic users alike should listen to, the first one being an interview with Ganesh Silverman about what S60 Widgets can do and what the future holds in terms of added functionality such as interfacing with the data and hardware in your mobile phone. The second is a panel discussion with Niklas von Knorring and Petrus Lundqvist...

This is the last episode in the iPhone vs N95 series. I was supposed to post it at 18:00 CST, but honestly I was too busy helping a friend move into his new place. Today after doing my morning blog posts I spent the rest of the daylight hours disconnected from the web with a few good mates, moving heavy objects, grunting and drinking beer. I’ve had it up to here with this iPhone hype and I’m glad I sat out on what is probably Steve Job’s third best day of his life. Number one being the day he found out his cancer is curable, number two being the launch of the first Mac. Will this phone change how other manufactures look at user interface? Absolutely! Was it worth reading the word iPhone in every other blog post I’ve read in the past week? Not at all. There is good marketing and then there is a vomit inducing point of saturation. I hope you had fun watching them. Ricky and I sure had fun making them for you. Hell writing the scripts took almost 4 hours of our time. Enough romancing about the past, here she is, episode number 6:

Calamari is good, but you have to find it. 2 more videos to go guys! Watch the rest here .

Ricky and I had wayyy too much time over the weekend. Stay tuned for 4 more videos, one being released every day at 18:00 CST (GMT - 6:00) until Friday the 29th. In this skit we tackle the iPhone's horrible camera, 2 megapixel, no autofocus, no flash: