Once this month’s warm-up event in Beijing is tidied away some of the most exciting sport you’ll see will be coming to you from Beijing… the Paralympic element of the 29th Olimpiad. Your intrepid reporter will be with Team GB’s medal-winning wheelchair basketball team reporting live - I’ll also try to give you the low-down on the other sports going on.
However, right now the question is what mobile tech should I take to use and test? On the list so far:
- Truphone and Rebtel for cheap international calling
- A local China Mobile SIM possibly with some mobile data
- A SIMable chip so I can swap SIMs into any phones I like
- iPhone for music and a simple Mandarin language course
- Some offline maps with Olympic venue POI such as Garmin’s
- An N82 for pictures
- Several Proporta backup batteries
- A netbook for mobile blogging (which one?)
- The Macbook Air for proper computing
- A decent gadget bag - something that doesn’t scream ‘laptop’!
- Some high quality headphones for the flights - perhaps Entymotics?
Any other recommendations / options? Have you been to China and what was useful / rubbish?
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I've just got myself a Celly Laptop case - love it, and it doesn't scream 'laptop' lots of pockets - and waterproof too! Ideal for random rain showers! Lots of cubby holes too..
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Posted by Kip Hakes on August 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am.Are those Entymotics any good?
You also might want a FlipVideo? Quick, cheap easy video recording — and it uses batteries.
Solar charger? Might not be that sunny though.
Posted by smstextnews on August 12th, 2008 at 4:14 am.I'd tap up our mate LJ Rich too - I know she's just got back…
Posted by James Whatley on August 12th, 2008 at 5:59 am.The ones I tried were - have some coming (hopefully) for review.
Yes - flip would be good.
May go for a solar charger, although I will be inside the stadiums a fair bit so majoring on battery solutions.
Posted by Ben Smith on August 12th, 2008 at 9:53 am.Ben, it's a shame both you and my sister aren't single - she'll be in Beijing at the same time and you could've compared iPhone 3Gs or something.
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Posted by smstextnews on August 26th, 2008 at 5:08 pm.Ant, Rumour has it it is possible to talk to girls without romance being a pretext
Posted by Ben Smith on August 27th, 2008 at 5:59 am.Lies I tell you.
Posted by James Whatley on August 27th, 2008 at 6:13 am.Romance isn't a pretext, sex is.
Posted by Kip Hakes on August 27th, 2008 at 6:24 am.Isn't pretext the nervous feeling something is about to go beep in your pocket?
Posted by Mike42 on August 27th, 2008 at 6:28 am.Taxi for Mike!
Posted by Ben Smith on August 27th, 2008 at 6:54 pm.Apparently they do, although I won't be able to tell you about it as Garmin PR ignored my request to try it out…
I will have some other GPS gadgets hopefully to play with tho'
Posted by Ben Smith on September 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 am.Eric - many thanks for the tips!
Posted by Ben Smith on September 2nd, 2008 at 7:25 am.Nice write up and blog , Thanks for sharing all those good info
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