Re. Freeware Registration

BT keyboard

7Book/Netbook and Old Psion Presentation Maker

Re: Copyright and copywrong

YData

For Axel - Multilingual Epoc

comment

Subject: Copyright

Re Itamar Engelsman, Nokia 9500 Queries

The previous discussion of evolution

Re: The Digest V1 # 731 13

Re: The Digest V1 # 733 13

A slow farewell?,

Re: Farewells and shareware

Re: Infinite Beta Test

Problems with Atelier Check Disk & Optimise

9500/Max

Date: 19 Apr 2005 20:27:57 +0100
From: ian chapple <address truncated>
Subject: Re. Freeware Registration

Phil,

>>As for "I think it is legally wrong . . . ", it is software, given away
freely, that is effectively broken but which purports to work. If it is
illegal to give away something broken unless you say it is broken (and in the
UK it is) then surely that applies to software too?<<

I am still totally unconvinced by the so-called illegality of this. If
freeware is released which requires registration to make it work fully, it is
not "faulty; it simply requires registration. Therefore your argument that
such software is illegal is completely incorrect.

Furthermore, I think you are on thin ice when you say "If it is illegal to
give away something broken unless you say it is broken..."; what you are
saying is, if I give an old computer, which I haven't used for a couple of
years, to my neighbour and it doesn't work, then I'm breaking the law. I'm
sorry, but that's patently ridiculous. As Rolf said before, if you buy a car
and get a free TV, then you can reasonably expect that it works. If someone
just gives me a TV out of the goodness of his heart and it doesn't work, I
can hardly accuse him of breaking the law.

>>Shareware is a different matter as any "crippling" can be removed by buying
a licence for it. The "crippling" of free software is different - for a start
you can't buy a licence for it.<<

As I've said before, there is no difference between freeware and shareware
requiring registration; the fact that you have to pay for one registration
and not for the other does not make this practise "illegal".

Cheers, Ian.

Date: 19 Apr 2005 20:34:38 +0100
From: ian chapple <address truncated>
Subject: BT keyboard

Max,

>>I am seriously considering buying a bluetooth keyboard. Although I am
getting more used to the tiny keys, there is no way they can be considered a
serious input device. I need to be able to touchtype and this is not possible
at present. ....
Does anyone have experience with this or any other BT keyboard?<<

I bought a Freedom BT keyboard from Proporta; it was cheaper than the Think
Outside one, and it also works with my wife's Palm Zire 72. As far as I know,
there is a driver available for the 9500 as well. See
http://www.freedominput.com/ for more information.

Cheers, Ian.

Date: 19 Apr 2005 20:57:43 +0100
From: Mark Franklin <address truncated>
Subject: 7Book/Netbook and Old Psion Presentation Maker

I put my Series 7 away a couple/few years ago and now find myself pulling it
out and actually going through the update process to make it a book.  It just
has everything I need.  .except an update or hack to Psion's Presentation
maker.  Is there an official/unofficial update to Presentation Maker that
allows for a color background? If I had a decent way to accomplish simply a
color background on my Series 7 I would truly have everything I need.

I own the original Colographics Voyager VGA Card and software.  A few years
back I regularly used this card and software to present using apps like
MBMView and Slides once I saved my PowerPoint file as image files and/or used
nConvert to get the slides in .pcx format.  It worked but I still could not
revise the slides while on the road with my Series 7.

I am aware of the work-arounds that have been created.  Does anyone have
Sketch app templates for slides?

Any information you have would be appreciated.  I would be willing to work
developing something that would truly be useable.


Many thanks to you for maintaining your website!

Thanks,

Mark

Date: 19 Apr 2005 21:07:53 +0100
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Copyright and copywrong

Dear Phil,

<<  Rolf (Brunsting), in my *opinion* a software author has the right to do
what (s)he will (as long as no-one else is harmed, of course). In my
*opinion* this applies to all and sundry. In my *opinion* it is part of a
nebulous concept, that of "free will" >>

I'm sorry, but you keep contradicting yourself. The idea that software
authors have the right to do what they will is at odds with the provision
that they should do no harm. What's free about a free will that's hemmed in
by such a provision? And when software authors have the right to do what they
will they have the right to apply a registration scheme to freeware and the
right to decline registrations at any point in time. It's then no use saying
that it's unfair to do so. What you're effectively saying then is that
software authors have the right to do what they will as long as the way they
use their rights doesn't go against your personal interests. The only free
will that counts at that point is the free will of Phil Aypee, not the free
will of the software author.

<< It worries me a little that you apparently think that something legal must
be both moral and fair >>

What you appear to forget is that the law is based on a collective sense of
morality, ethics, what's right and wrong and what's fair and unfair. That we
have copyright law is because we've come to recognise that 'intellectual
works' need to be protected so that artists, writers, musicians, designers,
etc. have the opportunity to live from the proceeds of the sale, distribution
and use of their intellectual works. We've given software authors a number of
rights by which they can protect their interests.

It's clear that what's in the interest of the software author isn't always in
the interest of the software user. The reason why we have consumer protection
legislation like the EC Consumer Directive. The directive recognises the
rights that have been given to software authors in the form of copyright. But
it serves the interests of the software user by saying that software authors
should fix the bugs users have found in their software. The directive also
says that software authors have to supply a minimum of documentation (manual
and/or help file).

This effectively destroys the "nebulous concept of free will" as what we have
is a system of rights and obligations. Both software author and software user
have a number of rights on the understanding that the software author is
obliged to recognise and respect the rights of the software user and vice
versa.

<< In the case in point ... freeware that requires registration is legal but
unfair, maybe even immoral, in my *opinion* ... >>

And you write in the next Digest a message under the title Freeware Morality
: "I think it is legally wrong, I suspect it is morally wrong and I believe
it is unfair". What is it then - legal or illegal?

As copyright applies to shareware, freeware, commercial and open source
software we can say that it's legal. Copyright talks about distribution in
the broadest sense and therefore covers these four types of distribution.
When a registration scheme for freeware would be illegal it would be illegal
across the board and apply to shareware as well.

As for immoral, please note that all nations around the globe have signed the
International Copyright Convention. All nations therefore recognise the
position copyright has in our affairs and that the interests of the creators
of intellectual work need to be protected. Which is a statement on what's
right and what's wrong, what's fair and what's unfair - a moral standpoint.

<< But I'm glad you agree that authors may retain copyright on software they
give away >>

I disagree with that as it's not "may retain" but DO retain. Copyright
applies for the statutory period as defined in law. When that's a
period of 20 years you do have copyright for 20 years. Unless you sell your
rights or assign your rights to another legal entity. Meaning that you can't
assign your rights to the people of Britain, for example, but can assign your
rights to the UK government.

<< The rest of your post seems to be further coverage of the rights of
software authors and copyright, apparently restating the points I made but in
a different way >>

Trouble is, that you don't accept the consequences of these rights when a
decision by a software author that's based on these rights isn't in your
favour.

---
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Beilen - Netherlands

Date: 19 Apr 2005 21:58:00 +0100
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: YData

Kevin,

You need to create a new database in YData first. Either start with one of
the existing templates or just build your own, matching the field names
and definitions (roughly) that you had in Data on the netBook.

Once set-up, import away. If the import crashes, it'll be because there's a
data anomaly in the CSV file, for whatever reason. Note the line
number, open it in TextPad or similar and fix the problem. Rinse and repeat
8-)

..........................
Steve Litchfield, 3-Lib, http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/
Software and features for Psion/Symbian handhelds and smartphones
Also PocketInfo, useful files - http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/pocketinfo
Journalism: sub-editor and/or senior contributor to:
Palmtop User - http://www.palmtop.co.uk/
PDA Essentials - http://www.paragon.co.uk/mags/pdaessentials.html
PC Basics - http://www.paragon.co.uk/mags/pcbasics.html
Pocket PC columnist, Computer Shopper - http://www.computershopper.co.uk/
Reviews editor, AllAboutSymbian - http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/

Date: 19 Apr 2005 21:58:01 +0100
From: Richard & Jennifer Wong <address truncated>
Subject: For Axel - Multilingual Epoc

I use UniFEP TC for typing Chinese on my MBook.
I am quite pleased with it, although it is only for traditional characters as
far as I can make out!
UniFEP exists for other languages too (Japanese, Korean) but I believe you
can only install one at a time. I have pretty much ruled ou being able to
read Russian on my Mbook because of this but if anyone can tell me some way
of having my cake and eating it too I'd be interested.
More info http://www.enfour.com/unifep/
regards
Jennifer Wong

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Date: 20 Apr 2005 08:04:35 +0100
From: Franco Cozzani <address truncated>
Subject: comment

Axel Moberg wrote:

"However, there are quite a few professional groups that live in a very
text-based world, and need to toss long texts around even when on the road:
bureaucrats (like myself), journalists, scientist, "intellectuals" and even
politicians. Hence the need for real keyboards. And they have more or less
been abandonned by the producers."

I fully agree, every single word of it. I am part of that crowd.

Alas, I am less optimistic about the statement "One of the few rays of hope,
with Psion dieing, is Nokia 9300/9500."
But I will not initiate a ranting on this - unless fellow Epochian are
interested in my view - for fear of being vox clamans in deserto. It seems
that most of the digest contributors seem to like the two Nokias?

Cheers,

Franco COZZANI

Brussels

Date: 20 Apr 2005 08:20:40 +0100
From: Franco Cozzani <address truncated>
Subject: Copyright

Many thanks to Ian Chapple for his excellent short contribution on
copywrights.
This shows that you never know when and where you find useful info. I am dumb
as a rock in computing so I will hardly ever need copyrighting a piece of
software.
But I just started sending around to publishers and literature critics the
manuscript of a 350-pages book and will use the trick of the self-addressed
registred envelope. May be, to save on postage costs, I will send me a .pdf
exported version of the book burned on a write-only CD, including all the
older dated versions, rather than the heavy paper copy.

BTW: guess where I wrote a large part of the first some 180-page raw material
which then became the book?
On my now dead MC 218, while in the kitchen, in my home library, on the
train, on the plane and on the beach.

Regards to everybody,


Franco COZZANI
Brussels

Date: 20 Apr 2005 11:14:19 +0100
From: Timedbay <address truncated>
Subject: Re Itamar Engelsman, Nokia 9500 Queries

"Could I safely balance a 9500 on the dashboard or is there a car holder  ?"

There is a car holder at  www.mobilefun.co.uk

I have been using a similer holder for my 9210i for some time with no 
problems

Cheers

Tim Edwards

Date: 20 Apr 2005 12:16:55 +0100
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: The previous discussion of evolution

Hello all,

It was a while ago now, but there was a debate here on the possible problems
with evolution.  Since I helped put a premature end to the discussion - by
(effectively) saying that the scientists involved had a better understanding
of the issues and that there weren't any real problems - I thought that I
ought to just mention that my view has gone through (almost) a 180 degree
change:

I now strongly suspect that some scientific issues (such as evolution) have
become dogmatised, so that serious problems with some existing theories are
being shoved under the carpet, or even grossly misprepresented (so as to
dismiss them), at least to the public.

Although I have often had nagging doubts about some scientific theories,
until recently I was able to dismiss them as being due to a laymans poor
understanding of the theory & limited knowledge of the available evidence.
Having read Kicking The Sacred Cow by James P Hogan (who's opinion I had
already come to highly respect), I can't easily dismiss such doubts any
longer.  Scientific issues should be open to public debate, based upon
evidence, and not halted by ONLY "expert" opinion.

So for my part, if anyone feels that they still have things to say on the
topic of evolution (even though it may be off-topic), I'd be happy for them
to voice them...


For interest, but at the risk of starting a heated debate, the scientific
theories on which I am currently openly sceptical of include:  that dark
matter exists (actually I was always sceptical of it), that black holes
exist, that the Oort cloud exists, that the big bang happened (there is
little reason to choose it over other theories), that the mechanisms cited
for evolution can manage serious evolutionary changes (but I still believe
that evolution is essentially true), that even small amounts of radiation are
bad for health, that HIV causes AIDS (which strangely will get some people
really upset), and even that CO2 is responsible for global warming (rather
than vice versa).

I am also much more open to (but undecided about) some 'heretical' theories,
including those concerning the Earth's geology (i.e. catastrophist
alternatives to plate-techtonics), electromagnetic alternatives for the sun's
source of energy (rather than nuclear), that the calibration of measurements
for long time-scales (i.e. on the scale of thousands or millions of years) is
wrong by maybe a factor of 10, and even non-space-bending alternatives to
Einstien's relativity...

I leave it up to the discretion of others as to whether they reply publically
or privately on any of these topics!  Perhaps the best solution would be a
short public post (which would help guage the level of interest), followed by
either a private post or a larger public one (if the interest justified it)??
---
Chris Handley

Visit the web page email.cshandley.co.uk for my address

Date: 20 Apr 2005 12:17:01 +0100
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 731  13

Dear Chris,

<< As I said to Itamar, I am obviously painting with a broad brush, but in
general commercial software is expensive, and shareware is
cheap(er), and that was the basis on which I wrote what I did.  If someone
can't live based on sales of commercial software, then I'd suggest that they
won't be in business very long, so that the software isn't viable
commercially >>

Trouble is that commercial application can be cheaper than shareware ones
because the commercial author has ways to generate much larger volumes than
the shareware author. It's also possible for a commercial author to remain in
business even though (s)he can't live from the proceeds when the author
combines the software business with a
part-time job. I therefore think it better to come up with a division between
commercial and shareware that's not based on financial aspects.

<< if that is so, then that is (another) ridiculous EC law ... <snip more
ridiculous EC laws> >>

When you say that the EC directive is ridiculous you're effectively saying
that previous UK law was ridiculous. The directive is the result of EC
harmonisation, meaning that the Consumer Protection Directive overlaps
previous UK law on a very wide number of issues. The directive's "free from
defects" has exactly the same scope as the "fit for purpose" clause in the UK
legislation it replaces when it comes to fixing bugs.

<< I'll continue doing what (I feel) is morally right & reasonable, since our
laws ought to reflect that -  and usually do, particularly since (thankfully)
precedent plays a large role in determining how law is interpreted & applied
>>

Funny thing is that both Phil Aypee and yourself are very quickly talking
about morality. Phil about the morality of supplying freeware which needs to
be registered and you about the morality of an EC regulation like the
Consumer Protection Directive. What's so damned irritating about it is that
morality is used in a one-sided fashion. What you write above indicates that
you choose to ignore the law when the moral and ethical ideas that are
expressed in the law - what's
right and wrong, reasonable and unreasonable, fair and unfair - don't
correspond with your personal moral and ethical ideas.

Please note that you've been given a number of rights as a software author
under copyright law. Your rights are recognised world wide as
all the nations around the globe have signed the International Copyright
Convention. That you don't use all the rights you have, as
you supply open source software, is immaterial. You have a number of rights
which can't be taken from you by the actions of software users. And you
demonstrate that by supplying and application like TubeRoute under the GNU
GPL License. A license in which the rights of the
software author are recognised and which explains why, and under which
conditions, these rights aren't fully expressed.

Which begs the question why TubeRoute users need to respect and observe the
GNU GPL License when you effectively dismiss the minimum rights of the
software user by calling the Consumer Protection Directive ridiculous. When
that's "morally right & reasonable" it's equally "morally right & reasonable"
for TubeRoute users to throw the GNU GPL License in the wastepaper basket
when what's mentioned in it doesn't suit them.

---
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Beilen - Netherlands

Date: 20 Apr 2005 14:20:44 +0100
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 733  13

Dear Ian,

<< There is absolutely no way that it is legally wrong to release freeware
requiring registration ... I am happy to fix bugs as and when they are
discovered, but I do not believe that there is any legal obligation to do so,
and would be very interested to hear of any examples of the law being applied
in such a case >>

Well ... has the supply of freeware which requires registration been tested
in court? When that's not the case it follows that your argument about
freeware and registration is based on copyright leaving the way in which
software is distributed to the software author. It's then strange to read
that you don't believe there's a legal basis for freeware supplier to fix
bugs. That this hasn't been tested in court doesn't mean there's no basis for
it. The EC Consumer Protection Directive's "free from defects" implies that
defects are corrected when found.

Besides, the law tends not to be tested in court when what the law says is
sufficiently clear. People who want to go to court are on such a point are
told by their lawyers that they don't have a case whatsoever. High chance
that the case doesn't even reach the courtroom as the court rejects it
outright (with a request to the lawyer to talk some sense into his/her
client).

<< ... it is clear that many freeware authors only have access to a limited
range of machines (I have a netBook, 7book and 5mx), so it can be very
difficult to assess how well a program will work on a different machine (ie.
the Osaris, with its unusual screen size). This makes it very hard to prove
liability should a program misbehave when used on a machine that was not
available to the author >>

Software authors have used electronic discussion forums like this one to
request the assistance from Series 7, Osaris or Revo users, asking them to
test a new/revised application for them. It's therefore perfectly possible to
check whether the application runs fine on an Osaris without owning one
yourself. And, please, note that the EC Consumer Protection Directive's "free
from defects" shouldn't be taken to extremes. It's considered *reasonable*
for the software user to expect that an application is free from defects. Not
that the application has to be absolutely free from defects. That would be
unreasonable. The directive simply asks software authors to take due care
during development and to test the features that are in the application.
Needless to say that this doesn't guarantee that an application is free from
defects. What the directive therefore implies is that the software author
takes corrective actions when a user does find a defect.

<< The same then applies to support; in the aforementioned case, the author
would not be obliged to modify his program to work on a particular machine,
and could not be prosecuted for not doing so >>

Depends on how you present the application. When it's BlobWriter for EPOC the
reasonable expectation is that BlobWriter runs on all EPOC devices. Which
includes the netPad, FoxPro, Osaris and even the
Ericsson R380s smartphone. You're free to apply restrictions in the sense
that you list BlobWriter's hardware and operating system requirements.
Preferably as part of the installation instructions as it's reasonable to
expect the user to read these instruction before installation. When the user
prefers not to do so the consequences are for the user's account.

---
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Beilen - Netherlands

Date: 20 Apr 2005 17:04:29 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: A slow farewell?,

Answer to: Axel Moberg

Re.: A slow farewell? - I am sorry to see you go, but live is dynamic and
needs change. If you feel the need to move on than so be it and we wish you
all the best. Of course different subscribers and contributors have different
interests and ideas and that is the beauty of a digest. If you subscribe to
the html version you can jump from the list of subjects straight to the text
of a particular message and back to the list of subjects which allows you to
read only those subjects you are interested in.
As to my need for a movie on my phone, it is of course not for normal viewing
but for when I travel in a plane or train and have nothing else to do. This
winter I flew to Geneva with Easyjet and took a train ride of over 1-1/2
hours. The films came in mighty handy.

There is no "chairman" on the digest, just a bunch of volunteers doing the
work on a rotating basis. I will try and answer your questions :
- Symbian is a next version of EPOC created for the PDA/phone industry. You
can find a lot more at the website of 3lib (http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk)
- Tombraider is a viewer for large texts where the text is compressed to a
very small size.
- Languages I am no expert in. I have a program to read Hebrew files, but
can't work in Hebrew.
- You can't use (AFAIK) GPRS cards on the nB but GPRS is included in the
9500. I use GPRS via my phone and an IR connection between the phone and the
mB. Works just as well.
- GPS, yes, there are old programs available, Routeplanner and Streetplanner
made by TomTom, but not for sale anymore. You could try eBay or ask in the
digest if anyone has a spare copy they don't need anymore. I have got a CD
for the UK and a CD for Europe for both countries and cities and it works
great. I use a Garmin eTrex GPS connected via a cable.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 20 Apr 2005 19:41:03 +0100
From: Steve Hodgson <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Farewells and shareware

Well I finally said goodbye to Psion tonight. After several months of using
my Palm Tungsten T5 I finally pulled the batteries out the netBook and threw
it in the cupboard with all its predecessors from an Organiser II through to
Series 5.

The Palm platform is ropey is hell by comparison with the level of stability
provided by EPOC. It crashes at the drop of a hat, the file system is arcane
(or possible really simple and I am just /looking/ for a system), the
Tomeraider beta is flakey and Proporta don't seem to care. The plus points
are that it is much more powerful in a lot of ways (the joys of a reliable
sync via Bluetooth) and Datebk5 is a joy.

I was trying to explain to my wife (still a dedicated Revo user) why the
death of this proud machine was such a significant moment and should
accompanied by suitably brooding music but it was all lost on her. I'm sure
people here will understand better.

As an, aside with all he debate here on the morals of shareware and freeware
it might be interesting to recird the views of a friend of mine. He takes a
view that shareware means I buy the package and then share it with him! Not a
view I share.

Cheers,

Steve Hodgson

Date: 20 Apr 2005 19:41:28 +0100
From: Steve Hodgson <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Infinite Beta Test

>I trust you understand, however, that
>people will start to smell a rat when the application remains in beta
>for months and months and months. There comes a point at which you can
>no longer defend an indefinite beta test phase.

Not an issue that seems to be troubling Proporta with Tomeraider on the Palm!

Cheers,

Steve Hodgson

Date: 21 Apr 2005 13:25:32 +0100
From: Nicholas Bloch <address truncated>
Subject: Problems with Atelier Check Disk & Optimise

Hi all!

1. I wonder if someone out there using a 5mx has ever had this problem!

Every week I run Check Disk (Version 1.0, Build 095) and over the last couple
of months I have been getting the following "strange" error message:

Program Closed
Program: AppArcServer Thread
Reason Code: E 32USER Cbase
Reason No: 21

Now, funnily enough, on pressing "Continue", the program seemed to work OK,
except that now although I set the Preferences to make a sound to alert me to
the fact that the program has finished - it no longer does it! Strange!

Moreover, and more worrying, when I then try to open an application (of any
type), I get a message saying that the file does not exist. That would scare
senseless, if it wasn't for the help of a marvellous little program called
"Reset Plus", which not only resets my 5mx (an enhanced soft reset), but also
fixes this "file does not exist" problem.

2. A similar situation occurs when I use "Optimise" (Version 1.00, Build
052). In this instance, I wanted to defragment C drive. Everything was
proceeding normally and then I got the following error message:

Defragmenting Stopped
An error occurred during the defragmenting process
Unexpected Error 10018

When I pressed "Continue" and closed Optimise, and then try to open an
application (of any type), I get a message saying that the file does not
exist. Again "Reset Plus", fixes the problem.

3. Lastly, I made a stupid mistake and accidentally deleted a sub-folder of
Draft in Psion's email programme which contained a number of critically
important emails. Is it possible to retrieve these emails and if so, how?

Thank goodness I backed up my 5mx the previous night, but I'm away on
business for a couple of days, so when I get back home, where do I look - to
retrieve these emails?

Has anyone in the digest experienced this problem and found a way to
erradicate it?

Date: 19 Apr 2005 21:58:00 +0100
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: 9500/Max

Answers to Max:

>>gives  you 50% discount). Does anyone have experience with this or any
other BT keyboard?

Do they have a 9500 keyboard driver yet? I'm not sure about using a different
Symbian OS driver, I think you'll need something specific.

>I am increasingly frustrated with the fact that all my contacts did not
synchronise over from my MC218, via M$ Outcrook, to the 9500. It seems

This is very strange. Rather than fiddle around, why not sync them all to
Outlook Express instead (i.e. the Windows Address Book) and thence to the
9500? Outlook itself is buggy, whereas OE is smaller and simpler.

>Amazingly I cannot find any way to import Vcards into the Contacts app!

Pester Symbianware for SmartVCard for the 9500, this will give you yet
another possible way of doing all this.

>Spreadsheet app is not able to import CSV files?

Indeed. Even my Series 3 could do this (IIRC)

>I have not yet found a way to print my received faxes. I do not have an
infrared printer and am amazed that I cannot print to the printer conected to
my PC when it is connected to the 9500. The 9500 asks for an IP address

The old Psion Print system is long gone, I'm afraid. Maybe some soul can port
it or replicate it for modern Symbian OS devices? Again, pester
Nokia/Symbian/SymbianWare! 8-)

..........................
Steve Litchfield, 3-Lib, http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/
Software and features for Psion/Symbian handhelds and smartphones
Also PocketInfo, useful files - http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/pocketinfo
Journalism: sub-editor and/or senior contributor to:
Palmtop User - http://www.palmtop.co.uk/
PDA Essentials - http://www.paragon.co.uk/mags/pdaessentials.html
PC Basics - http://www.paragon.co.uk/mags/pcbasics.html
Pocket PC columnist, Computer Shopper - http://www.computershopper.co.uk/
Reviews editor, AllAboutSymbian - http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/