GLOBAL – I don’t know for certain how many video-calling capable 3G phones I’ve had, but I know for sure I’ve never actually made a video call on any of them. People admonished Nokia for not including video calling in its first ever 3G device (which in itself was hardly a show-stopping product), but then perhaps the teardrop shape had some level of irony in there.

When hackers unite: Creating hardware to hook a microphone to a mobile phone

I have been following for some time a small but active subsection of N95 users: Video journalists. Robert Scoble broadcasted his interview of me using Qik and his N95. I found out [via Debi Jones] that student journalists wielding N95s covered the US Super Tuesday Primaries in February for MTV. Debi Jones, herself, roamed around in an Airstream broadcasting interviews from her N95 using Flixwagon during CTIA.