If you decide to purchase a single application for you Android phone, let it be Tasker. Tasker is an application for Android which performs Tasks based on Contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined Profiles, or in clickable or timer home screen widgets. This simple concept profoundly extends your control of your Android device and it's capabilities, without the need for 'root' or a special home screen. Tasker can basically do anything you can images with your phone triggered by any trigger you can imagine.Read more »»

When purchased my new Samsung Galaxy S2 I naturally also ordered a new handmade custom Nutshell case for it. It's currently in production so I'm hoping it will be here within a week or two. If you need a case or pouch for your smartphone, your GPS, your handheld, or any other gadget you own, you really should look into ordering a nutshell. These guys are amazing. They produce custom handmade pouches for you out of real leather.Read more »»

While at the Chaos Communications Camp I purchased a SIMtrace card.

Osmocom SIMtrace is a software and hardware system for passively tracing SIM-ME communication between the SIM card and the mobile phone.

I've already got it set up and running, and played around with it a bit. Hopefully I'll have some time to do some true SIM-sniffing soon.Read more »»

I'm going to the Chaos Communications Camp in Germany August 9th - 15th. Feel free to get in touch if you want to meet up there. I'll be holding a workshop for the openLOC-project based on my master's thesis, and I'm really looking forward to getting in touch with other GSM-hackers, so don't hesitate to say hi!

If you purchase a single Android app, let it be Tasker for Android, the single most important Android app of all times.

A couple of days ago I finally received my brand new HTC Desire (featuring a SLCD-screen instead of the OLED and Android 2.2) that I ordered ages ago. Thus I soon will start posting Android stuff here, and as soon as I finish my masters thesis I'll start writing software for Android too (and posting about it here).

One of the first things I decided to do was import SMS from my old Nokia N95-8GB. No need to sync contacts since I decided to do that manually and get rid of a lot of old crap at the same time.Read more »»

I forgot to post this here before now. A couple of months ago I finally got a new quick to post to blog up and running, since I hardly ever seem to update this one other then when I write tutorials and guide.

To make a long story short: I created a blog using emacs, org-mode, jekyll and git/gitosis.Read more »»

I've finally got gsmblog.net up and running on a new CMF. It's really a relief to get rid of the old crappy Joomla the site was running off previously. The new site has been up and running for a bit more than a week, and so far there seems not to be any major problems. I still have to do a lot of tweaking here and there, specially on the Norwegian version of the site. Unfortunately I've been knocked out with a fever for a few days, so I'm rather back-logged at the moment.Read more »»

Some polish geek has managed to run Windows 3.11 on Nokia N95 using dosbox.

Vincotechs new GPS-board A10801 based on the SIRFSTAR III chipset reduces power consumption by 50% compared to major competitors:

Read the press release here