I’m finding it increasingly difficult to think of things to write about.

I starting blogging in 2004. The influence of technology in all creative endeavours was the general theme of The Creative Life Blog and for many years it provided a good outlet for my geeky musings!

About the middle 2007 I found that a great deal of my time on the blog was spent discussing the extraordinary creative abilities of Nokia’s new Nseries devices, namely the N93, N93i, N95, N95 8GB and N82. I decided to focus my efforts and hence Nokia Creative sprang to life! Since then things have been ticking along rather nicely, however in the final quarter of 2008 I found myself scratching around looking for things to write about.

I know that big innovation is coming from Nokia in 2009, but I’m not sure how much of it will be of direct interest to me. Let me explain...

I was drawn to the Nokia N93 - my first Nseries - for just two reasons.

Photo and Video Capture Innovation. I now know for sure what I always expected at the time, the N93 was many years ahead of every other phone in this department. In many ways it still trumps every other smartphone. Stereo sound capture and 3X optical zoom... amazing stuff!

Pocket Computer Aspirations. From the stunning transforming form factor to the TV out and powerful web browser the N93 could (and still can) replicate many of the functions that you would normally attribute to a laptop computer.

If you look back through the pages of Nokia Creative you’ll notice that 85% of all the posts have been about either pocket computing or pocket video and photo capture. In 2008 two things happened to me that killed off quite a large portion of my Nseries enthusiasm.

I bought a large 1080p LCD TV

Apple launched the App Store for the iPhone

The large 1080p TV really made me think about the quality of video capture on the N95 and N82. Though they are both undeniably excellent for a smartphone, do I really want my life captured at a resolution that is unquestionably inferior to a really cheap camcorder and utterly woeful in comparison to a good HD video camera? The answers is no, and hence I stopped using the N95 for all but the most spontaneous of moments.

The App Store transformed the iPhone from a smartphone (of sorts) to a powerful pocket computer. There are creative applications on the iPhone - Colours and Noise.io Pro come to mind - that simply have no counterpart on Symbian S60.

So that leaves me in a strange place, what do I write about now?

If I really want to talk about photo and video capture then I’d better start considering other phones and devices from the likes of Samsung, Canon and Kodak. If I want to focus more on pocket computers then I’d be better served by highlighting innovation on Apple’s Mobile OS X and Google’s Android.

Perhaps Mobile World Congress 2009 will provide us creative Nokia users something to get excited about again? The 16th of February can’t come fast enough!

Next up, the final chapter in “Nokia and The Road to HD Video Capture”.