Caught In The Whirlwind
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QotD: On The iPhone…
Oct 28th 2007
Over a million iPhones have been sold. Have you: bought one, considered it, or decided it's not for you?
I was considering buying one. I really like the interface but at the time I was phone shopping (right after it came out) it's $500-600 price tag was very hard to swallow considering it was lacking several features which are present in other less expensive phones. I'm willing to shell out cash for a cool interface, but…not that much cash.
Perhaps next time around when they release the next revision and the price goes down a little bit. Also, at the time, the lack of third party applications was really a sticking point for me. I tried to ignore it as hard as I can, but in the end, it sealed it's fate.
Instead, I bought myself a Blackberry Curve which I fell in love with. This thing is just so useful that I often wonder how I ever survived with my Treo 650. With the Treo, everything felt kinda hacked together. Like tacking the phone onto an already ancient operating system. The curve feels much more integrated. I also love the little touches, like automatically going into standby mode when in the belt holster I have and dimming the screen in dark areas. The camera is fairly decent too, as far as cell phone cameras go. As long as it's not too dark out and the thing you're taking a picture of isn't moving very fast.
I think I'm definitely a blackberry convert now. As much as I like Apple, they're going to have to do something seriously cool to win me back from the Blackberry camp now.
I Need To Buy Candles
Aug 4th 2007
There was a nice little storm last night…followed by an equally nice power outage. Now, as a technology based individual, I don't do well in a power outage. Especially if said technology based individual doesn't have any working flashlights or candles in their house (a situation that I'm going to be correcting)
I ended up going over to my parents house so I wasn't sitting entirely in the dark. Thankfully I had my blackberry with me for my internet fix…I was checking weather reports, IMing people, getting severe storm warnings though email…Yes, I'm aware that this is sort of sad. Thankfully the power returned around midnight. Phew.
Multitasking is fun…power outages aren't.
New Toy!
Jul 27th 2007
Today is an historic day. Well, sort of.
I finally was able to ditch my Treo! I now hold in my hand (well actually, it's on the table…but who's counting) a brand new Blackberry Curve.
Finally I can run my Treo over with heavy objects! Er…ok, nevermind, I traded it in for $100. But um, maybe somebody ELSE will roll over it.
Here's the story. I was trying to track down a Curve after a search of all the AT&T stores that I knew the location of turned up blank. Everybody said they were popular and everybody was out of stock.
So this morning I called up an authorized agent store (which I was trying to avoid, but…that turned out to be the wrong move) and asked if they carried the curve and if they had one in stock. They said they did, but they were going fast. They could, however,hold one for me. So I scooted down on my lunch break to pick up my Curve.
I'm really enjoying it so far. I like the interface, the form factor… The camera is pretty good too. See below:
Taken very quickly as the plane landed in front of my car on my way back to work with the curve. Pretty decent for a snapshot. And it was easy to use too.
I'm still playing around with it but two thumbs up so far.
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