Posts Tagged “cell phones”

If you remember the days of the one red button joystick, cell phones as big as your head, and betamax, then this video is for you.  If everything that I just said made you scratch your head and say “huh?”, then you’re obviously not up on your history and should be ashamed of yourself.  (What are they teaching kids in schools these days?)

Tags: 1980's, betamax, cell phones, history, joystick, video

Schmidty and I were once talking about what I’d want out of a personal device; connectivity, storage, integration, navigation, and an operating system flexible enough to evolve with the needs of its user.  We both dismissed this immediately, since no company is in-tune with it’s consumer base to that degree, and figured such a device will never exist.

Well, it’s still not perfect, but Garmin has gotten much closer than anyone else so far.

This thing has nearly everything I could want in a phone.  What it doesn’t have, just may not have been announced yet (I don’t know).  It has a better GPS system than any other phone out there (let’s face it, it’s Garmin) which ties seamlessly into Google services, and then has the Wi-Fi 3.5G and phone capabilities with it.

Tags: cell phones, devices, Gadgets, Garmin, GPS, nuvifone, Palm, Sirrius, uber, XM

The HTC G1 launched today for T-Mobile (though the phone itself won’t be available in stores until October 22nd).  For anyone who wasn’t paying attention when it wasn’t announced, this is special because the phone uses Google’s mobile operating system, named Android.

And what a botched job it was.  Don’t get me wrong; I love Google, and I love HTC.  I also have T-Mobile service.  So why am I disappointed with this first phone?  Well, namely because it seems like too little fanfare for something that could potentially be huge.  Or, maybe because too much hype has been generated for what it isn’t doing yet.  I’m not entirely sure yet.

Tags: Android, Apple, Blackberry, cell phones, Google, HTC, iMac, iPhone, iPod, Palm, smart phones, T-Mobile, Windows

I am an absolute technophile.  I love seeing all the new gadgets that come out and what they can do for me.  I love to think about how I can then modify those gadgets to do even more for me without me having to pay anything more.  I’m a cheapskate, and an enthusiast.

The term “enthusiast” is not one I’ve used all that often to describe myself.  If there were a scale to describe how much of an enthusiast a person could be, I’d imagine I’d be rather low on the scale.  But the fact is, I’m still ON the scale.  There is a very sad down side to being an enthusiast (well, there are probably a few); those same devices that you find you can’t live without aren’t usually everywhere you might need them.

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And it’d help greatly if you are dumb enough to believe anything you hear.

We have a radio station here in our state that typically plays your normal fare of “90’s and now” programming that is so popular everywhere.  I will occasionally listen to it when I’m surfing through the stations, but I don’t really follow it as much as I do my favorite one.  I hadn’t really listened to it before at night, until I was driving down to the gas station the other evening.

John Tesh has a radio show that broadcasts at night on this station.  I sort of knew that it was there, but hadn’t ever really paid any attention to it until my gas run the other night.  Billed as “Intelligence for Your Life”, it’s a syndicated program (that sounds like it was recorded in his basement, “unibomber-style”) designed to educate people with little factoids that he finds interesting.

Tags: advice, cell phones, dihydrogen monoxide, humor, John Tesh, knowledge, magazine, morons, radiation, radio show, water