Posts Tagged “devices”

For those who follow my misadventures over on my personal blog, you may be familiar with the fact that I recently finished construction on my basement.  While it’s nice having a third bathroom, fourth bedroom, and laundry room, the best part about it is the family room.  I wired the room to accommodate a 7.1 home theater.  I even built a shelf over my fireplace that will be home to a 52″ LCD television.  The whole setup is very sweet and I take great pride in knowing that it was my hands that built it all.

Despite construction having been mostly completed for weeks, it has only been within the past few days that I’ve had the time to begin moving my electronics into place.  Unfortunately, I haven’t upgraded my components yet so I’m using a 12-year-old Pioneer four-channel receiver with a seven-year-old 27″ television.

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.