I took Liam a couple week ago to the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, CA. He loves airplanes and had such a good time climbing into out of the great exhibits. He is such a cool kid.
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I have been playing with Flock for a couple of days now and it has some pretty nifty features. If you are not sure what Flock is then let me explain. Flock is “social browsing” it allows people of similar interests to share there information with others. If you are a blogger than it is pretty logical that the next step would be a “browser” with this capability. Yes, I am sure that this could have been done with extensions in Firefox but a dedicated browser is a much more elegant solution. I will need a couple of more days to play around with it but I will have a better report later.
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I also had a chance to hang out the previous week for a short time with Sean and Amy from Vegas. I am had a chance to catch up with Kar Wing Ho which was a lot of fun.
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I had a chance to hook up with Kevin on a all too brief and rare visit back to the Bay Area. It was great we met up in the city and had some great Indonesian food. The dinner was with John and Shierly of my old E.piphany days. It was really great to see everyone again and meet Kevin’s wonderful girlfriend Edan. I hope to travel back to the D.C. area and see him again soon. Here are some pictures from the evening.
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My name is Bill and I am a gadget addict. I am always swapping phones. Lately I have swapping (much to the dismay of my system administrator) between my trusty Palm Treo 600 and my BlackBerry 7100t. I am a T-Mobile user for better or worse. Each phone has its pros and cons. The Treo has many more applications, it has better signal strength and is pretty damn reliable. The BlackBerry is more simplistic, has Bluetooth (though very limited no DUN or syncing just headset and auto) and SureType (the funky BlackBerry keyboard solution) is great. Once you get used to it, it is truly amazing and fast. I connect with both phones to my companies exchange network. The Treo uses Good Technology and the BlackBerry uses the BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server). Both services have the pros and cons also. Good Technology is faster and offers convenient features such as mark for follow up and enterprise rule based delivery to other mail folders. BlackBerry has a better contact manager and more robust calendar management. Both phones are only GPRS. Well, the time has come and the next generation of phone is come. Advances in network is getting close to broadband speed, I am talking about EDGE.
I have this vision in my mind of what my ultimate setup would be. This setup is not just the phone, that is only one part of my master plan. The important features have to compliment my other devices. I always approach my devices as part of a larger system. I guess my needs dictate what I am looking for in a unified mobile traveling system. I travel for part of my job. My main computer is my 15″ Powerbook, this the best laptop I have used or owned. It has everything I need. It is truly an effective machine. I need a phone to compliment this while I still retain my mobile connectivity. I want the ability to stay connected mobile via my phone. I have been spoiled by have my contact, mail, task and calendar sync wirelessly but I would love for my PowerBook to have the ability to connect also when I need that extra computing power and there is no Wifi available for me to use. This brings the EDGE necessity. So currently there are one or two choices. I could good with the solution that everyone is going to scream that I should get which is the Palm Treo 650 GSM Unlocked (T-Mobile does not currently offer this phone so I would have to buy it on eBay) or I could wait and see what is coming. Nokia is currently getting ready to release a new line thus the reason for this. There are other lines that are also coming out but I want to highlight the new Nokia phones here. I will have to keep an eye out for all the phones that I are coming out from all vendors but it looks like I will have to wait until 1st quarter of 2006 or later. I also know is that eventually I will be happy.
| * E60: Traditional bar-style 3G phone with VoIP, speakerphone, a 24-bit 352×416-pixel display, and a low-voltage RS-MMC slot. Supports GSM/EDGE 900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 2100.
* E61: A slim (0.55 inches) messaging phone to compete with the Motorola Q. Features a landscape 24-bit QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard, and a miniSD slot. Supports quad-band GSM/EDGE and WCDMA 2100. * E70: A flip-open QWERTY keyboard phone similar to Nokia’s 6800 series. Features include a 352×416-pixel display, 2 megapixel camera with CIF-resolution video capture, USB 2.0, miniSD slot, and Wi-Fi 802.11g/e/i. Available in a GSM/EDGE 850/1800/1900 version for the Americas, plus a 3G version for Europe and Asia. |
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