Palm Pre shortage planned? Ho yea, you betcha! Give me a break. Like we should be even slightly surprised that Palm will not have enough units for initial release.. Better yet, I read in PC Magazine that the planned (instant discount of the $100 dollar loan to Palm) is only for the first 4,250 units in stock. Nation wide folks. You KNOW they will… Read More
The Palm Pre pricing is out. A bit cheaper then the iphone.. Cheap enough? Maybe. Its $199 if you take on a 2 year plan and send in a $100 rebate. I HATE rebates. Enough that it could turn me off from thinking about the Palm Pre, but we’ll see what the user experience is like for sending them in and getting the money back. Its like giving Palm… Read More
Real-Time Object Recognition – NOT on the iphone You get used to every cool new ‘feature’ or ‘function’ to always be out on the iphone. Well, not in this case. Looks like Andriod at quick glance, but not sure. Now, could this work on the iphone? I do not see why not. Yes the camera is not as good, but based on the… Read More
Connecting your iphone/ipod to your radio (stereo) through the CD changer Last week I read an article in popular mechanics (link here) talking about the various ways, and the level of quality, per option. Nothing new here that has not already been talked about, except, the missed out on one.. Over ride the CD changer! Why would we want to do something like that? Well, lets… Read More
Flash 10 coming to a mobile phone near you.. as long as its not an iphone Arrgg.. every time I read anything about the FAIL on getting flash running on the iphone, it just bugs the heck out of me. So guess what I read today from cnet? ‘Lynch demonstrated Flash Player 10 on devices running Nokia’s Symbian operating system, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, and Google’s Android operating system. But the quintessential… Read More
Android on Netbooks. its coming.. and I, for one, welcome our new overlords. MATTHÄUS KRZYKOWSKI & DANIEL HARTMANN wrote an article for VentureBeat on how they were able to get Android working on the EEEPC 1000h. Link here.. Now for most of us mobile geeks, this is not shocking news… as a concept.. but given how quick they were able to do it, and also given how the… Read More
N.Y. Times rips on the new Blackberry Storm… I agree I have my issues with the iPhone, and I have no problem expressing them, but all in all you have to admit, it’s pretty good. The OS does a good job at being fast enough to keep up with you (not as much since 2.0) and things are mostly well thought out and designed. No… Read More