AT&T offer microcell towers to ONLY 7.5% of users AT&T knows they have a coverage problem, know they can solve it; yet still are going to the solution kicking and screaming. If you remember, you could get a micro cell tower for $199 (used to be $150 ($20 a month more for unlimited) that uses YOUR internet connection to solve a AT&T issue. Via… Read More
Catan expantion pack availble for the iphone This press release just came out. So if you are a Catan fan, then you may want to hit it up. Never played before? Check the free version. A fresh gust of sea air for all Catan landlubbers: “The Seafarers lite” including the new scenario “The 4 Islands” and two additional game variants, is now… Read More
t-mobile offers a cheap 4G smart phone plan at $60. Tempted? Remember Metro PCS finally getting into the smart phone game? Get an Android unlimited everything for $50 a month. Not bad except you only get edge, but its a way to fight AT&T and Verizon (especially with the iphone 4 coming out). Well another shot is fired in the great cell phone war, T-Mobile is… Read More
Verizon AT&T; which is faster, better? Should I wait 18 months for the iphone 5? Now that all the web traffic has died down from the anemic Verizon announcement, lets ask the critical questions; Which should it get? The Verizon or the AT&T iphone? The answer is actually easier then you may thing with one very big condition. We will hit that condition in a second, but here is the… Read More
Electric prescription eye glasses. Cool does not begin to describe this. Every now and again, something so cool come out, I become full of WANT! Electric eye glasses from PixelOptics that use a LCD layer that alters how the liquid crystals refract light. Holy alter vision batman!! Think about it. Get your eyes checked every year and the doctor simply changes your prescription in the computer… Read More
Crazy iPad case When I first saw this for a second I thought it could have been a joke, but no, this is real, and I can actually see the usefulness of such a case, but I’m sorry, I cannot see walking around in what looks like a baby carrier ‘just’ because I’m too busy to find a… Read More
Review of the Sun-Plugged Solar powered backpack for smart phones. Recently I acquired a Sun-Plugged Max Solar Backpack. I have had solar powered devices before and never found them to be all that useful beyond anything novel. The Sun-Plugged backpack however has become a resource I use everyday now. The battery is super light and with the tons of adapters, I can recharge my iphone,… Read More
Let the bus be late – Mass Transit Video Gaming Several weeks ago I read that Yahoo was going to install 20 digital video 72-inch touch screens throughout the San Francisco downtown area as part of a limited time advertising campaign Bus Stop Derby. It wasn’t until I recently got back in town that I came across one of these at 4th and Howard. The… Read More
MetroPCS has a Android Smart phone! Is it time to switch? Umm.. No. Not yet. For those of you who follow my blog know I have up’ed my AT&T contract in the last two years, instead choosing to live me my 3G and borrowing other phones when I need to test stuff. I also have a Verizon Droid, the Samsung BADA phone and a (hahah) piece… Read More
What are the new features with the iPad2? Not sure, but here is a good guess As with anything with Apple, including what Steve is going to have for breakfast is a secrete. But like most things, the clues are there if you just look. As with the iPhone4, do not expect a revolution in the iPad but instead many of the features and function we thought we would have seen… Read More
Verizon is playing the same games as AT&T with exclusivity. Apple gets richer Verizon is looking to have an exclusive deal with Apple just as AT&T does. From a business perspective, this is pretty smart for Verizon because they can claim the first 4G phone. Verizon is feeling the slip on Android and has little faith in Blackberry to really content with iphone popularity.… Read More
The spark for my iPad is gone. Sold it, and dont miss it. I like my iPad, and if i sold it, I would miss it right off, but that’s because I have the really bad habit of taking a look at email, socMed or do a small bit of reading before bed. Else, I think I would be in the same boat as my friend here.. Lets… Read More
The smallest iPhone battery I have used yet. It’s web2.0 time again and again, my iphone will be challenged to stay alive as I use it for everything including tethering when I lose interwebs. EVERY conference I got the wifi dies at some point. Anyway, I have a spare battery I carry around, but it’s a bit annoying, so this week I tried… Read More
An Android Pro for business. Yes, now Blackberry has direct competition the new Driod Pro by Motorola is what BlackBerry has been trying to build; a business centric phone that focuses on office file formats, exchange support, high security and remote phone management that is highly required by any corporate operation.… Read More
Low sales of the Windows Phone 7 does not mean much We all saw the report yesterday that windows phone 7 sales on release day were not that great. around 45,000 of not that great. But it does not really matter. When I was looking at the phone I was not too impressed. And in fact amused that it still, 30 days before launch, had bugs… Read More
Bruce Lee Playing PingPong with NunChucks Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks!! I mean, what else can I say here? I’m not sure if its real or fake, but this is a Nokia ad! For a Bruce Lee version of their N96! So I’m not sure what to think. It looks pretty cut up, but still. We are talking Bruce… Read More
Apple doesn’t like Flash, but this could be good for Flash, but not in the short term The new MacBook doe not come with Flash preinstalled as other Mac OS’s (iOS not withstanding) and devices did in the past. Well, no longer. The new MacBook and all future Mac devices will NOT have Flash pre-installed. Now the first reaction from most people is that this is yet another stab at Flash. And… Read More
How can I get heart rate monitoring on my iphone while biking? How to get heart rate monitoring on your iphone when bicycling or i bike computers.… Read More
Sweet platform for writing iphone/ipad/Andriod apps without knowing CoCo We all know about Adobe returning to work on porting an app written in CS5 thus using ActionScript. But its not out yet. And may not be out for a bit as I comment on my post on Adobe getting back to work. However, if you just cannot wait, there is another option. Corona! The… Read More
How to stop people from checking you into places on Facebook Really?? I have to yet again, go into my privacy setting to stop someone or something on facebook doing something I do not want? Gezz.. So here is the latest. Seems that your ‘friends’ can check you into a place for you. Without you being there or even knowing! WTF?? Ok, so I’m suppose to… Read More