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Personal Technology

  • Why T-Mobile is the Company to Watch
  • My Preciousssss iPhone
  • Why I Won’t Buy the Helio Ocean
  • Check Out the iPhone Ads.
  • Another Reason Not to Buy a Dell
  • Touch Screen a la Minority Report
  • Sweeeeet! I want my iPhone
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    Why T-Mobile is the Company to Watch

    July 19th, 2007 · No Comments

    I had an interesting evening with several T-Mobile employees about the iPhone today. I called up to get a new number for my old phone. I had arranged with them previously to port my number to the iPhone and replace it with a new number without incurring any penalties. T-Mobile’s charged me the $200 anyway [...]

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    Tags: Personal Technology · iPhone

    My Preciousssss iPhone

    July 16th, 2007 · 4 Comments

    It’s been almost 3 weeks since I bought the iPhone. To say I like it is an understatement. I have a visceral attachment to it. I’ll admit it. I’m like Gollum and the Ring. The iPhone may not have all the features under the sun, but the features it does have are transparent, integrated and [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Personal Technology · iPhone

    Why I Won’t Buy the Helio Ocean

    June 16th, 2007 · 12 Comments

    Apple makes features more usable. Simple idea, but the results are magical.I had a conversation with some sales reps at the Helio kiosk Friday night. I asked them which phone competes with the iPhone. This question put them on the defensive, and they proceeded to question and antagonize me about the iPhone instead of selling [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Personal Technology · iPhone

    Check Out the iPhone Ads.

    June 5th, 2007 · No Comments

    Ya, I’m gonna buy one. iPhone TV spots

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    Tags: Apple · Personal Technology · iPhone

    Another Reason Not to Buy a Dell

    May 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

    If the craplets weren’t enough to keep you from buying computers from Dell, Sony, HP, et al., this spyware-like behavior by Dell and Google might convince you. The average user doesn’t even notice this though, so who cares. Vendors will keep doing this because it works.

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    Tags: Marketing · Personal Technology

    Touch Screen a la Minority Report

    February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

    UPDATE: I had embedded a video of an amazing demo of a Perceptive Pixel Touch Screen, but it auto-played and became quite annoying.  Take a gander (you’ll have to watch a short ad first) and imagine this on your wall at home or your computer monitor.  I wonder if they plan to use soft-keyboards with [...]

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    Tags: Personal Technology

    Sweeeeet! I want my iPhone

    January 9th, 2007 · No Comments

    I read Steve’s keynote speech live at MacObserver today.  I was not that surprised to see the iPhone announcement, but I was really surprised to see how advanced it is.  There are so many juicy features to love, but random-access voicemail is a great one.  You can drool here.

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    Tags: Personal Technology