Jon's Network

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

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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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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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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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