via Streaksmart and Android Central. Still have a post on upgrading to alternate firmware forthcoming, though it’s less urgent all of a sudden.
Y’know I like Apple hardware, right? Some of its stuff is downright magical. The close attention to detail. The minimalist design. The shiny. As a hardware company, I believe there’s nobody that can really touch them. But as a software company, I find many of the arbitrary restrictions Apple places on software developers and vendors [...]
in all it’s majesty. First, some unboxing pictures. Out of the Box Powering up the Steak[sic] for the first time was exciting. After waiting a few minutes, I looked through the installed apps and menus. Something didn’t seem quite right though. This was not the OS I was expecting, having played with a few different [...]
Two months ago, I ordered a Dell Streak. There were some angry, frustrated tweets about Dell’s incredibly bad customer service while I waited. I got a note saying my device shipped on December 12th. On January 6th, I started phoning. I was bounced around through no fewer than 7 different customer service groups trying to [...]
Watched some of the live stream from Engadget on the iPad announcement today. It was, as expected, a tablet shaped like a big iPod. It comes with wireless and it can hook up to a 3G network if you buy the big one. Notably, for me, were the things it didn’t do: No camera (!) [...]
What do you do when you’re stuck in an airplane at 6am and the cabin lights are off and your seat’s reading light doesn’t work? I guess you could listen to music or watch something on an iPod-like device. But what if you really feel like reading? As luck would have it, Instapaper Free makes [...]
Unless you’re one of those people who doesn’t really pay attention to technology, and if you are, you probably aren’t going to be reading this, you’re aware that Amazon has an electronic book reading device called the Kindle. If you happen to be living north of the 49th parallel (give-or-take) and within a particular band [...]
Deb and I went to the rogers store yesterday ostensibly so I could get a replacement battery for my ailing blackberry 8800. We ended up leaving with a brand new pair of iPhone 3g 16Gb phones. It’s been increasingly clear that the iPhones are closer to what I’ve wanted as a wireless device for awhile [...]
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