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― By Joe Ross on Thursday, July 02, 2009
I know I haven't posted in a while, and I'm really only reposting content from the gadget gurus over at Engadget, but this is a great video and I had to share it. A Super Nintendo console, shrunk to fit in your hands, with full controls and even speakers!
― By Joe Ross on Monday, June 29, 2009
Pics like this make we want to go on vacation. Yet another Logan Square shot.
― By Joe Ross on Monday, June 15, 2009
It's something I have wanted for a very long time: a smartphone. I waited and researched and read. I flirted with the iPhone. I made eyes at several iterations of the ubiquitous Blackberry family. I even test drove that hideous bastard child of Samsung's, the Instinct.
But, in the end, I chose the Palm Pre, which everyone hyped as an iPhone killer (it's not, but I'll get to that), as the last best effort of embattled PDA pioneer Palm, Inc (it is), and as the king of super-synchronous next-generation social communication devices.
After owning one for a little over a week, I can say that it doesn't kill the iPhone.
But it shouldn't try. They aim for different people and take markedly different angles on what a smartphone should do and how it should do it.
Cue the Apple fanboys spewing about my sniveling equivocation. But it's true: the iPhone is king, but Palm would be smart to realize that they should stake a claim on new land instead of bellowing a war cry.
The fact that Apple has been giving them the silent treatment speaks to the fact that Palm is on to something with their WebOS platform.
Of course, I could blog from an iPhone, or any other email-enabled device. But it's a different story (at least for now) if I want to have my Twitter, Pandora and IM applications running alongside my email client.
I'm waiting for more apps, more bug fixes, and a stronger sense of longevity and developer interest to come to WebOS. But the good news is that I have no buyer's remorse.
Enjoy the new iPhone, the new Blackberries, and the new (and admittedly very sexy) Nokia N97.
As for me, I am happy with my Palm Pre.