Tag Archives: Mobile

Sprint is Still Losing Customers

At the end of last year I wrote Why Sprint is Losing Customers (and market share). The post detailed how I felt Sprint was providing the wrong kinds of incentive for their business to be successful. The post actually got talked about on a few finance sites as Sprint’s stock continued to fall throughout Q1 […]

What’s In Your Bag

I know this has gone around a time or two before, but I haven’t done it in at least a couple of years (that I can remember).
Here is what is in my bag these days:

click on the image to see the annotated version at flickr.
What’s in your bag?

MacBook Aiiiiiiirr Baaallll

My thoughts on the MacWorld 2008 keynote announcements:

MacBook air is pretty sweet looking, but…

everyone is complaining about the battery not being (user?) replaceable.Fred Wilson made an excellent point on twitter: “can you at least pull the battery out when every other reboot option fails you?”
No internal 3G (more on this in a sec)
No ExpressCard slot […]

The Coolest Gadget Under $50

I admit that I like mobile devices a little much. Tomorrow we may hear more about the 3G iPhone that will be released later this year. The iPhone has started a new trend of paying way more for mobile devices than we ever have before. Carrier subsidies are soon to be a thing of the […]

There’s Something in the Air

The interwebs are all atwitter with news of a big MacWorld banner spotted at the Moscone Center. It says “There’s Something in the Air”. Let the speculation begin.
My guess:
Internal 3G cards on MacBook Pro laptops (and maybe MacBooks). Of course, these will be HSDPA chips for the AT&T network.
If there is a media tablet (iNewton) […]

Phone Holsters are Cool

You know those ugly belt holsters that dweebs wear to hold their cell phones? Did you know those are a feature of the Blackberry OS? I didn’t.
When you put a Blackberry into it’s holster it goes into a hibernate mode. That is kind of neat. However, the really cool part is that you can set […]