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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
A couple of days ago I put down my Palm Treo in favor of a Blackberry Curve (the red 8310 to be specific). Why did I choose this phone?
Last month when I was advising people not to buy new cell phones, I did highlight three phones that I did recommend: the venerable iPhone, the Nokia [...]
A couple of days ago I left Sprint for AT&T. Recently I posted that now is the wrong time to buy a new cell phone (as Chuck Bryant reminded me). So what changed?
First off, let me just say that there has not been a 180 shift in my position. For many people now is not [...]
I am thinking about using “Taps” as the ringtone on my Treo, in observance of the pending death of Palm.
I think fishwreck is spot on:
Absent some major, unforeseen development, I’d say it’s clear Palm is done. The company has undergone an absurd number of iterations (or a number of absurd iterations?) and each one has [...]
Rex Hammock has posted a great review of the Amazon Kindle ebook reader. The whole thing is worth a read. There is one point in particular that is interesting to me and I think Rex is spot on in his observation:
“The EVDO wireless connection is incredibly fast when it comes to downloading books. (However, there [...]
I hate voicemail. The problem is that once I have a single voicemail in my box, I no longer get notified when new messages arrive. Also, I have to listen to them from oldest to newest to get the message from the call I just missed. Also, it takes a lot of [...]
On July 31, 2006 I wrote Why Apple Will Release a Cell Phone to share my thoughts for the business case behind what we now know as the iPhone. (At the time there was a fair amount of people saying that the cellular market was not a market Apple would want to enter). [...]
