Jess and I just got new phones.
They have the ability to go onto the internet, browse any web page, and view full motion video of my favorite TV shows any time of day or night. I can download games and play them *instantaneously* as soon as the fancy strikes. It has an enormous, gorgeous screen, and it will allow Jess and I to *video chat* with each other (once we get the kinks worked out). It's wireless, it can talk to my home internet, it gives me directions, it updates my facebook page, it plays music, it does banking, chatting, blogging, scans bar codes, looks up restaurant reviews and pretty much does anything else I want it to do. It's a touch screen. It's a computer in my pocket.
I live in the future.
You can keep the rest! Flying cars would be terribly difficult to fly, and I'm sure robots are on the way just as soon as we can get them to work properly. Playing with this phone sounds just like all the stuff we got promised by "Beyond 2000" back when the future was all bright, shiny, and confusing. It's really something else.
-N
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What breed of smart phone? Droid, blackberry, Apple???
Android. It's called the HTC Evo, and it's very much like the IPhone except with a smaller application library (frown) and a significantly more open system (smile). Big screen, very powerful.
The strangest part has been figuring out how to use it. It wants to be a computer, but you've got no mouse and only a little bit of keyboard, so a lot of things have to be hidden or assumed to be somewhere nearby, as opposed to using up screen real estate to show you everything. It's all been pretty consistent so far, though.
-N
Sigh . . I suspected as much. Android and Apple are the two major competitors to the MS team I'm working with these days. Our project is now called Windows Phone 7, not to be confused with Windows Mobile.
Not much I can say except that Droid envy and iPhone envy are our major targets. Good luck Noel and Jesse . . . I'm sure the new phones will be lots of phun.
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