Posts Tagged ‘phone’

Kindle Fire vs. nook tablet vs. iPad 2 – To each his own

November 23, 2011mike Comments Off

Last night we had what is likely a rare opportunity (outside of the big tech blogs or a Best Buy) to have an Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble nook tablet, and Apple iPad 2 in the same room. Quickly doing some head to head Netflixing (Apocolypto if you’d like to know) and Youtubing (the [...]

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The Four Functions of a Phone (and the other four) 2011

October 5, 2011mike Comments Off

If you have been keeping up on my blog lately you have heard what seems like rant after rant attacking android OS.  I think it is perhaps the slickest most customizable mobile OS ever and I’m happy to join the revolution. Where I think android misses the boat in failing to understand what I have [...]

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10 Things Android Does Better than iPhone OS

August 5, 2010mike Comments Off

I recently received an email from a friend with a link to a Maximum PC entitled “10 Things Android Does Better than iPhone OS“. Now I use webOS (from Palm/HP) I don’t know if I’ve become the anti-Apple/iPhone guy, or if here on the geek side of my friends we just like send each other [...]

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All smartphones can be held wrong!

July 21, 2010mike 7 Comments »

This just in!  Smartphones can ALL be held wrong.  That’s right, Steve Jobs just told me that the iPhone 4 isn’t the only smartphone that can be held wrong, they all can.  I am presently a Palm Pre user and I make no reservations about it.  I wanted to test Mr. Jobs theory with my [...]

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Cell phone – Invention or Innovation

March 13, 2010mike Comments Off

The invention of the cellphone, commonly attributed to Motorola engineer Marty Cooper.  Marty if you’re reading, I’m going to spoil my conclusion right here: Innovation. That’s right, calling the cellphone an invention is like calling bottled water an invention.  There has always been water, and there have been bottles for a long long time.  There [...]

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