Tag / iphone

Dis­claimer: This post is writ­ten purely from the per­spec­tive of a self-professed nerd that fol­lows tech­nol­ogy rather closely.   There are just too many smart­phones hit­ting the mar­ket — specif­i­cally Android devices. I know that the cur­rent trend in mobile devices is a move from basic fea­ture phones to smart­phones. I sus­pect that trend is […]

I have come to the real­iza­tion that I am the nerd amongst my set of friends. I shot out a sta­tus update last night on Twit­ter and Face­book ask­ing who else would be watch­ing the big Google/Samsung event. The resound­ing response, to quote my good friend Jeniene, was “**crick­ets.** I had to laugh. Nev­er­the­less, I […]

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  Quick details. $199 for 16GB (with 2-year con­tract) $299 for 32GB (with 2-year con­tract) Exist­ing Ver­i­zon cus­tomers can pre-order on Feb­ru­ary 3 Avail­able to every­one Feb. 10. (online and in Ver­i­zon and Apple stores) The Ver­i­zon iPhone will include the Wi-Fi hotspot fea­ture, which allows up to five devices to con­nect to your phone. The iPhone […]

A num­ber of my friends use Pos­ter­ous, the micro-blogging site that allows you to post eas­ily from the site directly, or by email. Pos­ter­ous has tight inte­gra­tion with a num­ber of social media sites so users can share their posts. In case you’re not famil­iar with micro-blogging, think of it as if Twit­ter and a […]

Not to be out­done by Barnes & Noble, Ama­zon, or Apple for the rapidly expand­ing elec­tronic book mar­ket , Google just took the wraps off of its highly-anticipated eBook­store. If you’re in the US, you will be able to buy books — I like the sup­port for small and/or inde­pen­dent book­stores — as well as […]

A friend in my office has the iPhone 4, and she was kind enough to let me fondle…ahem…I mean check it out. Though some of my friends goad me about either sit­ting on the fence about Apple, or being a flat-out Apple hater, noth­ing could be far­ther from the truth. I am actu­ally quite fond […]