Posts Tagged ‘iphone’
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Note to self: no more cell phone commercial riffs!
This was supposed to be a part of a tuesday/thursday pair of strips, but once again, the hand went too numb to finish. I think I may make an appointment to see the doc this week. Until then, ice and ibuprofen!
I’ve never actually touched a T-Mobile MyTouch 4g, so I can’t really comment on whether the phone is any good or not, but that outfit… there is no excuse whatsoever for that outfit! Heck, if I was thinking of changing carriers, I’d be afraid to enter the T-Mobile store for fear they might have that image plastered all over their walls… ugh!
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So, yeah… I may be the only one who immediately thinks of Q*bert when viewing that commercial, but to be fair, I’ve spent a LOT of time playing Q*bert. Also, that commercial really doesn’t have much to say… I mean Windows Mobile 7 is supposed to be the one to crush the iPhone, and the big feature they want to push is that it has a keyboard? I mean the Kin had a keyboard and a boxy looking OS, and we all know how well that did…
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So the new iPhone was announced yesterday, the 3g S. Aside from the new firmware which all phones will get, it has a faster processor, up to 32 gb storage (!!) and a better camera. All of these features are, of course, very nice, but nothing compelling enough to make me throw my 3g out the window and rush to upgrade.
But then again, this is the 3rd generation iPhone, and it’s not really about greasing the converted for a few more quid. It’s about refining a design enough and seeing if you can’t entice some new users over to the Apple side.
So, what I think *is* compelling is that they are keeping the current 3g iphone in production and lowering the cost to $99. Now *that* is a sweet deal. Yes, it’s still tied to AT&T, but this really is the greatest phone I have ever used! As per the costs of the AT&T plan, they do stick you with a mandatory data plan, but I’m paying less for the family’s three phones at AT&T than I ever did at Verizon or Sprint, so I don’t see a problem there. I can also get a signal in my lab with AT&T which I never could with the other two, so for me, at least it works. In any case, the cost of entry for an iphone has just gone down a rather substantial notch, and that is a beautiful thing…
…now if I could just manage the thing from linux…
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So the Zune HD has been announced. I’m sure the Zune fans are very excited by the news, but gosh, you’d think they could have made it look a little less like the Apple product…
And yes, I will admit that I have an iphone (I’ve mentioned it before), but I’ve had a lot of mp3 players in my time. I remember my Rio Karma. It was a great player except for the fact that you had to smack it every few days in order to get the hard drive to spin up and it took FOREVER to transfer your music to the thing. Simple lcd display and joystick control, but it fit the hand, and I liked it. I replaced it with a series of iRiver players. I like iRivers. Very nice file management, most of them play off files, and they’re nice to look at, but iRiver has stepped away from large capacity players and only supports a player for… about an hour before dropping a new one on the market.
When I finally broke down and bought an iPod, it was for the very simple reason that it had a large enough hard drive and was cheaper than the other options (Cowen, etc). I actually never liked the click-wheel interface, but it worked as advertised and was easy to rip and transfer music to with iTunes. I upgraded to the iphone so that I only had to carry one device around (though I gave up storage space which means I have to manage playlists (ugh)… I would LOVE a 60gb iphone, but a hard drive is a battery drainer).
The built-in HD radio in the new Zune is a neat feature, but I can’t imagine it being enough to convince me or others to start carrying a second device again. Going against the iPod Touch, I expect a lot will depend upon whether they’ve gotten IE mobile to be a decent browser experience. Mobile Safari is a tough act to follow (though I suppose if the Zune had… you know… flash support, that would probably go a long way). I’m not sure I can be made to care about the HD (720p) output capabilities of the Zune HD. They are marketing as the perfect integration with the Xbox 360, and if I already had an xbox 360, why would I be playing files on my TV from the Zune?!? That’s just another set of cables to manage, thank you very much.
In any case, I’m open to surprises, so maybe this third iteration of the Zune will just be super fantabulous. I guess we’ll find out in the fall.
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So, I actually spent several hours putting together the comic when, about half-way through, I was discussing computers and phones with the family and this strip popped into my head. I immediately ditched the former strip (actually, I will probably post it as a bonus strip tomorrow at some point this week), and immediately doodled this. It’s not meant to be sacrilege… just the result of too many iphone commercials!
In any case, I wanted to take a moment to wish each and every one of you a Happy Easter. Now go find those eggs!
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