Archive for January, 2010
I Heart My Droid
Jan 18th 2010carltonGeeky & Miscellaneous
Gonna try not to be wordy.
Pros = Fast browser, many apps, great UI, not Windows dependent, Not Windows, GPS, voice turn-by-turn, great video, great wifi
Cons = hard to use still camera, battery management through application process killing, reserving judgment on the battery but it looks like a charge every night and maybe in the day sometimes kind of phone.
Compared to Windows Mobile <=6.1? A joke to even try to compare them. I’ve owned a lot of Windows Mobile devices since 5.0 and they all suffer from the same problems. They are not in the same class as the Droid OR the iPhone and offer no real benefits over either. Mobile word and excel is a joke at best and that’s pretty much the end of what you get “over” the iPhone or Droid.
Compared to iPhone? No iTunes = GREAT! I’ve never owned an iPhone but just having played around with them in the past, I think it is at least on the level and possibly better considering the open architecture. No AT&T but I have the Motorola Droid which I guess is Verizon only so you could say the same thing about the Droid from the other side. When will carriers stop hog tying us to them? I’d have bought Verizon anyway because I need their network to work at the house.
I got a discount on the phone and accessories with my company association. Cost wise it was cheaper than a new iPhone with comparable storage. Plus I upgraded both our phones so the wife has a Droid too. She’s medium techy and likes it and that says a good bit.
Recording Industry Falls in Pool?
Jan 6th 2010carltonUncategorized
Here is a quote from a below linked story. It’s encouraging to me that maybe there are limits to the reaming society is getting from copyright vultures in the music and movie industries.
“In tort law, as the Court recognized, Op. at 29, a landowner is subject to liability for physical harm to trespassing children caused by an artificial condition upon the land where there is a substantial risk of serious bodily harm and the landowner fails to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger. An unfenced in-ground swimming pool is the classic example. In this case, the plaintiffs facilitated and enhanced the comparative availability and attractiveness of their songs on the peer-to-peer networks. They failed to fence off the songs they published on CD by encrypting them, and they refused to provide an unencrypted online alternative for obtaining them. In consequence Tenenbaum, along with millions of others like him, fell into the vast, unfenced pool of unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing.”
And the link: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/tenenbaums-p2p-use-the-labels-made-me-do-it.ars