that aside, i need to know how reception is in new york. sprint blows here on long island, but dad is only switching to AT&T if it works where he does...even if i pay the bill myself, which i (for data, at least, let the rents take care of minutes) plan on doing. anyone know where i can get street-level coverage maps, or if AT&T gets a good signal in the 40's in manhattan?

my '04 mini. best car i could have possibly gotten.

and, according to this article, more eco-friendly than buying a new prius.

and the aptera had this idea first, if i remember right. the logic behind it probably is that the AC is a major power drain, so letting the solar panels run the AC puts that much less strain on the alternator, which means the engine gets to keep more of the power for itself.
however, toyota should also put in a system where, if the AC is off or not running full blast, the solar panels can recharge the battery. because that also means the alternator is less necessary, which goes back to the more power idea.

with this, toyota might be able to put the same amount of power out from a smaller engine (and a less active alternator) or put out even more juice from the same engine. ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the prius sport sedan! it can actually keep pace with your grandma's civic (or, in my case, grandma's beat up taurus with a broken front bumper), along with giving you the illusion that you're helping save the earth!

app store's an awesome idea, but it isn't limitless. plus being able to throw in prepaid cards while abroad makes roaming cheap as hell...orange has a prepaid plan in england where you're paying 6 pence (12 cents, more or less) per minute to call the US from anywhere in england. i'm going tomorrow, if i can get my stupid fucking nokia 6600 to work (it won't power on, but the battery can hold a charge, it's the stupidest thing), i'm taking it with me on that plan.

they can sell or give the app through app store, and sell the subscription on their own website.

unless apple threw something into the T&C's, then i can definitely see telenav doing that.

...that aside, where's the tomtom version at? my dad has the tomtom go 720 and it has a much nicer interface than telenav...isn't apple a fan of really nice interfaces?

although, come to think of it, a lot of phones ask you if using GPS is ok per app, even if it's turned on. only E911 uses your location without asking you, if apple is following what other manufacturers are doing. slight annoyance, yes, but apple thinks that they're looking out for your privacy by doing that. let them have their fun.

i, for one, think that getting the color you don't want is an early adopter tax, and i'm glad as hell that if i even go iPhone, it won't be until august.

i want the phone, but i can wait a month if it means having the right color for the next 2 years.

that's just fucked up. that means that they can adjust your pricing plans, even if you switch phones without telling them?

...good thing i'm starting fresh as a new AT&T customer, assuming i pick up one of these bad boys. because i'd be one of those assholes who'd get unlimited EDGE, get that price grandfathered in, and then ste...i mean, complete an offer to recieve a free iPhone 3G.

and what the fuck happens if the cameras go haywire? or if someone is having an asthma attack and needs some fresh air?

1) jonathan ive becomes the big boss and keeps the company in more or less the same direction it's been going in so far, because somehow apple always seems to find something cool to put in a device, and jonathan ive always finds a design that people cream their pants over.

2) epic fail. apple without steve jobs, and without promoting ive to take over jobs' responsibilities, will stop innovating, and will stagnate.

come to think of it, if it was a small blaze and wasn't likely to injure my vitals or my nads, i'd probably go in to save all of my hard drives, and (i know, not a gadget) my sneaker collection...everything else is replacable, and can go to shit until insurance steps in.

it's been a good 3 years, sprint. call me back when you have coverage in my neighborhood, and an iPhone competitor that doesnt have a stumbly-crumbly web browser.

and if jailbreak works side-by-side with the app store, life as an iPhone owner is gonna be fun as hell. i love, more than anything else in the software world, having the freedom to run "legit" and homebrewed apps alongside each other. besides begging apple to release OS X for generic PCs, but that one always seems to end in anguish.

and at everyone worrying about paying twice for an app: doesn't apple license iTunes purchases to up to 5 computers and unlimited ipods?

3 year contract, and no way of getting fair pricing unless you sign up before september....not even AT&T is doing that. so much for any plans of moving to mr. rogers' neighborhood.

bad idea, fonix. just stick to a standalone app that voice dials when you tell it to, not one that constantly listens to you.

i'm going to tell all my verizon friends to get this just because the interface on.....every single one of their other phones sucks.

i'm not a fanboy of either phone, i use a 3-year-old sanyo ever since my samsung A900 broke.

i think that blackberry sees what the future holds, and is going for it, but apple is COMPLETELY unmatched in the user experience. their UI is as close to perfect as any man-made interface can get, but RIM has the (kinda) right idea.

maybe a smartphone that impedes on the iPhone's market will convince apple to add more smartphone features onto the iPhone itself. RIM could force apple to give us, say, cut-and-paste and MMS, as well as plain-old-cool features like a video camera and haptic feedback.

i, for one, applaud RIM's effort. not only to bring an iPhone competitor to the table that sucks even less than the instinct (which only sucks a little bit), but to bring a phone to verizon that doesn't have a god-awful UI that makes me want to burn my eyes out. but come the second shipment of iPhone 3G, and the end of release-day hype, apple will probably have my number either way.

although if it was me, then there'd be a cutlass pulled out from a junkyard, and the 442 that previously resided in the cutlass would be dropped into the camaro in a heartbeat.
with a supercharger and glasspack muffler.

the UI looks slick. i like it...not as much as the UI on a certain designed-in-cupertino phone, or the samsung F series phones, but better than, say, any motorola, and the cheaper LG and samsung, and (talking about looks, not functionality) nokia series 60 phones.

overall: blackberry has no experience making flip phones, but this is decent for a first try. next time, make it thin and give it 3G (in other words, give it to someone other than t-mobile).

as a sneakerhead, i have to say that sneaker investors really get on my nerves sometimes. these were already overpriced enough from nike and UNDFTD, the reseller assholes made it worse. luckily, the hyperdunks are so fugly that i wouldn't get them in ANY colorway.

well, let me open the door for all of you.

über-rare nikes can easily go for four figures. unfortunately, and any limited edition nike hyperdunks (and most limited edition jordans) will show you this: many of the four-figure resales are on ASS UGLY shoes. honestly, steve ballmer can probably make better looking shoes than the hyperdunks.

however, if nike had actually released the air McFly and not 2015-inspired hyperdunks, i'd be more than happy for drop 6 benjamins on a pair...knowing that i could then very gently wear them (you should see my jordans...every pair of jordans that i've ever paid for out of my own wallet, i'm more careful than a pansy in a lion's den when i wear them), turn around and sell said pair for 3 grand after the stores sell out and a few dumbasses scratch up their pairs, making a near-deadstock-condition pair harder to find.

speaking of which, gawker needs to start a sister site for sneaker culture...or better yet, in gawker style, one blog that makes fun of other sneaker culture blogs.

however, i leave for a 3 week trip on the 12th. come august, apple better have these guys in full stock.

however, that aquada-copying convertible on their page...now that's a beautiful amphibious car.

that's almost as bad as when (i think this happened, i dont know for a fact) orange tried to sell unlocked iPhones in france for 1000 euros (1500 dollars, for those of you who don't know the exchange rates), when the regular iPhone was a full 400 euros (600 dollars) less.

although the ethanol-from-wine powered idea seems to be just for the environment: wine is more expensive per gallon than gasoline or E85 ethanol, but yields a lot less energy. unless the EU quotas force the winemakers to give away or heavily discount their surplus, which would make this a cool idea.
and it would get more than 10 MPG if he were to use hard liquor in the tank...the more concentrated the ethanol, the more power can come from the same amount of fuel. i can see a future where popov and everclear are used the way octane boost is now.

also, will my character in RB 1, and all his clothing and instruments, carry into RB 2? i've been spending unhealthy amounts of time with my brother cracking excessively long setlists in band world tour to have more money to throw around in the rock shop.

speaking of which, a phone/playstation combo would be best if based off of the xperia.

so this isn't directed towards me, i hope.

but i shall be careful to follow these rules.

and @ianmac47: then they come home, and they either get wallet-fucked by rogers anyway because they'll still charge out the ass for 3G, or they go to fido which, to my knowledge, doesn't have a 3G network to speak of.

plus, isnt an unlocked iphone somewhere in the realm of €1000? i know, for one, that 1500 dollars is a lot to pay for a phone that goes for about 300 with a contract.

also, at anyone who took my eskimo reference as offensive: i apologize dearly. my friends who are canadian tend to laugh at it, but if you guys don't like it, i'm done saying it. o, mighty banhammer, spare me, as i have apologized to my neighbors to the north.

down with canadian cell phone companies, eh? those fuckin' eskimos can't afford to get wallet-raped like this.