Attention App Developers: Please come up with an app called "Time Banana". I don't care what it does. It doesn't have to have anything to do with time. It doesn't have to be a game. It can just be a banana with a Casio watch strapped to it.
I have found the easiest way to enable tethering is to goto [help.benm.at], select mobileconfigs, select your country, then select your mobile provider. This will download a new config which you can install and will enable Internet tethering. I have tested this on O2 in the UK but there are loads of others on the site.
I'm still disappointed that they didn't change the physical design of the phone any; I freely admit that I like showing off new gadgets that nobody else has, but since the 3GS looks the same as the 3G, I expect to get a whole lot of reactions along the lines of, "Isn't that just the old one?".
If I already owned the 3G, I wouldn't upgrade to the 3GS, but as someone who has, until now, been unable to purchase an iPhone (thanks AT&T for your 2-year contracts!), I'm definitely going to be picking this up.
Love how Gizmodo didn't mention the blackberry, the real world direct competition for the Pre. Regardless of all the retarded media chatter, business people aren't using iPhones for business. Perhaps if bloggers and web types had real jobs they would realize this.
Regarding Gizmodo's "unique observation" of the Pre, where Jason Chen says "You have to leave the Music app open at all times, in the background, for your music to play," I somewhat wonder why this isn't a concern about the iPhone (or more importantly, the iPod Touch). I hate it when secondary apps turn off my music and give me their stupid sound effects instead. What about multitasking? I *can't* leave my music app open no matter how much I try since that's not something Apple considered people would do. (How shortsighted!)
I'm beginning to wonder why this is a Palm Pre-specific concern and not an iPhone/iPod touch issue. I want music to play at all times on my iPod touch, after all. (I won't be having phone calls there that would interrupt my music.) Didn't the iPod Touch/iPhone succeed the iPod, which originally was *only* a music player? Logically speaking, it would make sense to allow for the music app to be open at all times on the device.
It seems that Palm did something that Apple should've done, but yet it's perceived as an "oddity." I disagree.
It's a simple blackberry, that has been freshly flashed to last week's new code, and needs BES re-activated. Shouldn't be rocket surgery, and yet it is failing...
WTF?
And now for the on-topic piece of this post:
If I didn't need a phone in under 3 months, and wouldn't consider switching to Sprint, I'd give this a look. But, I'm kind of turned off by the consistent poor review of build quality. For a phone that expensive it doesn't look like it'd hold up as part of Sprint's theft deterrent service.
@OMG! Ponies!: Most of the time they DO write more. Editors cut the content to make room for advertisements and limit the amount of pages to keep their profits up.
That's not necessarily how it works, though - newspapers are still physical items with limitations on how much you can print, determined by ad space and physical size of the paper. Writers and editors for newspapers often talk in terms like 'inches' rather than word-count. (Even their online iterations generally follow their physical counterpart's article lengths.) Obviously, a blogger can "cover more detail"/drone on if they wish, as long as you can scroll.
Also, the two blogs listed are tech blogs, primary purpose being exactly this sort of thing - so I expect more from them than I do a tech review in a newspaper.
Not to mention the obvious: 'more words' doesn't always equate with 'better quality'.
Strangely naive comment from OMG! Ponies... Is that really you?
@pixelpushing: One thing I've noticed, though, especially about Pogue, is that he seems to be more involved with his oft-insufferable Twitter-feed.
Today, he was whining on Twitter about how he got bumped from a TV segment for someone selling a book, which is funny because Pogue also has books that he hawks. Perhaps he should make fewer videos of his antics, fewer tweets to fish for content for his books, and just focus on writing some decent tech reviews. Both Pogue and Goatberg are titans of tech reviewing. They are better known to the general public than, say, CNet, which I find a lot more reliable for reviewing a wide array of tech.
I don't go to either NYTimes or WSJ for tech reviews because I know that if it's an Apple product, the review will be fawning; if it's a phone or an MP3 player, the review will only talk about how it compares to the Apple offering, and, more often than not, the reviews and articles that aren't on phones or MP3 players aren't really that out-there, techwise.
Pogue's Posts is usually a tossup between things he read on Twitter and Andy Rooney: The Next Generation.
For camera reviews, I go with sites like Digital Photography; for TV, HDGuru. For phones and the like, I tend to get my info from here. It's like finding a movie reviewer with the same taste as you. And you need that identification with the reader to get trust and return readers.
Neither Pogue nor the Goat engender any amount of trust or identification with what they write and because of that, they are just not on my radar.
The Pre is looking really good. I am an iPhone owner and this phone is without a doubt right there with the iPhone. But with all the stuff you can add on to the iPhone with jailbreaking it, I would say its better than the Pre. But stock vs stock i think the Pre has it. I'm dying to know what Apple has for the next iPhone that they are not telling us yet.
@LarryRyan0824: I was a Palm user up until this year, and we're talking the original Palm Pilot. I loved my Treo, but was way disappointed at how slow they took to upgrade it, and how network upgrades made it shittier and harder to use.
I traded it in for a Blackberry Bold and never looked back. All this comparison to the iPhone is bull. They need a realistic comparison to the Blackberry - Bold, storm or even the common Curve. It's just a far superior product. Oh, and AT&T sucks, but Sprint is far worse.
No other gadgetry blog can stand up to the levels of literacy masetery as acheived by gizmodo. Jason Chen's writing should be enscibed onto a rosetta stone of his own.
@kickassy: Why would we inscribe Chen's writing onto a stone? So that future generations can translate his literary mastery into Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Texting in public really annoys me. I seriously doubt they have anything important to say, and they are oblivious and rude to everyone around them while doing it.
06/18/09
I just want an app called Time Banana.
06/18/09
06/18/09
06/18/09
If I already owned the 3G, I wouldn't upgrade to the 3GS, but as someone who has, until now, been unable to purchase an iPhone (thanks AT&T for your 2-year contracts!), I'm definitely going to be picking this up.
06/05/09
06/05/09
06/04/09
I'm beginning to wonder why this is a Palm Pre-specific concern and not an iPhone/iPod touch issue. I want music to play at all times on my iPod touch, after all. (I won't be having phone calls there that would interrupt my music.) Didn't the iPod Touch/iPhone succeed the iPod, which originally was *only* a music player? Logically speaking, it would make sense to allow for the music app to be open at all times on the device.
It seems that Palm did something that Apple should've done, but yet it's perceived as an "oddity." I disagree.
06/04/09
06/05/09
06/04/09
06/04/09
It's a simple blackberry, that has been freshly flashed to last week's new code, and needs BES re-activated. Shouldn't be rocket surgery, and yet it is failing...
WTF?
And now for the on-topic piece of this post:
If I didn't need a phone in under 3 months, and wouldn't consider switching to Sprint, I'd give this a look. But, I'm kind of turned off by the consistent poor review of build quality. For a phone that expensive it doesn't look like it'd hold up as part of Sprint's theft deterrent service.
06/04/09
P'raps the papers should stop writing about how blogs are putting them out of business and get back to the business of writing a newspaper.
06/04/09
(unless they have always had one and now it's just new to me.)
06/04/09
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06/04/09
That's not necessarily how it works, though - newspapers are still physical items with limitations on how much you can print, determined by ad space and physical size of the paper. Writers and editors for newspapers often talk in terms like 'inches' rather than word-count. (Even their online iterations generally follow their physical counterpart's article lengths.) Obviously, a blogger can "cover more detail"/drone on if they wish, as long as you can scroll.
Also, the two blogs listed are tech blogs, primary purpose being exactly this sort of thing - so I expect more from them than I do a tech review in a newspaper.
Not to mention the obvious: 'more words' doesn't always equate with 'better quality'.
Strangely naive comment from OMG! Ponies... Is that really you?
06/04/09
06/04/09
06/04/09
Today, he was whining on Twitter about how he got bumped from a TV segment for someone selling a book, which is funny because Pogue also has books that he hawks. Perhaps he should make fewer videos of his antics, fewer tweets to fish for content for his books, and just focus on writing some decent tech reviews. Both Pogue and Goatberg are titans of tech reviewing. They are better known to the general public than, say, CNet, which I find a lot more reliable for reviewing a wide array of tech.
I don't go to either NYTimes or WSJ for tech reviews because I know that if it's an Apple product, the review will be fawning; if it's a phone or an MP3 player, the review will only talk about how it compares to the Apple offering, and, more often than not, the reviews and articles that aren't on phones or MP3 players aren't really that out-there, techwise.
Pogue's Posts is usually a tossup between things he read on Twitter and Andy Rooney: The Next Generation.
For camera reviews, I go with sites like Digital Photography; for TV, HDGuru. For phones and the like, I tend to get my info from here. It's like finding a movie reviewer with the same taste as you. And you need that identification with the reader to get trust and return readers.
Neither Pogue nor the Goat engender any amount of trust or identification with what they write and because of that, they are just not on my radar.
06/04/09
06/04/09
06/04/09
I traded it in for a Blackberry Bold and never looked back. All this comparison to the iPhone is bull. They need a realistic comparison to the Blackberry - Bold, storm or even the common Curve. It's just a far superior product. Oh, and AT&T sucks, but Sprint is far worse.
06/04/09
06/04/09
05/26/09
05/26/09
of a gadget that sends our youth down to hell"
So you know what I think?…Why, I think that I've had it
And that the news media is just so full of shit!
Some sort of a creature with little to write,
too come up with these studies that are ever so trite.
05/26/09
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05/26/09
Get over yourself... you are not as important ans you think you are.
05/26/09
Please change your tags. OMG! Ponies! does not need to be associated with traumatizing our nation's youth any more than absolutely necessary.
Now if you don't mind, I'm going to return to standing in my kitchen, exposing my genitals to the middle school across the street.
05/26/09