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Palm Pre Review Matrix: What Everybody's Saying
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(unless they have always had one and now it's just new to me.)
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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?
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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.
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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.
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