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Gadget::Smartphones

Posted by tedtalks on February 17, 2006

I’ve been looking for a smartphone for a while. My main use of it will be schedule management and email, maybe a little bit of web browsing. So, about a year ago, I looked around and tried Treo 650 and Samsung i730. I heard that a new version of Treo was due and I decided to get an i730.

i730 was great – windows mobile is great, bluetooth/wi-fi support is great, email support works perfectly – but I returned it after a week of use mainly because of the size. I ended up getting a RAZR. I am very happy with my RAZR. It’s a great phone that’s small. But I still miss the scheduling/communication features of a smartphone.

Umtsq_1 Ever since, I’ve been waiting for the Motorola Q, which was supposed to be released last year. I sawSamsung_i320 it at the CES earlier this year, and I really liked it for its functionality and form factor. I only wish that it had bigger screen. But it seems like that one is going to take at least 6 more months for me to use it with Cingular here in the US. (They are releasing the CDMA version for Verizon first)

Now I am looking forward to the new Samsung SGH-i320. This one looks really  promising, and if I get this, I’ll be able to contribute to my mother country’s economy:) The problem with these cellphones are that they make the announcements too early. It usually takes 6months to sometimes more than a year to actually start selling them at storefronts. They should all learn from Apple’s announce-today-sell-tomorrow practice, if you ask me.

 

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Gadget::Apple new iPod with Video

Posted by tedtalks on October 14, 2005

I don’t watch live TV anymore. It’s mainly because I don’t know when I’ll be in front of my TV and so I became a big fan of TIVO. Programming TIVO sucks, but the season pass is what I loved. Then I even stopped watching TIVO, because I hated having to wait a week for every new episode.

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Gadget::SIRIUS

Posted by tedtalks on October 12, 2005

I didn’t think I would ever subscibe to a satellite radio, neither XM or SIRIUS. But when I bought my new car, it came with a receiver installed and surprisingly with a 14 month free subscription!

So it has been a couple of months since I started listening to it, and I think I like it. Satellite radio differs from traditional FM/AM radio in many ways. First, they are 100% digital so it comes with all the benefits of being digital : excellent quality (when it works), extra information about the channel/content, and over hundred channels categorized (and thus browsable) by content type. Since the sigal is broadcasted from satellites, the contents are not local (good and bad).

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