Anecdote About the Pre

Here’s an anecdote about the Pre. Last night I was at a networking event and we had to send an email out to the attendees with an update to the directions prior to the meeting. My colleague has a Pre. I was trying to send out an email using the registration site we use and couldn’t edit the rich text form with Mobile Safari. So I asked my colleague if I could try on his Pre. And it worked, but only because the site changed the text field to plain text. He said that was the first time that he could do something on the Pre that couldn’t be done on an iPhone and that usually it was the converse.

So, I’m happy I didn’t get a Pre.

I wonder who will end up buying Palm. Cisco, HTC, Nokia? I’m not sure why any of them would want it. And neither is this guy.

Verizon’s Understanding of Android Multitasking

Since the announcement of iPhone OS 4.0, I’ve been reading up in more detail about multitasking on the various mobile platforms. John Gruber posted an elegant explanation about how the iPhone’s new multitasking feature will be very similar to Android’s existing one. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone 3G issues: ATT vs the world

Many people blame the iPhone for the problems that its owners have experienced on ATT in the US. However, there is evidence that it’s ATT’s problem. Ever since the iPhone was released, there have been many people (me included) that have had reception problems with the iPhone. Dropped calls, inability to make calls, and slow data speeds have been the main symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »

More iPhone improvements

Here are a few other ways in which I think that the iPhone ecosystem can be improved. Read the rest of this entry »

Another Boston coworking list

Many of the places are the same, but there are some that I am not familiar with.

at  Xconomy.

Boston Volleyball Locations

I just posted a page listing out various volleyball games and leagues in the greater Boston area. Check it out.

BostonCHI is now on Twitter

BostonCHI is now on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bos_chi

We’ll be using it to post notifications of upcoming events (ours and others), as well as interesting articles, and inform people about the benefits of membership.

Please check us out.

iPhone improvements

I love my iPhone. It’s a great device. There are some limitations, but overall I’m very happy.

Here’s what I would improve: Read the rest of this entry »

App Store Size Comparisons

Here’s a link to an interesting listing of app store sizes.

Palm still has fewer than 400 apps available.

Thoughts on Smartphone Landscape

Here are my thoughts about the smartphone market intertwined with my own device history.

For many years, I was a loyal Palm user, having started with the Palm Pro (1997) and going from that to the Palm III (1999) -> IIIxe (2001) -> Kyocera 6035 (smart phone) (2002) -> Treo 600 (2003) -> Treo 650 (2005) and then finally the Treo 700 (2007). I kept the Treo 700, even though it was dying and I was out of contract on Sprint because I was waiting for Sprint to release an Android phone and to see what the next iPhone would be like. I had also heard about the upcoming Palm Pre on Sprint and was interested in it. Read the rest of this entry »

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