Posts Tagged “cell phone”

On Friday, June 19th, I was fortunate enough to score a new, black 32GB iPhone. No, I didn’t wait in line at the crack of dawn. I didn’t pre-order it. I just walked into an AT&T store around 2PM, and waited (only about 30 minutes) and walked out with my new phone. When I’m gonna buy into something that requires a (2 year) commitment, I typically wait for version 3.0. This is because I’ve learned – the hard way – that the first release of anything is usually the “one-point-UH-oh” release. In version 2, they get the bugs worked out from the first one, but it’s version three where the product really hits the sweet spot. So I waited to jump on the iPhone bandwagon until the 3G s was released (a.k.a. iPhone version 3.0/iPhone OS 3.0). I’m happy to report that the product lives up to it’s marketing hype – and then some. Read the rest of this entry »

…I knew you could. Every now and then, there are pardigm shifts – “game-changers,” if you will, that remake the landscape and Change Life As We Know It.™ I suppose the first one was the asteroid strikes that sent the dinosaurs packing. Like that one and hundreds since, most paradigm shifts occur in ways that are hardly noticeable – at first. It’s only later that you realize what kind of tectonic shift occurred because of one, seemingly insignificant factor. For instance, the advent of television largely killed what was left of live, variety shows in theater (vaudeville), radio plays (serials, dramas, comedies, game shows), and hurt movie theaters. Home video tape players almost killed movie theaters off, and the internet and Tivo have conspired together to remake the television landscape.

Other inventions or innovations are a lot more obvious. You can instantly understand how they will change everything. Today, I learned about one such innovation, and lemme tell you, it’s Katie bar the door time in Telecommunications Land. I speak of the imminent release of Google Voice. Read the rest of this entry »