6 Sep 2009

Ummm... last time I checked, the government had a primary obligation to maintain basic law and order AND the constitution speaks nothing of funding higher education.

Grow up. Providing better law enforcement tools is WAY more important then subsidizing whatever you're doing in school.

1 Apr 2009

Maybe they're finally doing away with MIRs?

Yeah- right!

22 Feb 2009

The big loser in this deal isn't VZW, AT&T, or the consumer. Palm is the big loser here. Anyone who cares about quality smartphones left Sprint ages ago for the iPhone or the Bold or the Storm or the G1. Locking down a "messiah" device like the Pre to Sprint of all places puts Palm in a position where they can't sell the phone to anyone who has already fled Sprint/Nextel. Very, very few of these people will be coming back just for a fancy piece of handset because almost everything else Sprint does is a joke, except for undercutting the monthly cost of service in exchange for ridiculously terrible Customer Service and oversold iDEN areas.
So long, Palm! Unless you have a comparable device already on tap to launch with Big Blue and Big Red in the next 3 months, you just lost the smartphone war. It looks like WinMo vs. Blackberry vs. iPhone vs. Symbian vs. G1 from here out, boys and girls. WebOS just marginalized itself if it's only going to be a Sprint product for the first 10 months out of the gate.

21 Feb 2009

I'm not sure why anyone is concerned about the removable keyboard. I have the Voyager and I use it primarily for Internet access and text messaging. The only reason I didn't get the Dare is because I've got huge thumbs and didn't want to deal with endless text entry on a resistive virtual keyboard. My biggest complaint about Voyager is that when I want to enter something on a web form, I usually need to close the flip, hit the correct field on the touchscreen, then open the flip to type (because I don't like using the nav arrows inside or the virtual keyboard outside, I have to toggle all the time). Having the touchscreen AND the keypad usable simultaneously is a HUGE win for me personally.



I'm not everyone, of course, but the other thing you folks need to realize is that NO ONE is going to be carrying a pocket full of accessories around with them. you're not going to wake up in the morning and say, "I'd like to have the QWERTY until lunch time, then I want the standard cover on the back for the rest of the afternoon." This device is not intended to require users to swap out modules multiple times every day (though it does give that option). Those who like touch-only will simply never install the keyboard or the game pad. Just leave the simple battery door on. The genius here, really, is that LG has been able to effectively replace two styles of handset in there inventory with only one new model of phone. Production costs are going to be comparably low and adoption rates will be great, provided there isn't some huge, glaring defect or other failure of the device to appeal, like the Decoy fiasco.



All they're losing on this Versa is dropping TV from the Voyager and scaling the Camera down to 2.0 from the 3.2 on the Dare. This thing is going to be the phone that everyone who wants a Storm but won't pay the $30 for data will be picking up.