Smartphone Wars
The smartphone wars may be heating up, with lots of wonderful new entrants, but I still like my Palm Centro, and don’t use all its capabilities.
The smartphone wars may be heating up, with lots of wonderful new entrants, but I still like my Palm Centro, and don’t use all its capabilities.
I’m usually not too impressed with predictions of future changes, but these look well thought out. I’ve been telling my customers that more and more work will move to laptops and smaller devices and that installing wired networks may soon be a thing of the past. It looks like this is likely to happen.
Back in 1978-1979 I was in my final year of college and was teaching part time at a small private school. I have always been fascinated by electronics, and a bit of an early adapter. At that time, the big technology issue for classrooms was the use of calculators. If children used calculators in class,…
I’m typing this post using my iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard. It’s a rather nice little keyboard, that fits in my suitcase. It also has a touchpad built in. When I use my Galaxy Note 9 with Dex, I use the touchpad as well as the keyboard. With the iPad, I don’t have the touchpad….
I have samples of the ability to watch TV on my Palm Centro, but frankly I’m not that dedicated to TV watching in the first place, and in general the picture looks too small for me. But this may be another case where my personal tastes make me miss a real revolution. According to this…
Two devices, the HTC Desire and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 get a side by side rundown by @gizmag. Both end up with some serious negatives, but also some really good potential. It’s worth a read.
I’ve upgraded to a Palm Centro with Sprint, thus moving into the 21st century, or so my kids and wife tell me. One would think someone as involved with computers as I am would be OK with phone devices, but I’ve resisted anything that does more than dial, and provide me with a single type…
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