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12 Days With The iPhone 4S (from an Android user)

October 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Android, iPhone, mobile phones, Reviews, Samsung, smartphones, Technology

Alas, my time as an Android owner has ended. I want to get this post out while my brain is still fresh with Android usage and learning the ways of the iPhone. Well…there’s not much to learn…in true Apple fashion everything is pretty damn simple. Here’s what I see. Email Setup – Holy crap that [...]

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Oh You Crazy Smartphones

August 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Android, Business, iPhone, mobile phones, smartphones, start-ups, Technology

How I love my smartphone! I know I know I promised to post the funny story of going from the momentous POS (and that’s not Point-of-Sale) Samsung Moment to the HTC Evo but I’ve been a bit busy lately. So much going on out there in the world since my last post. The rise of [...]

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Sprint, WiMAX, and LTE

June 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Wireless

Sprint raced out of the 4G gate a while back with it’s WiMAX offering as it partnered with Clearwire. A good move if you’re looking at the joy of having a few “firsts” such as the first 4G phone that Sprint was so proud to talk about. I now have an HTC Evo (that is [...]

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Root Down – Pondering If I Root My Samsung Moment

March 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Android, Rant, Samsung, smartphones, Wireless

The following is an email I sent to some friends tonight. Needless to say, I’m still fairly frustrated to still have close to a year left on my contract while my phone (Samsung Moment) has already been discontinued (about a year after being introduced) and no longer supported. WTF? ====begin email=== So are we gonna [...]

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Knee-Jerk Reaction On Sprint’s Future After AT&T and T-Mobile Announcement

March 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Legislation, market share, Mergers/Acquisitions, mobile phones, Wireless

In case you haven’t heard, AT&T has announced they will buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. This deal would make AT&T the largest wireless carrier in the United States. Reaction to the news has been nuts already. Sprint’s stock (ticker symbol: S) is getting hammered in the stock market with a 13% drop [...]

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Android – It’s Good In Theory

February 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Android, Business, iPhone, mobile phones, Samsung, smartphones, Technology, Wireless

Android phones, such a good idea but the implementation is abysmal. I like the thought of having competition for the iPhone and other mobile OSes out there…we have to keep innovation up and keep from having a monopoly. The Android OS itself isn’t bad. Not as clean and refined as iOS (the OS on the [...]

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Personal Experiences of Twitter Being Useful

February 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Web Services

By now Twitter is a well-known platform for sending out quick blurbs of info. In the beginning, it was more of a novelty for alpha-geeks who tweeted about being at the grocery store or what they just ate for breakfast. Big deal. However, as time has gone on, Twitter has been a viable tool for [...]

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Why Sprint, Why? (Rate Increases? Really?)

January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Android, Business, Business Practices, iPhone, market share, mobile phones, Rant, Rant, Revenue Models, Samsung, smartphones, Wireless

Sprint shall soon be adding $10/month to users of 3G smart phones. They already did that for the 4G phones and I didn’t care that much as I don’t have a 4G phone. In fact it’s one of the reasons I didn’t go out and snag a Samsung Epic. The phone looks cool as hell [...]

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The Barriers To Entry Are Gone. Do Something About It.

November 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Business, business ideas, emerging markets, entrepreneurs, Hardware, Inventions, Inventions, Software, start-ups

Technology is advancing at such a rate that the barriers to entry for so many industries are dropping to a point where they are nearly negligible. What does this mean? It means that anyone with a good idea and the balls to actually go for something big (or just the time and talent to go [...]

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Blockbuster Going Bankrupt Makes Complete Sense

October 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Bankruptcy, Business, Video Distribution

Blockbuster Video going claiming bankruptcy makes complete sense to me. I mean, have you been in a Blockbuster lately? Seriously, have you? Even better, do you know anyone that goes to Blockbuster? I’ll admit, back in the day, I used to go to Blockbuster. Hell, I believe I still have a membership there. I used [...]

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