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It’s been a while since the Palm Pre was announced at CES and I’m still buggin’ for it. I tire of looking around and seeing everyone with their fancy little iPhones and I’m using a phone that you’d see Sonny Crockett talking on back in the ’80s. I try not to read too much about [...]

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Business and technology moves abound. Yes, I know, it’s been a while since I’ve posted and there’s been quite a few things I wanted to comment on such as Google’s Chrome browser, Best Buy selling the Samsung Instinct, the iPhone vs Instinct debate, and of course T-Mobile’s Android-based phone called the G1.
So why have I [...]

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The Samsung Instinct is just loaded with features. It’s won “best of show” awards. It’s been regarded as the best of the “iPhone competitors”. Sadly, as great of a phone that it is, it will be just another competitor that gets left in the dust as the iPhone gains traction.
Chia Town readers know I have [...]

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The Samsung Instict officially goes on sale today on Sprint’s network. Some lucky people could have purchased theirs yesterday if they had signed up to be one of the early-notified people. I’ll admit, I was tempted. This phone is receiving great reviews. It received “Best of Show” at CTIA and is continually lauded as “a [...]

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2008 certainly seems to be the year of the smartphone. Sure, smartphones have existed for years. In fact I remember way back in 2001 when someone was talking about this “BlackBerry” device that allowed people to read their emails. Huh? What were they talking about.
Over the past few years it was mainly business people that [...]

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Ok…I’m STILL frustrated with Sprint. I’ve been out of town for a bit and unfortunately haven’t been able to voice thse frustrations and give reasons why they frustrate me (while also clearing up some misconceptions and mistakes from previous posts. Can’t have the readers thinking I don’t know what I’m talking about..)
Frustration number one…the Samsung [...]

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So the CTIA show is going on now and all the wireless players are out there showing their goods. Normally I don’t pay much attention to this but when I saw Sprint talking about the Samsung Instinct (touted by many as a viable iPhone competitor) I couldn’t help but get giddy. Is Sprint finally getting [...]

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