I'm typing this on my latest toy, a Danger HipTop (rebranded as a T-Mobile Sidekick). It's a nifty little device that doubles as a cell phone and a wireless Internet terminal. It's kinda like owning my very own Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. All it needs is a big friendly "Don't Panic" sticker on the cover.
Typing is a bit of a chore, but not nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I'm having visions of posting crap to the site while waiting for movies to start or standing in line at the DMV. I am now globally connected, 24 hours a day. Shoot, I can now surf the web while sitting on the toilet. I can email pictures of other peoples' poop to the President from a McDonald's restroom. I can topple small countries with the push of a button. I feel powerful.
On second thought, maybe I shouldn't email pictures of poop to the President.
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Vi vil ha' wienerbrød!
Tell us more! How fast is the Internet-connection, does the camera really take color pictures? What is the resolution? C'mon, Logan! Review! Review! Review!
Re: Vi vil ha' wienerbrød!
Network speed seems to depend greatly on signal strength. I've only used it at home so far, and my signal strength here is pretty low, but usually web pages load at about 28.8k modem speed. Email is really nice...the docs say this thing only does POP3, but it has hidden IMAP support! It even does IMAP SSL, although it downloads the messages as if it were a POP server, and it doesn't support server-side folders.
This little keyboard is growing on me (yes, I'm typing this on it). After a bit of practice, I can now type at a fair speed using only my thumbs, while holding the device with both hands. Accuracy is surprisignly good too; even though I sometimes hit more than one key since they're so small, it seems to know which key I pressed the hardest and only accepts that one. Not bad.
I haven't actually used it as a phone yet, but one thing annoys me already: the ringtones. There are no plain "ringing phone" ringtones; they're all stupid songs or annoying sounds, which I hate. I'm just going to set it on vibrate mode.
The screen is nice. It's 16-shade gyayscale, and something like 215x120 pixels (or somewhere thereabouts). Graphics on web pages get scaled down to fit, and for the most part it's not too bad. It comes with a free camera attachment, but the pictures it takes are pretty crummy. They're color, but postage-stamp sized, and the aperture is tiny, so you've gotta have tons of light. Maybe they'll make a better camera in the future.
Rumor has it the OS is Java-based, and Danger says they'll release an SDK soon. This could be cool.
Re: Vi vil ha' wienerbrød!
Hehe, and it doesn't support UTF-8, only ISO-8859-1, so your subject got mangled.
Praise the Heavenly Kingdom and Thank You to Mel!
First of all, I want to thank Mel Gibson for deciding to produce a movie on Jesus Christ. He is one of the top actors in the film industry and yet He has chosen to make a movie on the one symbol that stands for salvation and heroism and triumph in these times.
May God Bless Him greatly and may the world see a whole new view of Jesus Christ. He is the strongest man in the world to me. Why?
1. He did not go through training like Hercules did.
2. He died for the world, something Arnold Schwarzennegar or Sylvester Stallone would never do.
3. He was kind, gentle, humble and wise with a big heart and did not use means of violence to draw followers to him.
4. He was everything a person in this world should consider a hero.
5. Jesus Christ has related to a lot of different races
Re: Praise the Heavenly Kingdom and Thank You to Mel!
Is the completely off-topic religious joie-de-gibson the sort of thing I've missed by being an unreliable wonko.com reader in the past? Or is this a new feature, perhaps drawn here by important keywords in Ryan's alternative music personality post?
Re: Praise the Heavenly Kingdom and Thank You to Mel!
I categorically deny that I pay homeless people to post controversial comments from library computers. I don't know where you even got that idea. It's completely absurd. For that matter I categorically deny that I have any need to deny anything. I know my rights.