I know it's going to happen every time I do it. I know I won't like it, but still I put myself through it because, in the end, it really is worth it.
It just never sits well with me that, say, a $100 order will have a $50 shipping and handling charge. Oy.
Testing G1 camera out on a shoot. This is our director's setup for the game
coverage. Not great, but not bad.
I am finally today truly mobile with a phone that is no more just a phone,
but a pocket-sized portal of digital connectivity. Nifty.
As the title may have impotently implied, I'm in the process of choosing another phone. My current phone works, but it really doesn't serve any of my needs outside of being, well, a phone.
I actually haven't done a whole lot of heavy lifting in the searching department at this point. I'm mostly just flipping through listings occasionally, checking out random phones people link. Ultimately, most phones don't meet my demands, so here's a little list of things I'm looking for out of my next significant other:
You are: world phone, multi-lingual input (East Asian, such as Japanese, especially), web capable.
I am: thirsty.
These are really the only things the phone absolutely must have. Currently, the only phone I'm aware of that has all these things is the iPhone. I don't really have anything against the iPhone, I'm just not a big fan of the touch screen as the only interface. I would like a phone with a full, proper keyboard. If that can't be met, so be it. It's not one of the deal breakers in this case.
I wouldn't mind going with a Windows Mobile 6 based phone, but so far the only way I've seen to get it to render Japanese properly is through something like this, which is fine in that I don't mind tinkering with my phone, but not so fine in that there's no guarantee it will work. I don't really want to spend a couple hundred on a phone that may or may not be able to do what I need.
So. This is me prodding you, the Grand Cloud of Knowledge. Know of any phones that would meet these three demands?
-er. Whee.
This one didn't turn out quite so well.
Sky faces, only at Oshkosh.
Having never seen one in person to seeing four in one week. Hmm.
Ever since I installed the 1.1.2 (PC) firmware on my 3G Nano, it's been doing some really funky things. The display won't update, so it'll show info from a song that played some ten minutes ago, the display will completely disappear after an hour or so of playing, and it'll occasionally restart a song after a couple of seconds of playing through it.
Very weird.
Oh well, let's see if restoring the thing fixes it.
