I'm thinking about getting the new iPhone 4S because of the new Siri feature. Is it really that great? Is it a must have or should I get something else?
So which one. The iPhone...the original bad boy with all the Apps and features. Or The Droid...dominant Google's new plan for taking over the world. Let me know which you would get and why.
Gizmodo published a review of a product no one has yet experienced -- the much-anticipated iPhone 5. How did they manage it? "We had our intern make a mock-up of the new phone using specs from the leaked cases; we found other devices that made use of some of the iPhone's components; and we carried the foam core iDevice for a couple weeks, loaded up our actual phones with iOS5 and iCloud and got down to business."And the verdict, based on this slapped-together product mock-up? "The iPhone 5 is an improvement on what is already the best mobile phone ever created." Pretty cool. Gizmodo found the (hypothetical) new shape easier to handle than the iPhone 4's boxy, industrial design. The iOS 5 is a hit, with much-improved notification alerts and sharp attention to detail. The camera, processor and screen all rate well, and of all the features only iCloud earns criticism for being overrated.Apple has not made any public statements about the iPhone 5 (or the iPhone 4S, another device sources have speculated about, which might be the same as the iPhone 5.) Rumors about when the phone will be released point to this Tuesday, October 4, as the probable launch date based on some leaked documents from Radio Shack and Cincinnati Bell. Answers regarding the price of the phone, which carriers will offer it, and how awesome the voice assistance feature will be remain elusive.Are you psyched? Indifferent? Are you wondering how it would be possible to have a new iPhone in addition to your Android phone like I am?
I am waiting to see one in person, although it is just a big iPhone.
Will the Blackberry's new phone the Torch live up to the hype and surpass the iPhone? Or will it fail just like the Storm?
Is it easier/harder to have a long distance relationship with today's technology? People can literally see each other every day as they talk using the new Iphone, or they can videochat via the internet on a computer. However, does technology such as those just mentioned actually make long distance relationships better?
As of today there’s a new social media application for smartphones that seeks to fill a niche in the Internet social network. The concept? Photographs – and rather than bringing people far away from each other together, bringing people sharing the same space together via smartphone. Sounds a little counter-intuitive, but maybe it takes an iPhone application to encourage us to interact with those around us these days. Last night Wired posted this article, “Color Me Fascinated: A Photo Social Network for the Here and Now” about the application, which is available for free today. Here’s an explanation of the service from the article: “Color augments your experience by unlocking the newly captured memories of the people sharing your physical space…even if you don’t know them and don’t intend to. Here’s how Color works: Once the app is installed on your iPhone or Android phone…you simply open it and thus are provided entry into a transient cohort of everyone else in the area snapping pics via Color. Color calls this a “multilens” experience. Anyone in that group who takes a photo or a video instantly shares those images with everyone else. Picture a birthday party where a half-dozen people take photos or grab some video. Instead of passing the camera around — look at this one! — or sharing files the next day on Facebook or even sending them in a complicated e-mail circle, everyone has access all at once.” The Wired piece goes on to examine the foreseeable perks and disadvantages of such a system. I think it sounds neat but I can’t see myself using it often. What do you think?
As of today there’s a new social media application for smartphones that seeks to fill a niche in the Internet social network. The concept? Photographs – and rather than bringing people far away from each other together, bringing people sharing the same space together via smartphone. Sounds a little counter-intuitive, but maybe it takes an iPhone application to encourage us to interact with those around us these days.
Last night Wired posted this article, “Color Me Fascinated: A Photo Social Network for the Here and Now” about the application, which is available for free today. Here’s an explanation of the service from the article:
“Color augments your experience by unlocking the newly captured memories of the people sharing your physical space…even if you don’t know them and don’t intend to.
Here’s how Color works: Once the app is installed on your iPhone or Android phone…you simply open it and thus are provided entry into a transient cohort of everyone else in the area snapping pics via Color. Color calls this a “multilens” experience. Anyone in that group who takes a photo or a video instantly shares those images with everyone else.
Picture a birthday party where a half-dozen people take photos or grab some video. Instead of passing the camera around — look at this one! — or sharing files the next day on Facebook or even sending them in a complicated e-mail circle, everyone has access all at once.”
The Wired piece goes on to examine the foreseeable perks and disadvantages of such a system. I think it sounds neat but I can’t see myself using it often. What do you think?
One year ago, Glenn Beck's television program was the most watched show on cable TV, at nearly three million nightly viewers. But 2011 isn't shaping up to be so fortunate for the conspiracy theory crazed pundit. Media Matters reports, "Fast forward twelve months and Glenn Beck is having trouble drawing two million fans each night, let alone three. In fact, through the first three weeks of the year, Beck’s show topped the two million mark only three times out of the first 15 episodes that aired." Ouch. The frenzied Fox News host could be experiencing a decline, especially in his talk radio success, due to a simple shift in trends. As The Daily Beast points out, talk radio is primarily a demographic of more advanced age. “Depending on who you talk to, the median age for talk radio is somewhere between 52 and 63, and it's just going up… for the most part political talk, particularly ideological political talk of any stripe, appeals to old people,” the site quoted radio talk show programmer Randall Bloomquist as saying. However, while AM radio has never been the format of choice, PodCasts are wildly popular and accessible to a younger audience, paving a clear path for Beck to be both wildly popular and accessible himself too, right? It's easy to envision twenty and thirty-something hipsters walking around listening to Beck on their iPhone/Pod/Pad, right?While one could also speculate that his offensive rhetoric, such as his disturbing remarks about the revolution in Egypt, constant inappropriate references to his targets as Nazis and likening situations to the Holocaust, and even yesterday's comparison of Detroit to Hiroshima, actually has viewers fed up with the hyper-partisan hyperbole.Is his target aged demographic slowing the blubbering Beck down too or has the novelty worn off as the Tea Party movement loses steam and the shootings in Tuscon have encouraged a shift to a less venomous, more bi-partisan, tone? Or, let's just say it, have his theories and commentary gotten too outlandish even for Fox News' followers? What do you think?
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