Archive for February, 2007|Monthly archive page
Blackjack versus the iPhone
Comments (1)I thought this was a pretty fun photo. Some light cell phone humor. Enjoy!
Leave a CommentGrand Central
Leave a CommentSo I got playing around tonight with the Grand Central concept. Basically, you go to Grand Central.com and sign up to get your phone number assigned. Then, you can use this number as a single point of contact for yourself. When someone calls the number, all the numbers you have added to your account (Home, Cell, Work, any others) ring and you can answer from any one of them. My initial thought on this right now is that this is a good idea, but I’m not sure yet how useful this is going to be for me.
Just thought I would give it a mention as it seems to be a very good concept for those that have multiple numbers and wish they were consolodated.
The Cell Phone Junkie Show #39
The Cell Phone Junkie Show #39 42:44
Show Notes
TCPJ TV debut! Check out the link in the show notes to the video if you haven’t seen it yet. Also, we have some iPhone news, some new phones and a few freebies!
News/Reviews
The Cell Phone Junkie on NBC news in Phoenix
iPhone article
Apple/Cisco dispute settled
Health tips on your phone from the Mayo clinic
Skype to Cell Phone Industry-”Let us play!”
Higher-tech Cell Phones
Palm and Verizon announce Treo 700wx-2x the RAM.
Get a free Blackjack Extended battery
Free internet texting to your friends
Answer your door with your phone
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Slingmedia Slingbox versus Sony Location Free TV box LF-B20
This is going to be short, but to the point. I have had a Slingbox Pro that Santa brought me this past holiday season and love it. I use it every day with multiple devices, and I highly recommend one to anyone looking.
My comment involves a comparison between the Slingbox and the Sony Location free units. A family friend is living over in metro Tokyo for a few years and is longing for american TV. He decided that since he happened to know someone working over there for Sony, that he would get thier version of the TV place shifting software. Here are my observations.
Slingbox: 10 minutes to setup, easy to install software, great solid UI, smooth video when streaming. I am able to plug in a coax cable, RCA cables or other options. No wi-fi.
Sony Location Free LF-B20: 3 nights (6 or so hours) setting it up. No coax connection, RCA connection needed from some sort of AV source. Has Wi-Fi, but only supports WEP, not WPA. This is a huge issue for me since I have a WPA encripted network and am not willing to go back to the WEP protocol. In order to get around this, I ended up installing a second wi-fi network that was only used for the Location Free box and is MAC restricted to it. Also, the software has been flakey and have had issues connecting to it consistently. The video streaming is smooth and I liked how it came out.
Between the 2, I highly recommend the Slingbox over the Sony unit. I can’t say that my 3 days of setup has been good on my stress level. I am disappointed by the complication of the unit, and hope Sony takes a hint from Sling and makes it an easy process. Oh yeah, and for goodness sakes, put a Coax connection on the thing for us with regular cable!!!
The Cell Phone Junkie on NBC news in Phoenix!
What a great day for me and TCPJ show! Check out this LINK to a news story that I was in today talking about the Private Phone.com service that I use for the site to take all the listener comments and questions! Also, check out this LINK to the text portion of the story!
Pretty neat, and good exposure for the site!
Wow, these really are the same vehicle!
As you can see from the photo below, I am talking about the Toyota Land Cruiser and the Lexus LX470. Take a close look at the styling of each. You can see that they are basically the same vehicle! The difference is in the sale price. The Lexus LX470 is over $68K on Kelly Blue Book, whereas the Toyota is close to $57K. I ask you, is $10K worth it to you for a name???
The Cell Phone Junkie Show #38
The Cell Phone Junkie Show #38 47:10
Show Notes
The 3GSM conference was held in Barcelona, Spain this past week and we have a lot of announcements of some great new phones! Plus, what is going on with Sprint, and why people just want to make calls!
Intro
News/Reviews
Sprint/Nextel Merger news
Back to the basics of phones
Cell Phone Function Fatigue
3GSM roundup by Engadget
Top 10 phones of 3GSM by Gizmodo
Products
Motorola Products
New Motorola Devices
Motorola Q GSM and MotoQ Q9
Motorola Press Release
The future of the Q
Video of the Q q9
Motorola SLVR L9
Motorola MOTORIZR Z8
Motorola T815 MOTONAV
Motorola to cell phone junkies-Get Bent
HTC/Imate Products
Imate Ultimate
iMate JAQ4
More JAQ4 here
HTC phones to run Blackberry software
Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile 6 video
Or this video
Phones getting Windows Mobile 6
Windows Mobile Experts
Nokia
You tube on your Nokia
Nokia E90 launched
Nokia 6110
HP
Asus
Toshiba
Cingular
Verizon
Other news
XDA-Developers pulling ROM images
Steering Wheel mounted cell phone holder
Have 2 carriers on the go-with one phone
ActiveSync 4.5 now available
Tourist tumbles to get phone
Official Microsoft DST fix page
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“Watching” TCPJ on TV!
Dave Ciccone wrote this post today about him listening to The Cell Phone Junkie podcast on his new TV. If I remember correctly, he uses his Mac Mini to stream things to the set.
I first off have to say that I am impressed with his setup. Pretty nice Dave! Second, I want to vent a little bit. Dave has been under attack from some other technology based websites in the past few weeks. There are a number of slanderous things that are being said about him and his character. I really am disappointed by the folks out there that are taking the low roads and trying to sling mud all over his name. I have mentioned it before and I will mention it again, Dave has been a great friend to me, and I don’t understand why folks feel the need to say the things they are about him. There is definitely some animosity out there towards his success, and it really is frustrating.
Here’s to you Dave!!!
Spring Training is back in town!
My co-moderator and buddy Steve from Mobility Today posted to his blog that pitchers and catchers are reporting this week to Spring Training. I have to say that I am really excited for baseball season to be back! Let’s go Twins!
