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Cobble, that’s excellent news. He deserves to finally relax and enjoy life. Although I have a feeling he is the kind who needs to stay busy and loved every minute of working.
Speaking of pizza, did you ever go to Lucali? I’ve been meaning to try it forever. If so, is it as good as people say?
He has retired, but he was hanging around the day I dropped in to ask about Tom. He went to Italy for like 5 or 6 months to recuperate and relax. He looked great!
Actually the Nexus One didn’t get a great review in the Times:
Despite these goodies, the Nexus is missing some important features that iPhone fans take for granted. For starters, the Google app store is much smaller, featuring 18,000 fun little games; there are well over 100,000 for the iPhone.
Worse, even if you find a lot of good ones, you might not have anywhere to install them. The Nexus can accommodate memory cards up to 32 gigabytes (a 4-gigabyte card comes with it) — and yet, inexplicably, the Nexus allots only a tiny 190 megabytes of storage for downloaded apps.
The Nexus doesn’t come with any iTunes-style companion software, either. Enterprising techies know about the free DoubleTwist program for Mac or Windows, which simulates iTunes for the purposes of loading up your phone with music, photos and videos. But even DoubleTwist doesn’t let you shop the Android app store from the comfort of your computer; you have to do it on the cramped little phone.
There’s no physical ringer on-off switch (you have to do it on the screen), and therefore no way to tell by touch if the ringer is off, as you can on the iPhone and Palm phones.
Sadly, the Nexus One also lacks a multitouch screen like the iPhone’s. So zooming into photos and Web pages is awkward and hard to control.
Finally, the Nexus just doesn’t attain the iPhone’s fit and finish. The buttons under the screen (Back, Menu, Home, Search) are balky, often ignoring your finger-presses completely. One of the animated wallpapers freezes the phone with a message that says: “Sorry! The application Android Live Wallpapers has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.†(Note to Google: I did. The same thing happened.)
Cobble, I have a personal blackberry so no work emails so that’s why I don’t hate it.
I am the bottom of a food chain in the workshop so for me to get a work blackberry I would need to climb that corporate ladder fairly high. I don’t see it happening anytime in the future.
Cobble, that’s excellent news. He deserves to finally relax and enjoy life. Although I have a feeling he is the kind who needs to stay busy and loved every minute of working.
Speaking of pizza, did you ever go to Lucali? I’ve been meaning to try it forever. If so, is it as good as people say?
“There was quite a bit of discussion about this yesterday too, which is why I was kinda kidding when I asked about it today”
I saw this coming, Biff, lol. Whatever you do, please don’t ask for advice on car insurance!!!
(Cobble, there’s a thread on that big modern green space off Court that you and I were trying to find a use for last week.)
11217…did you see my response, after yours to Zarawhatever in yesterday’s HOTD???
Today is a good dat to buy Verizon stock. It trades ex-dividend.
“Cobble, I thought Mario retired.”
He has retired, but he was hanging around the day I dropped in to ask about Tom. He went to Italy for like 5 or 6 months to recuperate and relax. He looked great!
Actually the Nexus One didn’t get a great review in the Times:
Despite these goodies, the Nexus is missing some important features that iPhone fans take for granted. For starters, the Google app store is much smaller, featuring 18,000 fun little games; there are well over 100,000 for the iPhone.
Worse, even if you find a lot of good ones, you might not have anywhere to install them. The Nexus can accommodate memory cards up to 32 gigabytes (a 4-gigabyte card comes with it) — and yet, inexplicably, the Nexus allots only a tiny 190 megabytes of storage for downloaded apps.
The Nexus doesn’t come with any iTunes-style companion software, either. Enterprising techies know about the free DoubleTwist program for Mac or Windows, which simulates iTunes for the purposes of loading up your phone with music, photos and videos. But even DoubleTwist doesn’t let you shop the Android app store from the comfort of your computer; you have to do it on the cramped little phone.
There’s no physical ringer on-off switch (you have to do it on the screen), and therefore no way to tell by touch if the ringer is off, as you can on the iPhone and Palm phones.
Sadly, the Nexus One also lacks a multitouch screen like the iPhone’s. So zooming into photos and Web pages is awkward and hard to control.
Finally, the Nexus just doesn’t attain the iPhone’s fit and finish. The buttons under the screen (Back, Menu, Home, Search) are balky, often ignoring your finger-presses completely. One of the animated wallpapers freezes the phone with a message that says: “Sorry! The application Android Live Wallpapers has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.†(Note to Google: I did. The same thing happened.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/technology/personaltech/06pogue.html?sq=google%20phone&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=2&adxnnlx=1262793728-JEN08d7hSzHhfWpkWoDDIA
” “if you knew where I was then it wouldn’t be a vacation””
EXACTLY, legion!
Lesbiman,
the Nexus One has full speech to text, and the Droid should by the end of January.
For those that need a keyboard, the Droid has one, though i heard it isnt great.
I prefer the G1 keyboard to the blackberry one. I have both (berry for work) and much much prefer the G1.
The only reason I wouldnt recommend the G1 is that it’s internal memory isnt big enough to support future OS updates.
Cobble, I have a personal blackberry so no work emails so that’s why I don’t hate it.
I am the bottom of a food chain in the workshop so for me to get a work blackberry I would need to climb that corporate ladder fairly high. I don’t see it happening anytime in the future.