I didn’t know what else to call this post but simply what I called it. Since I recently received the G1 as a gift and finally left the blackberry line for a minute I decided to venture to new territory. The G1 is a touchscreen phone with a trackball. Underneath the touch screen there is a full qwerty keyboard. Although many have complained about the pressing of the keyboard buttons aren’t deep enough, I found it to be rather refreshing. I went from a 7290 blackberry to this phone and so far its been great. As I am writing about this I am very tempted to talk about the “other” phone that many compare this phone too but I will not. I will just share my experience with this phone.
Since the G1 runs on linux and I am a linux user since April of 2008, that pretty much elimited my choices on what the next phone would be for me. I run ubuntu (pronounced oo-boon-too) on all the machines at home except for my wife’s and an old T22. And now some random thoughts:
- Using a full touchscreen browser
- VNC to my server away from home
- Watch movies
- FTP to my xbox’s XBMC
- It is capable of using the exchanger server
- Check who’s online via xbox live
- See how many g’s my jab is (right arm = 2.82)
- Touchscreen texting
- Craigslist
- Flashlight
- Figure out what a song is on the radio
- Browse my PCs on the network
- Update my netflix queue
- Ebay
- MP4 Download
I try not to list the common stuff. One of the things that I really appreciated is that I didn’t have to buy a new phone to update the phone capacity. The phone comes with a 1 gig sdcard and for me to update to 16, I didn’t have to go buy another phone; that’s ridiculous. The phone comes with a slip cover and you can grab a leather horizontal case from ebay for about five bucks. When it comes to the other phone and this phone, you can’t really compare the two – but if you decide to do so just know that this phone here has a lot of pluses that many overlook.
When I make up my mind that I will get a game, I subcontiously look for the oportune time to pick it up. Today was the day for me to finally pickup Halo 2. Yes, I’ve played it, completed it, played it online and even have the maps already on my 360 but I never had the official game to call my own. Today folks was the day, down at a local plaza where a Hollywood video close its doors and Gamecrazy moved to a bigger rental space in the same plaza. I didn’t know what I was going to find in this gamecrazy but I kept looking and lo and behold there was a limited editon Halo 2 case with the manual. I went to the counter and checked out and the saleswoman gave me a discount on the game. Halo 2 is now officially in the library.
