Posted by Mauricio on Apr 6, 2009 at 12:10 PM | Comments
The popular shock-jock Howard Stern has decided to go with the BlackBerry Bold over the Palm Pre!
Since Stern has been a long time Palm user (up till now owning a Treo), Palm decided to give him a Pre to play with and see how he’d like it. Palm was expecting Stern to like the Pre, but after the trial he decided to go with the BlackBerry Bold.
Why you ask? For Stern it was one important detail: the Palm’s inability to connect to Lotus Notes.
Posted by Mauricio on Mar 29, 2009 at 9:57 PM | Comments
This is weirdly interesting.
My Pearl is about 2 years old.. and a refurb. It’s always done weird things when too close to speakers – makes them sputter out all kinds of noise due to its radio antenna signals. Last night I discovered a new.. “trick” this thing has. I put it next to a rechargeable LED lantern/light and suddenly it started blinking WILDLY. When I moved the BB away, it stopped. The light is controlled by a physical button, and to my knowledge does not have any radio controls.
Has something like this every happened to anyone? I get the radio and speaker thing all the time, but never has my BlackBerry freaked out another electronic device let alone turn it on.
Posted by Mauricio on Mar 13, 2009 at 9:42 AM | Comments
Ok this has to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. A MIT team of developers have created a finger-controlled 3D phone projector. I’m not sure how recent this is, but it’s new to me.
Right now it’s a bit bulky with all of the components, but imagine when it can be as small as a Bluetooth! You definitely have to check out the video. All the components used to create this gadget come to a total of only $350!
Posted by Mauricio on Mar 9, 2009 at 10:32 AM | Comments
This is completely random but still related . BlackBerry is sponsoring the U2 360 Tour, U2’s first stadium outing since the Vertigo Tour in 2005/06. European and North American tour schedules included after the jump.
Who’s going?!
Press Release
LOS ANGELES, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — U2.com today confirms that the U2 360 Tour will open at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona on 30th June. The U2 360 Tour is sponsored by BlackBerry(R) and is the band’s first stadium outing since the Vertigo Tour 05/06 and follows the release of their acclaimed album, No Line On The Horizon. Their 12th studio album, No Line On The Horizon is already number 1 in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Japan and the Czech Republic with further chart positions to be announced this week.
Produced by Live Nation Global Touring, U2 360 will visit 14 cities across Europe including dates in Milan, Gothenburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Nice, Dublin, Chorzow, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, London, Sheffield and Glasgow before finishing at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 22nd August. The European tour will be followed by dates in North America beginning at Chicago’s Soldier Field on September 12th, 2009.
Posted by Mauricio on Feb 21, 2009 at 9:31 AM | Comments
So the truth comes out about the real reason Barack Obama wanted to keep his BlackBerry…BrickBreaker!
Well that’s what some people are saying. I wouldn’t doubt it either. According to the article:
Star Magazine reports that the president plays BrickBreaker to unwind every night before bed. This is an executive decision I can totally understand.And he apparently has a high score of 15,000. Not too shabby.
How cool is that. “President and gamer-in-chief” indeed .
Posted by Mauricio on Jan 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM | Comments
*UPDATE* Wouldn’t it be cool if mobile phones had some sort of braille audio output, like morse code? That might be an idea. Slightly audible to people with vision but clearly audible to a blind person.
What do you think? I agree with him, but how would that work?
I guess if you can get a touch screen phone to verbally tell the person what their finger is pressing on in terms of icons, letters and numbers, it would work.
It would be interesting and actually pretty cool to see Stevie Wonder (or any other blind person) playing with a BlackBerry Storm. I mean, blind people learn how to play instruments and do other things, why not be able to use a mobile phone?
Get on that RIM!
By Jason Gregory:
Stevie Wonder has called for gadgets such as touchscreen mobile phones to be made more accessible for blind people.
The soul star, who was born blind, said it would take “very little” for manufacturers to improve their products.
“When you can … make it accessible and make it possible, you should just include that in the overall picture,” he told the BBC.
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