Ok, ok, last time, that was a bit fast, I hadn’t even seen a working model of the DROID, ok, sue me.

Well, surprisingly, the same day I wrote that, I happened to go to a BJ’s. Yeah, the Sams Club kinda place. But not Sams Club.

Well, there was a Verizon booth thing, and in the front, in front of the booth there were more non-working demo models of the DROID and the Droid Eris.

BUT, at the booth there were working models.

I spent about 2 min with them.

Yeah, lack of time for review, I’ll probably come and do an after-the-after-the-afterthought after I see another one for 20 min.

So, the DROID’s UI is pretty slick, I don’t really think it looks as good as the other phone I saw there, the Droid Eris. Yes.

So, there’s Motorola on one side with the “Motorola DROID” and HTC on the other with the “HTC Droid Eris”.

I saw so many Motorola ads, but none about the Eris. There was a short mention of it on engadget saying how the DROID stole all the Eris’s attention, but I still didn’t pay any.

But then I saw it in person.

The Eris is this oh-so slick piece of hardware, with even more slick Android, topped with HTC Sense. HTC Sense = Awesome. I would use a WinMo phone if it had HTC Sense. Probably the HD2.

The Droid however has this hardware keyboard you know…. (see where this is going?)

I saw the ad, and hardware keyboard sounded interesting, considering I’m an iGuy. So when I saw the non-work model, I tried the keyboard and it stunk. Ok, I thought, I’ll cut some slack till I see the actual thing. Ok, if I actually had one, I’d conform to the keyboard. But this it’s this un-clicking keyboard, that no thumb could press. This phone is obviously supposed to be typed with using thumbs. HOWEVER. Apple so kicks Motorola with this one. People cried, cried, cried, then they got used to it, and they liked virtual keys. Then, 2 years later Motorola walks out, and they say “HARDWARE KEYBOARD HERE!!!!!!”. The hardware keyboard is truly the worst thing about the DROID. Quote me on this. Trust me. I dunno about the Eris yet, but I bet every bone it’s better.

All in all, If I had two choices for a phone,

1. THE DROID, and 2. The Droid Eris,

In a heartbeat the Eris.

What phone would you choose? Leave a comment below.

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It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer. 

Isaiah 65:24

 In today’s speedy telecommunications God has ATT or Verizon beat by a large margin.  He can answer me before I even call.  I never need to ask “Can you hear me now?” 

In Daniel, Gabriel was on the way with an answer before Daniel had even completed the request… Daniel 9:20-23.  God who knows how many hairs are on my head does not need me to ask Him for anything… but I need to do the asking.  I need to have a humble heart and approach the throne with my needs.  Understanding all the while that God loves me and sends me His loving attention.  Often, He uses the people in my life… my husband, my family, my friends.  A smile even from a stranger can brighten my day and I believe is a gift from God to brighten my path. 

God knows my needs and blesses me with the incredible speed of anticipating those needs.  A friend of mine, a public health nurse, had to attend a seminar on SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) for her job.  Two weeks after she attended this class, her own daughter died of this disease.  God prepared her for the tragedy and helped her cope with the worst scenario in a loving way.  Even though it was something that had to happen, he helped her to understand and accept that she was guiltless.  She and her husband went on to have more children and their marriage still remains strong!  Too often this type of tragedy breaks a family even those with faith!

 Thank you Lord, for preparing an answer before I even know I have a question.  Help me always reach out to you!  For you are the Alpha and the Omega, my all knowing God!

The force behind the demand for toll-free numbers is not only the traditional business use: a growing market is comprised of residential customers. If rationing is implemented, obtaining a new toll free number will be more difficult than ever before.

Read more here.

I really don’t expect anyone to read this blog before Monday. After all, it’s Thanksgiving, Black Friday and a big weekend for college football. Everybody should have better things to do than read blogs. Although I have actually gotten several Facebook messages from people in the last few minutes (one from one of my best friends after getting together for lunch for the first time in years, two from a couple of pair women I know — that’s why I went into TV! Don’t get the wrong idea — both are happily married).

Back in the Big C

Did some traveling for the holiday. Had enough Delta miles for a free ticket to Ohio, so I’m in Columbus, staying with my sister. Mom is up from Florida, so just about everybody was on hand for the holiday, which went very well. There was a little snow on the ground this morning, giving the visit that nice winter-timey feel. One nephew is getting ready for grad school, the other just turned 7. My niece turns 13 in a few months — so I’m really feeling for my brother and sister-in-law — teenagers are so much fun. Although, she is incredibly nice and very well-behaved. Hopefully, her head won’t start spinning around when she has that birthday.

As I mentioned, I had lunch Friday with my friend Jim. We met when I started working at the University City McDonald’s in 1975. About 8 years later, we worked together in the sports department of the Columbus Dispatch. It’s always been one of those friendships that’s been easy to maintain. Funny story. In 1987, I was in my second job in TV news, in Savannah, Georgia. He came down for a visit so we go to a Japanese restaurant. As the chef worked the grill in front of us, I was telling Jim how (relatively) well-known I had been at my previous job in Casper, Wyoming. One, not a lot of African-Americans on local TV there. Plus, it was a relatively small market. When the Dispatch ran an article about me (local guy makes good out in TV out west), I ended up getting a congratulatory letter from Wyoming’s single congressman at the time — Dick Cheney (!).

Good Burger!

Anyway, we’re sitting there and a woman sitting next to us interrupts to ask if I’m the Doug Johnson who does TV weather. I’m pretty impressed now, since I have the chance to show my good friend how I’m becoming well-known in my new market. Yes, I tell her, and thanks for noticing. Then she asks me what I’m doing in Savannah. Now I’m confused. Turns out she had also recently moved to Savannah from Casper — and knew me from Wyoming, not Georgia! Anyway, Jim and I went to the original Max & Erma’s in German Village today. If you’re ever in Columbus, try to get by there. It’s a really cool neighborhood and a nice restaurant. It’s a chain now, so it’s lost the quaintness it had when it was just one or two places here, but the food’s still pretty good. Take an appetite and order the Garbage Burger. You’ll thank me.

Can you hear me now?

I’m kind of excited for the upcoming week. I broke down and ordered an iPhone. Considering I regularly use two different Apple computers at home, a third a work and own 3 iPods, I’m kind of surprised that it’s taken me so long. Since we’re a Mac-based office, the bosses are generous enough to pay for the plan if we pay for our own phone. I had held off since I had about a year left on the contract of my current phone. But even though I’ve increased my plan a couple of times lately, my bills have still been pretty high. High enough that I’ve just become willing to pay the $100 to end the contract early.

Hello?

I am curious as to whether the AT&T 3G network is widespread enough to make having the thing worth having, especially when I’m on the road, since I am doing a lot more traveling for work. I know that Luke Wilson has been spending his time between movies appearing in a series of AT&T TV spots trying to downplay the alleged difference between Verizon’s 3G coverage and AT&T’s. Well, it’ll be easier to send texts using a keyboard instead of the number pad on my old phone.

11 and 0!

And props to the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. The football team beat Illinois today, going 11-0 for the first time in school history. Nice job and good luck in the Big East championship!

Especially grown children.   Today I wanted to buy myself one of these:

But since my daughter lost her phone today, I was force to buy one of these *for her* instead:

Yep, I had to buy a new I-Phone for my 19th year old daughter.

Sheesh! The things we do for our adult children.

But I am thankful that I had the money to pay for it.

*Always & Forever Smiling*

The defacto standard on smart phone keyboards are QWERTY. The layout was derived from the traditional desktop keyboard and so the mobile user can easily make the finger to thumb transition when on the fly. Those days may be a thing of the past. Swype Inc. is set to debut a new technology that doesn’t isn’t your run of the mill clicking/pressing of miniature buttons on your touchscreen phone’s soft-keyboard.

Instead of tapping, you use your finger to “swipe” from letter to letter to increase typing speed.

Let’s watch a video shall we?

Does it make you want it in your precious iPhone? You can’t have it. The technology will arrive in Samsung’s Omnia II touchscreen smart phone on Verizon. The Omnia II goes on sale December 2, so it isn’t long before we start “swyping.”

Here’s another video demonstrating how text can be inputted much faster than on the iPhone

Swype

Ahí va una nueva pelea de marcas.

La compañía de telefonía Verizon ha lanzado hace muy poco su flamante droid, fabricado por Motorola y con android en sus tripas.
Han basado el lanzamiento en un enfrentamiento con el iphone de Apple. El lema de la campaña es “Droid does”. Si a esto le añaden el “iDon’t” en alusión al teléfono de la manzana queda lo siguiente…

(si no lo ves, está aquí: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoYr8-uG5C0)

Los seguidores de Apple, como ya ocurriera con el anuncio de la blackberry, no han tardado en responder.

(si no lo ves, está aquí: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtEeTuc1Hw)

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Amazingly enough, Wired, which usually is poorly written (in my humble opinion), has a fantastic new article on guide for looking into Smartphones (Boy Genius Report was close but theirs doesnt talk about the carriers and plans at all). With everyone writing about phones, phones taking over Times Square, $3 mill iPhones and that, phones are apparently the hip thing this year (pssst if you live in Nashville and want Sprint email me). Anyway, point being with all the damn clutter and multiple operating systems, it is nice to have summaries, reviews and what not. Wired’s was impressive enough that I felt it deserved a nod.

FYI, i do work at Sprint now, and I do think the Droid logo on Times Square looks too much like Lord of the Rings.

Also, random note, but I get extremely irritable of people touting the Android has a shitty camera and shitty music player. Don’t get me wrong, it DOES, but that is what an App store is for. Anyone with Android just search music and see what i mean, there’s like 5 upgraded players (i recommend TuneWiki) on the damn thing.

So what’re my recommendations?

Smartphones:Basically, if you are looking for multi-media, internet browsing and email/calander sync, and have google, i recommend Android (Palm is also cool if you are on Sprint). If you need hardcore business email, exchange support Blackberry is still fantastic (although WinMo 6.5 is at least getting updates). Note that Android does support Microsoft Exchange, but honestly if you want the safe, secure thing Blackberry is still the best bet.

Verizon: Moto Droid, Blackberry Tour if you need heavy exchange/business use.

Sprint: HTC Hero or Moment (I finally got to try out a moment, fairly impressive). Palm Pixi for first time smartphone users. Blackberry Tour for Business users.

AT&T- iPhone. Blackberry Bold 2 looks nice so far.

T-Mobile: Anything but a Sidekick. MyTouch 3G is still sweet and Cyanogen makes it even better.

And once you get a smartphone the key is customizing it, and making sure it does what you want it to. I should have postings throughout this blog for tethering and adding nice tidbits for iPhone, Android, Palm WebOS and Blackberry, so feel free to browse, I’ll try and add links and updates here in a day or two, this was just a quick rant in a sleepless night.

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Another day, another really bad ad from AT&T starring Luke Wilson. Here it is:

Ignoring the fact that iPhone users who have 3G capable phones are often stuck on EDGE which doesn’t support this feature as has been discussed here previously, this ad does nothing to counter what Verizon has said. That is, AT&T’s 3G coverage sucks. Until they address that, these ads will continue to be useless in terms of helping AT&T’s image.

June 2010 is looking like the end of it all for the one company-show for the iPhone carriers in the United States. AT&T will most likely try to extend this contract but so far, not looking too good. With Verizon earlier this month wanting Apple to sign over the iPhone, looks like they may be in the running after all.

With Verizon’s reports not looking as good as they should, I’m sure they’d be in dire wanting for the iPhone.

Now, the big question is, will the networks be able to update and support the iPhone bandwidth and technology to incorporate it into their networks? AT&T already had issues supporting the MMS and other higher-volume data packets needed to send your pictures, movies, events and such over the air. Also, another thing that ties up alot of bandwidth is iTunes downloads. AT&T didn’t at first have a strong enough networks to support all this but recently with some big upgrades, they are able to, or in a better position to. But, will the others? Verizon has a very far stretched network across the US and has 3G coverage in most places. With some upgrades to a very large network, is it going to be very costly, I would predict yes. A major upgrade scheme would cost millions, almost billions. It may not be necessary though, It might only take a little tweaking and some SIM cards thrown in to be able to have the iPhone. So, I want to know, what do you guys think?

If this was a rap battle, AT&T’s commercials would be Jay’s “Super Ugly” and Verizon’s commercials would be Nas’ “Ether”. That’s right, Ether! AT&T just wave the white flag. This fight is OVER! KO! Done. You’re playing lightweight with Luke Wilson and those lame ass commercials and Verizon is bringing the pain. I’m embarrassed to even know you as my cellular provider *hangs head in shame*

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… vous avez peut-être entendu parler de ce projet de remplacer le clavier QWERTY (le cousin américain de notre AZERTY) par le SWYPE.

A l’origine, QWERTY a été pensé pour ralentir au maximum la saisie d’informations sur un clavier (suivant le modèle des machines à écrire mécanique) :

Les touches correspondant aux paires de lettres les plus usitées dans la langue anglaise sont réparties de manière à éloigner le plus possible les marteaux qui lui correspondent, ce qui limite les risques de blocage des tiges. Wikipédia

Aujourd’hui, SWYPE a été pensé pour répondre au besoin d’écrire des SMS d’une seule main…

Une innovation qui pourrait être un vrai avantage concurrentiel sur le marché ô combien monotone des smartphones. Ce serait énorme qu’un simple protocole de saisie devienne une raison d’achat d’un téléphone…

Desuet et brillant à la fois.

Cette petite vidéo résume le concept :

Source : Techcrunch

With just one week and over 250,000 sales under its belt, one would think that Verizon Wireless executives would be breaking out the bubbly to celebrate the successful release of its much-anticipated competitor to AT&T’s iPhone, the Android 2.0. But, alas, a lawsuit filed by AT&T in an Atlanta Federal Court earlier this month has forced Verizon’s management team to forgo the Dom in favor of defense attorneys.

Droid creators carefully designed the device, anticipating several potential legal problems with other competing smartphones. For instance, one of the biggest criticisms of the new phone by techies thus far is its failure to include a pinch-to-zoom feature, which would enable a Droid user to shrink and expand the screen to her liking. The feature, however, was intentionally excluded from the Droid’s wide array of functions, as Apple has recently filed a patent application for its pinch-to-zoom technology on the iPhone.

The lawsuit that pits the two mobile service provider powerhouses AT&T and Verizon against each other involves a clever ad campaign launched by Verizon earlier this month: “There’s a Map for That.” AT&T claims that the maps published by Verizon in the commercials may confuse people, duping them into thinking that the white spaces on the maps represent areas where AT&T lacks coverage. Furthermore, AT&T alleges that the ads are causing the company an incalculable market share loss. In its complaint, AT&T requested a temporary restraining order that would force the ads to be pulled until the litigation is resolved.

The new Android 2.0

Verizon claims that the suit is meritless. In response to AT&T’s seemingly weak claim, Verizon filed a scathing, forty-four page response with the court, stating climactically that “AT&T did not file the lawsuit because Verizon’s ‘There’s a Map for That’ advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth hurts.”

It seems like AT&T has gotten its feathers ruffled not because the ad is deceptively wrong, but instead because the ad is deceptively right. AT&T’s real beef is that it failed to update its own 3G service in anticipation of the smartphone revolution, and it must now suffer the consequences of a poor business decision. From this tech-neophyte and iPhone devotee’s point of view, perhaps AT&T should stop whining that the smartphone underdog finally caught up in the tech race and start working on expanding its own 3G network.

– Lauren Sibyl Bair

I exchanged some more emails with a member of Verizon’s PR staff, as I continue to try to get a better understanding of the issues previously mentioned here, with FiOS customers in some parts of the D.C. area unable to get Comcast SportsNet Plus (CSN+).

What I learned in that email exchange might be helpful to some of you who are trying to understand why you can’t get Caps and Wizards games on CSN+ via FiOS in your area, when a FiOS customer in a neighboring county can. Or why you could get MASN2 on your FiOS channel 1 during baseball season, but can’t get CSN+ now.

If you are a FiOS customer in a part of the D.C. area that gets CSN+, it is shown on your channel 1. For you, that channel is called Fios1. This distinction between Fios1 and channel 1 is key to understanding this whole situation.

For the DC market, FiOS1 is available—according to the CSN Plus Listings on CSNWashington.com—in the following areas: Montgomery County and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland and then Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Loudoun County, Prince William, Spotsylvania County and Stafford County in Virginia.

Now for FiOS customers in someplace like Howard County, you have a channel 1. That channel was carrying MASN2 this summer. But, that channel is now blank for you, most or all of the time, according to one FiOS customer who lives there. Channel 1 for all of these particular FiOS customers is not FiOS1; it is just channel 1 and it does not carry CSN+.

The reason channel 1 carried MASN2 for these FioS customers this summer is, according to Verizon’s PR staff, because “MASN makes MASN2 available as a full-time feed. Comcast does not make CSN+ available as a full-time feed. At this time, [Verizon is] not able to handle a part-time feed like that, so outside of where [Verizon has] FiOS1, [they] cannot offer a part-time channel like CSN+.”

So, the only way FiOS customers in these areas could get CSN+ on FiOS channel 1 would be if either:

1.) Verizon turns Channel 1 into FiOS1 in these locations, like it is in all the locations listed above or 2.) Comcast SportsNet decides at some point to turn CSN+ into a full-time feed like MASN does with MASN2.

As for point number 1, Verizon says that FiOS1 is “a local channel that [Verizon] offers right now in three areas: DC metro, Long Island (New York), and Northern New Jersey. As [FiOS] moves forward, [they'll] announce any plans to expand the channel.”

People can debate where the DC metro area begins and ends, but for right now, according to the way FiOS defines it with FiOS1, it does not include some areas that are as close as about 20 miles to where the Caps and Wizards play their home games.

If I could get Verizon to answer one question, it would be: What specifically is preventing them from putting FiOS1 on channel 1 right now in these other DC area locations where there is demand for the CSN+ games? That’s the one thing I still have not gotten a clear answer on.

As for option number 2, this would require CSN+ to fill the time outside of games with some type of content. MASN2 did this by airing ESPN News. I have not heard whether or not this is something CSN would consider or even has the capacity to do. I only know that they want to help Verizon find a solution to this problem.

Despite the uncertainties, one things is pretty clear—a lot of people are losing in the current set-up. Caps and Wizards fans are not able to watch approximately a dozen of each team’s games, FiOS risks losing some of these fans to competing cable TV companies, CSN is not having some of their content seen by people who want that content and, finally, the teams whose games aren’t being seen are missing out on some opportunities to reach current and potential fans.

We need a beer summit.

Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, O2 and others face one and the same threat as mobile phones become more powerful, cheaper per unit produced, and wireless networks (EDGE, 2G, 3G, 4G) improving towards universal world-wide coverage. And the earthquake for existing businesses comes again from Google.

Apple (iPhone) said no to Google Voice, because they had a fiduciary responsibility towards its carrier who subsidises the iPhone 3G and 3GS at a huge price. Which they make up with pricey subscriptions. I use already Skype on Android when I call abroad or for longer calls in general. The threat (um, tsunami) for carriers is, that the Googlephone (GPhone) will handle its calls though 3G/2G as network and associated Google Voice only. The coming revolution that everything will go though the ‘Pipe’ in and out, should cause them having bad dreams.

For existing mobile phone carriers and their traditional business, counting calls by minutes, Google is a disruptor. And Google is moving fast. They (Google’s Eric Schmidt) said for years (publicly in interviews and speaking events) that the phone is the first device for people in developing countries, experiencing the internet (& Google). When a CEO is speaking so candidly about a thing, shouldn’t you pay attention? No, because according to the business textbooks, you should pay attention to big existing companies who are already competing in the same market as you. Verizon vs. AT&T vs. T-Mobile. Small companies can move quick and fast, but have it hard to gain traction. Guess what, Google is big and everywhere, but still moves considerably fast, is agile, and gets traction fast because it is everywhere. Now Google will use its operational size, employees smarts and brand name to come in as disruptor to the mobile phone business. What they need is just ONE carrier who give them access to their network only. Deal done for the coming revolution. I see especially China and India and other developing countries, who are building their cellular network, the most interesting target for Google, they could buy a stake into one of the many small phone carriers (compared to Verizon or AT&T) and support with quick and cheap cash the undergoing construction of networks, thus that their grand plan for the GooglePhone/GPhone can be realized. Carriers here in Europe or America won’t cannibalize their own business for sure. Google, again, is solving a customer problem with high impact. Something they are always aiming for when using their resources to develop products.

Second thought on this, my projection. In two to three years, when counting by minutes is dead, when counting by megabytes is norm (like now with the ‘internet’), Comcast and other broadband providers are competing for the same customers as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, O2 et cetera. When they realize they can’t compete against the trend. Broadband providers have the land-line infrastructure, what they just need are the radio towers to distribute the signal through the air. My word, they will compete for the same customer. When the US economy up-ticks (should) again, we will see some big provider doing M&A, they will throw in the word synergy to make it tasty for shareholders, and employees will lose their jobs as usual. Speaking on the phone, having a conversation on the phone – will move onto the ‘Pipe’, and there is nothing you can do about it. It’s Economics again, technology, cost and leverage.

For us the consumer, it becomes cheaper to communicate. Existing businesses and associated businesses will change eventually. Mobile phone manufacturers will be doing business like any other PC/Laptop manufacturer. Developing a compelling product consumers want to buy. Consumers then are free to choose which network they want to use. Over will be the days that we can have only an Apple phone when we are willing to join AT&T’s world as well. Over are the days of subsidies. Yes, we may have to pay $150-$300 for a brand new phone, but it will be your main communicator for the future on the road, a very powerful one. It is called convergence (see computing and technology).

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Further Readings:

• The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution
• Mobileopportunity Blog: The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
• Video – Web 2.0 Expo 2007, Eric Schmidt talking about the mobil space
• Timesonline.co.uk – The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market

Update 29th of November: See Marissa Mayer on Charlie Rose (March 2009) minute 7 or so. Talking about the usefulness of its existing product Google Latitude on a phone. So far, only Foursquare and Yelp and other apps use Geolocation. But Google Latitude seems to be not utilized, used as type of protocol by others. So, certainly we will see more implementation of Google Latitude when they ship their first consumer product. Whatever it will be. Micromessaging, Social, Googlephone, …

I guess that after kicking AT&T all over the Map with their ads and in court (thus far), Verizon is getting bold. Now they’ve gone to the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus to get Sprint to drop their “Most Dependable” claim about their network. What do they have as proof? They have a study performed by Nielsen Co. that says that less calls are dropped on Verizon vs. Sprint. The funny thing is that the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus agreed with Verizon [Warining: PDF]. So now they’re 2 for 2. Sprint is going to appeal this decision, so expect a round two, or more.

So Verizon, you’ve targeted AT&T and Sprint. Who’s next for you?