That’s Baller

So I signed up for the private beta a few days ago….we’ll call it Sunday but I’m not positive.  Either way my invitation came via text message within a week which is very reasonable considering the amount of attention they’ve been receiving.  I know you want the good stuff though…so here it comes!!  Skyfire is a new (still in beta) browser for the Windows Mobile platform that promises REAL desktop browsing from your phone.  Speed, audio, video, the works!!  This browser is amazing!  That’s really all that you can say.  It’s amazing to not have to worry about going to a site and receiving something completely different than you would see on your desktop counterparts.  No worrying about videos (or stupid flash ads for that matter) not showing up and I was just watching the olympics.  Now granted the 800w screen is not the best for watching videos but it does the job and everything was running smooth.  There was no sign of a network hiccup or any time of slow down.  I’ll get into it more when I get to really test it and also I want to look more at the privacy settings because from what I understand everything runs through their servers first to get formatted for our phones.  I don’t really think anything wireless is very secure, but I might not be doing any banking on there though.

HTC Touch Diamond

So I’m all about Windows Mobile phones….we know that by now.  I believe that I’m on my one, two, three…..four, five…right…my fifth Windows Mobile phone dating back years and years before the invention of the interwebs and the series of tubes.  Well, maybe not that long ago, but it’s been a while.  I consider myself a loyal customer.  I consider myself a very patient man.  BUT….I also consider myself fed up with the antics of HTC.  I can’t recall if they made every different Windows Mobile phone I ever had (I think I had one branded as an Audiovox back with T-Mobile…I can’t even remember now) but they’ve definitely made a few of mine, the most recent being the HTC Mogul from Sprint.  This phone is sexy.  Dead sexy.  Sliding keyboard.  Big old bright screen.  Rev-A, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi….I mean this damn phone can connect to anything, any time, anywhere.  As long as you can wait long enough for the spinny circle of death (I’m trademarking that phrase btw…so all you forum users and bloggers out there will no I just made up SCOD…and I did it on the spot…that’s baller) OK back to the regularly scheduled program.  So on paper this phone is the cat’s meow.  I remember Rob and myself scouring the internet for deals on this phone waiting and hoping that the elusive SERO plan would offer this phone, which they eventually did and we ordered it the very day it was available.  We had this phone before the stores had it.  The geeks were going bananas.  I remember being in a bar or club down in Miami and another fellow geeky Mogul user saw our phone from across the room and came over for high fives and other manly things that we guys do.  My whole point of the rant thus far is that I was a loyal customer!  I loved this phone….I slept with it under my pillow….I even wore that cute leather pouch on my hip at work to protect it (then I realized I looked completely foolish and promptly put the case back in the box where it belongs).  Then……two weeks went by……. Read the rest of this entry »