TechCOW - The Geek Within

So there goes my fascination with the Apple IPAD. I will never get that gadget since I have tried it numerous times and it just fell to the feel of a BIG ITOUCH and more expensive version of it. I need a tablet and was gearing towards the Samsung Galaxy a couple of days ago but when I saw this preview for the Blackberry Playbook I changed my mind BIGTIME!

I've been a blackberry user for a long time now and the deal is I've learned to love this RIM operated gadget. The thing boasts of a 7 inch display but can rival the best 1024×600 resolution money can buy. Small and compact; but very powerful... that is what I'd like it to be. I don't want anything complicated but just give me the WIFI or 3G-4G capability and I'm ready to go. The portability of it (since it is quite smaller than the IPAD) might have sold me this device but they say this will be sold to consumers this quarter (in the US) and the latter half of the year worldwide. If they finally switch to Windows7 just like Nokia then it would be not my cup of tea.



Please release this one with a great price! Rumors say that it'll go for around 800 dollars too. That will be too expensive for me ugh! There will be a release of IPAD 2 also in the works which is rumored to be done on March 2 on their Apple event.

As for me I'll go for the galaxy, but if they release this with e different price point I'll go for the Blackberry Playbook.

I need a blackberry application that would be able to let me post through blogger via my blackberry. I am trying to check if Google has answers for me but apparently they don't have one yet. The option is to email the post through the email option on posting. I have been doing that in the past and it is not a viable procedure for me. I want to have a better way of doing it while mobile and it seems to me there are no plans by blackberry or the good people from crackberry too. It also needs to be free because people like me are in dire need of it!

I wish there was some special GPL code given to programmers so they can start modifying applications and engineer something that would work for people like me. I know there are millions of users that go through blogger but if they do not conform to the needs of mobile users this would definitely be a hindrance to the adaptability that blogger boasts since its start.

My blackberry will be my buddy in the next 2 years. Hopefully it doesn't die on me or a cooler touch phone would suffice in the market and sweep me off my feet with the perks. I don't want to pay for things that I don't need and so far the wifi capability of my Blackberry Curve is doing good.

It's high time that I get to review this gadget that I just recently acquired from Globe. This is the Blackberry Curve 8320. I know it was expensive but I was looking for a phone that would fit my busy lifestyle. I have on some instances needed a laptop when I am shooting (yes I am a photographer too) but since it was really heavy for me to bring that and the camera too, I went on and dreamed about owning a netbook too. The problem is I would be dealing with two notebook like gadgets around and that is still a burden, until this came along.

The Blackberry Curve 8320 has wifi capability. Not those crappy ones like in my Playstation Portable that could not even open up a page without the snail overtaking it. It only works on peer to peer play but unlike this phone, it works like a laptop on b/g speeds and has that page loading fast with Opera browsers. The built in browser usually takes a longer time to load html and with the Opera browser you can get more sites loaded obviously. The other thing is the provider here (Globe Telecom Inc.) is not really fond of supporting setting up accounts on the phone. I have called them several times and the people there do not even know a thing about the service. They promise you a lot of things but never get it working at all. I gave up and probably live with wifi connections instead of pushing data on GPRS or WAP.

I love the ease of pressing the qwerty keyboard on it but it takes quite a few days to get used to. I always pressed buttons with one hand on my phone Nokia 6280 but on this one you probably need around 2 to efficiently work. You will look like a geek pressing keys on a very small computer phone instantly.

I will be installing a few useful application and themes so I can get this to work smoothly. Yes I also bought a 4 gig memory card for it just in case the phone does not handle my files that easily in the coming weeks. Videos and pictures are coming soon. I will give this unit a try but with the pros and cons I will have to give this a three out of five TECHCOW points! =)