Category: Gear

  • My savy buy benefits from iPodmania

    The other day on a whim I plunked down — well, virtually speaking plunked down — $16.99 for a cute piece of pop art known as a Podbrix. Some sharp fellow produced a limited run of 300 tiny ipod toting dudes (or are they dudettes?) made out of Lego’s mini-figures. They quickly sold out as…

  • Someday my phone will come…

    In the continuing saga of my seeking a new Sony Ericsson S710a cell phone that doesn’t cost $900, I discovered that Amazon.com is, or maybe is, selling the phone for just $420 and offering a $150 rebate making the final price just $270. That is an amount that could be in the budget. But —…

  • Visual Poll, Miami Beach running path, 8 a.m.

    (seen in use by strollers, runners and assorted grand mothers) Sony devices: 2 Old fashioned tape players/unknown brand: 2 iPods & iPod minis: 17 iPod shuffle: 1

  • Oy vey – not the Moto iTunes phone

    Deja vu all over again? On Monday, it seemed according to several reports that Motorola’s upcoming E1060 phone would be able to play songs purchased from Apple’s iTunes music store. Alas, no, as MobileTracker points out today in a report debunking the previous reports. I’ve corrected my entry from Monday as well.

  • Motorola Doesn’t Shows Actual iTunes Phone again

    (Updated 2/16 – not the iPhone) Motorola tantalized the masses in January at the Consumer Electronics Show with a demo of a mobile phone that could also play digital music in Apple’s iTunes Store format. While a billion reporters and bloggers sought to be the first to post a picture of the first phone compatible…

  • Now everyone will want one

    Engadget got their hands on the about-to-be-released Sony Ericsson S710a that I’m lustin’ for and, no surprise, they love it: “The screen, by the way, is a huge, bright QVGA affair that make all the other screens jealous. They will hide in shame and envy.” ” The phone is metal, not plastic, which gives it…

  • How much is that phone(y) in the window?

    I’ve said in print that I’m lusting for the new Sony Ericsson S710a mobile phone, but wow, $900? Ouch. I guess I’ll be lusting for a while longer.

  • More good reading on new Mac & iPod

    John Gruber has his usual mix of thought-provoking analysis and interesting tangents in his lengthy post on the Mac mini and iPod shuffle. Must remember to subscribe to John’s blog, Daring Fireball.

  • Apple puts flash MP3 makers in a bind

    One more link to my good pal Shabbir who has a sharp analysis of the disruptive effect that Apple’s new $99 iPod Shuffle will have on the market for digital music players.

  • Lustin’

    Shabbir is lusting for an iPod Shuffle…me too!