As regular readers will know I recently got the LG Voyager through Verizon. Despite knowing that the possibility of a 3G iPhone was on the horizon, I decided to stay with the bog V. Most of the people I talk to are on Verizon, so they’re all In calls – so no minutes used.
But days like this make me question my decisions. It’ll subside. It did last year, too. Still… what a damned fine piece of tech.
You know, screw this thing. It’s TINY. If LG tries to top this with a new version of the Voyager that’s smaller and more compact (thereby ruining the perfect form factor and functionality of it’s QWERTY keypad inside) I will seriously cry… even though it won’t really impact me until around December of next year (new every two, don’t you know).
I’ve never understood this whole fetish with smaller, smaller, smaller phones. Pretty soon we’re going to start seeing bug-eyed, tiny-thumbed mutant children evolved specifically to see tiny micro-phone text and bang out long txt messages on keypads normal people can barely even see.
Because I’m pretty heavily involved with direct/email advertising campaigns at my day job, I have a gmail account set up specifically to receive various emails from retailers, companies, etc.
I just happened to get this from Costco…
Philips 42″ 1080p LCD HDTV
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Dynamic screen contrast: 29000:1
Brightness: 500 cd/m²
What’s the catch here? The specs look fine. I’m not completely sold on Philips as a brand over, say, Sony, Sharp, Samsung or even LG… but at under a grand for a 42″ LCD? Fuck it, that’s like a perfect second set for the bedroom or something if you had room.
Tya and I were just talking about how nice it would be to have a TV in the bedroom now that we have a nice huge bed to be lazy in… 
I finally bit the bullet and ordered OS X Leopard for two of my Macs. I’m thinking the Mini isn’t really a good candidate for it, since it’s first gen and I didn’t really get it tricked out with anything special even at the time, so it’ll have to be an iMac and PowerBook exclusive deal. Excitement!
In other news, I’m all about getting the Wacom Cintiq whenever i have a spare grand floating around to drop. It’ll probably have to wait (more…)