BlackBerry Storm and Conando
February 21st, 2009 by JoseI got the BlackBerry Storm through work a few weeks ago. A couple of co-workers had the phone before me and they all pretty much hated it. The biggest problem they had was getting used to the typing. After having it for almost a month now, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to type but it’s not horrible either.
It’s different from the iPhone in that it let’s you run multiple user applications at a time. You also have to push the screen like a button to register a “click”. This might seem kind of annoying at first but this prevents from clicking stuff you didn’t mean to click on. The on-screen keyboard is also a lot larger than the iPhone.
So far I’m running the following applications: Google Maps, Viigo (RSS Reader), Gmail and Google Talk. Google Maps is pretty damn cool now since Verizon enabled GPS for it. It can tell me exactly where I’m at anywhere in the US (or Europe) by about a meter. This is very useful for when I escape my captors somewhere in the dense woods of Pennsylvania. It’s also good if we are somewhere in Chicagoland and we just need to go eat some Sweet Mandy B’s cupcakes RIGHT NOW.
I also enabled Google Latitude on my phone. It lets a select number of people know where the hell I’m at all times. They can easily go to iGoogle.com and see me on the map. So no more “Where is Jose?? We are all so worried since our lives revolve around his well-being!”. It will be more like “Where is Jose?? Oh let’s check that ‘internet thing’ he told us about. Oh ok, he’s in Gary, Indiana in an alley next to the Crazy Horse bar/pub. He is probably taking a well-deserved nap. Let’s go back to torturing that middle-aged gypsy.”
Did I mention the best feature of all? It’s fully paid by work. So I can waste all my money on more meaningful things like a $150 joystick.
Speaking of joysticks, last night I watched the last show of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Even though he’s moving to LA I’m going to miss the show in NY. He said that nothing would change when he goes to LA, he wouldn’t get more serious and that the Max Weinberg 7 would still be there. So maybe it will be a good thing and he won’t get fake overnight. 2,725 episodes. That’s an amazing run.
