ComicCon, Treo's, GPS, and more gadgets that would be fun
I am going to ComicCon for the first time on Sunday. Yea you figure I would have been there every year since I moved out here. For some reason or another I never made it. Thanks to my friend Klint who lives in SD and is also going I have a place to crash. Karin will be out shopping and drinking martini's with Klint's girlfriend. It's a win-win situation.
Got my treo stuck in the dreaded reboot loop last night, that sucked big time. Luckily I had just backed up the whole thing so I didn't loose much. Cingular is dragging there feet on the Bois update for the phone, Sprint and unlocked GSM already have it. It changes the file system so that it uses smaller chunks and gives you back more space if you have lots of little files which the phone does. Most people see they get 25% of total ram space back, that will sure be nice.
So I finally get my parents to buy a GPS yesterday and Garmin comes out with a whole new line today that supports traffic information over the air and text to speech to read road names, not to mention other cool improvements. I love my 2610 and probably will not trade it in for the new hotness quite yet. I want to hear how well that whole traffic thing works. This is Los Angeles, the traffic is always bad, I don't need to pay someone $10 a month to tell me what I already know. With an msrp like $1184.60 (What the heck is the 60 cents for?) That would pay for part of a really nice trip to Italy. I think I am going with the wine and pasta on this one. The new version of the one my parents ordered yesterday how ever might get purchased by them as they can just return the one they ordered before even opening it. They like the idea of the traffic stuff as they live in a place where the roads are sometimes not parking lots, I know it's hard to imagine but places like that exist outside Gridlock, CA.
Why must thinkgeek taunt me? I have no real use for this gadget, yet I want it, I really want it. The British came up with a gadget that I both need and want. No one likes to pee in the dark.
Got my treo stuck in the dreaded reboot loop last night, that sucked big time. Luckily I had just backed up the whole thing so I didn't loose much. Cingular is dragging there feet on the Bois update for the phone, Sprint and unlocked GSM already have it. It changes the file system so that it uses smaller chunks and gives you back more space if you have lots of little files which the phone does. Most people see they get 25% of total ram space back, that will sure be nice.
So I finally get my parents to buy a GPS yesterday and Garmin comes out with a whole new line today that supports traffic information over the air and text to speech to read road names, not to mention other cool improvements. I love my 2610 and probably will not trade it in for the new hotness quite yet. I want to hear how well that whole traffic thing works. This is Los Angeles, the traffic is always bad, I don't need to pay someone $10 a month to tell me what I already know. With an msrp like $1184.60 (What the heck is the 60 cents for?) That would pay for part of a really nice trip to Italy. I think I am going with the wine and pasta on this one. The new version of the one my parents ordered yesterday how ever might get purchased by them as they can just return the one they ordered before even opening it. They like the idea of the traffic stuff as they live in a place where the roads are sometimes not parking lots, I know it's hard to imagine but places like that exist outside Gridlock, CA.
Why must thinkgeek taunt me? I have no real use for this gadget, yet I want it, I really want it. The British came up with a gadget that I both need and want. No one likes to pee in the dark.
posted by Brad Herman at
Friday, July 15, 2005
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