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Verizon's iphone

It has finally happened. Feb 10, 2011 Verizon will have the iphone. Current Verizon customers can pre-order on Feb. 3rd. The phone will run on Verizon’s 3G network, not the new LTE network. This means no data and voice at the same time, but Verizon’s iphone has built in mobile hotspot, for 5 devices.

There are way too many options for new phones now. Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt which will run on the new LTE network, Windows Phone 7 hitting Verizon soon and now the iphone. I wish Windows Phone wasn’t so late to get to Verizon, they missed an opportunity. So many choices but I am on contract until this summer, so maybe I will have time to decide on what to get.

There’s an app for that! There’s an app for that! There’s an app for that!

There's an App For That!

Ok so apparently we can’t say that anymore. Apple trademarked the phrase “There’s an app for that”. Well I suppose with the release of Windows Phone 7, the timing is right. I mean if I wasn’t convinced to try a Windows Phone 7, I am pretty sure if Microsoft said there’s an app for that, I would be all over it.

Speaking of which, the Windows Phone 7 demos have been looking pretty nice. I am interested in Windows Phone 7, so maybe that will be my next phone. Can Microsoft trademark “I want that!”?

Windows Phone 7 - HTC HD7

Completed MacBook

Ok so apple released a new macbook. Wait let me rephrase that, apple released the completed macbook, adding the features that were missing from the incomplete. The new macbook which is now macbook pro has a firewire 800 port, an SD card reader and a back-lit keyboard. In addition, the CPU is 2.26 instead of the 2.0 and the price is lower at $1199. I think the battery may also be better. So it seems Apple does it again. They have been doing the same with the iPhone, releasing incomplete products and then selling what they call new or various generation products when really it is the same product but more complete.

Apple get your act together. I am not upset about the macbook, but clearly leaving out firewire caused a big outroar that apple finally caved in and corrected it. I would like to have the firewire but don’t necessarily need it. SD card reader is nice and so is the back-lit keyboard. But there is no way I am going to buy another macbook which also happens to be cheaper even though I got mine for about the same price or less for the original macbook aluminum. Now the new iPhone is out and I have to still decide between it and the blackberry storm. I have a few more months to decide, blackberry hasn’t released a new storm yet, just a big software update with many fixes. So in a few months I will decide if I make a change to either phone but possibly neither.

I looked at the new 13 inch MacBook pro some more, from what I see in the picture above, they removed the audio in port and made it so in/out are the same port. Odd! The 15 and 17 inch have separate in/out for audio. They also moved the Kensington lock slot to the other side right next to the dvd slot.