I know.. the mere thought of that phrase will send poor old Dragonwyntir into a rage spiral. But user-ability (no FLASH, anyone??) flaws aside, I love my iPhone. I am an artist and photographer, so the iPhone really appeals to my creative graphic side. Plus it is just too much damn fun.

When I was looking for a new phone, I carefully weighed my options looking at the pros and cons. The winning factor for me was the applications. When looking for cool apps for your phone, there is no contest to the iphone. So without further ado, here are some of my faves:

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By now, the whole internet has read tomorrow’s obituary in which Palm is valued at $0.00 by many analysts following a gruesome earnings call.  There is a glut of unsold Pres and Pixis, and no hope for a new device to pull them out of this spiral of doom for at least a few more months.   So what could Palm do to patch itself up?  Continue reading →

I shall begin my rant-tastic rant by stating two things:

1. – Thank you Engadget for being vital to this post (I shall be using liberal links to their various stories on the matter).

2. – It is impossible to be exhaustive about this topic, so I’ll TRY to be as concise as possible during said rant.

The “straw” for this back-breaking article is this article posted on Engadget this week (the result of a Q&A session at the MIX conference).  In short, it states that the new Windows Phone 7 Series phones will not have copy/paste functionality, nor will they have true multitasking (a la the card system found on the Palm Pre).  SAD.  PANDA. Continue reading →

So here we are, over 6 months from the launch of the Palm Pre.  It’s been an exciting time.  We’ve seen a number of incremental firmware updates squashing bugs and improving features. We’ve seen the introduction of paid apps, and with it, the expansion of the app catalog to over 600 apps, with about a dozen new apps a day.  We’ve also seen the launch of the Pixi, a stripped down Pre designed to appeal to first time smartphone buyers in a svelte candybar format.

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