Mon, 21 Aug 2006

Book Update. Phone update.
Still using that book reader app on my cell phone. Since finishing Moby Dick [good story], I've also read "A Room of One's Own" and am now partway through Frankenstein. A couple of months back, I switched phones -- from the LG VX8000 to a VX9800. The new VX9800 doesn't work nearly as well in one handed reader mode as the old 8000. It's got the flip out qwerty keyboard, with keys that are too small for most functions. The cursor keys are especially challenging for my fat fingers to hit reliably. The inside display is nice, but the inside keyboard interface seems optimized for two thumbed (hunt and peck) use.

I plugged a 1GB memory card into the phone and loaded it up with mp3 music content. (The phone is billed as a multimedia platform, and looks to have good hardware support for audio and video.) It does sound OK. But it's no IPod killer. Too damn fat and heavy. I'm not a real fan of personal audio devices anyway. [aka, Personal Isolation Devices.] Was mostly just feeling obliged to experiment with current multimedia capabilities, since I work for a subsidiary of one of the bigger computer game makers in the world.

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