Gadgets
Review: Motorola Milestone
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a good phone that I can call smart. My last quality phone as the HTC S640 running Windows 6.1, so that’s not saying much.
I decided to pick up the new Telus Motorola Milestone. It’s a pretty awesome looking phone right out of the box, seems sturdy. It has a huge 3.7″ WVGA multi-touch screen, with a slide out keyboard.
The Milestone is running Android version 2.0.1, which is hella-fast. It honestly feel like pure power in your hand *Tim Taylor grunt*. Compared to the other interfaces I’ve used on phones, I’m loving the customization options that come with Android. The click, drop and drag is pretty. I’m using DxTop as my Home replacement right now. It gives an extra bar at the bottom for running and recently opened processes, and gives it a nice look at that. Compared to the other home repleacements (such as open home, panda home, or sweeter home) I find it also leaves the system running smoothly, without lag when I jump back home. I’m quite the fan.
As a newbie to actual Android use as a whole, I’m finding that there really is an app for everything. Right now my top apps are Astrid, Personal Assistant Free, Asurion Address book, Shop Savvy, Fring, Adobe Photoshop Mobile, Shazam, Slacker Radio, Urban Spoon, Where’s my droid, Wordpress mobile. I’m not going to go into everything (right now), but I’ve yet to find a realistic thing my phone can’t do.
It’s running on Telus’ 3G network, which has pretty good speeds. I’m not seeing a huge differences between that and my wi-fi. Though I will say that Telus’ data plans leave something to be desired, $50 for 500mb isn’t too great.
If there was anything to complain about, it’s that the App Market is still limited to free apps. According to some reports, we’re supposed to be getting access to the paid apps soon, so it may not be all bad.
An update I just read today is that Motorola purposely made the Milestone difficult to root, which I find is retarded. I’m dissapointed that I’ve gone out and paid full retail price for this phone, and now need to hope that it eventually can be rooted. Oh well, still a great phone.
A Gamer’s home is his castle
*may or may not include princess*
I don’t know about you, but Pac-Man seems to constantly have an impact on my life. It may come in the form of a T-shirt from a friend or just me eating random dots off the ground. But after a long day of chasing ghosts, wouldn’t you like to just put your feet up? Me too, so buy me this footstool thanks.
While you’re at it, buy me this medal for being epicly old skool too. Console Wars Veteran
Pizza Vending Machine!
Are you sick of eating the same crap out of vending machines? Does your cafeteria have…less then appetizing menus? You need to install a Wonder Pizza vending machine!
This first-of-it’s-kind machine will serve you 9″ pizzas in 2 minutes flat. Is that amazing? You betcha! Not only am I going to file it as a suggestion at my place of employment, I might have installed in my apartment (seriously I will, don’t question me)!
Check out the video here, it’ll make you hungry or you’re money back.
Holographic ID cards
I was sitting here thinking earlier about ID cards with pictures on them, such as drivers licenses. Almost everybody I’ve ever known tends to complain “My picture is ugly” or “My eyes were closed” or “My picture makes me look like a rabid goat with herpes”; rarely any good comments about the pictures. That’s when I came up with the idea of holographic ID cards.
So lets take how this would work with a Drivers Licensee: The base picture would be a good looking picture of the person (it might take some work, but would be worth it). The 2nd part of the holographic image would be of them completely smashed, drunk out of their mind. The third image would be them with fake blood and such on their face so it looks like they went through a windshield. see where this is going?
So lets say Joe Blow needs to show the ID to buy some beers at the bar, the bartender would look at the good looking picture and see it matches. So they drink the beers and hop in their car and get pulled over: the cop takes the ID turns it to see the drunk picture and can tell right away they’re completely out of it. So he writes them a ticket but lets him go since it’s the first time and tells the sober friend to drive. So the friend jumps in the driver’s seat and starts booting it down the road at 120 km/h and runs right into the back of a minivan and flies through the windshield. No problem, now all they have to do is turn the ID to the last position and see if the shredded face matches the one lying in a bloody mess in the ditch.
And that’s why we need holographic ID cards.