Honestly, once the iPhone 2.0 hits the streets, there’s no reason to stay with any other phone. iPhone + MobileMe = win.
Archive for the 'Mobile Lifestyle' Category
Throw all other cell phones in the garbage.
9 June 2008Freebie spiff: Own a roofing or landscaping business?
21 May 2008Offer to put logos on the roof (or in the lawn) of your customers. Align them east-west such that aerial photos will pick them up. What says FedEx, this:
Or this:
Quickly, where is the UPS depot here?
(here’s the answer, on the same scale).
As someone that uses mobile maps (from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft), this would make them about a million times more useful. That said, I have no interest in getting into the roofing business (or landscaping), so someone else can take this ball and run with it. Just throw me some scraps when you’re at the table, OK?
Have a Verizon xv6800 / HTC Titan?
20 March 2008If you hard reset the device, you will no longer be able to make voice calls. You need to dial #8899, have another phone ready for them to call you on, and get ready to type in a 26 digit code to make your phone work again.
Needless to say, I won’t be hard-resetting my device willy-nilly any more. The gentleman on the phone said it is an issue with that device / ROM and HTC is working on it.
Zune needs repair
2 February 2008
As I suspected, my Zune 80 gig is faulty. I spent 39 minutes on the phone with tech support proving that this was the case; once they agreed, a repair order was established. This will be much like the iPod repair cha-cha (ship empty box, ship loaded box, unit returned) with one delta: the guy on the phone assured me that since I bought it from Zune Originals, if the device wasn’t repaired a new one with the exact same engraving would be shipped out. The engraved iPod I bought from Apple was just swapped out, which is what I would have expected.
TechShop Seattle
20 January 2008News that TechShop exists was awesome to hear. News that they’re opening a Seattle branch - I’ll be signing up for an annual pass, thanks.
Yay EV-DO A
19 January 2008
HTC Touch hard reset
14 January 2008- Power on.
- Press and hold buttons marked 1.
- Press and release 2 with stylus.
- Release buttons marked 1 when menu comes up.
- Press directly down on center dpad, marked 3.
HP ipaq 110 Classic hard reset
13 January 2008- Power on
- Press buttons marked Windows ([+]) and (OK)
- Press button marked [oo] (by reset hole)
- Press and release button marked 2 with stylus
- Wait for screen marked “clean boot” to come up
- Release buttons marked 1
If you hard reset the device, you’ll see something like this:
If you just reset the device, you’ll see something like this:
Source
Hard Reset HTC Touch Dual
31 December 2007This is completely non-obvious.
- remove the battery cover.
- observe that by the USB port, there is a small indentation. This is the reset switch access.
- Keep the slider closed.
- power the phone on.
- press the “talk” and “end” buttons; while holding them down, use the stylus to probe into the reset switch hole at a 45 degree angle to the major axis of the phone.
- when you get to the “press enter to reset the phone” page, press the center dpad.
What isn’t obvious? the angle at which you frob the reset switch and that the center dpad is not the enter key when the slider is open.
