OH NO NOT AGAIN More Smartphone choices ahead in Buckhead Atlanta GA
OH NO NOT AGAIN More Smartphone choices ahead in Buckhead Atlanta GA
Blessings on GIZMODO yet again! Just when we thought it was safe to decide between the "i" and the Android, along comes the Windows Phone announcements. We are saved (yet again) from making a decision by the GIZ-Crowd! LOL
On May 24, 2011, more than one person wrote on Gizmodo about the new WINDOWS PHONE.
Does this sound like adoration or what from Sam Biddle?
"From what we've seen today, [using BING] Windows Phone 7.1 is going to do just this—better than anyone's ever done mobile search, ever. Looking up a music venue? There's its calendar—no link necessary. Looking for movies? You'll have the synopsis, reviews, and showtimes—gorgeously formatted. Other phones do this, yes—but not with the thoughtful design Microsoft's shown off, and not as extensively. For instance, that same movie search? WP will automatically give you links to relevant apps you already have—say, Fandango to buy tickets, or IMDB. Don't have a pertinent app? It'll ask if you want one. Everything is woven together tighter than we've seen it before.
WP also tackles searching in a more physical sense—the times we find ourselves just wandering the hell around. Find yourself in a new neighborhood? WP will give you an auto-itinerary. Cafes, museums, yoga—activities, mapped, indoors and out. And if something catches your eye during the urban trek, Bing has some pretty nifty features built-in: visual search (a la Google Goggles), and, more impressively, a visual auto-translate function that overlays text upon the real world. We've seen it before with WORDLENS and it's just as impressive as it was then. But these aren't apps—this is built into the phone's guts, integrated as tightly as possible. As it should be.
All this isn't just functional. It's gorgeous. And it's useful in the ways we actually live. My brain isn't a library card catalog. It's a restless, active thing, just like yours. It doesn't want to process a list of text and data dumped willy-nilly. It wants a pal. Advice. "
OK - so we add one more type and think again about our choices. Now it is iPhone, Android or Windows ...
The other articles of interest in Gizmodo this week are the details about the Samsung INFUSE and the HP VEER or shall we say the phone for the Brobdingnagians* and the phone for the Lilliputians*?
Apparently, the INFUSE IS HUGE - the VEER IS TINY.
More choices to make ..
*Full disclosure - I did have to look up the spelling for the people Gulliver encountered on his Travels!
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