11月7日
i love my smartphone
i've had the cingular 3125 smartphone for a month now, and loving it. my first smartphone turned me into an anti-social snob because of missed calls, flaky connection, and having to reboot it a couple of times a day. i didn't want to make phone calls nor pick them up. my family and friends weren't very happy about this. i resorted to the free nokia brick to regain some credibility, but i missed t9 and my calendar. the 3125 is a direct rip-off of the motorola razr: streamlined, metal keypad with a thin clam shell design. it slips nicely in most of my pants of coat pockets and doesn't draw very much attention.
today, i had to head to belltown to vote, and didn't remember the street address to the voting booth, but knew the name of the building (the bell tower is as depressing as it looks on the outside). i used the mobile version of windows live search to find the address. i forgot to print out the stranger's election cheat sheet, and didn't want to completely rely on my short-term memory. i was able to search for article on the stranger, scroll through it, and fill out my ballot with confidence :) the browsing experience on the phone was pretty nice because of the large screen and the buttons to navigate up and down has the perfect response touch.
the experience could've been better if the stranger had a mobile version and if their cheat sheet wasn't pdf. i also used google to search for the article, and it returned back in text instead of html, which tripped me up a bit. but i'm pretty happy with the whole experience despite site compatibility.