I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum… and I’m all out of bubblegum.
This cute little thing is slightly bigger than the Kindle, a bit pricey at $400, but it’s built on Linux, will be “open” (yay!) with a software development kit (SDK), will work with the Barns & Noble ebook store, and support many more formats than the Kindle. They think they’ll have color by 2011!
Rock on! Bezos, you’ve already lost. But you started the whole networked ebook reader thing, so you deserve props for that.
I just got off the phone with a guy who sounded like, “…waa woua wua wau woo mmmn wumm nuaa ohh…” It was all vowels. I had to keep asking, “What?” and “Say again?” It made the whole call very unpleasant, not to mention as annoying as a burr up your butt. I think I understood about 20% – 30% of what he said.
I’ve noticed that it’s getting more and more difficult to understand people on my cell phone. It’s not the area; I’m in the middle of Hollywood! It may be my provider (AT&T) because they just kinda suck in general. It’s not my phone because it’s relatively new and solid-state digital devices with no moving parts don’t degrade like a carefully maintained new automobile which has just expired warranty.
I’d bet money that my cell phone provider (AT&T) is using some digital processing trick which drops bits or compresses the data at the expense of sound quality.
Message to dumb-ass cell phone providers: Make the sound quality GOOD! If the other guy sounds like, “…soo I waaah waooh tweaah n mmunn arrmmun eaumnnt oclock mmkay?…” then the quality level is too low!
