Posts Tagged ‘3G

When it comes to the T-Mobile Dash 3G, I have some simple advice.
Don’t.
The longer I have this phone, the more of a clunker it becomes. My list of complaints include:

In the last 24 hours, the battery has started to drain for no apparent reason – and yes, WiFi, Bluetooth, and background apps are all off. [...]

I’ve now had my T-Mobile Dash 3G for nearly a month, and I can say that it is a very useful little mobile computing platform for someone who doesn’t need all the power of an iPhone (and who doesn’t what to pay the AT&T tax on mobile computing). After a month of use and thought, [...]

UPDATED: Impressions after the first month can be found here.
For the last 12-14 months, I have carried a Blackberry Pearl 8100 on my hip. And, as far as smartphones go, it served as a good, basic started phone. There were some issues though, including:

No push email, due to limited corporate licenses for the Blackberry Enterprise [...]

Steve Gillmor comments on TechCrunch today that Comcast’s caps on bandwidth may finally drive people from the land of torrents, and to the land of streaming. [here]
While I agree that the promise of streaming is long overdue, there is the one area that streaming still can’t fill: The mobile viewer. I don’t mean folks on [...]

The CTO of the blogosphere asks: What kind of software would you like developed?
Option 1: Build a product in 12 months that is simple and easy to use but only meets basic requirements. Upon completiion, this company will only fix bugs and provide minimal updates every six months; training through FAQs and some [...]

Leadership Paradox

In: smp

7 Jun 2005

Skip has some great thoughts on what leadership means when you reach the VP or C-levels in an organization. [here]
What does a true leader do?
So, I began to delegate by better defining the roles of people, provide them with the right level of responsibility and accountability, and make sure I was available for any questions [...]

12 Work Rules to Live By

In: smp

18 May 2005

Skip Angel has taken and expanded Marcus Buckingham’s 12 Questions on measuring success at work. [here]
Many of these were eye-openers for me. I have marked it as unread to re-visit again.

1. Do I know what is expected of me at work? (This will check to see if the person’s roles and [...]

The Leadership Barometer

In: smp

10 May 2005

Skip Angel has a great post describing the concept of a Leadership Barometer.
The Low Pressure description is a very accurate portrayal of management climates I have worked in. A number of managers I have seen in action, in a somewhat misguided attempt to keep us informed, tell the team about the battles they have lost, [...]

WinAMP v. iTunes

In: smp

26 Apr 2005

I have 6.63GB of music on random in WinAMP right now. I love the mix!
A comment: Now that that the iPod Shuffle is has been sold to its new home, I am very glad to be rid of iTunes. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I re-installed WinAMP last night.
Wow. WinAMP has all [...]


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