Alright, so this post has almost nothing to do with Bratislava. Nonetheless, I am shopping for a super cool phone. Yes, all my family and friends that have iPhones have been mocking me passively with the nonchalant question, "oh, do you want me to check where a good restaurant is and how to get there?" Then in the process of them sooo conveniently looking up a good restaurant on Urban Spoon, by speaking into the phone no less, "Mexican restaurant: San Antonio, TX", they claim, "did you know [insert convenient information here such as weather, funny facebook post, etc.]?" I was just disgusted by their way too friendly and patronizing helpfulness (I'm referring to the person and the phone at this point). Put your talking weather device away! Yet, as I work hard to embrace my new city surroundings I'm left with one main residue of thought about all of this...Man, that was cool. And now with no friends (nearby, that is) to bum an i(can do everything and make it look cool)Phone, I've commenced a search for my own Gmaps, sms, facebook, gtalk, docs editing, super cool phone. Perhaps it is a bit of vengeance as well. You could say I'm searching to find the iPhone killa. Its an effort of blockbuster movie proportions, part thriller combining the adventures of Indiana Jones with the potentialities of Inception (some say Leonardo looks like me or was it the other way around? anyway) and the excitement of the "uncool" guy in the Mac vs. Windows commercials, John Hodgman, love that guy. I then continued to peruse YouTube for a while (wish I could do that on my phone, guess that's my whole point). I've included two of the videos I enjoyed. You should watch if you've got time to waste, which you must if you're reading my blog (thanks for the support family).
So back to my point for this post. The iPhone killa is the new HTC Evo, except that it doesn't work in Europe (not GSM). Instead it has to be the HTC Desire as soon as they add the front-facing camera (no longer Desirable). Since that doesn't exist, its more of a virtual killa. I guess that's about as scary and effective as Big Foot. At any rate, once it does have the front-facing camera you can do cool stuff seen in this video, which can also be seen by going to the link at the top.
Then while using video chat I can give hand signals to give a rating of the cafe I'm sitting at in Old Town. Can you just imagine me sipping an espresso talking too loudly because I have headphones on, and I'm gesturing constantly as if there is a fly. I'll definitely look like a local.
Haha.. loved this. Hope you're doing well, we miss you here.
ReplyDeleteBy far the coolest rap song about the computer wars.
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