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I recently got a new phone as most of my readers know, and now I must sell my old BlackJack II.

Its a great phone with built in GPS, its 3G capable too.

I have a 2gig Micro SD card in it and it also comes with CD Rom, 2 AC chargers, 1 Car Charger, and 1 data cable.

Check it out here on Ebay

To all the cellphones I’ve loved before you just can’t hold a candle to the iPhone…..sorry.

Yes I now have a shiny new iPhone and I love it.
I was against getting one when they first came out, because it lacked so many things I thought a cellphone should have.
Some of these things were:

No copy and paste
No video recording
No voice/memo recording
No Multimedia Message Sending
No Removeable battery
No 3G Connectivity
No GPS
No Voice Dialing
No MP3 as a ring tone
No Over The Air Downloads
No integration with MS Exchange
No Office support for Word and Excel docs
There are probably some things that I am forgetting but you get the idea.

At the time when it came out I had the Nokia 6682 and it did most of those things, so I just scoffed at the $700 price tag for a 4gig iPhone that dint do as much as my current phone did.

It is also worth saying that it’s always best to not buy anything in its first year production.
You should let the manufacturers work the kinks and bugs out of new products before you buy them.

After the second generation iPhone came out, some new things were added.
Better battery life
GPS (really good I might add)
3G Connectivity
Exchange Support
Office Support
Over the Air downloads (FW2.2)

There is still no Voice Dialing, Video Recording, or MMS but really these are features I find myself not using much at all anyways.
As my contract was coming to an end I was thinking about getting an iPhone but they were still high in price so I got the BlackJack II red. Continue reading →

A friend of mine recently asked if I would write a post about why I decided to get rid of my carputer system and why I chose the gps navigation system that I did to replace it with.

I decided to get rid of the carputer and switch to a gps navigation system for several reasons.

First, it was not portable, and I could not easily move it from car to truck to freinds car.

Second, I never could get it to properly sync with my cellphone so that I could have hands free calling. This was one of the main reasons for a carputer in the first place. I did manage to get it to work early on, but in order to hear the caller I had to pump up the volume then I would get this terrible bass reverberation in the car, it was madness. I tried all sorts of ‘cheap’ mics and nothing helped. I stopped useing the phone integration about a week after it was in place. I am hoping this gps navigation system that I recently won on ebay will not do the same. Continue reading →

I recently purchased an Insignia 8GB pilot. It is a Video MP3 Player with Bluetooth, and I absoloutly love the thing.

Pros: affordable, clear screen, small, lightweight, sounds great, great video quality, plays avi, drag and drop
It has bluetooth built in.
Unlike apple with their add ons , this has it built right in so you can use those motorokr headphones or any bluetooth headphones for that matter. Continue reading →