Inception… big wow

July 17th, 2010

I went into this movie expecting quite a lot from Inception. It delivered and then some.

The special effects were amazing and the story was a TOTALLY new concept, at least I’ve never heard or thought of it. Interestingly the movie was sort of like Terminator Salvation in that it seemed as though they wanted us to pay attention to Leonardo DiCaprio and Ken Watanabe, but really Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy really stole the show. throughout the movie I kept thinking about how bad ass Eames and Arthur were. This is not to say that Ken Watanabe and Leonardo DiCaprio were not thoroughly amazing in their roles, they were quite amazing.

This movie will definitely do well, I really loved it and so did my girlfriend. I am more of a scifi hardcore addict and my girlfriend is a romantic comedy girl. This movie seems to somehow tailor to a wide array of audiences. It is not like the normal hardcore scifi movies, that I love, but tend to alienate non hardcore scifi moviegoers like Star Trek 7-10. But I must mention that throughout the movie I kept trying to figure out why Tom Hardy looked and sounded so familiar. As it turns out he played Shinzon in Star Trek X (Nemesis). But seriously go see the movie, twice.

And in case you are wondering, I have decided to only mention movies that I actually like on my blog. This is why I am not mentioning such crap as Avatar: The Last Airbender or average fare like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

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Apple’s Antennagate Press Conference

July 16th, 2010

So I woke up at 10AM this morning (isn’t life great for a full time student?) to read through the live blog of the Apple press conference over at Endgadget, you can look at it here. And I thought it was quite hilarious.

First Steve Jobs started out saying that it wasn’t a problem he compared the signal loss issue to a blackberry bold 9700, the samsung Omnia 2, and the Droid Eris. According to Mr. Jobs all three of these phones showed sizeable signal drops by holding the phone in a similar manner to that which causes the iPhone 4 problem. Unfortunately I do not have any of those phones to test with but I do have a Nexus One.

So as I was reading this I whipped out my phone and started trying to grab it in all manner of awkward ways. He said it would take a while because other phones report this stuff very slowly,so I was sitting there holding my phone in different ways for quite a while. After about 5 minutes of trying I found that if I held my Nexus One with both hands completely covering the bottom portion of the phone I got it to go from 4 bars to 3 bars. Unfortunately I could not figure a way to do it with one hand so I will post a picture if my girlfriend is willing to take a picture of me holding my phone like an idiot. I advise you to not wait for that picture because I doubt she will want to waste her time doing that.

Hopefully she won’t mind when I grab her iPhone 3G and start holding it like an idiot trying to get the signal to go down. I have had a 3G and a 3GS in the past and never noticed any problems when I used it without a case, but I am right handed. But anyways then I will truly see if Steve Jobs was telling the truth about this being common to all iPhones!

Then Steve Jobs went into some other stuff that had to do with numbers of complaints and junk which was totally stupid. everyone knows that if .55% of 3 million people are calling to complain about the problem then like 5% of people probably have the problem haha. But I will let you read the live blog or possibly watch the video if it appears somewhere. I think Steve Jobs’s uses of some choice words in reference to a Bloomberg article will probably stop it from appearing on apple.com.

Anyways I just want to say that in this situation is totally agree with Steve Jobs’s first assessment. This really is a non-issue. if I had an iPhone 4 I would have walked out of the store with a case or bought one as soon as one was available, and then I never would have experienced the issue. But I kind of like seeing Apple in the spotlight for a negative issue every once in a while. But really, in the long run this won’t matter, 3 million people have the phone in their hands right now and the everyone that I have seen LOVES it. And I must say I am VERY jealous of that screen.

Peace out ya’ll

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Verizon iPhone in January? eh I think not

July 15th, 2010

Once again there are rumors about the iPhone coming to Verizon at XYZ date. This time it is January 2011. I don’t know about you but I am getting mighty tired of these rumors from “people who know about the plans” sprouting up. Sheez if you are going to say something like this then you should at least be willing to give a name. Otherwise you should just keep your mouth shut.

But anyways I am pretty sure that this newest prediction is going to turn out to be wrong. I was under the impression that there was a 5 year exclusivity with AT&T for the iPhone, which would make 2012 the earliest year possible (but this could also be a rumor. it’s so hard to tell these days.). Also since Apple has brought out the new iPhones in June or July for the last four years why would they suddenly move to a January release date? I could see Google moving release dates around since they don’t seem to care about release date timing (it was quite horrible waiting for froyo) but Apple? I think not.

I think it would be much more likely that the iPhone would be going to T-Mobile first since as they are made right now they work almost 100% on T-Mobile (T-mobile 3G runs on a different frequency than AT&T 3G). So there would be a much lower cost for that new version of the iPhone. Who know’s, those crazy Apple engineers could design an iPhone that works with 3G on both AT&T and T-Mobile.

So I will make my own prediction! I predict that there will be a T-Mobile iPhone 4S in 2012 followed by the iPhone 6 with Verizon and Sprint added in. If everyone else is quoting some prediction why not me? Oh and I was told by this bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade that I am drinking. It knows about the plans.

In the end though I don’t really care if the iPhone goes to Verizon or not I still won’t buy it for two reasons:

1. Android has stepped up and, in my opinion, is better than IOS

2. Verizon uses a CDMA network that will only work in the US, Canada, and Mexico. I don’t want to have to deal with getting a loaner phone and all that junk when I leave the country, and who knows if a loaner phone would be available to me as a non business customer

So if Verizon gets an iPhone they can keep it. They may have better reception than AT&T but I doubt that you will be able to travel internationally and use it. But I know LOTS of people who would not care about that restriction, but they may care that the Verizon plans are considerably more expensive than AT&T.

Eh whatever no matter where it is the iPhone will sell like crazy. Something about that Steve Jobs guy just makes everybody want to buy everything they make, except the Macbook Air and of course the Newton. But those two were some hardcore road apples, well the Macbook Air still is a road apple.

anyways, peace out!

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