Froyo Again…….

June 18th, 2010

I think I am officially pissed at Google. They announced this Froyo updated almost a month ago, then an accidental leak that only works foor T-Mobile users, then…. nothing. Their defenders have been saying that May 20th was just an announcement (I wish this thing could capture my tone. eh.). But I say that we should expect more from Google.

When the Apple God, Steve Jobs,  makes an announcement about the iPhone he says when it will be available and when it can be pre-ordered. With the iPhone 4 that date is June 24th, and I think pre-orders were available like the day he announced it.

With Google, they announced this new OS, which is supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread, and then gave it to a few Press phones with no announcements about actual release dates. I find that to be quite ridiculous. I love the freedom that android provides me. I can download files off of the internet straight to my phone, use my phone as usb storage, install third party apps to replace my keyboard and texting interfaces, and much more. But I am starting to wonder if it is worth it if this is the kind of treatment Google is going to give it’s customers.

The bottom line is that if you announce something you should have a date when that product or upgrade will be available.  I do not know what ASAP means, it could be tomorrow, it could be next month. Setting a specific date makes Google accountable to their consumers to release by that date. Apple is willing to accept that accountability, why isn’t Google?

Eh, Google isn’t reading this, I don’t know why I even bother.

Maybe I should jut get an iPhone 4, I can get one with an $18 upgrade fee. (AT&T users can dial *639# to check your upgrade eligibility) The only problem is that when I am roaming around South East Asia and Hong Kong from September to December I will be screwed. AT&T told me it would be $1.69 a minute so I will need an unlocked phone.

Oh one more thing. For those of you experiencing touch screen issues on the Nexus One You might want to look into what applications you have that could be causing the problem. I was having this annoying as hell touch screen issue and it turned out that my installation of Smart Keyboard was the culprit. As soon as I switched to Better Keyboard the problem went away.

Peace out my friends I will catch you later!

I Think I’ll Be Leaving AT&T Soon, No More Unlimited 3G!

June 2nd, 2010

according to this link it seems as though AT&T will be getting rid of their unlimited data plans. Since this development does not change current plans, I will be able to keep my plan intact but unfortunately I am leaving the country for four months and will have to cancel my plan (Going to Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, I know you’re jealous). When I come back I will not be able to get another unlimited data plan on AT&T which 100% gaurantees that I will be choosing another carrier.

I probably don’t go over the 2 gigs of data per month but it’s the principal of the thing. As phones increase in their internet and multimedia capabilities it makes no sense at all to begin limiting data plans.

Goodbye AT&T I’ll get on sprint or T-Mobile or some junk when I get back to the US.

RJ on Flashforward

June 2nd, 2010

Oh my lord dudes. I just watched the season finale of Flash Forward. it is hands down some of the best and most exciting TV that I have seen all year! And you know what? Flashforward got canceled. if it wasn’t canceled then I would recommend that anyone buy/rent/acquire the DVD’s and watch them. The show ends on one of the BEST cliffhangers ever. This cliffhanger made me WANT more so badly!!! it wasn’t like one of those cliffhangers where you’re just pissed off that you have to wait 3 months, it was good basic satisfaction of a lot of the issues that came up during the first season while setting up a hell of a story for season 2. When I tried to look up season 2 air dates and found out that this season finale was actually a SERIES finale I was crushed. I actually shed a tear.

As that tear was slowly rolling off of my extremely long and well formed eyelashes I thought “You know what? I think I am done with TV.” along the lines of that thought I think am going to watch the last season of Smallville and then Stargate Universe, until it gets canceled, because seemingly every show I like gets cancelled, and then I am done.

Here is a nice list of shows that I LOVED that got canceled too early

  • Crusade
  • Farscape (at least the eventually finished the story with a movie, even though scorpius’s makeup looked like crap)
  • Firefly
  • Sarah Connor Chronicles
  • Defying Gravity
  • Heroes (although it became sort of crappy but then they canceled it right when it was getting good again! go figure.)
  • Flashforward
  • V (seems like it is getting canceled so I am adding it!) As it turns out this one was not canceled
  • I’m sure there’s more but I don’t feel like thinking anymore

I don’t understand how basically crap shows like Smallville, it is crap that I love, are still on air but the truly amazing shows with complex story lines that make you think and really look at things in a different way always get canceled. in the case of Smallville there were at least 4 seasons of just crap, pure and utter crap before things finally started to improve in season 8, and now season 9 is, compared to the other seasons, amazingly amazing. But even Smallville’s amazing season 9 doesn’t compare to any of the canceled shows on my list, except for V maybe. Gah I’m so sick of it!  Forget TV, from now on I will wait until everything gets to netflix, then I’ll know for sure that I am not gonna get screwed over with a cliffhangar.

eh I am so pissed off, I seriously feel like starting a TV boycott. I just don’t want to get excited about anymore TV shows that seem amazing because I don’t want to risk getting into a story only to have it be canceled.  So maybe just a boycot of NEW TV shows. We shall see how I feel tomorrow, maybe I’ll just go get an iPad and start buying books and reading them for 10 hours at a time.

And you know what? I wish I could just blame everything on greedy TV producers, but the reality of it is that if people were watching these shows would still be going strong. But the American Public doesn’t seem to like interesting shows, or maybe my tastes are weird, but either way these shows are canceled because nobody is watching them on TV even though I bet the more recent shows had the highest number of seeders on torrentreactor or piratebay. come on guys watch it on Hulu. And come on TV producers get more creative with your advertising, have you heard of product placement??? that works no matter where viewers get the content from.

Don’t think I didn’t notice all those Windows 7 product placements in the season finale of Smallville. And that, my friends, is why Smallville is still around. Eh Flashforward only had Palm product placements. Palm???

I’m so PISSED!!!! And yes I did create another level of the gripes category just for this post. Canceled TV shows are my GREATEST pet peeve. Maybe I’ll feel better about it tomorrow, doubt it.