Have I posted this music video before? I can’t remember. Doesn’t matter – watch it!
Regardless, I say this is the best music video I’ve ever seen, even though it’s definitely not one of Kanye’s best songs. After watching it a hundred times last night and today, I realize why it works so perfectly with Kanye’s auto-tuned voice – it’s a rough digital proximity of the original.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has a video blog. They seem to be very scripted, and certainly not short (the one above is 5.5 minutes long), but it’s an interesting look at a world leader and country who’s fairly notorious for controlling information. If Medvedev can do it, why can’t our editor?
This post has 3 purposes.
1) Talk about my new Palm Pre
2) Increase site hits by talking about the new Palm Pre.
3) Actually accomplish something at work since I have to open today. Palm Pre.
So yeah, I bought a Pre. After being on a few waiting lists around town (and having Best Buy suggest that I put down $50 to get on a VIP waiting list), I picked one one up the Sprint store in St. Johns Town Centre. I called Friday afternoon, they had one for me Saturday.
Despite my constant bragging on how much better the Pre is than an iPhone (and it IS), I have had a few gripes with it.
Gripe #1 Stupid dragging up to unlock. I know that Palm had to be different from Apple, but dragging up to unlock the phone is annoying. It doesn’t affect usability at all, but it does affect one-handed-ability-ness, which isn’t a word but should be.
Gripe #2 When I leave the Pre in the keyboard-out position, and the screen turns off, the only way to turn the screen back on is to hit the power button or keyboard button. WTF Palm. Why can’t I just touch the screen or shiny button at the bottom?
Grip #3 Re-positioning the cursor when I’m texting/emailing. So if I have written an email, but misspelled a letter a few words ago, I have to try and touch on the screen where to place my cursor. Again, not a huge deal, but it’s the most frustrating of the issues I have.
Other than those three, everything about the Pre is fantastic. The shape is perfect, the camera is bright and contrasty, the touch is flawless and the keyboard is great (for someone with skinny fingers, anyway.)
*update. Ok, my Pre just crashed for the first time. I don’t know what was happening, but the phone stopped responding for about 10 seconds and then restarted itself. God, let’s not make a habit of this.
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