The Certainty of Uncertainty Fools Yet Again!

For lack of a better term, I am pissed. T-Mobile has, again, missed a GREAT HTC phone by the likes of… oh look who it is, AT&T! The Touch Pro, to my great dislike, is now selling as the AT&T Fuze, for a nauseatingly cheap price (compared to it’s street price of course). I could never afford it without a cellphone company’s subsidiary. Meanwhile, there’s not much talk of a G2 (I assume its too soon), and like clockwork, my 3rd blackberry curve is balancing on the edge. The cellphone search continues, as I am extremely picky with my electronics- why settle for less for what we’re paying?

Here on the personal front, I’ve (not so recently) turned 18 and (more recently) finally established credit, so after buying possibly the best flat iron in the world and being scared to use it because it’s the best flat iron in the world (The top competitor to the world renowned, and celebrity priced, FHI Runway- I’m talking the Hana Elite, more info later!),  I decided to finally buckle down to a dream I’d almost forgotten- my wish to buy a domain and hosting space. I am now the proud owne… well, 1 year renter… of JovannaMcCoy.com! (this calls for a pig-like squeal of joy!) Deciding which host to use… well, that was the hard part. Because of it’s superbowl ad-time, my mind picked up of godaddy at first thought, but I knew this was something I needed to research first. Thankfully I remembered The-Mentor-formerly-known-as-Peter-Kolbe referring to hosts a while back on his notes blog. I trusted his recommendations of Siteground, BlueHost, and DreamHost, and compared from there. After half a day of staring at user reviews and comparisons, I decided to go with BlueHost on the grounds of simply pwning when it comes to happy customers and a myriad of features. Dreamhost did tempt me though, with its friendly charm and half price savings *coupon code Save50*. In the end, I went with bigger equaling better… how conservative american of me. tsk.

Meanwhile, I begin wasting my 365 days left of rentership by choosing to design the site after I’ve purchased the space. I feel the pressure of guilt will keep me timely on the process- I assume the next three weeks will be mind boggling for me as I put my elementary knowledge of CSS and Photoshoping…or, Gimp-ing. Oh, while I’m somewhat touching the subject… Did I mention I’ve been Windows Free for 2 months now? I actually think it may be more than that. I Love the Linux life! Why, americans have no idea of what True Freedom really means! (Yeah, I’m a shamefully shameless Ubuntu supporter now if you haven’t noticed the links)

That’s enough for now. I must finish working on my ‘coming soon’ page, then redirect this to the site. Awesomeness!

Of Matters Once Fierce

There are two topics on my blogging to-do list today.

First I shall update you on my cellphone search of so long ago. I ended up getting pressured into using my t-mobile discount to get a blackberry curve, which I hated until I actually got my hands on it. Other than the fact that I’ve already replaced the handset twice since it’s purchase in August, I have to say… It’s a pretty damn solid device. With the latest system upgrade, it has just about every minimal asset I’d need in a phone. I was very close to saving my money towards the HTC Touch Pro or the T-Mobile G1, but at the time there was no word of the Touch Pro hitting our shores in GSM form, and the G1’s design simply looked like crap. My next purchase will likely be the G2, since I’d like to see google android in some better hardware.

Second off this list is to decide a name for my blog and new online persona. I still have no idea what to call it, all I know is that it has smart, funny and catchy. I’ll take some more time out tonight to think about it, and post the results in an edit later.

Ghost Returning from the Myst

Upon my preparation for my second trek into higher education, I felt it best to temporarily take a break from the internet and it’s deceitful ways. A google search on immigration policy would somehow reroute me to watching the bush stare idle into the innocent eyes of elementary students, followed by watching a similar group of children dancing too synchronized for their age to the tune of “Crank That”, followed by succumbing to a game of online pool. I left some of the blame to my attention deficit, but I needed to find an end to this cyclic pattern before committing myself to a double major in chemistry and biology. This is my lengthy excuse for not keeping up with this blog, but due to recent events I feel a need to get back into the swing of things on the net. A lot has happened in the last few months, both in my personal life and the world in general, that I need to extract from my mind and create formal sentences from. My college career has come to a grinding halt indefinitely, mostly due to the lack of spark and challenge my new school instilled within me, and the fact that my obsessiveness for carving out that spark and challenge for myself quickly guided me to my second psychiatric hospitalization this year. With all this new found free time, my life has become increasingly secluded and parent protected, even as we elect The-Jesus-Reincarnate-Barack-Obama and I become acquainted with official adulthood. With all this being said, I’d like to announce to my audience (which tends to be just me and some spam bots) the creation of my new online alter ego… which, at the time, has no name, but a purpose. (A titleless entity of intelligence, if you will.) Tomorrow, the search will begin, and I’ll begin the transfer to my new blog. Stay tuned for random bits of joy and rant!

Oh, How Far We’ve Come: A Look at the Hotshots of Today’s Mobile Phone Industry.

A few years ago, I transformed myself from a Nokia-wielding, constant faceplate-changing, hundred text-messages-sent-a-day preteen to the Crackberry addict you see before you today. My Blackberry 7105t once signified the beginning of Research in Motion’s realization that a growing number of non-Forbes 500 consumers would gladly buy a blackberry- if it would only ever fit into the back pocket of their stonewashed Levi 501’s. Thus the slim downed 71xx series announced it and it’s new suretype qwerty input to the world- but not nearly as loud enough. It still didn’t flaunt itself towards the media hungry (like myself): it supported no mp3’s, no camera, no streaming video… despite the direct push email, it was like being dropped back into the 17th century. (Mind you, I owned the Nokia 3650 previous to this, adorned with the newly debuted Series 60 platform, realplayer and all… it was a beautiful thing. Till this day, I don’t blame Nokia for being the last company to shell out their first camera phone- they saved the best for last.)

Anywho, that was a long, long time ago. My Blackberry just died in fact, so I’m surveying the market for the latest and greatest. It comes at great timing also, since my T-mobile contract is up, and as a customer that’s stayed with them since their beginning, I get a discounted upgrade. (That is, for 18 dollars.) Of course, now I’m noticing how much I truly dislike T-mobile. Currently, while every other company is raping us with their iPhones and overly-priced-high-fashion-branded cellphones, t-mobile is keeping it nice and conservative with their sad Motorola flips and self-branded line of sub par windows mobile 6 devices. HTC should have their ass kicked, they didn’t even have enough smarts to put in something larger than a 200 mhz processor. YOU CANNOT RUN WINDOWS MOBILE 6 PROFESSIONAL ON A TI OMAP 850 200 Mhz PROCESSOR! Well, technically you can, but, YOU CANNOT RUN IT WELL! Of course, I’m focusing in on the Wing here, which might just be the slowest piece of crap I’ve ever had the pleasure of laying my hands upon. Aside from the fact that T-mobile has a horrible taste in phone selection and naming, they’ve kept me around simply because they’ve never done me wrong. As in, when all the other companies began running those dropped call ads, t-mobile customers around the nation were wondering what the hell a “dropped call” was. (Actually, I almost wish we did experience dropped calls, then I’d have another excuse towards why I hung up on my mother while she ranted about the uncleanliness of my room…)

Therefore, Since I’m not impressed with the current Blackberries, nor t-mobile’s smart phones, (and of course I am not succumbing to the connotation of technological immatureness that come along with owning a sidekick) I’ve entered the dark side of the unlocked phones of the European GSM market. After weeks of combing through my favorite mobile websites, such as Engadget Mobile and Phone Arena, I was pretty sure I was going to put all my money on the HTC Tytn II (AT&T Tilt), which seemed to be the everything phone, our savior to the iPhone. Well, apparently not. There seems to be trouble brewing between tilt owners and HTC, because of some missing video drivers. Even with a 400 mhz processor, I’ve heard that these drivers are the only thing keeping this phone from becoming the best WinMo 6 phone to date. This has been the only thing keeping me from buying the tilt, or any HTC phones at that, so the wait continues.

Thus I’m left to cross my fingers for the next few days, as the Mobile World Congress convenes in Barcelona until Thursday. There have been some great announcements made, such as Sony Ericsson’s decision to begin developing WinMo 6 phones (check out the gorgeous Xperia X1, slated to kick the N96’s ass in the third quarter, perhaps?), The attack of Google’s Android and Linux mobile platforms, and the biggest news for t-mobile customers: MICROSOFT’S TOTAL CONSUMPTION OF DANGER! YES! (who the hell cared about the yahoo merger anyway?) This may be just what t-mobile has been waiting for- imagine that, a touchscreen sidekick slide overwhelmed with WinMo 6, or even better…7! IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR AMERICA!

Right now, the t-mobile execs are kicking their feet back, for come third quarter, the iPhone is going to be drowning to it’s death along with AT&T in the cash money whirlpool that is t-mobile’s long awaited success.

What was that? Did I hear that correctly? There’s been 14.3 Million WinMo 6 Phones sold in the last 6 months?

I’ll soon be selling “w.t.f. is an iPhone?” shirts over on eBay for 10 dollars a piece, 15 for two.

Oh, and did I forget to mention the biggest story of the day? That blackberry has had yet another revelation? They have seen the error of their ways, and someone has been able to leak RIM’s patents for a touchscreen blackberry slider in both suretype and full qwerty designs.

God Bless Barcelona!

It’s Me Against the World.

Surprisingly enough, I’m not new to this whole blogging thing. If I weren’t as tired, I’d begin telling a story about a time long ago where I created an xanga and rambled aimlessly about my unfortunate life as a lonely self-proclaimed genius adolescent. I won’t speak too much on this topic, except for the fact that I’ve come a long way from that situation. I’m not as lonely, and not as smart, but for some reason I feel as if I still have something to talk about here. Or, maybe the correct term would be rant. I definitely have things to rant about, except I’d like to believe that these upcoming blogs will be bit less shallow than my previous stories of my life as a middle school outcast.

Enough Introduction, It’s Me Against the World.