Dunlap Dabbles » windows mobile http://www.dunlapdabbles.com Because They Don't Give Degrees In "Renaissance Man" Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:59:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 I Caved or A Tale of Compromise http://www.dunlapdabbles.com/2009/07/07/i-caved-or-a-tale-of-compromise/128 http://www.dunlapdabbles.com/2009/07/07/i-caved-or-a-tale-of-compromise/128#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:16:01 +0000 admin http://www.dunlapdabbles.com/?p=128 If you know me then you probably noticed a period of time where I was stopping people and asking them about their phones.  I had a bad case of phone fever but I was holding it at bay with a mantra of i’m broke, i don’t need it.  It seemed like this was working.  I stopped making trips to the apple store to play with their iPhones and I hadn’t looked at a cnet review in weeks.  I was going to hold on to my old Samsung whatever TM so that when I could afford something nice I wouldn’t be locked up in some contract that prevented me from getting what I actually wanted.  Then I noticed that my phone wasn’t holding a charge very well anymore.  For people that already have smartphones that’s probably not such a big deal but the main argument in my old phone’s favor was that it was practical.  As long as my battery life was going to suck I might as well get some cool features right?  The seed was planted.  It was only a matter of time.  The next obstacle was that there was nothing I wanted to upgrade to.  I’ve never really liked Blackberries and the Storm got a lot of less than stellar reviews.  The Samsung Omnia was heralded as a iPhone killer but I couldn’t get exact enough on the touch screen and it took me like 10 minutes to click the link I needed to in order to close AIM so I decided against the touchscreen options with Verizon.  When I went to cash in my upgrade I figured I would just nab one of the free phones but I saw that they had added the HTC Ozone to their line-up and I couldn’t resist.  I took a look and impulse buying occurred.  I’m setting it up right now as a matter of fact.

It’s weird what we gravitate towards.  I know there’s a ton I could do with this phone and I should be trying to figure out how to streamline my life or get organized or something.  My first priority however has been finding a good twitter application.  Right now I’m leaning towards Twikini.  While there might be lots of good looking tiwtter apps for the iPhone I haven’t seen any for Windows Mobile.  They’ve been bland and free versions don’t include DM’s etc.  Twikini is 4.95 (potentially free after this post) and has all the little conveniences I would expect, integrates with my gps locator, WMP, and has url shortening etc.  Here’s a screenshot from their site which conveniently looks exactly like my own stream.  twikini_theme_htcblackAnybody have any experience with this app or have a better one to recommend?  I’ll probably be doing a bunch of phone follow ups from whether it successfully revolutionizes my existence and liberates me from my laptop and apartment, makes my social life deteriorate as I use it to shield myself from strangers/lulls in conversation, or just makes me wish I had my 50 bucks back.

Looking for wordpress, stock, and ebook applications next.

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