 My youthful memories are filled with phrases like “just sit still”, and “do you want me to turn this car around and go home?” I wasn’t an attention starved child, but I was easily bored and in constant need of mental stimulation. Car trips, plane rides, waiting rooms, and every other place that parents insist on taking children were my childhood nemesis.
If only I could have had Sesame Street on the go… Well kids today have that option, I mean parents have that option. Verizon has seen a much larger usage than expected in the ‘babysitting programming”, and there’s no mystery why that is. Heck, if I was stuck in line I’d rather watch Sesame Street than look at the back of someone’s head. |
Daily Archives: June 24, 2005
Ogo Go Bye Bye
The not-so-popular Ogo has been laid to rest. This product never really had a chance if you ask me. A phone that doesn’t make phone calls, who would buy such a thing? I have to give Cingular and AT&T credit for trying. $100.00 for the device and then $18.00 per month to have emails and instant messaging was definitely affordable. But for a couple of bucks more they could have incorporated a phone and actually sold some of the devices. Personally I’m a big T-Mobile Sidekick fan, and I see this as being a Sidekick that can’t make calls. The option to use a Sidekick for data (no phone calls) only is available, but all of the 20ish people I know who have sidekicks use it as their mobile phone. Farewell Floppy Ogo, come back someday with voice features and a cooler name, you just may make it in this cut throat wireless market.
iPod Treasure Map
iPods are in. They have been in, and will be in. I went to the bookstore with a friend, she wanted an HTML for dummies type book. We found two books on HTML and seven books on iPods. This means that people are buying them, and if people are buying them that also implies that people are selling them. The simple way to buy one is by going to the Apple store (either online or physical), but you’re going to pay top dollar. So smartmoney.com did their homework and reports back the cheapest iPod sales they could find. If you’re thinking about jumping on the wagon (and it’s a nice big wagon at that) then look at this before hitting www.apple.com.