And now, it's already June :)
Well, almost offline as I am almost always online in one way or another -- on Facebook (recently under fire again for privacy controls) and a new social media site that centers on your location -- FourSquare. The latter works more brilliantly if you're surfing on the go and as stated on their site, FourSquare works well with an iPhone, a Blackberry, a Palm or a phone that runs the Android OS. Or if you have a smartphone with mobile connection (that doesn't suck you clean of internet-access moolah), that also works well.As for me, I'm accessing the site through the computer and I do cheat with the check-ins -- I update my check-ins even before I reach my destination :P I'm heading that way anyway, I justify to myself.
Hopefully in several months' time I'll be engaging in the total FourSquare experience when I upgrade my mobile phone. The iPhone is an option but being the don't-go-for-what-everyone-has type of nerd, I'm looking at Samsung and Sony-Ericsson phones that are running Android. Specifically, am looking at the SE Xperia10a (note there's a space between E and X, perverts!). But as I've mentioned to the FB world a couple of weeks back, the cost of the unit is astronomical. My trusty N6680 (which is now being used by my sis-in-law) only cost me a few thousand bucks. The Xperia will set me back some 30++ thousands! The iPhone is slightly lower but still cost-prohibitive. I'd much rather buy a small netbook ha ha ha.Oh, what phone am I using now? Curious, you. I'm using a E71 Pro rip-off, made in China, bought for me by my sister in Dubai. Its casing and look is similar to the Nokia E71 Pro but has a built-in TV and radio (with the eye-sore pull-out antenna) -- much like what MyPhone is hawking in cellphone stores. But its unreliable and lacks the features one would look for a smartphone (my 6680 was a better phone thanks to its Symbian OS). I couldn't even load ebooks in my current phone because there's simply no program / software that would allow me to do so.
But one thing I've developed by using this rip-off is the use of QWERTY keys -- I like :) So, the next phone, aside from running on Android, most likely be a QWERTY phone (so that knocks of the iPhone from the options, I guess).
