Miscellaneous Musings

My HTC EVO 3D is a super phone. Best part is the Virgin Mobile cost compared to Verizon!!!

Very easy to use! Much, much better than a dumb phone. Web usage works very well, better than my Blackberry BOLD by far. The email is as good as the Blackberry as well! My accounts all download to the HTC just as they did to the Blackberry.

Minor flaw is battery life. Next to try is the extended battery to get a full day. Currently the phone must be recharged twice a day. Not so hot!

The 3D picture is also neat! Unfortunately, the picture must be viewed on the phone. But interesting never the less. Regular photos have good color and are quite sharp!

My first cell phone was from Verizon. It worked well, a Motorola brick phone! My phone cost was $0.01 for the phone with a two year contract at $21.00 per month. As cell phones got better, I would update for next to nothing as Verizon always had a sale or incentive to try another better phone to get you to sign up for another two year contract. After Blackberrys had been out for quite a while, I got a Curve, later upgraded to a Bold. Unfortunately, Verizon kept raising the cost of the two year contract until I was paying $120.00 per month. My Blackberry was changed to an LG VX9200 from eBay reducing the cost to $57.77 per month for the two year contract. Still way too much for a DUMB phone like the LG!!!  To have stayed with Verizon would have cost over $250 for the phone and more than $120 per month!! So NOT DOING THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I have an HTC EVO 3D from Virgin Mobile for $35.00 per month, no contract needed, for my purposes the coverage is every bit as good as the Verizon coverage. It works where I am and where I go!!! The savings will completely pay for my HTC cost in 4.5 months!!! The HTC is very close to the Galaxy SIII in useability and what is able to do!! WiFi reduces the data use to next to nothing!!! A vastly better deal than Verizon!!! Too bad Verizon had to get so greedy!!!

It is truly amazing, how Micro$oft has stopped giving value in its products.

First they develop the "ribbon" to replace the File, Edit....standard that is easily learned and worked on all products. There is much to be said for having a standard UI across many different products. Once learning the File, Edit...standard many different programs are now accessible by computer users without large instruction manuals.

Second they try to shoehorn a phone OS onto the desktop, which is a completely horrible idea since now everyone has to relearn how to use a computer. This does not help anyone get more work done, it just causes many delays in getting the real work of the world finished on time.

Third, they combine the first and second developments into Office, AND change the pricing to a yearly charge rather than a one time purchase. No one in their right mind, should be purchasing Office on a yearly basis!! Especially since all the users have to relearn how to do what they already know how to do!! Just FOOLISH!!

The only purpose that is apparent for the above changes is for Micro$oft to be able to receive large sums of money from its customers without a corresponding increase in value of the product being sold.

All of the Windows 8 speed and other improvements could have been done without changing the UI for the people who use a computer to get real work done; we should not be forced to relearn how to use the computer to get the improvements in Windows 8!!! It should not be necessary to drop to the Windows desktop from the Metro UI, nor use Stardock's Start8 to get the Orb back!!