The Amazon Kindle: Okay, I bought one. I totally love it. I’m in love with it. It’s strange, it’s simultaneously crude and advanced at the same time: crude because eink is a young technology - the background of the page is light grey instead of white, and refresh takes a second when it should be instantaneous. It’s four-color greyscale. The design makes it seem a little retro, as well - 80s science fiction angles. But it’s futuristic because it’s changing the way I read - now I have my Kindle with me when I read magazines, so if I read an interesting book review I can download the first chapter instead of forgetting it or filing it away forever. It’s like a minor superpower. It’s a good little device, and the cellular modem, plus the deal Amazon cut with Sprint and their online store, make it great.

iPhone 3G: I’ll take three, but I’m not ecstatic about it. 3G is great, and I don’t mind paying $10 more a month for much faster data, and A-GPS is nice, but there were a few other little incremental improvements I would have liked - a better camera, most prominently. That said, the iPhone is still the second most important tool I own after my laptop, and still the best phone ever made. I think I’ll sign up for MobileMe and push everything around. In fact, thanks to the PC syncing features, I might buy a cheap cheap cheap light small Atom-based PC laptop to compliment a Mac Pro instead of a MacBook Air. If only they’d done an online version of Pages.

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