If It Doesn’t Get Done…
Basically in three weeks from today, everything must be completed for my internship project. All the code, all the documentation, all the presentation stuff has to be done because the next day we leave for Iowa. Luckily I only have to spend about 48 hours up there, but that’s approximately 47 more than I feel like my life might possibly need of that state. I mean, they’re not exactly a small company. Why not New York, Chicago, LA even? No, it’s Iowa, one of those states that you’re very likely to forget when asked to name all 50 of them. For two days, I’ll be forgotten.
Something that I would probably never buy if I didn’t have this massive influx of money since February or so has made its way onto my purchase list along with the Nokia N800. That I’ll be getting probably right around the time school starts, but in October or so I’ll be dropping $450 on the Neo1973. For $50 more I could get an iPhone, but this is pretty much everything the iPhone isn’t: open, extendable, and the absolute opposite of being locked to a carrier. It’s that last reason why I’ll probably be buying one; if this was a phone AT&T offered, I’d probably ignore it. One of the things I’d love to see happen is the decoupling of the physical phones from the cell companies. I don’t care if they cost more since no subsidies will be in place; I want the type of innovation happening with phones in Europe and Japan to make their way over here and be compatible with the networks in America (specifically, the GSM 850 band whatever the UMTS band AT&T is using). I will wait for a review to two just to make sure the phone isn’t a bomb, but looking at the specs for it, it is pretty much my ideal phone (minus the camera). If they can hit their target of new model(s) every year, I’ll happily play the eBay cycle to upgrade that often (this would be selling an old device in order to cover part of the cost for a newer model).