Who Thinks iPhone Stands a Chance?

iPhone watch out! Samsung is in the works in creating a new smartphone that's going to kick your butt. The F700 looks a lot like the iPhone, but has a slide out qwerty keyboard (cuz who wants to put their thumbs all over the touch screen?). Not sure if it has all of the iPhone features, for example I know it doesn't have wifi which is probly one of the biggest negatives to it, but one of the biggest positives to it is that at this time Cingular does not have complete rights to selling it! Please pick it up Verizon! ^_^ Oh yeah, I've decided along with most of my family that we're switching to Verizon in May. Consumer Reports has named it the best in Florida and I tried one of my friend's Verizon cells from my apartment and got through first try with crystal clear sound.

Other great features of this phone include 5.0 mp camera which would eliminate a whole of weight and make more pocket space along with of course some kind of mp3 player, not sure how big yet.

http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/PressRelease.asp?seq=20070208_0000320566

Also from Samsung is another really cool little smartphone with a dual slider keyboard that slides out into a full qwerty or slides down for a regular phone number pad. Also with touch screen and really pretty looking. ^_^ Not quite as many features but if the other one gets picked up by Cingular at least still another option of a nice phone for Verizon to pick up.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/samsung-sghf520-cellphone-slides-up-and-down-side-to-side-rubiks-and-iphone-clone-235788.php

Tornado

Just wanted to post some pics taken by my parents' neighbor of the damage from the tornado in The Villages. Most of the damage shown on TV was of trailer parks, and my parents didn't tell me that there was damage quite so close to their house, but I can't stop looking at these pics, especially the fourth one which is from just a few blocks over from their house. Thanks Rob for posting these on your blog.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roblafave/sets/72157594515701441/show/

For more on the tornado check out Rob's blog at http://www.1stupidmuttplus2.com/

I Swear it was Spyware!

So apparently a substitute teacher is facing 40 years of jail time for porn popups on a school computer. She's believed to have been watching porn on a school computer and then leaving pop ups on the screen that was later viewed by 10 7th grade students. She claims it was spyware and adware that was already on the computer, and insists that she went nowhere near any porn sites. You can read more about it here, but I'm curious to hear what everone thinks. It's another aspect of the "Do you feel safer or less safe" with the internet debate from Dr. Ferdig's class last week. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128672-pg,1/article.html

In other news, excited about the symposium tomorrow! ^_^