the-connected-life

Xbox 360, finally

I finished up my presentation slides and demo code on Thursday night, so I’m ready to go next weekend. This means I can reward myself by sitting down to finally play something other than Hexic on my Xbox 360. My lovely wife purchased me the Call to Duty 2 game for my Christmas present, and I picked up Knights of the Old Republic (for the original Xbox, but is compatible with the 360).

Tablet off for memory upgrade

I’ve sent off my LS800 for a memory upgrade. This was a big complaint of mine about the system, the memory is not user serviceable. Some people have braved opening this cram packed chasis to update their memory, but I felt more comfortable sending it off for the work. Motion Computing now has a disclaimer on their web site when you purchase the LS800 saying that the memory is NOT updateable after the point of sale.

Palm selling a windows smart phone?

So Verizon Wireless is carrying the new Palm Treo 700w, which is a Windows Mobile 5 based smartphone. When another consultant sent me an IM with a page link to this device I thought, this has to be a joke. A Palm created device running WM5. Well, it’s not. The phone looks quite good and isn’t that expensive compared to some of the newer smart phone devices. I would be tempted to buy this, but I am wondering how/if Verizon has hamstrung it.