Today’s assignment had me out in the burning, hot North Carolina sun, waiting for First Lady Laura Bush to show up and tour a national park. The press all congregated around noon (with the really nice White House press coordinators), we placed our gear in the first photo op area (to be scanned by Secret Service), and then basically waited around for a few hours in the murderous sun.
It seemed like we hung out for a few hours and then found ourselves running around all crazy for around 15 minutes, clamoring to get useable video of Lady Bush. All of this ‘camoring’ I refer to took place in 15′x15′ roped off areas that they quickly herded between - to keep us at a safe distance from her.
Also, we were informed on several occasions, “Do not take photographs of Mrs Bush from behind.” Seriously, they really harped on this one point quite a bit.
I’m on the verge of making a major cell phone purchase, but not just any phone. I’m looking for a PDA or smartphone-type-device. At this point I’m basically torn between a Blackberry (probably Curve) or an iPhone. Both have various advantages, like price points, coverage plans, etc. Anyone care to chime in with what they use, or what might be best? So far the little demon on my left shoulder has me convinced it should be a new 3G iPhone.
I plan on using it to:
1. aimlessly surf the interweb
2. fire off terse emails
3. send ridiculous mobile photos to Flickr
4. craft ‘clever’ twitter posts.
Any input you have would be great appreciated, and I’ll consider other options as well. Please know ahead of time that I don’t care about any V-Cast bullshit whatsoever. Thank you for reading Little Lost Robot.
Here’s this week’s “Click” segment, which is actually airing at the same moment I’m posting this. It’s my Heart to Darkness journey into cell phone product testing.
UPDATE: Due to a database error, I've had to reinstall 18 months of Wordpress posts - which are like 65% there, but without comments and trackbacks. I'm still working on getting everything back.
