Since this is a blog, I suppose an update of sorts is needed. While it’s been a busy past few weeks not much has really happened.

I’ve needed a phone upgrade for about a year now. My xv6800 has been all but worn out. Sure a new battery would fix the 2 hour battery life, but it really wouldn’t fix the slowness, the GPS being locked out, or the randomly missed calls. Hint: the phone is supposed to ring when calls come in.

This caused a dilemma, I knew I wanted another smartphone, and I was pretty dead set against another Windows Mobile phone. Microsoft really needs to scrap the whole thing and start back at the drawing board if it wants to get in the game. What I wanted was the iPhone. Problem was I’m on Verizon and still had until January 2010 before I was out of the contract.

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This simple video does a great job explaining it. (Please give me an invite!)

As I mentioned previously in my Picasa post, I’ve only recently become a Google fanboy.

Oh sure, I was pretty close already with all my email coming to me through Google Apps, as well as my use of Google Reader to help me keep up with all the webcomics and tech news I follow. And then there’s Google Analytics for my websites and well, I could keep going, Google makes a ton of different, very useful products…. I use just about everything that Google has put out. (Yes, I’m aware that I’m not using Blogger, but I prefer WordPress just because it’s on my own server.)

Really, though, the announcement for Google Wave and its accompanying (way too long at 1:20 minutes) demo video is what finally turned the tides and made me into the gushing, ravenous fanboy you see before you.

Tomorrow, September 30th 2009, will be the day that Google starts inviting people into Google Wave. I’m hoping that I’ll be one of the few 100,000 that gets in. If not, I’ll be crushed, but I’ll wait patiently in the hopes that one of my friends or anyone that reads this blog (all two of you) might have an invitation to spare and can let me join in on the Wavey goodness.

Good luck to all the hopefuls out there!

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