Gadget Geek

I think anyone who knows me and my husband knows that we are major gadget geeks.  Rather than clothes and shoes, holidays and whatever else people usually spend their money on, we are always on the lookout for a new laptop, PDA, mobile phone, etc.   My working has really made this easier for us.

This is my messy living room during our (yay!) four day weekend!   It’s a panoramic photo that I took which basically blends together 3 photos.  It’s a really cool feature of MY NEW PHONE.  Obviously I lined it up all wonky.  My laptop doesn’t curve at the top and there are only three of those tall shelves with the DVD’s, not four.. It was just a test shot though so whatever.   I wish my proper camera could do that.   Although I suppose I could take 3 pics and merge them together in photoshop.

Right, so about the new phone…

It’s a T-Mobile MDA Vario III which is just T-Mobile’s way of renaming the HTC Tytn II, which they also remodeled on the outside (boo!, I think the Tytn looks much cooler).    It’s a smartphone, which means it basically has everything in it, which is exactly what I need.   I had a mobile phone, a crappy MP3 player and a PDA that kept losing all my data every time I forgot to charge it (which was pretty much… every time).   This has all of those things, PLUS mobile Internet, in one handy package.   It takes up less room in my bag and is just one thing to have to remember, rather than three.

I love that it has windows on it, but it’s in Dutch, which is a bit of a bummer.    I guess it’s a sign that I am fully integrated when my mobile is in Dutch too.   I can’t say I’ve figured everything out yet though as I did manage to phone my friend Penny a few times by mistake yesterday.  Now I know what those buttons mean!  I’m totally digging the qwerty keyboard too, and I wonder how many of those little stylus thingies I’ll manage to lose.

Did you notice something else in that pic?

My new Acer Aspire 9920G latop!  I’ve had it now for a few weeks and have meant to blog about it but am always so tired after work I can’t be arsed.   I absolutely LOVE IT!  As you can see in the pic, the screen is HUGE (20 inches)!   I actually had to push it a few feet away to take the pic because when I sit with it in front of me on the sofa, I can’t really see much else.

It’s fantastic for watching my downloaded TV shows and Movies and I love that I can have so many things open on my screen at once and still see them.   I loved my little Vaio but it was really small and while that is good for some things, I prefer more of a mobile desktop type of laptop.  Granted, at 7.8 kilos, I won’t be carting this around with me everywhere like I did with the Vaio.

Here are the specs if you are interested.

It’s powerful enough for gaming as well, and while I’ve been tempted to play WoW on it I’ve resisted the urge and tried out a few other games like Fable, Oblivion and The Sims.   I didn’t play any of them very much but I just liked seeing that they could all run smoothly.  Whether WoW would remains to be seen but I want to go there again.  The idea of starting up a little newbie somewhere to play, away from everyone I’ve known on there, is appealing though.  That gamer in me just won’t let go…

Don’t worry, I haven’t been hogging all this new financial freedom to myself.  My husband has been buying tons of electronics and robotics stuff.  Not that I understand what any of it is but he’s enjoying it.   He’ll have to get off his lazy arse and start updating his blog and discuss those things himself!