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13 April 2006
Motorola A630 - eyes in love
38 of 41 found this helpful I understand this A630 model is no longer available - but if you can find it, get it, provided these are the features you would want:
I keep my phone on 'vibrate' and it alerts me to incoming emails. That is a service I need, and the A630 is the best of any I've seen. You will like the keyboard - with keys far enough apart to type with the side-tips of your thumbs, at least - And if you are barbie doll high, you can use it as a regular keyboard. But at that height, you don't know what a regular keyboard is.
There are some compromises with the A630: It is, for me, like talking into a potato. I wish that it was more stylish, but it isn't. I'm getting a Bluetooth thingy to descretly stick on my ear, without (hopefully) looking like those dunces who seem to want to look like a motion picture director who has fallen off a sound stage someplace.
But the size of the A630 phone and I have come to a peaceful place. When you open the phone, the size is an advantage - and it feels sturdy. The phone, with T-Mobile's service, will do anything. Stocks, weather, movies, and even maps (although small) - are a great comfort, knowing you can look up that information. But I know you can probably do that with almost any device today.
It's the way A630 does email that finds its place in my heart. I can click open my little phone and it transfers into a computer-look. With only another click or two, I'm writing mail, but you'll stumble around trying to get used to it - like getting a new car with toys - until you finally have a system.
Being able to reply within SECONDS of getting mail is like hitting a good golf shot. You get a free smile, knowing you didn't keep the sender wondering. Nor waiting. And your day is more springy, knowing you don't have to race home to see if there's a problem waiting in your inbox. Okay, "golf shot" wasn't the phrase to use. Sorry. I just like golf and don't hit good golf shots so how did I know.
There may be other phones that give all of this email comfort - I like the looks of some, such as the Treo, but the keys are too close and small. The Sidewinder is like carrying a laptop. The Blackberry has the looks of a Walgreen's plastic calculator. And tell me how you can talk into any of those without looking like Get Smart talking into his shoe. Or a paperback novel.
And with my A630, the keys are hidden. I like surprises. Even though as a phone, it still has the class of a potato, but it's a nice potato. And it stands out like a bug becoming a butterfly when you open it.
Future of the world by me: What needs to happen is the Motorola RAZR designers need to walk into the room and put a keyboard under that RAZR phone. I can see those people without a moment's rest from their familes, who have to be asking for a way to read the tiny letters on that phone.
At the time of this writing, Motorola is coming out with a "Q" - which seems to look like a Treo with Motorloa written on it. I'd stay away from that until the Motorola RAZR designers come back from vacation and spend some time in the design lab looking at the "Q" -
Bottom line summary (didn't think it would ever happen, eh?) Look for a Motorla A630. Buy it and write often to your frineds. Like a garden, friendships need constant attention or they can disappear. This way, when you have a fun meal - take a picture (A630 is a camera phone, too) and attach it to an email, and laugh with your friends. Who knows, they might call you, and you can talk into your potato.
01 August 2008
The documentary you missed.
1 of 3 found this helpful This is a great documentary. We were told about it as background for a schoolwork TV/Film documentary project on The Underground Railroad.
But the documentary you SHOULD have seen, prompted by THIS documentary, was by a fellow student who didn't stop at 1865, as this does. As the official Underground Railway does.
He brought the "Underground Railway" all the way to today, and used Senator Obama as the final picture. I'm not shifting to politics here. Don't miss my point.
Nobody in class did what he did. Few even got the idea of what he had said with his video. My fellow student used high quality pictures in rapid slides, starting about 1860 and showing the progression in proper order of men who knocked down the "next" slave fence - people you recognize without captions: Jorden, Woods, Robinson, dozens of other blacks who continued the "Underground Raiload" escape from the mental confinement of slavery where others continue to believe Blacks should be confined.
Without saying it, his documentary suggested the "Underground Railway" didn't magically give a beginning and ending to the path to freedom and equality, from confinement and slavery. It was perhaps the crack in the gate where we whites believed we were a wonderful help in freeing slaves.
But blacks, without maps, without a path, unable to read or write, without friends, hunted with guns and dogs, hunted down by whites who were anxious for the rewards equalling thousand of dollars today if you caught just one escaping slave. "Slaves" who could be killed without any legal penality to the murderer - - - those brave slave runaways aren't given much credit, and the applause goes to those whites who CLAIM they helped.
Yet - think about that. If anybody helped an escaping slave, they'd be immediately jailed. Probably would be reported by their neighbors. Or if their houses were known "stops on the Underground Railway" as they claimed - they would be surrounded by bounty hunters.
So who says, really, that they helped? That ANYBODY helpted? It had to be secret. So we take their word for it. Nobody, other than themselves, who were eager to share in the gratitude after 1865, could prove or disprove they helped.
And the spotlight goes out. It's 1865. Slaves were free.
The documentary you SHOULD have seen is the one that shows the railroad is still needed. The hate isn't gone. To verbally shoot a black with an ugly joke is a popular sport. But slowly, the reasons for discrimination seem to erode. It is getting harder for the bigots to point to an inferior quality.
It is when bigots won't want to point and have nothing to point at, that the railraod does end. Let's hope we see it coming into that last station.
01 August 2008
"Traffic" The danger you may not understand.
1 of 1 found this helpful This becomes a movie review: I am reminded of the story of an ex-drug addict who speaks in front of students at his old high school. The teachers are thrilled he tells the dangers and horror of drugs, whereas many students who listen want to try those drugs and live that life, so THEY can come back and be a hero speaking in front of the high school class. Afterall, the person looks okay now. HE survived. Same with "TRAFFIC" - pretty girl has argument with parents, girl runs away, girl hits bottom, becomes hopeless addict, her boyfriend stays with her, she becomes a whore for money, her father drives up and down the streets day and night to finally finds her and . . . this ends up how? With her parents loving her more and saying they will now listen to her. She is still pretty, no scars. Happily ever after. Scarey. I worry about the results from this movie. Can you see how dangerous this type of movie is?