Showing posts with label Samsung. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samsung. Show all posts
[caption id="attachment_9430" align="alignnone" width="497"]
The new arm race: Samsung Galaxy Gear, the Pebble and the Sony Smartwatch 2.[/caption]
Before cellular phones in the 1980s, pagers were the popular mobile device with professionals: little devices with tiny alphanumeric readouts that notified you when someone called your land line. Remember? No? Ask an old person, or a healthcare professional.
Cell phones made pagers obsolete over 20 years ago, but they're back again, retooled for the social media of the 21st Century and the irony?
The simple dumb phones that killed pagers, evolved into the complicated smartphones that are giving them a new lease on life.
Today's pagers still notify you of calls to your phone number; they also notify you of incoming SMS text messages or email or any social media nods -- they're all over Twitter and Facebook notifications. Most of them can "dial" your phone, and many of them can play MP3 files, and all of them can tell the time.
And "pagers" was so 20th Century -- they've changed their name to "smartwatches."
The new arm race: Samsung Galaxy Gear, the Pebble and the Sony Smartwatch 2.[/caption]Before cellular phones in the 1980s, pagers were the popular mobile device with professionals: little devices with tiny alphanumeric readouts that notified you when someone called your land line. Remember? No? Ask an old person, or a healthcare professional.
Cell phones made pagers obsolete over 20 years ago, but they're back again, retooled for the social media of the 21st Century and the irony?
The simple dumb phones that killed pagers, evolved into the complicated smartphones that are giving them a new lease on life.
Today's pagers still notify you of calls to your phone number; they also notify you of incoming SMS text messages or email or any social media nods -- they're all over Twitter and Facebook notifications. Most of them can "dial" your phone, and many of them can play MP3 files, and all of them can tell the time.
And "pagers" was so 20th Century -- they've changed their name to "smartwatches."
Binning on my way to bed. As if the giant word "CANS" wasn't enough, they had to add "FREE." Some people in Fairview have a head full of kittens -- I love them! This morning, binning on my way from bed, towards coffee, I was lucky enough to get at a recycling blue bin that spends it's life in an underground parking lot, and only sees the light of day once a week for pick-up -- lots of containers, and one glass-topped sardine can made by Samsung. Has just enough juice in it to briefly display an empty battery icon. If nothing else, it provides a 2 GB micro SD for the garbage SanDisk Clip MP3 player I found by a curb last week. Oh, how the homeless suffer in Vancouver. Click the images above to enlarge them.[caption id="attachment_4919" align="alignnone" width="486"]
The mind of a Fairview resident (artists representation). Click the image to go to a cat-tasrophe of cuteness![/caption]
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)