The Geek Church

The trend of portable technology continues to grow in popularity, causing devices like the cellphone to keep getting smaller. Let’s consider the evolution of the phone in the last few decades. Once, it was just a basic, land-line unit with cords of limited length and then the cordless phone was created. After that, the development of the cellphone came and most units have been about the size of small two-way walkie talkies. Now phones have gotten even smaller.

Take a moment to imagine a cellphone being the size of a portable mirror. That’s what Qiao Sheng has recently developed. They call it the A45. The device comes in a high lacquered finish and has a display which can be rotated through 180 degrees. The phone’s display is a 2.2” mirror-sized touch screen and the device has a user interface. Furthermore, the A45 is also equipped with a camera that uses 3 Megapixels. Unfortunately, there wasn’t information available at this time concerning the price of this new product.

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Here’s a little phone of the future for today. It is a phone that stays on the tabletop, and then it will turn toward you and nod when you receive a phone call.

This concept phone, designed by Mac Funamizu, is perfect for those offices that are always flurry with ringing phones.

Well, we’ll see if this one is the wave of the future.

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I honestly don’t know who the target audience is for this golden Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Edition is, but I’m guessing it is the rich. And by rich, I’m not talking Paris Hilton or Donald Trump rich, but Richie Rich or Scrooge McDuck rich.

Well, I’m assuming that this phone can do everything that the 6700, only it comes with “special wallpaper”. I don’t know what that is, but it has a limited edition 18-carat finish.

So is this a phone, jewelry, or both? Well, it should be out come 2010 for about $550.

You know, something like this makes you think. We are obviously not feeding the planet, we are apparently in some sort of economic recession, and yet this golden cell phones can be made. A sign of the times, but I’m not certain what times they are.

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Considering that Verizon is taking pot shots at AT&T for their spotty coverage, there is a free app available for iPhone users that addresses this issue. Essentially, if you encounter a dropped call, coverage gap, or other network problem, then you can contact “611″ to attempt to resolve the issue.

Of course, you have to be able to make a phone call where you are, right? Yeah, I’m thinking that this is just a way for AT&T to counter that claim by Verizon. Let’s hope they listen.

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Okay, you know how I’m always about how technology should be used more in the church. I believe that there are limits to that.

The same applies at the wedding altar. It probably isn’t a good idea to update your marital status on Facebook during the ceremony. I suppose that it is funny, and the guy officiating the service had something funny to say about it. Normally most preachers aren’t that witty.

I probably would have waited until after the honeymoon, but that’s just me. See a video of it after the jump.

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Palm Pre owners will be pleased to know that there is a new homebrew software known as the Precorder that will enable some 480 x 320 pixel video recording at 30fps. Unfortunately, it is an alpha, so there are some bugs, such as not being able to preview what you are recording. The videos can be played back on the Pre’s video player in formats of MPEG-4, H.263, and H264/AVC.

You should be able to preorder the Precorder at the Wiki page.

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Oh, man, like the Rebel Alliance and the Empire from Star Wars is this new “ad war” between Verizon and AT&T. It started when Verizon with their Blockade Runner battleship dared to undermine the AT&T Death Star (think of their logo) by finding a weakness. Yes, AT&T’s 3G network has been called spotty, with wide open gaps in the United States.

The Empire struck back when they tempted Luke (that’s Wilson, not Skywalker) to do this pro AT&T ad. Luke mentions all the pros of AT&T versus Verizon, and surprise, AT&T excelled in 4 out of 5 categories. The last category was the network that begins with V.

You can view the two videos after the jump, and I’ll be certain to post the next battle/commercial when it appears on YouTube.

By the way, what is the point of the X not sticking to the “Name that starts with the letter V”. Are you trying to say that Verizon is not good at starting with the letter V? Last time I checked, it still does.

The Motorola Moto i290 is one phone that is pretty much a cell phone. I suppose that I could say more about it, and believe me, I would if it anything unique about it.

Truth be told it really doesn’t. Seriously. It’s not that I hated this phone, because why should I bring down a phone that works well? However, the Moto is in a market that is over-saturated, and there are way too many phones from other companies that can do everything the Moto can do, and more.

Please don’t take this as a bad review from me. It’s just that you need to be told what you’re getting into. This might be the phone you’re looking for if you want something simple, and you can read my full review here.

There has been a recent rumor going around that Google is working on its own phone. It will sell directly through retailer, and should be out by early 2010. It probably won’t be built in-house, and it is rumored that it is HTC.

Supposedly, this new Google phone is not to be conused with the Dragon/Passion that the senior Google guys are testing out now.

Considering all the hype that iPhone and all Droid-related mobiles are getting, we are often forgetting the simplest phone can still be pretty decent. I definitely feel that way about the Motorola i9, also known as the Stature.

This is your typical clamshell phone, but what makes it unique is it is just as interesting closed as it is open. Once closed, it can become a PMP that can play tunes and video thanks to its Modeshift Morphing feature.

In short, it is a nice phone from Sprint or Boost Mobile, and you can read my full review here.