Saturday, July 16, 2011

One Less Reason To Have Me.com

So, I found out that the Thunderbolt won't synch with Me.com (what used to be .Mac and MobileMe).  While it's not a surprise, it is rather irritating.  I used to rely on it to synch with my phone, as well as my wife's phone (and all the Mac systems in the house, of which there are four).  Well, I still have my iPad also.

What am I using now, on the Thunderbolt?  Google Calendar, which appears to be simpler (fancy that...something that's simpler and more intuitive than an Apple-grown app).

I'll still use my Me.com account for other things, such as photo sharing and archiving, extra e-mail accounts, and tracking my iPad (if I lose it) and daughter's iPod Touch.  As I said, I still have Mac systems in the house.

Also, this phone is a power hog!  I have a car adapter for charging and use my work's Blackberry charger to charge my Thunderbolt at work (I also have a micro-USB cable that I can use and plug into my laptop when I need to charge both the BB and the Tbolt).  Still, I find it consuming lots of energy, and I'm barely on a 4G network throughout the day (I touch it maybe once or twice for 10 minutes at a time).

I'm still drooling over the HD videos it records, too.  I recorded some fireworks that we set off tonight and the video turned out very well (once I found out how to adjust focus).

AT&T called me last night wanting me to participate in a survey once they found out that I cancelled my service with them.  They called me on my Tbolt and asked if I was on a cell or landline (WTF?).  When I told them I was on my phone, they told me they'd call me at my home phone, which was rather odd.  When I later told my wife, she said, "they were afraid the call would be dropped".  I almost snorted my lunch out of my nose when she said that!

And on that note, no, I still haven't had a dropped call and it's been almost a week since I've had the new phone.  If I were using my iPhone, I'd have had at least 4-5 dropped calls already.

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