I now have some time to geek out. I suspect it will involve something with Apple products, whether it be the iPad or the Macbook. The wife has her Macbook with her, also. Maybe I'll take a look at hers to see how she's doing on disk space. I may delve in some scripting on mine. Or, play with web serving.
Regarding the iPad, I forgot to bring the charger, but I do have my standard iPhone synching cable with me, so I may have to slow-charge the iPad (when I'm sleeping or something, but that means I'd have to put the iPad to sleep). I'm charging it now as I type, and it charged 2% in 10 minutes, so that's actually not bad, especially since it was at 92% to begin with.
My iPhone is about to be replaced. I'm not even sure I'm going to stay with AT&T, as I'm tired of dropped calls. I also work for Verizon and will get a pretty substantial discount (15%) if I switch. The only Verizon phones that catch my interest are the Droid X2 and the HTC Thunderbolt, which are both LTE/4G phones. The AT&T phones that interest me are the Samsung Infuse and the Motorola Atrix (the Atrix has a dual core CPU, as does the Droid X2), and both of those are considered 4G phones, even though AT&T doesn't yet have a "true" 4g network...they have that HSPA+ crap that isn't quite on par with 4G but insist that it is equivalent to 4g
My wife has the Samsung Infuse and it is a great phone, IMO. The screen is 4.5"...huge! And the clarity of the screen is typical Samsung. It has front- and rear-facing cameras, also, which is another one of my requirements. The camera at the back of the phone is 8MP, and the front camera is 1.3MP, I believe. It is an Android phone. My wife doesn't like it, but she's coming from an iPhone 3GS (which I have right now), which she loved. The Infuse isn't as intuitive as her old phone. I told her if she didn't like the phone, she should return it before the 30-day satisfaction guarantee expired. In the end, she kept it, as she liked the clarity of the screen and the cameras. I'd have taken it off her hands if I wasn't still tied to my phone number...we could've swapped (and no, you can't swap the SIM cards from one to the other, between the iPhone and Infuse). But, she complains of dropped calls and bad reception at work, while Verizon phones tend to get good reception inside buildings. I've friends who say they can make/take calls when in the subways...can't really beat that.
Comparing both the Infuse and the Thunderbolt, they appear to be very similar in hardware. What I like about the Thunderbolt is that you get a 32gb micro-SD card with it, out of the box! The cameras are the same. The screen on the Infuse is larger, though. The Thunderbolt is true 4g. The Infuse has super screen clarity. The Samsung captures video at 1080P, while the HTC does it at 720P. This is going to be a hard decision. Also, I'm still under contract, although I'm seven months out. I'd have to pay something like $80 as an early termination fee (which isn't bad). A comparison of the two phones is
here.
Why am I not getting an iPhone 4? I see no need to continue to be tied to any iPhone, as intuitive as they are. My main complaint about my current iPhone is the fact that I can't customize it the way I want. I sometimes wish I could have some of the Android apps, as they tend to let you do some pretty awesome things. I want more screen area, also. I want the option of having my data stored on external media such as an SD card (no, Dropbox doesn't cut it). I want real 4g (and 3g will no longer cut it).
I've yet to decide if I'll migrate to Verizon. I've yet to decide what phone I want, but I want the Thunderbolt pretty bad. I've seen it on display and it is a nice piece of work. About the only thing I haven't done is actually used one on the LTE network. It is pretty much either the Samsung or the Thunderbolt, right now, but I haven't even looked at Sprint's phones. I'm going to have to do that, also. I refuse to look at T-mobile, since they are pending a merger with AT&T, with AT&T buying them out. AT&T will get rid of a lot of things that make T-mobile good. I do not want to buy a T-mobile phone and find that I'll have to get another phone in a year...that would piss me off. I hope that merger doesn't go through, either, as that would mean there are only three major players (Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint).
I do want to check out Sprint's phones, though. It will have to be a top-of-the-line Sprint phone, though. HTC's EVO 4G would be the Sprint phone I'd probably look at first.
