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My Geeky Winter Style

Shot on my HTC One X +For the past month I’ve been using an HTC One X + phone to put through its paces as a camera and media device as well as a phone. Each week there is a little challenge for the bloggers who are participating in order to show off the features of the device. This week’s challenge was to go and show off your geeky winter style. Well, for me I primarily wear T-Shirts and a hoodie, I hardly ever wear a winter coat unless it gets super cold out. I also hardly ever wear gloves or a hat unless I am working outside.

I do wear a hat after I go to the gym or take my son swimming but that is about it. A few years ago Allison knit each of us Jayne Cobb hats. These hats are fun the TV show Firefly and in one episode (The Message) Jayne receives a hat that his mother knit for him. It is ugly as sin but he wears it proudly while the rest of the team subtly mock him about it. It goes right over his head (no pun intended). Firefly fans from all over have watched the show faithfully and those with knitting prowess even deconstructed the hat to make a pattern. Allison found the pattern and made hats for all of us. The first two were too small for Eva so they went on the cats heads, much to their chagrin.

Another thing that Allison knit for me that only comes out during the winter is my Wash sweater. Wash was the pilot of the Serenity from the TV show Firefly. Allison spent over a year hand knitting this Cable Knit sweater for me that is a replica of the one that Wash wore in the show. She is very talented and the sweater only comes out in the winter because it is about 5 pounds heavy and is so warm that I can only wear it when it is freezing out. Continue reading My Geeky Winter Style →

Photo-A-Day

Nokia E75

Nokia E75
Photo-A-Day #1553

For the past three weeks I’ have had a Nokia E75 smartphone. I’m going to fully review what I thought of it tomorrow and add it here. Let’s say that I’m still not up for getting rid of my LG EnV.

The Good – This phone looks amazing. I picked it out of the box and was very impressed with the styling. The slide out qwerty keyboard is something that I’ve been asking the WOM World folks to send me. As a blogger who does a lot of on the road type posts I really wanted something with that kind of keyboard. Unfortunately that was also a point against this phone as well.

There were a ton of features for this phone, apps, games and music. I was impressed with the 3.0 MP camera that was built into the phone. The very cool thing is that the phone actually has two cameras. One for taking pictures and the other for taking self portraits. That is a very innovative feature that I wish more phones had.

The Bad – I unfortunately wasn’t impressed enough with this phone. It has wi-fi and I used that for one frustrated evening. Things loaded very slowly where my iPod Touch loaded them so quickly. While I could add Google to my main menu and a quick shot to my gmail account it wasn’t worth the effort because of the slowness of the load time for the phone.

The keyboard was a full on qwerty keyboard but the keys were so flush that you couldn’t tell which key you were pressing and because it was a slide out format I always felt cramped. I don’t like it when my tech makes me feel cramped.

Overall – The phone is a decent one but not one for me. I’m on the search for a phone that will make me want to replace my LG enV and this one was not it.