This week has been a week for gadgets! Almost surreal, really.
First up: I got myself a Kindle 3!! Yes, latest generation, wifi and free 3G! Wow do I love this little gadget! It arrived last week in its innovative Amazon Frustration Free Packaging, packed neatly inside the box made from recycled materials. Grinning like a loon, I pulled the slider to turn it on and watched as the trademark Kindle Tree of Life greeted me on startup. The text on the screen almost looked fake, but the E-Ink display is awesome! I would recommend this device to any reader!
It’s pretty easy to navigate, basically if you know how to use a computer, you’ll know how to use a Kindle. I wasnt too impressed with viewing FB via the Kindle, but lets be honest, thats not what its there to do. I quickly loaded a txt file I had found years ago of (the softcover book I was currently reading) The White Dragon, by Anne McCaffrey. It viewed really nicely on the device and even Text-to-Speech worked really well (ctrl+sym shortcut)!
Battery life is around a month without wireless on, so I do turn it off when its not needed. I did download a sample of a book, which gives you the first chapter for free. I’m actually reluctant to read it now that I downloaded it incase its halfway decent and then I will have to buy it! Lol!
But I do have a few books I’ve collected in pdf format over the years, so now every day at work in my tea breaks and lunch break, I sit with my Kindle and read. It’s bliss and I cant wait until I go away on holiday and am able to sit in the sun and read…after all, that is a benefit of a Kindle 
The Kindle 3!
This innovation truly is frustration free!
My first look at my new Kindle
A close up shot
Second up, my boss bought a R.A.T 7 gaming mouse a while back from Taiwan, and he used it for a bit and wasnt too fond of it (he likes his hyperscroll), so he gave it to my fiancé, who also tried it but didnt really like it (he prefers his Razer DeathAdder) so now its been handed to me and I love it! I do like my Razer Lachesis, but the R.A.T is a very comfortable mouse for people with smaller hands (if you have giant hands, give this one a miss, even with the modding options available)
And thirdly, the fiancé and I went to MTN the other day and upgraded our contracts, so now we’re both using the HTC Desire Z…I felt with the amount I type in FB and on mxit, I needed something with an actual keyboard, so this was pretty much the only choice (the only other viable choice was the Nokia E7, though it wasnt Android). And hell yea its been great!
Warning: However! I wouldnt recommend this phone (or possible anything similar) to anyone without a wireless internet connection at home/work which they can connect to. This little device guzzles bandwidth (so much so I’ve turned my Mobile Access off so it wont download anything and use up all my money!
A random pic (not my own) of an HTC Desire Z
The battery has been taxed a little, already so early on in its life haha, as I’ve been downloading apps from the Android Market and live wallpapers like its going out of fashion. I’ve fallen in love with Angry Birds, watsapp (GREAT chat program!), and even Bakery Story (silly baking game similar to Cafe World or Restuarant City in FB), and many, many live wallpapers (possibly my favourite feature of an Android phone haha!).
Just today I was wondering the name of a song which that I had in my head, and I knew it was a song played in my cousin’s wedding video on his FB page, so I tested out an app called SoundHound and within seconds it had identified the song (I’m Yours, by Jason Mraz). The fiancé and I even tested it against a not-so-well-known artist Kate Voegele (from One Tree Hill) and after a few seconds it identified her, no problem! So a big thumbs up to SoundHound!
Oh, my sister also upgraded to the same phone, on the same day, so we’re all in New Gadget Heaven haha!
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