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The iReflector, originally uploaded by ms.flux.

While I love my iPad, it is pretty much USELESS in the sun. This is pretty much the only way I could see anything (and as you can maybe tell from the lighting, it was cloudy).

I’m conducting an experiment this week that hopes to answer two questions:
1. Will I die without my iPhone? (I think I might.)
2. Why do people love their stupid Blackberries so much?

I bought a Blackberry and I’m going to spend 7 days trying to find out. Go read it over at http://theblackberryweek.tumblr.com

I saw a 728×90 leaderboard banner ad earlier today while I was designing a 728×90 leaderboard banner ad, it said Talk.Text.Time. Ad#3 728×90 in Helvetica Neue Bold, with a see-through mobile phone on it. Needless to say, I clicked on it and it brought me to a site for the Sony Xperia Pureness that reads:

In an increasingly complex world, an innovative phone is honed down to the essentials. Xperia™ Pureness is free from excessive features, leaving an exceptionally simplified mobile experience. Talk. Text. Time.

What with the iPhone and the iPad and such (and my problems with my 3gs right now, you will be hearing about my thoughts about the iPad and the iPhone soon), I was already thinking it might be nice to just have a regular ol’ phone that did the basics.

This might be it. Apparently only sold at a few boutiques, Colette in Paris being one–that’ll give you an idea of what sort of device we’re talking about here.  Did I mention it also had a Vertu-like concierge service?

$983.63USD at colette.fr

As you may or may not know, I love my iPhone (3gs), it’s my 5th iPhone and after having used BlackBerrys, WindowsMobile, Palm, and Android, I still think the iPhone OS is the best, and it doesn’t hurt that the hardware is super seXXXy. Thing is, to keep it looking sweet, you need a case. I’ve gone through many many cases, my favorite being the miniot iwood, even though it’s the most expensive and most fragile case out of all of them (80 euros, about $120USD), not only because it is so freakishly beautiful, but also because it doesn’t have a big fat lip keeping you from using the full face of the touchscreen, which is the biggest problem with the incase slider cases, which are otherwise beautiful, well-made, and affordable but are unusable because of the gross lip.

Enter Incase’s new perforated case, looks super light and without a big fat poky lip. All over it.

Perforated Snap Case for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G : Incase Product.

I am kind of a big fan of MacHeist.com who puts together (yearly) a pretty well-curated bundle of awesome Mac apps (sorry windozers) from smaller developers for super-cheap. Right now, they have a few sweet programs for FREE over at their site, including WriteRoom (a really cool word processor that hides everything else on your screen, freeing you from distraction), ShoveBox (a sweet note/asset saving application that acts like a scrapbook/to-do list), as well as Twitteriffic and a couple of other cool apps. The more people sign up, the more free stuff gets unlocked, so do it.

MacHeist nanoBundle.