Paul Jacobson

Category: Devices

  • Head in the iCloud

    In all my excitement to get with the iCloud experience I have shifted my contacts into iCloud and have it all syncing between my MacBook Air and my iPhone. Previously I synced my MacBook and my iPhone with Google Contacts through the Exchange integration and it worked most of the time (I often found contacts…

  • A little perspective on the iPhone 4s

    Apple’s iPhone 4s announcement was accompanied by some particularly fickle commentary on Twitter. The criticism basically came down to a bunch of armchair critics complaining because the iPhone that was announced was not a full version number higher than the pretty awesome iPhone 4 but was a measly iPhone 4s. I am sure it was…

  • The new, sexy Nokia N9

    Nokia’s N9 is a sexy device. The hardware design is sleek and dominated by a 3.9″ screen and its 8 megapixel camera (Carl Zeiss lens, of course) is sure to please. The rest of the N9’s specifications are pretty impressive (a 64GB internal storage option – Apple needs to get with it already) and I…

  • My iPad 180

    Its been almost a year since I wrote about why an iPad probably isn’t right for me and I am probably going to do a complete 180. I’ve been thinking quite a bit about whether an iPad would fit into my workflows and my business generally or whether I am caught in the Apple reality…

  • My iPod Classic/MacBook Pro analogy

    I made a pretty broad statement on Twitter a little earlier this evening as follows: “The MacBook/Pro is to the MacBook Air as the iPod Classic is to the iPod Touch”. The analogy came under criticism almost immediately and understandably if it was understood to say that the MacBook/Pro line is technically inferior to the…

  • Should kids have keyboard and mouse skills?

    My wife and I have been discussing buying a computer for our son who is 3.5 years old or so. At the moment he plays with an iPod Touch he loves using (and uses pretty well considering he doesn’t really understand some of the apps he plays with) and an educational computer from Toys R…

  • iPhones work too well

    The iPhone works too well. It’s reliable, has a terrific app ecosystem and does most of what I need it to do. I find myself wondering what happened to all the excitement? At least with my HTC Desire I had low memory, delayed updates and the ongoing challenge of adapting new apps to my productivity…

  • iPad prices cut and boy was I wrong about Core

    David Greenway pointed me to an article on TechCentral titled “Core Group slashes iPad prices” a little earlier today. This article comes soon after I had a discussion with a couple people on Twitter about the iPad 2 and Core’s possible approach to its iPad 1 sales so soon after it started selling them in…