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Who is Vocal Kid mixed & hosted by DJ E$ (me) drop this Sunday, April 4th.  If you are a fan of King Mez (featured on WhoIsVK), then you’ll definately dig this tape.  Personally, I think its my best work as a DJ up to this point in my life.  Check out VocalKid.com for more as the time gets closer.

Shout outs to Likuid Nation for the dope PiNC shirt.

I have been using a Motorola Q9h for the past week and some change. My previous phone was a Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 whose LCD screen met an untimely meeting with a desk corner (cracked screen).

Over the past ten days, I have been settling in with this Motorola Q9h, which so far, for me is a better productivity device (phone calls, email, Twitter (productive?), Facebook, texts, light browsing, Google Maps, etc. than the X1 ever was. It feels better made (soft touch plastic on the back is a plus) and gets great reception at my house. I get between 2-4 bars (4 being the max) of 3G coverage at my house whereas the X1, I only got 1-2 (out of 5) bars of 3G coverage and plenty of dropped calls. Now mind you, the X1 had an aluminum case.

I also can appreciate the ability to be able to use the keyboard (which is fantastic) with one hand and crank out text messages, emails, tweets, etc. without the delay and slowdowns I was getting on the X1. Web browsing was definitely better on the X1 though as was is Skype VOIP calls and multimedia. Furthermore, my Q9h only has 96MB of RAM (X1 had 200+MB) so Windows Mobile closes applications automatically when memory gets low. I have gotten around this limitation, by only running the required apps in the background (Twikini & Palringo). Finally, the speakerphone on the Q9h is WAAAAAAYYYYY louder than whats on the X1. All-in-all, for me it seems the 2+ year old Q9h is better, for me, than the X1.

I just needed something to hold me over until my AT&T contract runs out in the summer, then I’m on to an Android, WP7S, iPhone 4 iPhone HD, or a Blackberry.

Speeed Reader v1.14  & v0.94 are now available for download.  The only change thats been made is implementing Google Reader’s new authentication technique.  The old technique is being deprecated and will render older versions of Speeed Reader useless in the first half of April 2010, so be sure to upgrade your application.

I have submitted v1.14 to the Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store under Speeed Reader v1.2 because I can only increment version numbers by 0.1 and not 0.01.  With that said, the actual Speeed Reader v1.2 is being reversioned to Speeed Reader v1.3.  Sorry for the confusion.

If you already purchased Speeed Reader v1.XX, then the update is free whether you purchased the application directly, via Handango (Pocket Gear), or Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

If you are interested in purchasing Speeed Reader v1.14, please visit for more purchasing options.  Thanks!

Download Speeed Reader v0.94 (free)

Download Speeed Reader v1.14 (ten day trial, then $1.99)

There has been a change in the Speeed Reader release schedule.  Instead of going straight to version 1.2, I will be rolling out v1.14 (& v0.94) instead.  This next release will alter the authentication methods.  Google has recently announced a change in the way they permit developers to authenticate users for Google services.  They will be deprecating the existing method in early April which will break Speeed Reader.  Seeing that this is high priority, I will be releasing v1.14 (& v0.94) this week to all marketplaces (Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Handango, and this site).

Finally, v1.2 will be delayed a couple weeks as well.  There is a new update for the user interface controls package due out in a week (or so) that I will need to integrate into Speeed Reader.  Hopefully, it doesn’t take too long to integrate.

The days I have left to torture myself use my X1 are rapidly coming to a close thanks to a drop (and subsequent crack on my touchscreen).  The touchscreen still works, just looks like an unshattered car window.

Over the course of my time with the X1 I have used every version of Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5 with and without HTC Sense/TouchFlo.  I even used Android on it for a little while.  Shouts go out to XDA-Developers.  They made the X1 experience a less painful one.  With that said, here is what I thought over the year and a half I used it.

Pros

• 800×480 touch screen was nice and expansive
• full QWERTY keyboard
• nice aluminum finish
• Built by HTC, so through XDA-Developers, it was infinitely moddable
• 3G+GPS+Wifi+Bluetooth
• Windows Mobile so plenty of third party software exists

Cons

• Build quality sucked
• Build quality sucked
• Build quality sucked: the plastic portions cracked all over the place, wobbly slider, camera buttons, volume buttons lost their tactile feedback, QWERTY keyboard ‘space bar’ cracked and often encountered instances where I pressed keys but nothing was type or typed twice.
• Slow/Buggy: For reasons I still can’t explain, the phone would just freeze and not respond to any sort of touch input, camera was slow to take pictures, software was slow to read memory card (noticeable when playing media).
• Terrible software support
• XPERIA Panels: good concept, bad execution, I never used them for the last 6 months
• Debuted for $800: I paid much much much less for mine however ($1XX).

Overall, it was a decent phone for the time I had it.  I hate that it is literally crumbling in my hands though.  I am moving on to a Motorola Q9h phone until this summer/fall when a multitude of phones drop (Windows Phone 7 Series, Android, iPhone 4?) and my AT&T contract expires.

Also I came to learn that I hate the slideout landscape keyboard form factor.  I prefer a protrait landscape or just a full touch screen device.

I hear the parts market is hot, so this will be on EBay soon….

New Muneee Mondays podcast available.  DOWNLOAD Tracklist:

1. Drake “Over”
2. T.I. “I’m Back”
3. Vocal Kid “I’m Good”
4. Actual Proof “Genius”
5. GQ “Lights, Camera, Action”
6. David Banner ft. Big Remo “Stranger”
7. Young Chris ft. J. Cole “Still The Hottest”
8. Sheek Louch ft. Red Cafe “Ain’t No Half Steppin’ 2010″
9. ArtOfficial ft. K. Sparks “The Payback” <——my favorite track this podcast, google these guys, dope
10. Ayah “He Don’t Want It”
11. Musiq Soulchild “Forthenight”
12. Common “I Want You”
13. Goodie Mobb ft. Outkast “Sky High”
14. Will Smith Pickup Lines

Shout’s to DJ Statik on the drops.  When will the next episode drop? Monday? lol, we’ll see.

http://emuneee.com/DJ/music/Muneee_Mondays_Vol_2_Ep_2.mp3

This one has been a long time coming.  Raleigh MC Drique London drops Nike SB The Mixtape mixed by yours truly.  Check it out.

(Click the image to download)

http://twitter.com/driquelondon

http://driquelondon.blogspot.com/

Got a couple new tracks from some North Carolina MCs.  Check em out.

Rapsody “A Man’s World”

http://2dopeboyz.okayplayer.com/2010/03/09/rapsody-a-mans-world-prod-amp/

Thee Tom Hardy “I’m Grinning”

http://2dopeboyz.okayplayer.com/2010/03/10/thee-tom-hardy-im-grinnin-prod-9th-wonder/

I am proud to announce I am partnering with Cisco to bring you a Speeed Reader settop box…..joking.

Pretty cool article in the New York Times on how a Google engineer created Google Reader Play for use on big screen tvs.  Check it out.

I’ll have this dilemma.  My current device (Xperia X1) is literally falling apart in my hands.  This past week, half of my keyboard went dead for some time.  Luckily it came back to life.  I’m going to try and nurse it until the summer time, then I have to make a decision…Android vs. Windows Phone 7 Series devices.

Just a quick blurb.  I have use Google for pretty much everything…

• email
• documents
• calendar
• voice
• chat
• rss feed aggregation aka Google Reader
• Youtube
• maps
• search
• news

So it seems as though an Android device, which I can get now if they would release a AT&T 3G compatible Nexus One!  Or I can wait for the unique experience of the WPS7 device.  We’ll see.

On another note, as soon as I can get my hands on some WP7S developer tools, some new applications will be developed and ready for launch in the fall.