Dilemma Many Will Face in Some Months

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.

Most Requested Features

Some of the most requested features for Speeed Reader

  • Facebook integration
  • Picture/Image caching
  • Delicious Integration
  • Multi-line Titles
  • Audio Podcast Playback (in app or through third party media player)
  • Browsing to next or previous article while viewing another article via gesture, physical button, or soft button

Just a note, some of these features will pop up in the next release (podcast playback, browsing articles, multi-line titles (maybe!).  While others are being thought of.

I have to balance user requests with application stability and take into account that all devices may not have the hardware (Windows Mobile hardware fragmentation) to run all the requested features.

Thanks for the feedback thus far.  Speeed Reader development is well under way.  I hope to get out some beta builds to testers within a week.

Please Vote for Deshazo

Greetings Family and Friends,

I hope you all are well.  Today I entered a contest for clothing company
United Colors of Benetton.  They hare holding an international contest
to find 100 models to be in their look book for their Fall/Winter 2010
campaign.  The top 100 contestants with the most votes will be selected
and flown to New York to shoot for the book.

I have created a profile and would LOVE if you all voted for me.  I have
enclosed the link and directions on how to VOTE FOR DESHAZO!!!  Please
forward to anyone you know that may want to help.  You have to create an
account in order to vote. You get 20 votes per day and there are 18 days
left.

http://casting.benetton.com/

Click on SIGN UP!
(Sign up as a voter only)

Go into your personal email account to validate using the link Benetton
sends you.

Click on the magnifying glass at the top

Search for my last name DESHAZO

Click on VOTE!

Thank you so much for all your support and please let me know if you
have any questions.

Christina

Speeed Reader Available in Canadian/British Marketplace

Speeed Reader has been published to the Windows Marketplace for Mobile stores in Canada and Great Britain.  More markets that will be added include Singapore, Australia, etc.  Thanks!

New Windows Marketplace for Mobile App

Saw this video over at Pocketnow.  I had trouble getting the update on my phone.  Sometimes when starting the marketplace app, it would check for the latest version of the marketplace app.  It was not doing this automatically yet, but if you uninstall the marketplace app then download it again (by clicking on the Marketplace icon that remains in the start menu) the updated application will be installed.  Here is a video on how to change regions with the new app.

This Week, Cuss Free I: J. Cole Freestyle & New Joe Scudda

I’m going to start this new thing where I clean up some tracks (no FCC bad words) and post them for any DJs that play music over the radio.  This week:

  • J. Cole “Knock on Wood”  (“Go” freestyle) | download
  • Joe Scudda “Bubblegum Tuna” | download

I got the originals from 2DopeBoyz.

Microsoft at MWC 2010

You can stream Microsoft’s MWC 2010 Keynote today.  Just visit http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsphone/liveEvent.aspx

Donnie Vash – “Nineteen” EP

Donnie Vash (part of The Lazaretto Crew) dropped a new EP sponsored by Hustlemill this week.  Dope.  Check it out.  (Hit the link to download)

He’ll on this weeks Beneath the Beat on WKNC 88.1FM in Raleigh, NC.  I’ll be up there putting the greatest mixshow ever on.  Definately tune into that.  Shouts go to DJ Statik, Zay, Dub, and DJ Wise.

Story of the Google Nexus One Part 3

Testing…

Speeed Reader Review

Another Speeed Reader just rolled in.  Thanks David!

http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-software/301749/a-great-google-reader-client-for-wm/