The moment you think you’ve lost your wallet, you get that panicky feeling. All of your cash, your ID, and your credit cards are suddenly gone. Your range of options is dramatically limited. You might be stranded somewhere, unable to get home or into the club where your friends are. You...
Samsung Galaxy Tab, ...
posted by Rick
Every now and then a product comes along that makes me want to sit down with the product manager, buy them a beer and ask “So…What was going through your mind when you made these decisions?” The Galaxy Tab is one such product. First of all, it’s an awkward size; just a...
Sprint Rolls out Fla...
posted by Rick
This week, Sprint is hosting its ninth annual developer conference in Santa Clara, CA and the theme is definitely smartphones. Android, Palm webOS and Windows Mobile are all featured heavily as Sprint attempts to catch up to T-Mobile and ATT in the smartphone market. I really only care about...
Portable Speakerphon...
posted by Rick
I have one of those legendary Jawbone BlueTooth headsets. It works great, but I hate having to deal with it: Put it on. Take it off. Forget you have it on and look like a dork. Charge it when you get home. Lose it. What I REALLY wanted was a speakerphone for my car that I never had to think...
Attack of the Mobile...
posted by Rick
That funny looking symbol on my new business card is a QR code. Lately these little beasties have been cropping up on everything from T-shirts to magazine ads. The QR (Quick Response) code is a two-dimensional bar code that can store contact info, URLs, even paragraphs of text. Although they...
Rick Scherle is a marketing consultant, teacher, artist, hacker, and Yoga practitioner who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.