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...
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...
I Fell in Love with ...
posted by Rick
I bought an Android phone just to check it out (’cause that’s what I’m supposed to do; my friends count on me for that.) I bought it in spite of that fact that I hate T-Mobile, in spite of the fact that the Android didn’t support Microsoft Exchange or view PDFs or let...
Who Needs a Phone Co...
posted by Rick
What’s your phone number? Why should that question mean anything at all? Phone numbers are a holdover from an era of mechanical rotary switches. Each phone connected to your central office (all 9999 of you) was assigned a number. When that got full, we put in a new central office...
Rick Scherle is a marketing consultant, teacher, artist, hacker, and Yoga practitioner who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.