Grass Crown

A blog by Sally. The blog gets its name from a rare military decoration dating back to Roman times called the Grass Crown, which could only be awarded by soldiers to their general.

Entries for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

UFC 60: Blackberry vs. Real Life Entertainment

Valleywag reported in April that Paris Hilton switched to the Blackberry. Here she is at UFC 60 scrolling through stuff on it while sitting next to David Spade. This just goes to show that the Blackberry is so excellent and useful that it’s getting play from a celebutante who could be chatting with a comedian [...]

Higher Price and More Waiting for the NETGEAR WiFi Phone for Skype

I was checking out Wired’s June Fetish column and got excited about this entry:

This price and availability matches what Geekzone reported on May 3rd. However, Skype’s website tells a different story:

Apparently, the price has gone up by $49.99 and it’ll take an extra month to get to you. Popgadget has a post about the phone [...]

iPod Wallets

The latest copy of the J&R Computer World catalog is advertising two cool wallets for the iPod nano, the Marware CEO Card Wallet and the Tunewear PRIE TUNEWALLET. Unfortunately, it looks like the wallets that will fit my old 15 gig iPod are more purse than wallet. It looks like I’ll need to downsize my [...]

Right Motivations Behind RIM’s Multimedia BlackBerry?

In covering an announcement about Sona Mobile’s upcoming BlackBerry Media Player, PDAStreet dished out some info about a rumor that RIM is working on a 3G BlackBerry device that is being built specifically to support multimedia capabilities, possibly including music playback.
As a new owner of the BlackBerry 8700c, I’m not going to worry about [...]