Articles by Zealot
By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).
A few days ago I reported that beta builds of the new Mac OS X 10.6.2 could no longer be installed on netbooks running Atom processors, effectively spiking the popular Hackintosh builds. Well, reports …
A very reliable tipster informed me today that a B&N store employee was asked some questions about the Nook this weekend. Apparently she claimed that the built in WiFi on the Ebook Reader will …
The last several weeks have been filled with a lot of breathless statements, marketing events and exciting announcements concerning Ebook Readers, clearly indicating that these devices could well be the hot new consumer product….eventually.
For …
Remember that experiment which gave Princeton students Kindle DX Ebook Readers in place of printed text books, as reported on by myself and CTitantic? As you may recall, neither students nor professors were too …
I have been staring at people on the bus a lot lately.
Well, staring more than usual, anyway. You see, I would say at least half of the people I share busses with have earphones …
Poor old Barney Fife. Sometimes he just gets himself so riled up over folks teasin’ him and laughing behind his back that he just goes off half-cocked, and more often then not does just …
I suppose we should have seen this coming. A major retailer leaks innovative images of an upcoming Ebook Reader, an unknown outsider announces a very similar innovation in a similar project right before the major …
We all expected there to be a rush of Android phones over the next few months, but I don’t think anyone was prepared for the merry go round of highly impressive devices that are …
It appears that Apple is not content just breaking the ability of the Palm Pre to sync with iTunes. They are apparently expanding their vandalism habit to confront another “misuse” of their software which …
So, with all the hubbub about the Droid being released in the US, were you wondering how long it would take the phone to be released in Europe?
Well, how about about in another week …
We are running on Bluetooth fumes on this one, but it appears that Korean PMP makers Cowon will be putting out a MID (Mobile Internet Device) called the W2. No information at all yet …
It was only a matter of time. We all knew it had been ailing for sometime and was unable to compete with sexy new rivals, it was barely hanging on. Finally, they just had …
Remember a few months ago, when every company that produced consumer devices, from Black and Decker to Bose was suddenly producing a netbook? Well, it seems that Ebook Readers are the new Netbooks, as …
Sony Ericsson has leaked a new video of a prototype Android UI they call “Rachael” which has “This is just a concept for internal use only, sit the hell down” warnings all over it. Once …
Well, apparently Verizon heard my plaintive cries, and just finished an event at New York’s Uber-classy W hotel to announce the Droid officially. It appears that someone messed up with the countdown…or they just …






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