the nerdist

REVIEW: Canon EOS 50D

This was a super-fun field review of the Canon EOS 50D. It takes amazing pictures, but is a tad more complicated and expensive than the Nikon D-90. It's a shame that I don't really understand or care about football. That's right, I don't care about football and I am not ashamed! Though, I hope I don't get stripped of my citizenship. Anyway, I've always abhorred the meathead stereotype that "dudes just think about beer and football." We straight guys who are indifferent to watching this sport must unite! Unite and...I don't know...do something else...I guess.

REVIEW: Blackberry Storm

I wanted so much to like this phone...

Review: ANDROID + HTC = G1

I really did love this phone for the most part. I prefer the iPhone because I'm deep in the Apple trenches and like the UI, but I think Google has the opportunity to be a dominant smartphone OS in the years to come once we hopefully see the proliferation of devices that will run on it. It's a fine platform right off the bat and will only evolve exponentially thanks to its open source nature.

iPhone 2.1 Is 2.FUN!

Sorry for the long absence of blogging with words...Co-hosting AOTS for the last two weeks was a blast (thank you Alison, thank you Layla) but it left me with little time to blab about stuff online. I'm sure the blogosphere felt a gaping wound but somehow managed to trudge on with its gajillionty other blogs.

OK! I have been trashing the new iPhone since the advent of the new iPhone but after having installed the 2.1 firmware update a couple of days ago I have to give Apple and SteJo an uncomfortably tight hug followed by some light boobplay. So far, it really seems to be doing what they promised: battery life has improved DRAMATICALLY, apps don't seem to be crashing and 3G is as bright as productive as if it just came out of rehab. And sync backups, you ask? UNDER TWO FLIPPITY MINUTES. It's true, I'm a dick sometimes but I like to think of myself as a fair dick, so all the bashing I've been dishing out onto my phone the last two months I now replace with Frenching and chocolate.

How are your experiences with 2.1? Do tell.

The Sony E-Reader 505

REVIEW: Samsung Series 8 46" LCD

REVIEW: LG Dare

I actually had received many emails (well, two) about when I was going to review the LG Dare on G4 and I am proud to say to those two young gentlemen who didn't understand the difference between "you're" and "your," YOUR day is here because YOU'RE about to witness the review! I know, I know, we compare every phone to the iPhone because comparing every phone to a ferret would just be weird.

3G iPhone Gets a Newer, Lower Rating on "Attack of the Show"

As promised, here is the AOTS re-review of the 3G iPhone. I want to make it clear that my goal is not to mindlessly crap on Apple--every computing device I have is a Jobs job. I think the 3G iPhone is a forward-thinking device that has the potential for being amazing but instead is only ok-zing. If the battery life and 3G coverage were useful, it'd be a score. Two things are an enormous bummer here:

1) AT&T charges more for their 3G plan but has embarrassing 3G coverage. I know there are some lawsuits a-brewing for crappy service and I sincerely hope it makes them sit up and actually put all of the cash they're making back into their coverage. Of course, this probably won't happen.

2) Regarding Apple and tech in general: Technology seems to be the only industry in which it is totally cool to release products before they're finished. Successive patches and updates are now the norm. I realize that not every bug can be predicted until a device starts undergoing usage on a macro scale, but lately it seems ridiculous. It'd be like buying a microwave with just a "cook" switch and having to wait several months for the company to come over and install the door, the timer and the carousel. I think Apple released a bunch of stuff this year that they knew wasn't ready and now their loyal consumers are getting hosed. My hope is that the countless complaint threads finally reach SteJo himself and they use 2008 as example of what not to do again. Unfortunately, they continue to amass Byzantine-grade riches thanks to a product line that you want to have hard sex with whenever you look at it, so I'm guessing most of those consumer tears will go unwiped. 

In the anthropomorphized PC/Mac campaign, I feel like at some point Justin Long's hipster character should properly represent the stability of some of Apple's products by having the standard arty hipster anxiety attack and curl up into a ball on the floor while cutting himself.

REVIEW: Olympus E-520 DSLR

REVIEW: Casio EX-Z150 Digital Camera

If you're a professional photographer then you're far too snooty for this camera! It's only .79 inches thick, comes in a variety of Slurpee colors, has a 3" LCD (nIIIIIIIce!) and has a 28mm lens. 2 million dollars you say? TRY $200!!! As I mention in the review, if you take a picture of your junk, it will capture your wiener's soul. Yes, wieners have a separate soul that goes to its own separate wiener heaven because when people die, they don't need them. Angels don't have sex per se, but they do finger their halos which produces the equivalent of a four megaton orgasm here on Earth. This activity is not photographable, so forget I mentioned it and instead watch this review: