I’m not sure why, but I went looking for a smartphone the other day (I thought these were the combination between a PDA and cellphone). I went to Best Buy to see if they had a good guide, and instead I see on the front splash page a new invention: digital camcorders that burn DVD’s! There are models by Sony and Panasonic, among others. Who knew? The Sony one’s use DVD minus R’s and RW’s. DVD RAM is the standard favorite by The Great Satan, so I must oppose it. What I didn’t see is FireWire ports on any of them. Does this mean they won’t work with iMovie?
As I was looking for smartphones, I used Apple’s list as a starting point. What I wanted to find was BlueTooth enabled, multimedia phone that takes SD Memory. No guide listed items according to this criteria, and it was like pulling teeth to find on the company websites which phone took SD cards and which multimedia phone could play 3GPP movies. I was inspired to look for this when I saw a young woman sitting in lecture with me at University watching The Matrix on her little, instant-messaging device (like the kind rappers love). After an hour, she pulled out one SD card and put in another, and proceeded to watch the second half of the movie! We already have a few SD cards for our camera, so I thought I would love to do that. I used to be able to find things at dealtime.com (now shopping.com) by the categories I liked, but the cellphones, at least, are grouped by who you can get a deal through, so it’s like clicking on ads, not info. Oh well!
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