Nexus One and the Tijuana Brass
January 8th 2010 09:40
The Christmas holidays (which, in New Zealand, extend from around the 23rd/24th December to almost the end of January, for some people) have rather interfered with my normal blogging on this site. I see that my last post was a fortnight ago, and the one before that almost as long.
Sorry, but the Christmas period is busy in our house. And a chap's got to take a break some time, surely?
Okay. So, here we go with a topic that's no doubt being written about by every blogger with a bit of technical interest: Google's new phone, the Nexus One. (Is that some kind of pun on the Next One in the sense of 'next' being definitely the latest and greatest? Dunno.)
We've had an IPhone in the house for about three months now - or rather I should say that my wife has, and occasionally she lets me near it. It's a marvellous wee machine, capable of all manner of things (including keeping an excessive amount of time-wasting or pointless apps on board), and we're constantly finding new ways of using it. (When I say 'we' of course, I mean, in general, my wife. As I said, I'm lucky if I can get my hands on it.)
So when Google announced they were putting out something akin to the IPhone, I said I'd have to get one - just to be a step ahead. Joke, of course. My son has a kind of IPhone that isn't - it isn't a phone, or a camera, but it's pretty much everything else the IPhone is. Which means it can Google stuff and find it pretty fast.
Google's Nexus One can find things superlatively fast. You don't need to get an application that acts as a SatNav - the Nexus basically has a built-in one.
But the general agreement (see the article in the link above) seems to be that it's not quite there yet. Lots of good features, but some things that aren't quite up to par. So far, the points seem to be in the IPhone's favour, which is surprising. Still Google is known for getting something off the ground before it's quite ready and letting thousands of enthusiasts around the world complete the process and bring it to a state of excellence. I suspect that's what will happen here.
So what has this to do with the phrase, 'spine surgery Mexico?' Nothing, as far as I'm aware, but I'm sure that if the Nexus One can find the closest toy shops in San Francisco for Bobbie Johnson in a few seconds (again, see the link above), it can find the best place in Mexico to get your spine surgery done. One option would no doubt be the Hospital Angeles Tijuana, which has an international patient program. If you thought that the only thing to come out of Tijuana was Herb Alpert and his brass, think again. (Actually, it turns out that Herb Alpert was Jewish, his original 'brass' consisting of himself overdubbed several times and slightly out of sync, with a Tijuana 'flavour' to give it authenticity. Even when he did form an actual group, none of them were Hispanic. Such are the exigencies of the musical world.)
Sorry, but the Christmas period is busy in our house. And a chap's got to take a break some time, surely?
Okay. So, here we go with a topic that's no doubt being written about by every blogger with a bit of technical interest: Google's new phone, the Nexus One. (Is that some kind of pun on the Next One in the sense of 'next' being definitely the latest and greatest? Dunno.)
We've had an IPhone in the house for about three months now - or rather I should say that my wife has, and occasionally she lets me near it. It's a marvellous wee machine, capable of all manner of things (including keeping an excessive amount of time-wasting or pointless apps on board), and we're constantly finding new ways of using it. (When I say 'we' of course, I mean, in general, my wife. As I said, I'm lucky if I can get my hands on it.)
So when Google announced they were putting out something akin to the IPhone, I said I'd have to get one - just to be a step ahead. Joke, of course. My son has a kind of IPhone that isn't - it isn't a phone, or a camera, but it's pretty much everything else the IPhone is. Which means it can Google stuff and find it pretty fast.
Google's Nexus One can find things superlatively fast. You don't need to get an application that acts as a SatNav - the Nexus basically has a built-in one.
But the general agreement (see the article in the link above) seems to be that it's not quite there yet. Lots of good features, but some things that aren't quite up to par. So far, the points seem to be in the IPhone's favour, which is surprising. Still Google is known for getting something off the ground before it's quite ready and letting thousands of enthusiasts around the world complete the process and bring it to a state of excellence. I suspect that's what will happen here.
So what has this to do with the phrase, 'spine surgery Mexico?' Nothing, as far as I'm aware, but I'm sure that if the Nexus One can find the closest toy shops in San Francisco for Bobbie Johnson in a few seconds (again, see the link above), it can find the best place in Mexico to get your spine surgery done. One option would no doubt be the Hospital Angeles Tijuana, which has an international patient program. If you thought that the only thing to come out of Tijuana was Herb Alpert and his brass, think again. (Actually, it turns out that Herb Alpert was Jewish, his original 'brass' consisting of himself overdubbed several times and slightly out of sync, with a Tijuana 'flavour' to give it authenticity. Even when he did form an actual group, none of them were Hispanic. Such are the exigencies of the musical world.)
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