Friday, July 6, 2007

Our World is Changing

June 29th marked an important milestone in American life and history if this conversation I heard while waiting for Transformers to begin on the 4th of July is any indication.

A: Rob, are they talking to us? She said turn off all cell phones and pagers. Is she talking to us, Rob?
R: Naw, she can’t be talking to us.
A: I don’t have a cell phone. I have an ipod-laptop-cellular…
R: I have a multimedia device. I have an MD.

My boyfriend and his cousin picked up iphones on their release date, a total of 3 – one for each of them and one to sell (when times get tough, I suppose). I can’t say it’s not an impressive little machine. If you have any doubt: It is exactly as it appears in the commercials, except thinner. And apple provides web tutorials/advertising walking you through its easy-to-use technology. Anywho, the phone really is hot, y’all. As long as you have a mac, you can sync your calendar, contacts, photo library, and probably a bunch of other stuff that I don’t do with my mac, but they do. They, meaning my boyfriend and his family, are apple people. The entire weekend was about the iphone: showing it off, playing with it, talking about it. The picture is crystal clear like a flat screen plasma tv making coolest thing about the “device” the ability to pull up and watch youtube videos quickly and clearly. Aside from Ciara’s “Promise” video and Beyonce’s “Me, Myself, and I” both purchased from itunes, any music video or movie trailer that is on youtube is accessible with totally clarity on the iphone.

This is the the most accurate and succinct article I found pertaining to the multimedia device:

Amazing iPhone "matches most of its hype"
“The phone is so sleek and thin,” reports David Pogue (New York Times) in his review of iPhone, that “it makes Treos and Blackberrys look obese.” And the software transcends. “It’s fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate.” If you need “to answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up.” As for email, it’s “fantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.” And “the Web browser,” he points out, “is the real dazzler.” No “stripped down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip — much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.” In short, Pogue calls
the iPhone, “the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years.” [Jun 26, 2007]


So, when it comes to the iphone, I’m definitely a fan…and as for Transformers, it was outstanding! As someone who had no feelings for the transformers toys or cartoons, this movie wasn’t exactly on my To Watch list. However, I was excited about Josh Duhamel (right, an actor that I adore and respect dating back to his days as Leo on All My Children. Soap acting is like boot camp), Shia LaBeouf (left, from Disturbia and Disney’s Even Stevens), and Tyrese (y’all know who Tyrese is), so I had no problem escorting any true Transformers fans (who, as a whole, clap and cheer throughout the film).

Seriously, the Michael Bay-directed film is hilarious, consistently exciting, the acting is perfection, and the creativity in providing realism to alien/robot vehicles is just phenomenal! I truly think it was one of the best films I have ever seen. It is in a category of its own, of course, but it was a wonderful experience.

6 comments:

N said...

That convo about the i-pod is freakin hilarious! I felt like I was there listening and laughed out loud!

Stuprint said...

well, somebody already commented on ur ish, so this is just cause you my peoples, now go ahead and get Robbie's old phone for me please, this retarded POS that im f'n wit right now just aint cuttin it LOOK OUT FOR YA BOY BOY!!

Anonymous said...

So wait, it was one of the best films you have ever seen?! I can understand it being a great action movie, but to put it above everything? sounds a little strong, I guess I have to see it though.

Anonymous said...

I am torn between the iphone and the blackberry 8830.

C. Elaine said...

Yes, one of the best films I have ever seen! GREAT action, GREAT script, GREAT acting. Very well done. I was shocked too, but it was a cool film! Trust.

Vicarious-leigh said...

First of all "Baby Sister" you all of a sudden started posting ish like last week and those of us who have been refreshing and refreshing like maniacs waiting on a freaking update to no avail will get around to posting comments just like you get around to gracing up with your posts. Now, iphone- jury's still out. Transformers- surprisingly ROCKED. I thought CB was going to cry when he saw Optimus Prime. The whole audience was grown ass men literally sitting on the edge of their seats, chin in hands grinning and cheering.