RAZR Cellphone Question

Our contracts are up shortly and we are changing providers and doing the new cellphone evaluation process. I can get a MOTORAZR v3m for $29.99 after rebates. One of the aspects that is important to me is being able to sync with my Mac address book, which is making me look past the otherwise good looking Sanyo and Samsung phones I could get for free. This one seems to have some other cool features, like being able to record short videos.

Does anyone have one of these models? It takes a microSD card and at least on paper would be something capable of playing vlogs and podcasts and such. Does it actually work that way? I don’t trust the unholy pairing of cellphone makers and providers to provide such a useful feature unfettered. Seems like making it so that you can only view videos you have bought from them would be right about their speed. Let me know if you have one, if you like it and if it can view arbitrary videos. Thanks.

Happy New Year

May this year be better than the last.

I’ve been pretty low key for the whole of the holidays, not a lot of blogging and no podcasting. I just have been loping it in, really. It’s hard to believe this is my 10th day off of work. It really doesn’t feel like it. Of course, house guests and holiday travel don’t feel quite as much like vacation as they could, and I spent Friday and a little of Saturday steam cleaning all the carpets in the house which ain’t a lot of fun. Today might involve a little recording. Since everything was gone from the floor of my office, that was problematic to do a new episode of the show.

I did do some reading and watch a lot of movies over this time. Maybe I’ll post a wrap-up here shortly. I had visions of high productivity in the last couple of days, and that pretty much didn’t happen. I’ll settle for getting the batteries recharged so I can come out roaring in 2007.

Happy new year everyone!