VISTA WEEK! Wanna meet up with me?

Vista is launching this week, 12:01am Tuesday to be exact and there are a ton of events happening throughout the area! Football stars, media events will abound!

Ones I'm going to be involved with are the following:

1/29: 5pm-10pm
1/30: 3pm-9pm

CompUSA
1250 El Camino Real #M3
(San Francisco Airport)
San Bruno, CA 94066

- I'm scheduled to do some Vista demos here

1/30: 9:00am—2:00pm

Microsoft Ready for a New Day Launch Tour 2007
Moscone Convention Center
747 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA

- see me in the Ask The Experts area!

Future meetings: I need your input!!

So I'm trying to plan out our meetings for the year and want to get some feedback from you as to the following:

- Would you like to propose a new meeting day?
- What would you like to see covered this year around?

Please soundback with a comment here - thanks!

Apple Inc. announces iPhone at MacWorld in SF

ilounge.com has coverage of todays MacWorld keynote in SF where Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone to be available through Cingular by this coming June:



Check out the details ilounge.com has picked up:

Touchscreen interface
No physical buttons
Runs Mac OS X -- Apps, syncing, networking, multi-tasking, video, etc.
Everything synced -- iTunes music and videos, Mac data, email, notes, etc.
Hi-res screen -- 160ppi
Thinner than any smartphone -- including Motorola Q and Samsung BlackJack
2 megapixel camera built-in
Dock connector port
Wifi or EDGE service -- switches automatically.
widescreen video
3-D effects
Full-screen album art
4GB or 8GB of storage
"visual voicemail."
Quadband GSM+EDGE
Bluetooth 2
One-touch conference calling
SMS texting -- text messages with multiple sessions for multiple people at once
Keyboard does error prevention and correction.
Safari web browser
Rich HTML email works with IMAP and POP
Google Maps. Weather, calculator, stock widgets
Yahoo to provide free Push IMAP email service for iPhone users
Safari has multiple browser windows, bookmarks. Satellite and street map images on screen with Google Maps.
Google search built-in too.
Accessories for iPhone include stereo earbuds like iPod's with microphone. Bluetooth headset with automatic pairing.
Battery life: 5 hours of talk time, video or browsing. 16 hours of audio playback.

Price: 4GB model for $499, 8GB model for $599, each with 2-year contract.

Three letters for ya... O M G! Oh and all the thoughts running through my head on this one!

In the meantime, you might want to pay the folks at ilounge.com a visit.

Next meeting...

- will most likely be in February as I'm just returning back from vacation and have a lot on my plate at the moment.

In the meantime, please respond with a comment if you were lucky enough to receive a new Windows Mobile device over the holidays!