Kindle Touch 3G

Just in time for my trip to Asia, I picked up the new Kindle Touch 3G from Staples today. I had a bunch of Staples rewards coupons that were about to expire, so it was free to me! I wasn't planning on getting the 3G, just the Kindle Touch, but due to some snafus with the order process, I got upgraded. I've loaded it up with a few books from my library as well as downloaded some free classics from Amazon, should be more than enough for my travels. I'm still getting used to it, I've had some issues turning it off and on, it appears to freeze occasionally and runs a little choppily with flashing screens and it sucks that it has to charge through a computer as no power adapter was provided. Despite the flaws, I'm still happy that I got it and glad that I won't have to lug 10 pounds of books around with me while on vacation.

That was Easy - New iPhone 4S

Apple actually got it right and made enough iPhones to satisfy demand for their newest iPhone release, the 4S. I expected diehard fans to camp overnight with endless lines and soldout phones, so I didn't even plan on going to the store, even though my 3 year old iPhone 3G was on its last legs. I will easily wait in lines for fashion, but not technology :). Encouraged by reports of minimal waits at various Apple Stores, I drove down to the 3rd Street Promenade Store at 3:45pm. I was out of there by 3:55pm at the latest with a brand new white iPhone 4S (16gb); they really make it easy to buy their product. Kudos to Apple and the staff. I haven't really started to play with all the new features of the phone yet, just working on getting it all set up. Now I need a cute case...

Early review (10/16/11): I haven't had a chance to really play with it much, but it's awesome so far. It's sooo fast, although my perception may be particularly skewed since my iPhone3G was painfully slow and constantly froze. Siri's proven to be fairly helpful with simple tasks like setting an alarm, checking the weather, setting reminders and texting and calling people. For more complex tasks which require a web search, she hasn't been that helpful and I hate that it defaults to yahoo as the search engine (update, I was able to change the settings to google). After a bunch of CNET and Amazon research, I think I want the Otterbox Commuter as a case. Unfortunately the iPhone 4 version on Amazon is not compatible with the 4s (I wonder why), so I will wait a bit for it to go online.