Presidential Disconnect

Tonight I read an interesting article the New York Times published on the 15th. It was about President elect Obama having to give up use of his blackberry. Which is viewed as a prized possession for him, and I have no doubt that is, in fact, true reliable information. I realized tonight I have never really thought about the presidential duties from that aspect... Having to give up your simplest personal freedoms and choices to protect the security on one's home country. It wasn't to hard at all to understand. Having freely given up a great deal of my rights to serve in the Marine Corps. It is interesting though, how most of the world might not see minor things like this that make a great impact on those affected. The article mentions how his emails would be printed out and read without using a computer himself to check his own email.

The article also points out current President Bush's response to his semi-forced abandonment of personal email, requesting to cease all personal correspondence via email.

Source: NYTimes

5MP Cell Camera for T-Mobile

Motorola and Kodak teamed together to come up with the Motozine ZN5 which is build by Motorola, but uses Kodak's Perfect Touch technology to produce 5 MegaPixels with clearer, brighter colors. The phone is 99 US dollars with a 2 year service agreement. Features:

• Display: 2.4" 240x320 262k TFT
• 5-megapixel camera, autofocus, Xenon flash
• 350 MB onboard memory; up to 4 GB optional expandable memory holds up to 3,000 images
• Capture and edit modes: panorama, grayscale, sepia, negative, reddish, greenish, blueish
• Digital viewfinder
• 3.5 mm headset jack
• WiFi enabled/WLAN: 802.11 b/g/i
• FM Radio
• Kodak Easyshare Software included

The best feature is the 5MP camera with the convenience of WiFi, although that's my opinion. Do you know of any cell phones with those features... for 99 bucks?

Pictures and information: motorola.com