The HTC HD2 Emulates My Favorite Fighting Games? Sold

For the record, T-Mobile nor HTC are sponsors for the Brog. I just think this is pretty freaking cool. With the help of the emulation wizards behind FpseCE -- a game emulator available for download via the Windows Mobile marketplace. The HD2 is capable of emulating games like:

GTA 2

Tekken 3

Street Fighter Alpha 3

Time Crisis

Wipeout XL

I know that WinMo 6.5 gets a ton of flack for basically being a smartphone's crippling death nail. I mean supposedly T-Mobile has had to promote the phone as a $9 a month phone. Well, this sold me, hopefully I'll put up a review before the summer is out.

Help Me Buy A Non-Sucky T-Mobile Smartphone

 

As most of you don't know, I kinda had my heart set on the HTC HD2. But as it turns out, the phone is getting critically panned. But with news that the phone of my tech wet dreams is elligible for the Windows Mobile 7 update I've decided to throw the HD2 into the fray with the rest of my T-Mobile smartphone lot. What to choose? My 'for serious' camera must be left at home, so it would be nice to have a phone that doesn't take photos that look like the equivalent of a fierce Tetris match. Though T-mobile isn't known for their 3G and Wi-Fi network, hell T-mobile isn't really known for being particularly awesome at anything! I just want something that works well on the web and has a keyboard that doesn't make me feel like I'm typing with my toes.

What should I chose? Video reviews from various sites will help with the decision making process. After the jump.

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Palm Pre: You Guys Really Like This?

It's like a G1 & iPhone Only...it really isn't.
So CES was a big snoozefest for the most part.  Sony 3D is making some noise, but really if I wanted to play games in 3D I'd probably be one of those people who re-watches The Lawnmowerman for secret messages about the Hale-Bopp comet.  The biggest news to come out of CES this year was the Palm Pre, which buy all accounts by major tech media outlets is Palm's last 'hurrah'.  Most palm devices have been reduced to people who really have a problem dettaching themselves from outdated, branded technology like the BetaMax and Friendster.

I will admit that I am intrigued by Palm's last ditch effort to save their company in 'these troubling times', but it's Palm. I have a feeling it will be released with some form of/or innability to connect to whatever device you plug it into.  It will be large enough to be clunky and a pocket bulge, but small enough to where using it causes you to squint and hold it close to your already frowned face.  While all the tech heads are fawning over it, I'd like to say it is way to damn early to be fawning over this flimsy looking device

/rant