My battery went from 100% down to 58% in the two hours from leaving work to taking off in the airplane. I was listening to music, checking and writing a few emails. One or two texts in that time. Most of the time, screen off, just the iPod going. On the plane now, where I’m forced into airplane mode, of course. Been watching videos, listening to music, typing posts and tweets or later publication, etc. Nonstop use for an hour and fifteen minutes. Battery is still at 58%. This…

This morning, I shut down my laptop and left it in the apartment. While this may sound like a normal thing for a person to do, for me it’s very strange behavior, indeed. Inspired by my friend Jason over at Webomatica, who recently took a trip armed with only an iPhone for his technology needs, I’ve decided that the trip I’ll be taking this week will be iPhone-only as well. Let’s see exactly how much of the functionality my laptop normally provides can be handled by…

Today, John Gruber from Daring Fireball is asking Andy Rubin what he has to say for himself now, since he predicted that Google wouldn’t make its own Android phone. As far as I can tell, Google isn’t making its own Android phone. It hired HTC to build it a phone that will be sold through T-Mobile. How is that any different from the G-1? The Hero? The myTouch? The Droid? Sure, Google may sell an unsubsidized version for an astronomical price as well on its own, but that’…

A lot of people are speculating about Google’s new “mobile lab”, which is a phone that was commissioned from HTC that Google is giving to select worldwide Google employees in order to test some new Android features. At least, that’s what I gathered from Google’s actual statement on the matter. “We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and…

A lot of people seem quite certain that Apple’s small-time purchase of a little Internet streaming company called Lala is going to fundamentally change the entire way Apple presents content to the user. The latest to join the fray is the Wall Street Journal, which proposes that Apple will stop selling downloaded music altogether and instead just serve up tunes that you purchase over the web. So no need to carry your entire collection on the internal storage of your iPod touch. Just hook up to the web and…