Lg Ally
I got to play with the Lg Ally at a Verizon store before it was for
sale. I thought the slideout keyboard was very sturdy, but the layout
was a little weird. I'm sure that you would get used to it though. It
has Android 2.1 eclair with Lg's own skin which only added a few
features. I didn't notice any difference from the normal stock
Android. It doesn't add much, just a few widgets and a few other small
things.

Here are a few more of it's specs: 600 Mhz prossesor, 3.2 mp camera
with flash, and a 3.2 inch screen. It also has a 4Gb micro SD card pre-
installed.

When I was playing around with it, it seemed a little bit
sluggish...maybe that was because it had just started up, but after a
couple of minutes it was still pretty slow. Over all, in the five
minutes that I used it, I thought it seemed pretty decent, not as good
as the the Droid Incredible or Droid but it's still pretty good.

Lg Ally

Here are some pictures of the Lg Ally that I took.

The Nook

The Nook

I was in Best Buy this morning and got to use the Barnes and Nobles Nook for 15 minutes. The first thing I noticed was how light it is. It weighs 12.1 ounces which is around half as much as the iPad. Amazon's Kindle weighs only 10.2 ounces. But the Kindle is a little bigger in width and heighth.

It was also very thin and easy to hold. Here are the dimensions. Nook (7.7 x 4.9 x 0.50). Kindle (8 x 5.3 x 0.36). iPad (9.56 x 7.47 x 0.5).

The Nook has two screens. The main screen that you will read from is 6 inches diagonal and the smaller touch screen is 3.5 inches. The touch screen is made for navigation and typing. It seemed pretty responsive. But i thought the user interface was hard to use. The Eink screen the Nook has is easy to read on. The drawback is the size. It feels too small. I like the big screen of the iPad better. Eink is also very limited in its capabilities.

You can play games on it. It uses the touch screen more then the Eink display. I can't really say which I like better between the Nook and the Kindle because I've never used the Kindle. I would pick the iPad everytime, and if I had to pick either the Nook or the kindle I think i would pick the Nook just because of the touch screen and smaller size. Barnes and Nobles has a good comparisen between the Nook and the Kindle. Check it out at this link www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compare/

Sorry for not posting more often. We are on the road and it's not very
easy to get a blog post written and posted

I bought the 16GB w/ wifi iPad Friday, May 30th and so far I love it.
I've read for about two hours on it and it's been very easy and
enjoyable. My eyes never got tired and I even forgot it's a digital
book. The apps are so much more powerful than their iPhone
counterparts. When I got my iPad it was about 5:30 Friday evening.
It's charge was at 99%. On Sunday afternoon, May 2nd, I still had 5%
battery left. The web browser is stunning. Scrolling and zooming is
extremely fast. So far the lack of multitasking hasn't been a problem
and it will be getting multitasking in the fall. The weight is just
right I think. If it were any lighter it would feel cheap and
breakable. The keyboard is going to take some getting used to. I'm
typing with it right now. It's not hard, and I know I'll get used to
it. I definitely need to get a case for when I'm carrying it around.
As of right now, there is nothing that I don't like. In a couple weeks
I'll put up another post about the iPad.