LG ALLY REVIEW PROS AND CONS

BLG comes out with the new LG Ally. AKA the iron man 2 phone! The LG ally features a bright 3.2 inch, 400x800 capacitive touch screen display. Below the display, we have the two capacitive touch back and search buttons. For the physical buttons, we have the call receive, home, menu and the call end button. The call end button also functions as the sleep/wake and power on/off switch. When we slide out the keyboard, we have the back and search buttons on the left side just above the alt and shift keys. And the home and menu keys are where the send and end buttons would be on the right side of the slide out board.

The keyboard is very nice and very well designed. My first impression was none other than "oh my goodness". I thought I would have issues adjusting from the lg voyager's keyboard to the ally's keyboard. If you take a closer look, you will notice that the keys are very different. Instead of having two space buttons on either side of the keyboard, the space bar is conventional. Meaning that the keyboard you would find on the ally is the same on the us keyboard. Of course, the "alt" keys will be different, but the space bar will be in the middle (as people prefer it that way). I personally liked to use the voyager's keyboard better.

The lg ally is also not the fastest "snap dragon" droid, but it's decent. Its not something you will use to consistantly download movies or for the heavy user. No. The lg ally is just a decent phone for the "decent" user. If you are looking for a phone with an android os, but are not willing to spend more than $50, the lg ally is the phone for you... that is if you don't mind having a somewhat slow or laggy phone. But once you got the phone going, the laggieness stops.

By lagginess, I mean when you slide the phone open to use the QWERTY keyboard. The phone will take a little bit to realize what its got to do, but that's ok. It won't kill you unless you consistently need a phone to realize it as soon as you slide it open or whatever. Ok. That wasn't professional, but who cares right? I'm a 17 year old hs student who is bored and is at a local winco's on a... Tuesday night. Whatever.

The overal design of this phone is amazing. Amazing keyboard, amazing display, nice features and affordable. But what makes the lg ally not attractive? Because of the fact that the lg ally is portrayed with iron man, the phone is thought to be fast and powerful. But it isn't. In reality, its just another decent phone. Marketing right? That's how they get you. But that's ok too. Another thing wrong with this phone is the battery life. It doesn't have the best battery ever... oh wait, yes it does!! Its because I'm a heavy user on this phone. Hahaha. Plus I download lots of apps so that may lead to the weak battery.

Ratings
Design: 4
Preformance: 3
Daily use: 5
Overall score: 12 out of 15
Would I recommend this phone? Depends on the user. If you need a fast phone, and if you hate lag of any kind... the ally is not the phone for you. If you don't mind some lag, and you want a decent android os phone for a decent price of $50 (after $100 mail in rebate), then yes. The ally is for you!

LEDGlow

I recently got the Million Color LED Underbody Kit by LEDGlow.

The kit itself is amazing. Bright lights, nice colors, like the sound activated feature as well. The installation was pretty much easy... pretty much. If you're the typical perfectionist, the difficulty of installation will vary as vehicles vary. But if we're talking about the actual installation on our truck, then on a scale of 1-10 (1 being easy and 10 being extremely difficult), I'd give the kit an overal 7.5/8.

Installation Pros and Cons
- Pros -
Figuring out where to put the light bars were easy

- Cons -
Wiring was very tedious. I'm a perfectionist and I wanted to make sure this kit looks professionally installed. Pushing the wires and figuring out where the wires should NOT go was very difficult. Especially in the front. It was difficult to get it through a hole in the sides of the doors. Setting up the control box was relatively easy. Not too bad, but it still required a lot of attention and questioning.

The battery disappointed me very much. They sent a dead, corroded A27/27A battery in the remote. I had to travel to 6 locations BEFORE finding a Batteries Plus in Beaverton, OR on Canyon Rd. VERY annoying!!

Product Score 1-5 (1 being the worst - 5 being the best) 4/5.

Lights were great. Was not expecting the installation to be EASY. So Duh. The battery was the disappointing part. Very aggravating.

The New MacBook Air

Apple launched their new MacBook Air very recently.

Their new Air has the 11 and 13 inch models and they start at $999!

The new MacBook Air's specs

1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache; or optional 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB shared L2 cache, 800MHz frontside bus and 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM onboard (4GB maximum)

NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors and a FaceTime camera

Stereo speakers, Omnidirectional microphone, headphone mini jack and Support for Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic