Use your iPhone to navigate Inauguration Day

This is a fantastic idea but ATT caused for horrible execution of it. I was in DC for the events yesterday and from the time I got on the metro at Reagan airport to go over, my iphone had zero coverage. Full bars, but could make no calls out, send no texts or receive them, safari was useless and always gave the "safari could not connect to the server" message, maps was useless but luckily I had left it on a map of DC so i could see part of the town anyway, and these apps would obviously not work because they needed edge coverage, which was nowhere to be found until I got back to Reagan airport at 5 in the afternoon. I know the problem was only with ATT because a friend I was with could not use his ATT phone either and another friend was using her tmobile phone for text, web, and voice all without a problem. I was able to make a phone call twice, but after waiting about 2 minutes for it to even ring and make some kind of connection.

Fred -
You sound like Bush at his goodbye addresses where he blamed his failures on everyone else.
Also, on your final comment about money being spent on the inauguration, sure the millions could have gone to those worthy causes you mentioned, but how much more could we have done for them with the hundreds of Billions we've spent on these wars? How much more could we have done for those countries with that money instead of spending it on attacking them. Face it, the reason we went into Iraq was based on faulty intelligence that Germany received from an 'informant' that iraq had these mobile WMD creation stations. All the pictures fed to the public on the news of these semi-trailer looking things were drawn by this guy, and Germany explicitly told us that the source was unknown and not credible. We acted solely based on this piece of intel, and for that we've drilled our economy into the ground and lost many lives of service people and innocent Iraqi's, and now that we've tortured those that may have committed crimes we cannot even prosecute them ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303372_pf.html ).

I'm ready to see what this new administration has to offer and I know great things will come of it.

Mo, is that short for something unflattering? I think so.

9/11. Caused by 8 years of Clinton inaction. 8 years that showed major terror attacks on American soil, ships, troops, embassies, etc. every year.

Katrina. Phenomenon known as "weather". Very bad weather, but not generally generated by humans, unless you are Dr. Evil. The aftereffects? Check with Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco on that.

Afghanistan. See 9/11. Also, now those poor people get to decide their own fates, and are dying at a much lower rate than when they were killing each other. Long way to go there, but I guess you want that to go back to pre-9/11. You must have really had a bad experience with Afghanis to hate them that much.

Iraq. You mean, the war that has been called "won". More people have been murdered in Chicago than troops in Iraq this year. OK, even then, yep, it took 5 years to get here. And many were killed in the process. Very, very sad. However, fewer Iraqis have died since 2003 than prior. Saddam was a real scumbag, and killed lots of his own people. After the invasion, most of the Iraqis killed were killed by their own, or other Middle Eastern "insurgents".

The economy. You may have a little point here, but let's face it, there are lots of unanswered questions from Congress about this. Where's your ire towards people like Barney Frank or Chris Dodd? How about people outside of Congress who are directly responsible like Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson? What about the bankers who convinced Congress (them again!) to give them as much money as they wanted? Granted, Bush should not have signed the $800 billion nationalization act, err, TARP, or given money to automakers, newspapers, etc., but that just goes to show you he wasn't as conservatives as you folks with BDS would have wanted to believe.

In other words, get over your madness, and place the blame where it belongs. Also, the economy is not in freefall depression mode as the news media would have you think. Do a little research on actual depressions before you speak.

OK,

One more thing. Where's the concern about the tens of millions of dollars spent on the orgy of Obamania known as the coronation, err, inauguration? I'm waiting for Jim McDermott (D-Seattle) to come out with his concern for the troops and the money that could have been better spent. Couldn't that money have been spent on the poor, inner-city kids, drug addicts, biofuel research, solar power, the economy, or the troops?

Also, AOL radio will have news stations streaming it. I live near Philadelphia, so I will be listening to it via KYW 1060, who will be broadcasting it.

According to the UStream website, streaming if Wi-Fi only right now to "ensure the highest quality broadcast on the iPhone." And the one stream that's up so far is a weird angle from the American Indian museum.

I'll have a better idea about Obama in the next couple of months. That said, Bush can go rot somewhere. Between 9-11, Katrina, Afghanistan, Iraq & the economy, Bush certainly did NOT help this country. The US is NOT a better place now than it was 8 years ago.

While I am hopeful, we will see. Nonetheless, we should all be celebrating today (no matter what the political affiliation).

I take it that most of you are pretty young and it's a good sign for our country that you don't consider Obama's race to be worth making such a fuss over. But try to remember there are many, many people still alive and kicking who remember a time when black people had to drink from separate fountains, go to different schools, sit in the back of the bus, were attacked, brutalized, lynched by mobs, had crosses burned in their lawns, were murdered for standing up for their rights. Less than 150 years ago black people were property. Is Obama the savior? No. But his election is a huge step for this country. Regardless of what comes to pass, I share the excitement of such a giant forward leap after eight years of total backwardness.

You may now carry on talking about iPhones.

Yea, I think they are over playing the whole Obama thing. I get it, first black President. But to hear some people talk you would think slavery ended last week. Think of this people, the very first time a serious black candidate runs for President, he wins. America is not the racist nation some would have you believe. Congrats Senator Obama. Good luck tomorrow, you have a lot of hard work to do.

I kinda agree though... I don't remember all this fuss over an inauguration before.

Um, for those wanting to watch inaguration on iphone, i sugest joost...they sent me an email earlier today about inauguration live streaming, i'd think it works on iphone too, add that to your list tuaw.

I wrote an iPhone app to say bye to Bush but it got rejected by Apple!

http://www.24x7digital.com/byebyebush