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S60 Touch screen shots look like... S60 with touch {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 21st 2008 9:41PM Erm, I specifically said I WASN'T taking a dig at the iPhone. I'm a huge Apple fan, and the only thing keeping me from an iPhone is my (now-grandfathered) Sprint SERO plan.
I'm just saying that change for the sake of change and flash for the sake of flash is a bad thing. And somehow that makes me a Nokiahead?
I haven't had a Nokia in years.
Welcome to Engadget, where people will take issue with the obvious and you will always be accused of being a fanboy of something.
I'm sorry, your comment is just ridiculous. "I misconstrued your comment as saying the exact opposite of what really said, so I think you're criticizing Apple when you're not! And because the only possible reason for criticizing Apple is being an anti-Apple fanboy, you must be an anti-Apple Nokiahead!"
S60 Touch screen shots look like... S60 with touch {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 21st 2008 8:31PM Because all that extra space is where *your* content goes? Your calendar events, in the above example?
I'd rather take a functional UI over a flashy one. That's not a dig at the iPhone (although some iPhone competitors go too far in the "flashy" direction - I'm looking at you, LG Dare), I'm just saying - if S60 works for millions and millions of people, why change it just for the sake of change? Adapt it for touch controls, sure, but I don't see the need to mess with a good thing.
Gekko is the Sidekick 2008 after all, launches July 30 {Engadget}
Jul 17th 2008 6:48AM The fact that it's called simply "SideKick" (as well as the fact that there's no other Slide or LX successor on the horizon) would seem to imply that this isn't just the replacement for the iD - rather, it's the replacement for the entire current SideKick line (hence being far upmarket from the iD...it has a slightly smaller screen than the LX, but that's about it).
After experimenting with a three-tiered line-up, a la RIM, Danger is reverting back to its one-size-fits-all-approach (which, admittedly, seems to work for Apple). That's all.
Calling it "2008" might make it seem kind of outdated come January 1, though. Considering SideKicks usually launch in late summer, why not name them for the year ahead? Or perhaps we will see a new model sooner than next summer?
Nah...
ASUS UK helps us sort out the Eee PC lineup, forgets to help {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2008 9:39PM That's not even all of them. It might be all that's available in the UK, I suppose. But here (US) we have a 701 4G Surf, a 701 8G, and more color options. And while they've announced a 903 and 905, they're absent from this list. I'm assuming the 905 is a version of the 904 with Atom, but the 903? Who knows.
Verizon CEO hates on Steve Jobs, doesn't see iPhone as a mass-market handset {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 1st 2008 5:45PM Where have you been? Apple is supporting third party apps on the iPhone. They announced that in January, expounded further in March and demoed it all in June. This is old news, man.
Granted, apps are available primarily through Apple's App Store, but that's really no different than how Nokia handles S60 apps (or, um, ANY dumbphone on a US carrier). So it's hardly the "most locked" handset out there.
Man's 'Life' Sells for Almost $400K on eBay {Switched.com}
Jul 1st 2008 4:57PM How do you sell your friends? I don't get it. Do you make them promise to be friends with the buyer or what? Despite the fact that you're literally auctioning their friendship off for the highest bidder?
And, yeah, $380k. Ouch. Hopefully he gets a reality TV deal out of it, or something.
Telus getting enV2 as "KEYBO" -- seriously? {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 1st 2008 4:54PM They've had the LG Rumo(u)r for some time. Also, if you're including all NA carriers, neither T-Mobile nor AT&T currently have a QWERTY "dumbphone" (although AT&T has had at least one in the past, as Cingular, and I believe T-Mobile carried one ahead of its time as well).
Telus getting enV2 as "KEYBO" -- seriously? {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 1st 2008 2:48PM Now I wonder what would have happened if Motorola gave the Q ("qwerty") its appropriate 4LTR name: "QWER"
Telus getting enV2 as "KEYBO" -- seriously? {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 1st 2008 2:46PM The "A," "R," and "D" were just too much.
ASUS can't help itself, debuts Eee PC 904 HD {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 2:41PM 700 2G Surf
701 4G Surf
701 4G
701 8G
900 12G
900 20G
901 12G
901 20G
903
904
904 HD
905
1000
1000H
So...thirteen. So far. Keep in mind each of those is available in Windows XP and Linux versions (except the 900 and 901, whose capacity is determined by the OS installed) and in multiple colors (five on the older models, four on the newer ones).
Like I said earlier in a (possibly lost) comment: The people who want a larger keyboard and chassis, but not a larger screen, are a hopelessly niche market (unless the price comes down big time), and the people who want an HDD in that are a niche of a niche. Asus continues to expand its line with reckless abandon, but they haven't actually upgraded any of the models, and the original Eees are now nearing a year old with no signs of attention in the future. Asus might be trying to be the Apple of the netbook realm, but without a unique OS, people are going to have a hard time justifying their prices.
