Recent Comments:
AT&T to be first US carrier with BlackBerry Bold {Engadget}
May 12th 2008 2:59PM I think it's going a little too far to generalize and say that Verizon has "significantly better coverage" in the country than AT&T. I've been on AT&T for many years and have yet to experience the poor network coverage that people on here rag about constantly, though clearly regional differences affect all carriers.
I also live in Atlanta, but I spend a great deal of time in the Research Triangle area in North Carolina. While I haven't seen any substantial difference with friends and colleagues who use Verizon in Atlanta, I have experienced many instances up in RTP where AT&T signal is the strongest and people around me (on Verizon and Sprint) have had calls disconnected.
I use AT&T because of their wide network coverage and openness of GSM phones, but I am no ardent supporter of one carrier versus another. It seems to me that some people simply like to trash talk AT&T (for reasons still unknown to me), though I have been in many places across the country and have not had them fail me yet; I've also seen a significant improvement in their network through my travels over the years. I don't know what people have against AT&T (or Verizon and any other carrier, for that matter), but some of these comments are just completely irrational and scream of fanboyism. Just choose the carrier that works for you!
iPhone firmware 2.0 adds Chinese handwriting recognition, Newton sweats {Engadget}
May 5th 2008 4:27PM Flashpoint:
You are a dolt. First of all, as others have said, there is no official language of the United States. Secondly, Spanish will never become a "2nd OFFICIAL LANGUAGE," so calm down. Do you really think the people in charge of our country would let that happen?
Last, but certainly not least, if we had the kind of testing that you think is such a great idea, we would turn away a great many number of people who are unfamiliar with our American ways yet have potentially substantial contributions to fields of mathematics and science. Plus, God save us from that exam ever being applied to Americans themselves. You'd deport half the country for not knowing where the USA was on a map of the world, let alone anyplace else.
Live from Toshiba's HD DVD press conference in Tokyo {Engadget}
Feb 19th 2008 1:24PM This morning the transcript above quoted Nishida-san as saying there were 730k units worldwide, and now Engadget has changed it to 1.3 million. What is going on here?
Lord knows Engadget doesn't have high journalistic standards, but this is either a blatant lie by fudging the numbers or they severely mistranslated. I have a feeling it's not just a mistranslation, since I'm pretty sure there's a pretty big difference in the way 730k and 1.3m sound in Japanese...
No more LIES please...
(Go Blu!)
HD DVD casualty report: over 1m players, recorders, and drives lost to the format war {Engadget}
Feb 19th 2008 4:21AM You do, too...
According to Nishida-san, president of Toshiba, it's 730,000 units worldwide. Engadget (conveniently?) forgot to mention that the 300,000 Xbox add-ons were specifically grouped under the 600,000 players in the US, according to Nishida-san.
US 600k + EU 100k + JP 30k = 730k worldwide
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending October 28th, 2007 {Engadget HD}
Nov 2nd 2007 3:22PM Um... "Meet the Robinsons" is not a Pixar film; Disney made it all on its own...
