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Poll: Will the DROID have you in its clutches? {Engadget}
Nov 6th 2009 11:01AM I got mine this morning and I love it. I think it looks great and it works even better.
Verizon's Droid is a series, not just a phone; Droid Eris coming from HTC {Engadget}
Oct 26th 2009 1:00PM Eris is the goddess of chaos and discord, not so much strife. She started the Trojan War. And she's the chosen deity of Discordians everywhere. (I have MA vanity plates 'ERIS' ;-) )
Five tons of flax!
AT&T lays down the law, says Treo 680 users must update firmware {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 13th 2009 6:48AM Yep, Treo 680s are still in the field... [looks at his 680 sitting next to his laptop].
It works well enough, and nothing newer has enticed me quite enough to switch. My two year contract ran out in February, which is when I really started thinking about doing so. The G1 came close, but I'm holding out for some of the newer Android phones expected this fall.
The Moxi Summer update brings the Moxi Mate, SDV support and more {Engadget HD}
Aug 5th 2009 6:03AM And keep in mind that Digeo is playing catch-up - TiVo has a lot of features yet to come on the Moxi (if they do come). So it is natural that they need to crank out some updates.
Engadget HD's recession antidote: win an Moxi HD DVR! {Engadget HD}
Jul 9th 2009 7:17AM I'd love to poke at this box, but don't want to buy one.
Google announces Chrome OS, coming to netbooks second half of 2010 {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2009 1:52AM It'd be nice if there was some kind of app compatibility between Chrome OS and Android, maybe an Android emulation layer, so the better apps could be shared. But in any case this should be very interesting and I look forward to it.
Digeo offers Moxi DVRs for easy monthly payments {Engadget HD}
Apr 27th 2009 4:54AM Hell no it doesn't make me think again.
Poll: Is the lack of Blu-ray playback keeping you from buying a Mac? {Engadget HD}
Apr 12th 2009 8:57AM I purchased a new laptop last fall, and considered buying Apple. But Blu-ray support was a requirement for me, and when I saw they still hadn't gotten with the times they were out of the running. (I ended up with an HP running Vista Ultimate, works fine.)
Sling's $50 rebate on iPhone-compatible boxes rendered useless by stupid pricing {Engadget}
Apr 9th 2009 12:14AM It saddens me to see this, but it does look like an effort to push away the older boxes and get more sales. I have doubts about the future of the consumer products with EchoStar bundling Slingbox tech into satellite and cable boxes. When those deploy they'll likely rapidly overtake the entire installed base of standalone boxes, and before long the standalone boxes will be a small minority of users. So it won't matter much how happy they are.
TiVo has a new Search {Engadget HD}
Jan 7th 2009 11:51AM I disagree. I've been a TiVo owner for seven years now and the UI just hasn't changed much - and that's not a good thing. Even on the Series3 and TiVo HD the UI is still optimized for 4:3 SD TVs. Visually it doesn't look great on HDTV, and functionally it wastes the screen real-estate available on 16:9 HD displays. And it is also lacks visual impact and the use of graphics, which would be very helpful and useful. When designed the UI ran on 66MHz PowerPC processors in the Series1 - the TiVo HD has a 300MHz MIPS core CPU, eight times the RAM, and just generally faster hardware all around. It can handle a graphically more complex UI without any performance loss.
It is time for a forklift upgrade of the UI - dump it and create a new UI that sets a new high water mark. If TiVo doesn't other vendors will. One of the few things I actually like about the Digeo Moxi is the look of their UI. Next to TiVo it makes TiVo look like something out of the 90s - which it is.
And functionally this new UI offers a lot more, I already think I'll like it better than the existing one. I posted a lot of screencaps of the UI as I played with it: http://www.gizmolovers.com/2009/01/07/tivo-unveils-an-all-new-search-interface-which-is-familiar/
