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NTT DoCoMo's 906i and 706i handsets answer "who's your daddy?" {Engadget}
May 27th 2008 5:21AM Er - no qwerty because they're Japanese phones...in Japanese...for Japanese speakers...in Japan...
Meridian's Ferrari-branded F80 home entertainment system priced at $2,995 {Engadget}
May 17th 2008 5:45AM I have one of these. I've had it for about eight months so I'm not sure why this would be a news item. It is quite simply astonishing audio quality for its size. I have a Meridian cinema set up too, so I knew what the sticker shock was going to be, but even so I was only "portable boombox - meh" until I heard it at the dealer. I was sold after two minutes. Now I use it constantly around the house and in the office.
My dealer says that (a) he sells all the units he can get, and (b) he sells them by taking a charge slip dated for 7 days later and letting people take the unit home to try out, to return it no questions asked if they don't like it. So far, no returns...
First ever BlackBerry clamshell phone unmasked, dubbed the 'Kickstart' {Engadget}
Apr 30th 2008 11:33PM Hello Palm ? Hello ? Anyone home ? Pick up, pick up. Just calling to see if you intend to release any kind of new designs this year, you know, like all of your competitors seem to be able to manage to do quite regularly. Just asking, is all.
Intel on its way to making consumer SSD drives. Yes, still. {Engadget}
Mar 11th 2008 5:44AM You're missing my point. I know they're expensive now. But they will get much cheaper very quickly - look at the price/Gb curve over time for any of the flash card technologies, then extrapolate that curve into SSDs and you will see it overtaking HDD very quickly.
I guarantee you will not be able to buy a laptop with HDD in three years time, and it will be price comparable for desktop drives for all except the very largest capacities.
The HDD drive manufacturers are toast unless they get into SSD, and real quick.
Intel on its way to making consumer SSD drives. Yes, still. {Engadget}
Mar 11th 2008 4:15AM How can the stock prices for Seagate, Western Digital, etc etc not be getting crushed right now ? All these guys are out of business in three years, surely ? SSDs are as big and as fundamental a change as the move from floppy disk to internal hard disk.
Fujitsu's 12.1-inch LOOX R: world's first Penryn ultra-portable? {Engadget}
Dec 18th 2007 2:22AM This looks like the latest version of the 7000 series lifebooks. I have one of these and they are the dog's undercarriage: nothing to beat them as a small laptop to travel with.
Microsoft formally launches HD Photo {Engadget}
Mar 9th 2007 3:41AM Isn't there a perfectly good new improved JPG format called, er, JPG ? (OK, JPG2000, to be precise). Why would anyone want to switch to yet another proprietary format ? Why don't any of these corporations look at the non-success of proprietary formats in any area where an open standard exists (yes Sony, I'm looking at you), and just give it up.
Meridian MV-D1 iPod dock outputs 1080p content to your HDTV {Engadget}
Jan 12th 2007 9:38PM And this has proper SPDIF digital audio out ? Isn't this the only dock that has that capability for any ipod (I know there's the $2000 dock, but that needs your ipod to have surgery) ? Sign me up.
E-revolution's Motion Speaker: look ma, no buttons {Engadget}
Nov 27th 2006 11:01AM And come the (E-)revolution, they'll presumably be joining the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation up against the wall ?
GM announces feature-packed key fob {Engadget}
Nov 15th 2006 11:46PM And this is, in a microcosm, exactly why Toyota will be the world's #1 car company very soon.
Toyota (and Honda) concentrate on making better designed cars with higher quality production processes and maximum reliability. GM concentrates on pointless, useless, gadgets for their poorly designed and poorly built offerings.
