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T-Mobile 3G is live in Vegas, baby {Engadget}
Aug 6th 2008 7:28PM T-Mobile has a few phones that use 3G but they're not advertised as 3G because they're just voice phones. I'm sure that'll change when some data-focused phones come out, like the Android one later in the year.
ZeeVee's localcasting ZvBox gets hands-on treatment {Engadget}
Jul 25th 2008 5:51PM I had to click through three articles before they stopped telling me I knew what this thing did:
"Not that you haven't seen ZeeVee's ZvBox in the flesh before..." - er, no I haven't... click
"We don't have to tell you where the goods are, but if you're new here, that read link down there is a good place to start." - ah, okay, yes, you do need to tell me because I do not know, but I'll bite... click
"As many of you know, ZeeVee is getting set to launch their $499 ZvBox (pre-order at Amazon) that essentially creates a remote PC link/experience to any TV in your home." - Okay, great! At last. Could you have just put one sentence at the start of the article saying that?
SoftBank announces Summer 2008 collection {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 4th 2008 8:40PM Jusrt some decoding for readers, a lot of these phones have FURUWAIDO VGA. That means Full-Wide VGA which is 854 x 480. Why? That is exactly 16:9 aspect ratio, so it means that WANSEGU = "1-Seg" TV will fit on your KEITAI=mobile/cell phone screen perfectly without any black bars anywhere.
BREW Mobile Platform lassoes Adobe Flash support {Engadget Mobile}
May 29th 2008 11:30PM Years ago there was a book published called "Flash Enabled". It was excellent, it was inspiring, it made me go out and write games in Flash for mobile devices. But Macromedia sucked at getting Flash onto devices. They were flush with success from licensing Flash Lite to DoCoMo (or docomo now) and wanted to get $'s from every handset maker to get Flash on their devices too. That killed it dead outside of Japan. Years later, Adobe has just started to get it out there. Pity it took so long. But then again, the platforms are a bit more powerful, and that's never a bad thing when you are talking about Flash. My game code written in Flash 5 might run on these things, although I used crazy Actionscript tricks to eek out performance, so I'm not so sure. Either way, I've moved on. Let others try and grab that market!
NTT DoCoMo revamps logo, our entire belief system crumbles {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 18th 2008 7:20PM You're absolutely right - this smacks of management worry about the hammering they're taking competitively and coming up with a solution - a new logo! Yeah. Anyhow, we better start writing them "docomo" now not "DoCoMo" to match their new corporate image.
T-Mobile trials HotSpot @Home Talk Forever Home Phone in Seattle, Dallas {Engadget}
Feb 26th 2008 2:44PM Totally agree on the crazy international rates that wireless (and increasingly now wired) carriers charge. If they really are going to get into fixed-mobile convergence, they need to fix that. For example, calling Argentina on Vonage costs me 1c/min. To call using T-Mobile costs $1.64! Calling most of Europe is free on Vonage but $34/min on T-Mobile - those are last century's rates! I do use Gorilla mobile, but it's such a half-assed system to use VoIP to bypass a VoIP system! I'll stick with Vonage for now.
Microsoft buys Danger, Windows Mobile Sidekick imminent {Engadget}
Feb 11th 2008 1:02PM Nope, Danger doesn't design the hardware, hasn't for a long time. SW only folks.
EU turns its attention to per-minute billing {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 28th 2008 2:05PM Aerial used to have per-second billing here in the US back in '97. But they were bought by Voicestream and that feature disappear. But that was when minutes used to be scarce. Does anyone in the US NOT have enough minutes every month??? It seems the carriers throw minutes at you, so long as you pay them a hefty chunk of change every month. All the low minute users have been shifted to pre-pay from what I see.
Disney Mobile rises from ashes to invade Japan {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 28th 2008 1:51PM I predict this will do well. Disney themed products have a much stronger following among adults in Japan compared to the US.
DISH Network unveils 100 HD channels and 100 markets {Engadget}
Jan 7th 2008 12:19PM Yep, TV Japan $25. AFAIK it's not even available in HD even though virtually 100% of the source content is HD. They know they've got a monopoly and screw every cent they can out of it.
