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Engadget's recession antidote: win an Altec Lansing octiv Air! {Engadget}
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Engadget's recession antidote: win a 2GB Lexar JumpDrive Lightning flash drive! {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2009 2:04PM I'd gladly take one of these off your hands. Consider it my bailout!
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Jun 22nd 2009 8:02PM I'd like to get a piece of this!
Nokia N97 review: a tale of two bloggers {Engadget}
Jun 22nd 2009 2:30PM "I have no idea if this letter will reach you. See, I didn't know you'd moved to Haterville, and I'm afraid I don't have your forwarding address."
At first, I thought that this format was unsuited for a gadget blog where people want to get quickly-digestible information. Even while reading it, I wanted to scroll down and see if there was some kind of summary or bulleted list of pros and cons at the bottom. However, that line really made it all worthwhile :-)
I switched from S60 (3rd edition) to iPhone a while back, but I do still root for Nokia/Symbian/S60. I was pulling for Palm even in the darkest days when an updated PalmOS seemed like complete vaporware. I think that, if Nokia can manage to keep a large number of existing customers, while also learning to evolve their phone interface (and hopefully the underlying architecture) to compete with iPhone, WebOS and Android, Symbian can bounce back. It may not be in the form of S60, whose 5th edition I'm not impressed with, but it could be something good that causes consumers to give Nokia's excellent hardware another look. (Or do we just want Android on Nokia?)
Contest: Design the first three-sided Apple Store {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 14th 2009 11:50PM That's so crazy! There's a really crappy bar just a block west of that lot, where my band got its start. There's definitely a lot of contrast in the area -- upscale retail just around the corner from total dives. To be able to see a giant Apple logo from the doorway of Weed's -- that's a weird thought!
Engadget's recession antidote: win an Incase goodie bag! {Engadget}
Apr 28th 2009 7:57PM Hooray for giveaways!
Logitech Harmony Adapter for PlayStation 3 answers a million prayers {Engadget}
Mar 19th 2009 8:36PM I just got the Harmony remote for Xbox 360, and I have to disagree that they're hard to use. After feeling the fit and finish of the remote itself, after setting it up to work with every single component I have, and after heavily customizing it using the software interface, I have to say that it's very easy to use, and didn't mess up any of my components. It even recognized my component device switch and my PS2 Slim (Sony: thanks for including the IR receiver!), among other obscure devices. At just $69 on Amazon, it's also one of the most affordable Harmony remotes. Sure, that may sound like a lot compared to the cheap $5 universal remotes you can buy anywhere, but the experience seriously doesn't compare. What you're really paying for is the ability to make any button do anything, and to have entire series of buttons integrated into single button presses -- but without a lot of hassle.
Of course, everyone's experiences and opinions differ. But if you think that it's a hassle to set up a Harmony remote, then it's a far greater hassle to set up any other universal remote. And at this point, with so many Harmony models out, there are plenty in the sub-$100 range, and a few that can be had for as little as $50. That's comparable in price to an Xbox 360 controller, for something that does a whole hell of a lot.
Apple previews iPhone OS 3.0, adds copy and paste, Spotlight search, plenty more {Engadget}
Mar 17th 2009 9:36PM Apparently, Apple is required to charge iPod Touch users for the upgrade, even if they offer the upgrade free to iPhone users:
http://www.macworld.com/article/131991/2008/02/ipodtouch.html
Apple previews iPhone OS 3.0, adds copy and paste, Spotlight search, plenty more {Engadget}
Mar 17th 2009 4:16PM I'm sick of how much people feel the need to register their hate/disgust/disdain for Apple and Apple products. It doesn't add much to the discussion.
We all knew from the very beginning that the iPhone didn't have the same features that lots of other phones had. I've owned smartphones and featurephones in the past that had "more" features than the iPhone, but the iPhone's implementation of everything that it actually did offer was more seamless and pleasing to use than anything else that came before it. Sure, I gave up MMS, copy/paste, and vCard functionality when I switched, but it was more than made up by everything else.
I'm not going to claim that the features announced today are revolutionary. We all know that other phones and devices have had local bluetooth connectivity, copy/paste, and and *working* push notifications for a long time now. Anyone who's really excited about these features as if they were "new" is clearly an Apple fanboy.
However, I'm excited to get these features on my iPhone. Why? Because a phone that already does far more than I need, and in a way that's pleasing to use (instead of frustrating to use), is going to become even more functional -- at no additional charge to me.
Having used Symbian, PalmOS and WinMo smartphones in the past, I can tell that I have no regrets about getting an iPhone, and I'm only more enthusiastic about how much better the iPhone is going to become, and how much more market share it's going to get as a result (thus making it even more worthwhile). I wish the best to Windows Mobile, Symbian, WebOS and Android as they continue to push the market in new directions and give consumers more choice. There's just no real point in deriding people for choosing the iPhone, as if iPhone users were all ignorant, smug, naive, or raving lunatics who didn't know that copy/paste has been around for years. Some of us just happened to find a phone that we like using. If the company that supports it wants to give users more features for free, without restricting use in other ways, that is only a good thing.
Lenovo's ThinkPad W700ds photographed and reviewed {Engadget}
Dec 31st 2008 10:10AM I was just thinking that myself -- not only would it mess up subpixel rendering, it might also have implications for the viewing angle. It would be weird to move your head up or down a little bit and notice that side display is all of a sudden much dimmer, relatively. If they saved the good panel for the main display and used a more standard run-of-the-mill LCD for the secondary display, that would likely be a problem -- provided that it's actually the case that the secondary display is an LCD turned sideways.
If the side display is actually a normally oriented LCD which happens to be in portrait format, then no problem, really -- but I was wondering about that too.
