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Engadget & Joystiq live from Sony's E3 2008 keynote {Engadget}
Jul 15th 2008 1:51PM I've been a huge Final Fantasy fan, but I think recently the series has just not had the magic that it used to have. Although the FFXIII announcement was a big psychological blow to Sony. Far more important is the next series that can be exclusive to PlayStation. I think Final Fantasy has had it's run, I'm ready for something new, and something great. I'd rather have a brand new game with the same level of magic as Final Fantasy VI or VII than a remake of those exact games for PS3. This is the announcement we need from Sony. LittleBigPlanet is one of these games, but they need much more. And they need to not be announcements, they need to be secret under wraps projects that are nearly complete.
Engadget & Joystiq live from Sony's E3 2008 keynote {Engadget}
Jul 15th 2008 1:46PM What's the point, they've done one better for us, the consumer. They allow us to add any hard drive we want. What more could you ask for. They are giving up revenue by not selling us the "super duper expensive PS3 branded hard drive" to give us this freedom. Plus they take a lot of heat on too many SKUs.
Engadget & Joystiq live from Nintendo's E3 2008 keynote {Engadget}
Jul 15th 2008 1:19PM My God. And you guys all repeat ad nauseum how Nintendo is always looking out for the gamer when all they can do is sell add-on after add-on providing functionality that should have been in the box? If you think Sony and MS care too much about making their devices into multimedia monsters and not enough about games, than Nintendo cares too much about money and not enough about games. While the other players in this space are giving extra functionality and value to their loyal customer base for free. Nintendo can't be bothered to announce anything that doesn't sell with some kind of add-on for extra margins.
Tesla finally finalized its single-speed gearbox, on track for completion in August {Engadget}
May 28th 2008 12:37AM Vehemently denied? Tesla has been consistent this entire time. The only thing that has been inconsistent is the reporting. Simply put, locked into a single gear, the 1.0 transmission isn't going to fail, but doesn't meet the performance characteristics originally promised. It "would" have been unreliable in two gears getting the car to 60 in 3.9 but that's not how they released it. Just because a hypothical configuration of the car might have reliability problems only shows that Tesla has been more than open about all the issues (otherwise you wouldn't even know). The only thing lacking is Engadget editors' ability to actually understand the facts.
Can saltwater be burned as fuel? {Engadget}
Sep 11th 2007 7:29PM How can you people be so stupid? This person has not invented a new fuel source. He's invented a dual purpose converter. It:
1. Converts RF waves into heat.
2. Converts idiots into babbling idiots.
Mischievous duo plead not guilty to LA traffic hacking scandal {Engadget}
Jan 11th 2007 1:47PM If they are pleading not guilty shouldn't this article contain more uses of the word "allegedly"?
The iPhone is not a smartphone {Engadget}
Jan 10th 2007 1:37PM I think people are letting them get their emotions in the way of good critical thinking here. I think Apple makes a few great products and a few bad products. I think they make mostly good choices for their products but also just a couple of really crappy ones too.
I have a smartphone on Cingular. I click compile in visual studio, I sync the program over to my phone, install it on my removable miniSD card, I run it, and I see it running.
Anyone trying to clear Apple's name before it's officially confirmed that 3rd party apps won't run by blaming Cingular is being purposefully ignorant. Cingular is unique among the carriers in my opinion because they do not make the phone manufacturers cut features out of their phones. They let the manufacturers deliver the best products they can. That's the whole reason I switched to Cingular and they've delivered on that.
Anyone who thinks that compared to the "evilness" of Cingular, Apple is such an open company needs to wake up. Apple's trademark is taking a product that is too loosely decoupled, tightly integrating it by making everything themselves from the hardware to the software, shedding unnecessary features and only doing the basics and a few nifty things REALLY well.
The iPhone most likely will be no different. Allowing other people to run 3rd party apps on the iPhone might take up memory, or slow down the cool picture sliding into the email effect. I don't believe Apple will tolerate this.
That being said the only revolutionary thing about the iPhone is the idea of non stylus, multi touch screen. And until we get to play with it I don't think any of us can judge this as either "doing away with the classic gripes of touchscreens" or "going to be a complete disaster"
Everything else on the phone has been done before, just not as slickly in such a great slim package.
Most complaints will get either dealt with in v2 of the iPhone (3G, possibly more carriers, etc). Or in firmware upgrades (more VPN support, email, etc), or in features that might already there and Jobs just didn't have time to show them off (works with bluetooth GPS)
I'd say the biggest gripes that most likely won't get solved are: No 3rd party app support, no removable battery, no removable flash memory (I still don't think this is really a big deal though)
For me the only deal breaker is the no 3rd party apps support. But even still, the device looks amazing and tempts me to want to give up the flexibility of my smartphone as it will many people.
Every remarkable product (iPhone, xbox360, ps3) gets hit with a few gripes because when they get announced usually the companies do a good job of explaining why the product is so cool. We don't need 1000 forum rats to reiterate just how cool the thing is, we saw for ourselves in the keynote. This thing is really cool!
