Recent Comments:
PSA: Sears charging $50 less for new DROID activations than Verizon {Engadget}
Nov 6th 2009 11:55AM What I find shocking is that you have to pay an activation fee! In the UK you buy a phone, you put the SIM card in, you go, no extra fees, nothing. They really do try and sting your as much as possible don't they!
Microsoft messes with 'natural' user interface, featuring eye tracking, voice control and wild body gestures {Engadget}
Nov 6th 2009 11:30AM I brought my invisible copy of Duke Nukem Forever .... bugger just dropped it, now where the hell did it go?
Atheros brings 802.11n to cellphones with AR6003, is one antenna short of a pair {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2009 9:35AM ... its what you do with the antennas
Xbox 360 Wireless N adapter disappears from the internets {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2009 9:19AM @Lareeth You are one of the lucky few, the rest of us are still waiting for it to appear. Plus there are no specific instructions as to where this sodding thing will be found in order to install it when/if it does eventually appear.
MIT's Affective Intelligent Driving Agent is KITT and Clippy's lovechild (video) {Engadget}
Oct 30th 2009 5:38AM Is it me, or wouldn't a dismembered head suddenly popping up in the middle of the dash to obscure your view be a little distracting?
Microsoft temporarily suspends Sky Player for Xbox 360 {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2009 10:57AM Not if we can help it
Solid Alliance's new earbuds are 'crazy,' ugly {Engadget}
Oct 21st 2009 12:01PM Come on Engadget, this should have had a poll with it!
SplitFish Dual SFX Frag Pro pairs button-enriched mouse with 'fragchuck,' ships November 10 {Engadget}
Oct 21st 2009 6:24AM Those thumb buttons on the side of the mouse are no good for people with larger hands. You could not use this for more than an hour at a time before your thumb seized up. The left controller also looks too complicated.
T-Mobile Pulse now available in UK {Engadget}
Oct 2nd 2009 4:30AM Not a bad plan as well, my better half is looking for a new phone right now and this would be a good excuse for me, er sorry, I mean her to get one.
Ask Engadget: What's the best business phone out there? {Engadget}
Sep 25th 2009 6:17AM I agree with WindowsFTW, the touch pro 2 is by far the best business phone out there. It is a little on the chunky side, but the battery lasts 2 full days of very heavy usage (4 hours average of phone calls, 3g surfing, wifi in office, listening to music etc) the keyboard is the best I have used, with a fantastic layout (although you have to get used to using the FN button instead of [shift] for special characters) After one months use I have now managed to get up to an average of 30 words a minute on it. The support of xda and ppcgeeks forums means that the phone can be enhanced pretty much anyway you like. The reception is fantastic and the conference call facility is a life saver.
WiFi Check
GPS Check
good coverage in lots of places I'm in the UK so not sure about US
Push Gmail Check (works flawlessly for me)
physical keyboard Check (best keyboard out there)
a touchscreen Check
decent battery life Check
a relatively slim body Semi Check
To balance out this praise I do have a few personal gripes with it:
1) the built in memory is a bit poor to say the least (512mb), but you can quickly add a 16gb microSD to sort that
2) Its a little slow at first, once you apply the xda patches then it can speed up by as much as 40%
3) to get some of the best features of this phone, such as bi-directional phone conversation recording, you have to unlock the feature
4) no 3.5mm audio jack
But over all it is a fantastic phone and perfect for business use. It also comes with a fantastic little app that allows you to take a photo of a business card which it then OCR's and dumps into your contacts. Sounds sad, I know, but you get some serious phone envy in large meetings when there are lots of business cards flying around.
