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T-Mobile Cameo photo frame launches this month for $99.99 {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 7th 2008 11:42AM Oh great! A photo frame that my loved ones can beam photos to. Yeah, it should be on my Wi-Fi network (high-bandwidth, free) and accept photos via email (free).
Wait, you want me to BUY A PHONE LINE FOR IT??
That's a stupid, stupid, STUPID idea.
T-Mobile Cameo photo frame launches this month for $99.99 {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 7th 2008 11:40AM Oh great! A photo frame that my loved ones can beam photos to. Yeah, it should be on my Wi-Fi network (high-bandwidth, free) and accept photos via email (free).
Wait, you want me to BUY A PHONE LINE FOR IT??
That's a stupid, stupid, STUPID idea.
Researchers create solar tie that charges, carries cellphone {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 19th 2008 10:34AM Yes, brilliant planning. Next they should make a solar umbrella, for charging your phone during rainstorms.
Gates: Microsoft isn't going head-to-head with the iPhone {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 15th 2008 12:24PM It's a huge market, and it's getting bigger. If they don't launch an iPhone competitor, it's because they're hurting so much from the failure of the Zune to compete with the iPod.
Frankly, Windows Mobile is such a headache to use that, unless Microsoft gets some really fresh minds in the company, I don't see them being ABLE to compete with the iPhone. They just don't GET it.
At any rate, I'm expecting Android to shake everybody up - and I'm really looking forward to it. Windows Mobile will shrivel and die if you can get a much better alternative for free.
Gates: Microsoft isn't going head-to-head with the iPhone {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 15th 2008 12:24PM It's a huge market, and it's getting bigger. If they don't launch an iPhone competitor, it's because they're hurting so much from the failure of the Zune to compete with the iPod.
Frankly, Windows Mobile is such a headache to use that, unless Microsoft gets some really fresh minds in the company, I don't see them being ABLE to compete with the iPhone. They just don't GET it.
At any rate, I'm expecting Android to shake everybody up - and I'm really looking forward to it. Windows Mobile will shrivel and die if you can get a much better alternative for free.
Gates: Microsoft isn't going head-to-head with the iPhone {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 15th 2008 12:23PM It's a huge market, and it's getting bigger. If they don't launch an iPhone competitor, it's because they're hurting so much from the failure of the Zune to compete with the iPod.
Frankly, Windows Mobile is such a headache to use that, unless Microsoft gets some really fresh minds in the company, I don't see them being ABLE to compete with the iPhone. They just don't GET it.
At any rate, I'm expecting Android to shake everybody up - and I'm really looking forward to it. Windows Mobile will shrivel and die if you can get a much better alternative for free.
Google gDisk to become official service? {Engadget}
Nov 27th 2007 9:42AM Probably not. But then, your bank doesn't enough money for everyone to withdraw their accounts at once either. Both of them operate on average usage estimates, and (except in rare cases) it works fine.
Verizon Wireless opens network to "Any Apps, Any Device" in 2008 {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 27th 2007 9:37AM What would be truly revolutionary is if they (and other carriers) stop trying to control every aspect of the user's experience and really just be the data pipe. For example, stop trying to sell ringtones, operate second-rate music services, and such nonsense, and start making devices that users can control. Verizon is pretty bad about this now - my dad's phone had links for maybe five places to buy ringtones from, but I bet it won't let him make his own.
Eight or so years ago I had my PC set up to be the answering machine on my land line, and its greeting was a WAV file that I recorded with all kinds of neat recording tricks. Why can't I do that now and upload it to my voicemail? Why can't I walk into my house and let my phone sync its contacts with my computer over my wireless network? Why should I pay my carrier a monthly fee to backup less than one megabyte of contacts data when I can put 2 gigs on a thumb drive?
With an internet connection at home, I can do whatever I please with my computer - use whatever online services I want, install what I want, customize what I want. My cell phone should be the same way.
I hope this is a step in that direction.
Court clears way for suit hating on T-Mobile's locking, ETF policies {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 17th 2007 9:40AM "Subsidized" phones are a myth. Basic economics tells you that if the phone company's goal is to make money, they are not going to lose money on the phone. If they "subsidize" it, they charge the difference to you in your monthly rate.
A better system would be that you can buy your phone from anyone you like and take it to any carrier you like. Then you could shop for a device solely based on features, and the carriers couldn't disable features to force their own services on you (i.e. disable a simple USB port and make you pay a monthly fee to backup your contacts!?!).
If paying the cost of a phone up front is too tough for you, buy a cheaper phone, pay on credit, or whatever. At least this way you'd be buying from a competitive market instead of a monopoly.
Google cooking up more apps for the iPhone and other details {Engadget}
May 29th 2007 8:28AM "Wasn't Google coming out with an iPhone killer? Then why release plural apps for the iPhone/the competition?"
Same reason that Apple released iTunes for PC - you get the competition's users accustomed to your style, next thing you know they're thinking, "I like iTunes; why not get a Mac?"
