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More on the DROID: thoughts from the rest of Engadget {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 30th 2009 9:10PM That is a really good question. It's usability for the general public that makes a phone great. That's what the iPhone has. The Pre is good too. If this is a geek phone, its appeal is going to be very narrow.
Palm pulls paid apps due to major bug allowing free app downloads {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 6th 2009 1:12AM Palm need to hire some software criminals for their QA department.
SoBe's 3D Super Bowl commercial available now on YouTube HD {Engadget HD}
Feb 1st 2009 5:09PM What technology are the using?
It's obviously not the circularly polarized stuff that use at movie theaters. And the old fashioned red-blue glasses don't work. A while, someone came out with the something based on brain delay where dark images take longer to reach the brain than light images. Is this it?
Sprint Treo Pro spotted in the wild, specs and all {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 25th 2009 9:03PM Why is it always Mr. Blurry Cam with these pictures? This is pathetic. The background is in sharp focus and the phone is blurred up. You think they're doing this intentionally.
iPhone 3G reception just fine say curious Swedes with engineering degrees {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 25th 2008 11:12AM Uhhhh, that's now how it's done in the real world. These guys obviously don't work for a phone manufacturer. They'd be fired for passing phone with their tests. A test chamber is only a starting point for phone performance. They'd need multiple base station simulators to start with. The suspected problem is with the handoffs from base station to base station and from mode to mode, not the RF performance. And they need to simulate the multipath out there.
Is Apple shooting in the dark to fix iPhone 3G issues? {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 19th 2008 8:27PM Building a good phone is fricking hard. I used to work for a defunct chip company that tried to build a phone chipset. There are so many things involved in making for a good user experience. You gotta put a lot of time and a lot of money into it.
Apple is arrogant. They think you can just buy a chipset, plop it in your device, and voila. A working phone. Just like an iPod. Just slap it together. Ain't so. Apple will have to pay their dues just like all the other phone makers out there.
Sprint pulling the plug on PCS Mail, all four users suffer nervous breakdown {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 15th 2008 3:04AM Aww bummer. I really like the SMS they sent when an email arrived. Uses less power than any push email service. I used it for investment alerts. Worked well. *sigh*
Palm's Treo 800w now available online from Sprint {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 13th 2008 11:58PM This thing has the Centro beat featurewise in almost every way. The speed, the apps, the screen resolution, and the best Palm keyboard ever (IMO). The areas where it lags are battery life and the number of button presses you need to get to an app. But that's Windows.
Rock Band 2 special edition Ion drum kit and real Fender Stratocaster guitar controllers coming {Engadget}
Jul 11th 2008 8:31PM Reading this story, we might be heading toward a convergence between "play" instruments and real ones, all interacting with a game controller and TV. Rock Band will evolve into a karaoke machine for a real drum kit, guitar, or bass. And I would love for it to get there.
When my daughter brought Rock Band home, I thought it was kind of silly. "Go out and learn how to play a real guitar" I told her. I'll spring for it. But I eventually gave it a try. I used to play a bass in high school but that was decades ago. After a little while, it was amazing to see how much of playing an instrument Rock Band captured. It was fun to "make music" again. I want to go out and get a real bass and amp again and see how much more I can relearn. But who would I play with? The next generation of Rock Band might be what I need.
HP iPAQ 610 series soldiers on outside US {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 16th 2008 2:10PM Is there some Qualcomm chip in this thing? I thought it was Marvell? All I know is that Broadcom is putting the screws to people with their patents.
