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Apple's Greg Joswiak touts iPod touch as the future of handheld gaming {Engadget}
Nov 12th 2008 10:32AM To quote Cartman "Greg Joswiak can suck my balls".
Seriously. Aside form the accelerometer - which has a relatively niche application for gaming controls - there are / were many other handhelds with the same capability for gaming. They haven't had Apples marketing savvy or slick content delivery - but they faced the same fundamental problem that the iPhone has: shite controls for gaming. So of course 'hardcore' gamers wont embrace the iPhone - you can't play a first person shooter on it. FPS games are not the end all and be all of gaming of course - but to be considered a proper game device you need to support proper game controls. period.
Then again - I think bejeweled was the most popular handheld game for Pocket PC and Palm OS (despite the fact that you could play a decent game of Doom on many of those because they had D-pads), so maybe Apple can clean up and beat nintendo and PSP soley on the strength of selling soft-and-fuzzy games to casual gamers.
HP threatening OEMs to fend off netbook invasion? {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2008 12:01PM My commodore 64 was instant on back in 1983 - it took about 1 second to start up. Most 'home computers' were then.
This annoys me from the get go because it starts out with MS saying 'a NEW feature called instant on' (its not new so that's bullshit number one) and that this 'instant on' would take 8 seconds (that's not 'instant' by any fucking definition of the word you deutsch bags).
This needs to be a hardware / software initiative and be given a lot more money / R&D by Microsoft - not just some tacked on software effort that is obviously a response to several similar features / initiatives for Linux that are out there.
I'd be happy as poop if they'd give me an instant-on XP. If they keep adding useless shit then we'll never get (back) to instant on. Vista is fine - but it is also loaded with useless shit (and so is OS X and a some this fancy-pantsy Linux distros that the kids are on about these days....). I'd just like the fucking OS to start up so I do crap without all the crap.
Edelweiss to launch first ALP-powered smartphone? {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2008 12:14PM Would be so ironic if this bastard off-spring of Palm / Palm OS (that is what ALP is) was to be come successful while Palm went on to launch their new OS next year to spectacular failure (having twice turned their noses up at PalmSource/Access Palm OS successers. Palm wasn't going to wait around for Access - no siree! They would rush to get their own Linux based OS out. Great strategy: not only did Palm further splinter the mobile Linux market; they splintered the 'mobile Linux OS with built-in Palm OS compatibility' market.
I might be totally wrong and this might be a dog while the new Palm OS might rock. But hard to imagine it makes any sense for Palm to further segment things and go it alone in a very crowded smartphone market when they could have devices out now based on this OS and not waste precious resources / dollars to launch something else a year from now.
Anyways, I want to check this out.
RIM posts BlackBerry Storm emulator, dev tools {Engadget}
Oct 8th 2008 4:49PM To get the browser to work, you need to install the MDS simulator. That's available as part of the JDE download and I think it can also be downloaded as a standalone app.
RIM posts BlackBerry Storm emulator, dev tools {Engadget}
Oct 8th 2008 4:47PM That was supposed to be a reply to Fuelcell above. Dang.
RIM posts BlackBerry Storm emulator, dev tools {Engadget}
Oct 8th 2008 4:40PM Blackberry development is all 'Java 2 Mobile Edition' and they have been that way for years now. It is RIM's own flavor of J2ME (their own APIs), but it also has full MIDP 2.0 compatibility so that it can run apps written for 'generic' Java phones.
ASUS doles out gold and blue Eee PCs {Engadget}
Sep 28th 2008 2:55PM Holy hell - you're right. The sales numbers show that Acer is the only other netbook with major sales - so Asus is engaging in this funny bit of skinning in an effort to trick some people into buying this. That sounds far fetched but I don't think it is. Asus showed that they are basically not competent (yet) at managing a brand; the way they watered down their golden Eee brand and rendered it meaningless in a matter of months should be a marketing case study taught in schools. Somebody needs to talk to the decision makers at that company and say 'look - let's just sit down, breath, cool our heads, and look at what were doing here before we rush another dozen models out the door this week. okay?'
Hitachi makes like Toshiba and touts "super resolution technology" {Engadget}
Sep 25th 2008 12:58PM @ vagvoba
Yes indeedy - a lot of processing power.
It also isn't perfect, as even with a great deal of processing power, it is impossible to have perfect enough object motion recognition, such that it can say 'this object in frame B is the same object in frame A but it has moved this % of the screen to the right, and rotated on this axis this much and this axis this much (3D) - so now let's adjust for that motion, analyze the picture elements and combine the sampled elements from multiple frames to render a more detailed image'. There is still 'unknowable' detail that might won't be revealed by motion and the algorithms for (or AI might be a better term with the way this stuff is going!) object recognition and analysis can never be perfect enough to compensate accurately for the motion that is occurring in 3 dimensions.
But it is damned ingenious and I can see how they will be able to get CLOSE to actual 'real' HD. Still won't be the same though.
Hitachi makes like Toshiba and touts "super resolution technology" {Engadget}
Sep 25th 2008 12:42PM just a reminder:
the upscaling technology in question has nothing to do with the actual screen display technology - so LCD / OLED is all the same as far as upscaling / not upscaling / Blue-Ray / whatever. This is pure image data manipulation.
Brando charms with Super Tiny Keyboard {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2008 1:08PM My thoughts exactly.
I'd love to have this as my PS3 keyboard. If it this had BT then it would be better than Sony's new offering - I just can't get into that weird keyboard that clamps onto the top of the controller thing that Sony is doing. 95% of my console typing needs do not involve simultaneous use of the thumb-sticks and typing, so this is way better.
Hope a BT version comes soon.
