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REPORT: Former Ferrari chief Jean Todt confirms candidacy for FIA president {Autoblog}
Jul 17th 2009 6:31AM Actually, Vatanen didn't even run for European Parlament in this years elections.
Cellphone boarding pass gets tested, experience gets journaled {Engadget}
Nov 28th 2008 3:35AM Somehow I find this whole mess unfounded. For the last few years I've been boarding all my flights by just showing my passport or id at gate where they check that I'm on the list. The boarding information and place number arrives by sms. This is quite commonplace on all European carries even on intercontinental flights.
Nokia acquires Trolltech -- the biggest little company you've never heard of {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 28th 2008 6:23AM I don't really like how you advertise your blog but I absolutely agree with the fact that Symbian is a pain in the ass to program.
Verizon chooses LTE for 4G network, hell freezes over {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 21st 2007 2:39AM Good bye Qualcomm!
Nokia to add Assisted GPS to all new GPS devices {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 21st 2007 6:20AM They mostly use AGPS to get quick fixes. A friend of mine has the 6110 Navigator and its GPS cold starts in matter of seconds where as with N95's earlier firmware getting the fix can take hideously long.
Hands-on with T-Mobile HotSpot @Home {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 27th 2007 4:24PM There shouldn't be any difference in sound quality between wifi and gsm. And if there is, it is UMA that sounds better as it uses either a/-law (same as pstn) or gsm codecs. And if a bluetooth headset affects sound quality, it has nothing to do with either uma or gsm.
And about the sound quality when going further away from wifi base station. Gsm codec takes 9,6 kbps and law 64 kbps (+ ip overhead ~20%) of your precious bandwith and wifi can deliver that as long as there is any connection no matter how shitty between your phone and ap.
Nokia pays $20 million to Qualcomm to use UMTS {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 7th 2007 4:40AM Hahaha. Nokia's press release has one gem:
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Nokia retains the right to ask Qualcomm, and its customers, to respect Nokia's patents rights. The retained rights have significant value, and Nokia believes it is well positioned to offset any claims Qualcomm may make against Nokia products to claim more money in license fees.
"It is important to note that as of April 9, 2007, Qualcomm's entire chipset business becomes exposed to Nokia's extensive GSM, WCDMA and CDMA patent portfolios and Nokia will use all rights from those portfolios when defending itself against any new Qualcomm litigation", Simonson concluded.
"""
Metamenu trying something new with menus on Blu-ray discs {Engadget HD}
Jun 29th 2006 1:29PM It is BD-J. Or how on Earth would it work on all players? Somebody has just made a ready product for studios to use and calls it Metamenu.
HD DVD review {Engadget HD}
Apr 19th 2006 11:39AM >Thanks for the explaination. I assume I can get better results from using the multi-channel analoge output then?
I'm under that impression. Though the perfect solution would be buyinga receiver which allows you to hook it up with hdmi and use the digital uncmpressed pcm signal instead of either using an analog or recompressed version.
HD DVD review {Engadget HD}
Apr 19th 2006 10:05AM The DTS thing isn't a bug. The player decodes the original DD+ audio and mixes it with content from menus in pcm. If you use the analog outs or the hdmi interface to carry your audio to receiver, you'll get this pcm content which is something like 5.1 48 khz / 24 bit with DPL2. The s/pdif / toslink hasn't got enough bandwith for this and thus the player encodes this to DTS @ 1.5 mbps to get it fit the s/pdif connection.
