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BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon on July 12 for $199.99? {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 26th 2009 11:01PM Hold on here...Verizon? First with a Phone?? Reasonably priced???
Quick, someone tell me how much they've gimped it before I have to go check the temperature in hell...
T-Mobile, Verizon set to offer Android-based Motorola phones this year {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 22nd 2009 5:01PM Um, doesn't Motorola have a piss-poor rep these days? I haven't owned one of their phones in...well, ever, which probably says something, but I know their sales have been tanking the past couple years.
Maybe it was just the software and Android will fix all that?
Sprint intros 500MB business data plan for $39.99 {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 9th 2009 8:15AM Isn't the 5GB plan $60/mo?
Something seems unbalanced.... :-)
HTC Touch Pro2 brandishes Verizon logo, poses for camera with Cedar {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 6th 2009 4:56PM Me too, but no faith.
They'll probably try their very best to make it ugly, too.
Samsung Pivot, a possible Epix successor for AT&T? {Engadget Mobile}
May 25th 2009 6:59PM 320x240? Must be a typo...I hope? :-)
HTC Touch Pro2 brandishes Verizon logo, poses for camera with Cedar {Engadget Mobile}
May 25th 2009 5:03PM Don't worry guys -- Verizon still has plenty of time to delay the release date, gimp the hardware, and jack up the price...they haven't lost their title of Most Evil Company Ever quite yet...
What is wrong with the U.S. economy? {Daily Finance}
Mar 28th 2009 1:07AM Hate on welfare all you want, but getting rid of it tomorrow won't begin to solve any problems.
In 2008, welfare programs made up about $350B of the federal budget -- less than half of what has been slated for deadbeat executives in the finance industry. Personally, I'd rather see some single mom get a few bucks to feed her kids better food than some executive get a 6- or 7-figure bonus.
What would you have them do? Take all that money from the poor people and give even more to the suits? I hope you feel patriotic and righteous as the rioters come for you...I'll be cheering them on.
Oh, and taxes...you think cutting taxes will get businesses hiring again? Think again. Any /conservative/ will tell you that raising taxes on a business will just hurt the employees and the customers, because the business owners will protect their profits -- and they're right. But the obvious corollary (which they love to leave out) is that when you lower taxes, especially in a recession, the businesses will still just pad their profits; they won't hire a soul until the market has already started to turn around. That's why Economics 101 tells you that employment is a lagging indicator.
Good companies figured out long ago that 10 happy, engaged, well-trained, fairly-compensated employees are more productive than 100 miserable, pigeonholed, barely-qualified, shamelessly-underpaid employees -- at least in knowledge-work industries, which theoretically is where the U.S. still has an edge, at least for now.
Want to get good bang for your buck?
Short-term:
I'm in total agreement with regulation. Capitalism turns to cannibalism if left unwatched. Mergers need to be beaten down. Compensation needs to be checked. Ethics needs to be enforced -- hard.
Hunt down all the obvious conflicts of interest and eradicate them. Boards and CEOs shouldn't set each other's pay. Ratings agencies shouldn't get paid to give good ratings. Fund managers should get paid based on results, not how often they trade your money around. Brokers should have some kind of accountability for liar loans and such -- and so should borrowers, but I can see a dumb borrower getting snowed, while the broker darn well knows better.
Long-term: Spend on education. Start with the ratings agencies and 4th grade math, but after that, focus on significant, mandatory financial education in high schools. Focus on teachers too; a lot of them suck, and should be paid accordingly, but a great teacher is definitely worth 6 figures.
Sprint's 2009 roadmap comes to light, packed with goodies {Engadget}
Mar 16th 2009 4:45PM If Sprint isn't getting the Blackberry Niagara until the end of Q3 2009, then that means Verizon won't be getting it until like Q2 2010... :-(
HTC says Touch Pro2 will be "broadly available," North America included {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 22nd 2009 6:58PM @bernardino: Your "touch" screen is what's called a capacitive touch screen, like the iPhone and the G1.
The Touch Pro is resistive (pressure-responsive), but you can set the pressure sensitivity to be pretty light, so it gets pretty close to feeling like a capacitive screen...except around the edges, sadly.
Note that HTC's website lists all their phones' screens as "touch-sensitive", yet we know the G1 is capacitive and the Touch Pro 1 is resistive.
I would say it's a safe bet that the Touch Pro 2 is resistive.
HTC says Touch Pro2 will be "broadly available," North America included {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 22nd 2009 6:53PM Any word on the BATTERY? Looks like the same 1500mAh?
That's my biggest gripe with the current Touch Pro. All these big-screen phones are great...for the 3/4 day that they last with active usage. If you have a phone that does almost everything...you're probably going to use it a lot, so it would be nice if it had more staying power.
Sure, Mugen and Seido make good extended batteries, and truthfully I don't mind the size and weight, but no one makes /cases/ for the super-sized versions.... :-(
And I think they took away the camera flash on the Touch Pro 2...bummer. Not crucial, but was nice to have.
