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Hands-on: Sony shows off prototype 400-disc Blu-ray Mega Changer {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2008 5:42PM What the hell, have these guys never heard of hard drives?
Remember when you used to carry all the CDs or MDs you wanted to listen to around with you until iPods turned up? Yeah.... The same conveniences should be found in your home movie setup!
A functional Meizu M8 UI, CEO Jack Wong finally caught on video {Engadget}
Aug 31st 2008 8:14PM Good thing it comes with a removable battery then because this thing is gonna be flat in 5 minutes!
You show me one WinMo/WinCE device that'll browse for 6 hours with a standard (not fat extended) battery. They don't exist, and they all have lower specs!
Sony delivers the first 240Hz LCDs November 10 {Engadget}
Aug 28th 2008 12:44PM I can't stand the juddery slide-show style 24fps film frame rate, it annoys me almost as much as the shaking of interlaced video (Why oh why is there 1080i? My TV looks way better in 720p than 1080i because at least all the fine edges of detail aren't shaking up and down!)
Whatever I'm watching sucks me in so much more when the motion is fluid and lifelike, I want to feel like I'm there watching the action not a series of photographs of it in quick succession.
If only everything was shot in 1080p 60fps or more! I've watched a few things in this format and it was so smooth, detailed, clear and realistic!
Have a read up on 100fps.com to see why interlacing and low frame rates are both horrible!
British ad watchdogs nix iPhone "whole internet" claim {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Aug 27th 2008 11:03AM This all depends on how you define the internet.
Flash is a plug-in and not part of HTML specs, therefore not a requirement for a fully functional internet browser.
Claiming MobileSafari is not the 'full internet' because it doesn't have a flash player is like saying a car stereo that doesn't play MP3-CD is not a 'full CD player'
iPhone 3G reception just fine say curious Swedes with engineering degrees {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2008 6:24AM Personally I think the main cause for complaint is the iPhone 3G has made a lot of users realise just how poor their carriers 3G coverage actually is - they just don't realise it's the carrier not the phone.
A major cause for confusion is that in an area with strong GSM (2G) signal but only mediocre UMTS (3G) signal the phone will connect to the 3G signal (That will still perform better than the stronger 2G one - especially for data). So the user used to getting full bars in that area on a 2G only phone will think their phone is getting a weaker signal than normal.
There are problems here however... the phone might get a good enough 3G signal to switch to 3G from 2G, then lose it as the phone is moved out of 3G coverage causing a possible dropout/dropped call, even though the whole area is well covered by 2G. Again, this is not unique to the iPhone and is caused by spotty 3G coverage and up to the carrier to improve coverage. If you live in an area with spotty 3G coverage - turn 3G off until you need it.
Another thing to keep in mind is everyone judges their signal on how many 'bars' are displayed. Bars displayed share a very loose relationship with the actual signal strength, for example a signal at -90dB (medium strength) might be displayed as 4 bars on one handset and 2 on another, despite being the same strength on both phones.
WatchScale attempts to become the new calculator watch {Engadget}
Aug 21st 2008 1:37PM Do they do a milligram version for those who prefer the more exotic products? ;)
Intel Nehalem processor gets "turbo mode," blinking red lights {Engadget}
Aug 20th 2008 1:31PM Heh, I still keep reading Calpella as Crapella, they should really come up with a better name :)
USB 3.0 gets seriously detailed {Engadget}
Aug 18th 2008 4:07PM That's because USB is not peer to peer like say, Firewire. It has a Host and a Client, and as such require different connectors to identify what type of connection the device allows (If it wasn't this way people would try to link two computers together and other such conveniences not possible with USB).
USB 3.0 gets seriously detailed {Engadget}
Aug 18th 2008 4:00PM 480Mbit = 0.46875Gbit so x10 would be 4.6875Gbit!
Unless you buy into hard drive manufacturer's bullshit or you think 'kibibit', 'mebibit' and 'gibibit' sounds good that is!
Intel Atom is early success, could care less about this recession thing {Engadget}
Aug 13th 2008 3:23PM While you're right, they probably could care a whole lot less and are probably paying attention to the economy, I don't think that's what you intended to say! :)
