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Engadget's recession antidote: win a Mimo UM710 USB monitor! {Engadget}
Feb 12th 2009 1:32PM I'd like to have this very much, thanks.
The hundred gadget giveaway: round 16 {Engadget}
Sep 7th 2007 8:32PM Engadget is cool. That's all I'm saying.
Apple announces iPod Touch: iPhone without the phone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 5th 2007 3:36PM How is no one mentioning the 'Contacts' icon on the home screen? This makes a lot more sense than just having it embedded in the phone section.
Honestly, I was sort of hoping for a bigger software update for the iPhone but I guess I'll have to wait for Leopard.
Giveaway: super rare E Ink watch! {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2007 4:09PM Replacing my wrist-mounted sun dial
Survey: two-thirds say "no thanks" to iPhone {Engadget Mobile}
May 2nd 2007 10:03PM "I wouldn't get one of these because it's so bulk"
Umm... I don't think the iPhone is as big as you think it is. Compared to the Razr, it's 1/3 of an inch wider, 2/3 of an inch taller, but it's also a bit thinner. It's also slightly smaller than the Q in each dimension. I'm not saying it's tiny (nor is it by any means perfect), but it ain't exactly large.
FCC gives Samsung i760 two thumbs up {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 2nd 2007 12:46AM Any one try calling the phone number in the diagram? Maybe if we just ask nicely, they'll give us all the details.
Apple's Magical Mystery Touch Screen {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Mar 16th 2007 9:30PM Am I the only one who has been thinking that the iphone (and hopefully the wide screen ipod soon) would be a great remote control for the apple tv (and your mac)? It has WiFi and Bluetooth to connect, and the multi-touch screen would be pretty sweet.
Maybe that will be one of the additional widgets that Apple will add before launch.
Admittedly though, it is nice to have tactile buttons on a remote. It's just... can you really see Apple coming out with a button-ed remote?
Zephyr's HDMI port and new HANA scaler: up close and personal {Engadget}
Jan 11th 2007 12:29PM "In no way, shape, or form is 720p better than 1080i. You're talking about a very large difference in pixels, and you're obviously ignorant on the subject."
While I completely agree with the main point of your post, try not to be such as asshole when you're not 100% sure you're correct. Keep in mind that 1080i only delivers 540 lines on each redraw of the screen. So typically, 720p is considered to be slightly smoother for high motion video (even though for a particular frame you have more lines of resolution in a 1080i image).
In addition, there are some issues that arise with interlaced video being displayed on an LCD or plasma (which are inherently progressive monitors since they don't use an electron beam to 'paint' the screen). See wikipedia (720p article):
"While 720p presents a complete 720 line frame to the viewer between 24 to 60 times each second (depending on the format), 1080i presents the picture as 50 or 60 partial 540 line "fields" (24 complete 1080-line fields, or "24p" is included in the ATSC standard though) which the human eye or a deinterlacer built into the display device must visually and temporally combine to build a 1080 line picture - in CRT type display. To get all 1080 interlaced lines to appear on the screen at the same time on a progressive high-definition display, the processor within the HD set has to weave together both 540-line segments to form the full-resolution frame. It does so by holding the first field in its memory, receiving the next field, then electronically knitting the two fields together. The combined fields are displayed at once as a complete 1080p frame. The main tradeoff between the two is that 1080i may show more detail than 720p for a stationary shot of a subject at the expense of a lower effective refresh rate and the introduction of interlace artifacts during motion."
Of course, 1080p is a whole other beast, since it's actually twice the pixels being delivered per re-draw (compared to 1080i). And, as I mentioned, I agree with you that very few people would be able to tell the difference between the formats unless they had two sets next to each other.
iriver W10 uses Skyhook for WiFi-based positioning {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2007 4:46PM Aww, crap. Just when I was thinking that the iPhone had (3G excluded) every feature I would need, I get reminded that it lacks GPS. Maybe they could use this technology to provide similar results in 'urban areas'?
Engadget HD giveaways: win a Samsung HL-S5679W DLP with LED backlight {Engadget HD}
Oct 4th 2006 9:49PM Comcast. But I too dream of FIOS.
