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Core Values: The silicon behind Android {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2009 4:10PM It would have been nice if he mentioned, the G1 is also underclocked. It doesn't run at the processors full capability of 528mhz. Google devs have casually mentioned that in testing that due to bus limitations, there is no significant performance benefit between the underclocked speed they set (was it 384mhz?) and the full 528mhz. Also, underclocking the processor provides greater battery life. If this is true for other Android devices than the G1, I don't know. But it does help explain why the G1 seems sluggish, and newer devices using the same processor appear to have better performance.
It's also annoying the G1/Dream was still advertised as a 528mhz device, without actually being clocked at 528mhz for full performance, even if the benefit gained was meager.
ASUS Eee PC 1008HA reportedly priced at 359 {Engadget}
Mar 21st 2009 4:27AM I love my blue 1000HE.
It plays streaming Netflix videos, and my umm ahh.. xvid/divx files perfectly. The screen size and overall size (and weight) is just right, so that I can just pick it up and move to another area (owrk or home, from room to room) while doing things, and take what I'm watching or listening to with me. I like having a movie ot tv show always on in the background.
It's been very handy while playing D&D. Now I don't carry an extra 8lbs of books, paper and dice, just my 3.4lbs netbook, which lasts through an entire night or afternoon game, plus my travel time to get to a friends house and back.
I've noticed less strain on my shoulder/back from carrying it, as oppsed to my 14" laptop. (For those of you about to tell me I should have gotten a macbook, they cost too much for me. This cost me $340 and does the job, and I do think it looks nice.)
On top of those issues, it plays Starcraft and runs the game emulators I use for when I want some gaming diversion on the go. I didn't buy it to do gaming on a 10" screen, but the few times I've wanted a bit of gaming diversion, it did the job. I wouldn't play newer games on a 10" screen, and I don't know why anyone would want to beyond "bragging rights", which I don't care about.
Anyway, you get the point. It's light (enough) while being small - yet large enough. It doesn't generate a ton of heat. I can use it comfortably just chilling out on the couch/bed/train/plane/park/coffee shop, and it's no hassle.
Maybe one day it'd be handy to have it encode video on the run or somesuch higher-end use, but for now..
How would you change Verizon's Hub? {Engadget}
Mar 21st 2009 4:09AM
And yes, I realize this would require Verizon to work with consumer electronics companies to ensure their protocols/standards, what have you, will integrate.
How would you change Verizon's Hub? {Engadget}
Mar 21st 2009 4:06AM
It should be the communications hub for a multi-faceted household media service.
It should do all of the following:
A) Function as a home communications system. This doesn't just include enhanced POTS style service (PHONE CALLS) and household PBX functionality but also...
A2) Video Calling/Conferencing/Messaging.
A3) Adapters/software for 3rd party device services integration. Use the TV/home Entertainment System/Laptop/Cellphone to answer/initiate calls, including video calling.
B) It should act as a home network/media router, including LAN(wi-fi) and Cellular wireless for the home.
C) It should have home automation integration. - On the way home, use cell phone to turn up thermostat, start coffee brewing, boot up system and load news items, and update my phone with what shows are recently Tivo'd or torrented and are available now to watch.
D) All integrated systems (HUB display, phone handset, home entertainment system, app on laptop...etc) would have a menu to manage lights, thermostat, show me who's at the front door and interact with them...etc.
I think the picture is clear. If you're going to call it a "HUB", make it so.
10-inch Acer Aspire One now official in the US {Engadget}
Feb 10th 2009 8:06AM
The Asus 1000HE comes wih a matte, NOT glossy screen. Try reading reviews and specs instead of just skimming, or lieing.
Intel ships Atom N280 for 720p netbooks -- NVIDIA's Ion points, laughs {Engadget}
Feb 6th 2009 5:19AM
"Secondly, the GN40 chipset combined with either Atom CPU has a TDP of 16.5W"
Ahh crap, does this mean the damn fan is going to be dronng (whining) away all the time?
More power, more heat.. and having a "northbridge" that didn't run at 60c was why I was getting away from the 945GSE northbridge.
CRAP!?
NVIDIA Ion platform review roundup {Engadget}
Feb 3rd 2009 2:50PM I'm torn over this. For a mini-pc yes, sign me up! But for a netbook? It defeats the purpose. Quite a few of the complaints about the more popular netbooks have to do with a) heat and b) the fan noise c) battery life. It looks like people are getting excited over just having tiny desktop replacements.. please don't confuse them with netbooks.
The newer intel chipset for the n280 atom processor hopefully will run cooler, and without the need for the fan. The atom processor itself already doesn't require a fan. Which will be a great improvement. I'm already signed up for the new EEE 1000he pre-order for just this reason. Awesome battery life/low overall power consumption, less heat generated by the northbridge, and hopfully no annoyingly/loud persistent fan.
For a netbook, a new even more power hungry 'ne HOT chipset.. doesn't excite me. But don't worry nvidia, I love you, and I'll be happy to have you in my mini-pc.
HP issues software update for MediaSmart Server {Engadget HD}
Jan 23rd 2009 5:04PM HP has new mediaserver models coming out. You think they would have cared about releasing these fixes otherwise? They just don't want existing customers complaining and killing sales of the new products.
Some show of support for your products HP. Only fix crap to sell more crap, not because you want to support your existing customers.
Android Cupcake in all its keyboard-having glory, T-Mobile plays dumb {Engadget}
Jan 23rd 2009 12:53AM So, the G1 is a T-Mobile product. Cupcake is a pre-release "in-development" not-even-beta version of an open source operating system called Android, which is not owned by T-Mobile.
Android is primarily managed by Google, with backing from the Open Handset Alliance.
T-Mobile runs a cost/benefit analysis to determin how much they want to pay programmers (theirs or Googles or whoever) to incorporate features from new versions of Android, in to the G1's OS. Let's call it that, the G1 OS (based on Android.) Oh wow hey.. G1 ANDroid OS = G1ADOS. Hrm.. looks familar, makes me want cake, but I digress...
I guess my point here was to show that "cupcake" will not end up on the G1 as an update from T-Mobile, but whatever pieces of cupcake and other future Android updates that T-mobile is willing to pay to incorporate pieces of, might end up on the G1.
Yes, sometimes I do like to state the obvious in long run on sentences for no other reason than not everyone gets it.
Motorola QA4 Halo outed by Bluetooth SIG, early details begin to flow {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 21st 2008 7:24AM
Android device?
