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The Apple iPhone {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 9th 2007 4:35PM I get it that this is a phone, not an iPod, but I continue to look for that full convergence of phone, PDA, mp3 player, and camera into a single personal appliance. We're almost there. Give this thing 30-40gb, 3 more megapixels, some kind of expansion slot for media-yet-to-be-determined, and a bump up in speed and you're basically done (assuming you can edit office application documents). I know we'll get there in the not too distant future, but this is really starting to solidify that vision. Then we can really pimp it out with voice recognition and holograms and lasers and whatnot. The Borg might actually show up and be like, "So uhh... can you get Warcraft on that thing?"
The Apple iPhone {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 9th 2007 3:44PM Well I think this looks great. Apple certainly blows everyone away in the style department. Again and again. I'd like to see this thing a litle shorter, by about the length of the black part at the top. Then it would be absolutely perfect size. But I'm sure it was hell to get it this thin and the technology will catch up at some point and make shorter possible too.
Was scared for a second that it didn't have qwerty but the touchscreen is such a clever way to eliminate some thickness without sacrificing that feature. I'll be interested to see how easy it is to type fluidly with fat fingers and without any tactile feedback. (tried that laser projection keyboard thing one time and it was difficult to be accurate)
The iPhone site crashes both Firefox and IE for me (something to do with the Quicktime maybe) so I couldn't stay on it long enough to see if it has any expansion slot. Does it have micro SD or anything? Assuming not. With 6 or 8 gigs, another 1 or 2 isn't adding much.
The question I have to ask is... fingerprints? I feel like we'll constantly be wiping the face of this thing on our shirts to get the fingerprints and smudges off. Any word on that or the related need for scratch protection?
Study: for most, all-in-one phones aren't {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 31st 2006 9:48AM I don't think the all-in-one is a myth -- we're just not there yet. It'll happen eventually. Everything gets smaller and better and pretty soon you'll wear a small "personal appliance" (no dildo jokes, please) that does it all. There's no reason that full featured phone, pda, and mp3 player can't exist in one awesome little device. And therefore, utility says they will. I think people do prefer one device to many. Cameras are a bit more difficult to incorporate well at tiny sizes, but are catching up.
DVD Jon's is back to once again make FairPlay fair {Engadget}
Oct 7th 2006 11:28AM God damn it DVD Jon! Get back to cracking iTunes already. I'm stuck with all these stupid DRM'd iTunes 6 songs. I was counting on you, homie! I hear QTFairUse and FairKeys are the way to go, but aren't idiot-proof like JHymn. Haaate this DRM crap. When is this supply and demand crap I'm always hearing about going to kick in? Nobody wants freaking DRM! Heeeed the market already. I uh, OK I get it about the piracy but dang, there are loads of people who will pay fair prices for downloads. I just don't want or need anymore useless CDs. Grrr.
Sergey Brin, solar phone user {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 1st 2006 12:35PM I was focused on the gross, ragged, protruding nails on the fingers. So the horridly grotesque thumb escaped me until just now. OH MY GOD. That thumb is evil. It is the Thumb of Death. That last digit is not human.
AKU2 for Motorola Q is / is not available {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 17th 2006 5:25PM Good thinking, RK. Not being familiar with that OS, I didn't realize they had the same gig as Palm in terms of a freeware developer community but of course that makes sense. I guess I've always considered them the great, inefficient, restrictive satan and it's taking me a while to warm up. Just invested in one final non-phone Palm pda. I figure I'll rock that for a couple years and finally converge after that, assuming the Q's and smartphone OS's of the world have matured a bit.
AKU2 for Motorola Q is / is not available {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 16th 2006 5:15PM Man, I'd been lusting over this thing for months. I'm a Palm guy who wants to converge devices but thinks the Treo is too fat and heavy. I was seriously considering defecting to WinMob because of this luscious form factor. Finally played with one in the store the other day and there's no dang memo function! All that qwerty and only emails to type. Booo! Maybe I was missing something or maybe that's just a reality of the smartphone edition. Guess I'll hold out for a Nitro or whatever.
HTC's Q killin' Excalibur depicted? {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 1st 2006 10:20AM I think the lingo here is funny. Seems like it's sort of used in an ironic way, like an actor winking at the audience.
As for the device, that keyboard looks familar. Could this whole image be photoshopped-up? Maybe it's a Frankenrumor.
Hands on with ARINC's iLiad-based eFlyBook {Engadget}
Jul 28th 2006 12:01AM I could see this for students who are already carrying around a backback, but this thing won't fit in your pocket. For mass market appeal, it's got to fit in the pocket.
The reason I never got rid of my old Handspring Visor Edge is because PDAs had gotten fatter once they went color, I guess because of the higher battery juice needs (now I drool over the until the Q and the SGH-i320, wishing they were Palm). But I digress. The Edge sits in the pocket like it's nothing. No bulge, nice and flat. Goes with me everywhere. My library in my pocket (well, a few megabytes of it. C'mon, it was 2001). I'll buy one of these new ebook readers when it can do that, and for a reasonable price. Might as well put PIM features in it while you're at it. And uh... make it a phone and all. Convergence is, like, so five years ago. Don't gimme no single-function fossil.
Maybe there could be an e-book reader with a hard casing but a soft screen so it could fold in half. That way it could be thin and pocket sized when shut, but when you open it, you'd have plenty of screen real estate, and the sreen could be pulled flat and taut against the rigid casing. My Edge is on its last legs, so hurry the hell up people! Don't wants no crappy WM5 up in here.
Did Samsung rework the I320? {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 15th 2006 8:51PM Dang, honey. If you're going to be a hand model, work on those hands already. Bit of polish? At least remove the old? They found her on the street, I'm sure of it.
So hey, smartypantses, what's the story on the i320N? Google yields it not. How all is it different?
