Recent Comments:
Poll: How's your iPhone 3G reception? {Engadget}
Jul 17th 2008 3:30PM It's definitely the iPhone :-( I've cross-tested with other phone (a Nokia) in Europe (with a couple years of 3G experience). It's baaad.
So bad, that I cannot make the iPhone my primary phone. :-( 569 EUR wasted.
People who say to switch to EDGE have very low quality standards. No frigging way that I'm manually doing that all time. In 2008 it should be handled seamlessly. There is a name for this: Apple FAIL.
My only hope that it is a software issue, which will be solved over time.
Poll: How's your iPhone 3G reception? {Engadget}
Jul 17th 2008 3:20PM Believe it or not, it's the phone. Switched my SIM to a Nokia N95 8GB (my previous phone), getting twice the reception...
I'm regretting my purchase more and more.
iPhone 3G and firmware 2.0: the day after {Engadget}
Jul 13th 2008 12:33PM I bought iPhone 3G on Friday. My impressions:
- 3G reception is terrible. If I'm in an area with less then perfect reception, it is half of my previous Nokia N95 phone.
- battery sucks. I have 40% left, after 1:37 usage and 5:50 standby, only using Notes and Mail :-(
- one application at a time, I'm going crazy without the clipboard
- it's of course beautiful and big screen
- 1-2 second lags are quite common
- some downloaded apps (e.g. Quitter) don't even work
This phone is good for making calls, listening to music and showing off your photos. I'm expecting 2.1 patch in a couple of days. Goes back to the box until then...
Nokia buys Symbian, turns software over to Symbian Foundation {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2008 12:05PM No, it's not.
I would add more sentences to this comment, gladly, but in the end it would be a much longer version of "no, it's not"
(See what I did there? ;-)
The winners of the 2007 Engadget Awards! {Engadget}
Apr 21st 2008 1:27AM There is no problem with the amount of Apple fanboy votes. It's a bit disturbing (e.g. Apple keyboard is ... my worst purchase ever), but if Apple manages to drive up fanbase that much, then good for them. I'm quite happy with the Macbook - I'm just not into religion. ;-)
It's Reader's Choice after all.
If there is something to complain about - that is Engadget.
I really don't think that Smartphone of the Year should sport a closed system, which rules in simplicity (and UI) through closedness. No possibility to install applications (and even with iPhone SDK _in 2008_ you will only run one 3rd party application - until a phonecall comes, that is), no business functions etc.
Also, including Vista from 2006 for just the fun of it...
Of course, it's Engadget Awards, so to define the list is totally up to E. Yet, it also means that my interest in not-only-popularity-based news or opinion will be fulfiled somewhere else.
(Dramatic music, while people pass by not caring ;-)))
One less RSS reader for Engadget.
North American Nokia N95 8GB now available {Engadget}
Mar 8th 2008 5:24AM "quit", sorry.
North American Nokia N95 8GB now available {Engadget}
Mar 8th 2008 5:23AM You mean the Apple iPhone SDK presentation, which forgot to mention the tiny single-tasking detail in the SDK documentation? You are only able to run one (ONE!) 3rd party application and those quite automatically, when you receive a phone call.
I don't think you should compare the iPhone with the N95. The first have touch, perfect UI and large screen. The N95 have everything else. It's a matter of preference: physical keys vs touch, form vs function, stability through closedness vs openness (and a bit of instability).
iPhone SDK comparison chart {Engadget}
Mar 7th 2008 6:18AM Did anyone read the details???
IMAGINE THIS as a line on the above chart: "running multiple applications"
Apple: NO (and 3rd party apps quit, if you receive a phone call!)
OMG.
Source: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/DevelopingSoftware/chapter_3_section_2.html
Vote for the 2007 Engadget Awards! {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2008 5:02AM Dear Engadget!
I'm trying to find justification for your inclusion of Vista and Foleo in the worst gadget category. Is it purely because of "popular demand"? ;-)
If yes, then by the same logic ("popular demand"), please remove Apple iPhone from the smartphone category (it's fit for both cellphone and media device - which is why the iPhone is so great). It is not yet a smartphone in a sense that you could (legally) install applications on it - as many commenters pointed it out here. :-)
If you don't do it - of course nothing happens :-) I understand that it _pays_ to focus on "popular demand", but I've already quit reading Gizmodo because of it (although I use a nice Macbook and an iPod at home).
Your faithful reader (until 1st March at least).
Vote for the 2007 Engadget Awards! {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 10:35AM What are you on? I need to get that stuff also...
