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The Dark Knight features BD-Live chat with Chris Nolan for first 100,000 -- Bat Growl not included {Engadget HD}
Nov 18th 2008 12:10AM Wow, I'm first commenter. I mean this is pertaining to Chris Nolan for god sakes. Are you not impressed!!!
Core i7 dated for November 17th, approximately priced {Engadget}
Nov 6th 2008 9:40AM Core i7: 4-Way CrossFire, 3-way SLI, Paradise? : Tempered Expectations
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-gaming,2061.html
Blu-ray player prices dropped 12% in Q3, still in just 1.7% of US homes {Engadget HD}
Oct 15th 2008 8:09AM Hmm lets see, If I rent a DVD from Blockbuster I can play it in my car, my home, my laptop, my neighbors home, the in-laws home, on the airplane, the train, hell its endless. But, If I rent or buy a Blu, I can play it at home and maybe at your home because you have a PS3 right? and thats it! I just don't see the numbers ever being able to overtake SD-DVD's until it can do all of the above!!
Acer's AX3200 is the little Blu-ray PC that could, has a 1080p LCD friend {Engadget HD}
Oct 13th 2008 9:41PM Oh Yeah, I forgot to mention that the X3 8400 has been discontinued by AMD. As a matter of fact all X3's ending in 00 are no longer in the X3 family, only 50's (8450, 8350). Beware of purchasing a PC, especially one that is equipped with proprietary hardware from Big box retailers.Cheers
Acer's AX3200 is the little Blu-ray PC that could, has a 1080p LCD friend {Engadget HD}
Oct 13th 2008 9:22PM The AX3200 at Best buy does not include a Blu Player and cost $479. The AX3200 with Blu cost $679 or $200 more. If you really want a AX3200 and want to save some coin, go ahead and the purchase it from BB and by yourself a separate Blu ROM for about $130.
Road to G1 has been a three-year endeavor for Google, HTC {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 25th 2008 9:43PM @TareX
Standford student, Google employee please, "Google" came from the word "googol" which means 1 to the power of 100. So basically 1 with 100 zeroes after it. It's a BIG number get it!
Looks are in the eye of the beholder and no doubt, just like the Prius is not for everyone, this particular model is not either. As far as the software goes, its like a D.I.Y. Bare Bones PC build in which you decide what additional hardware and software rounds out the final spec. If you like a proprietary spec'd OS, you go with Windows, if not you go with Linux and the same rules apply with the G1 vs I phone. Want a Video Player, add one, want to upload your Contacts, get a Gmail account, and if you want to plug in earphones, use the supplied proprietary dongle. Early adopters will purchase this phone and by the end of the 1st quarter expect at least a half a dozen phones using the Android OS at which time Android will be on the minds of every other major Cell Phone manufacture.
"What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end"
Sony's BDP-S300 1080p Blu-ray player sinks below $200 {Engadget HD}
Sep 21st 2008 9:00PM Supply and Demand (High Supply and Low Demand) = under $200...To really get this moving, we the consumer need to see even lower price points due the cost of media generating more than enough margins...ie BD Live Under $300, BD 2.0 Under $200 and BD 1.0 $100
Hands-on with Sprint's Touch Pro {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 11th 2008 5:12PM Love at first sight? Sex appeal yes, but not from a function over form standpoint. Heck on the Pro, Gps is not free and must be purchased at an add'l cost. I have been with Treo since the 180 (pre 9/11) and I still have not found a smart phone that has wowed me enough to get rid of it. Sure, these new phones sure are purretty, but the Treo is a Man phone, no chic appeal whatsoever. I thinks its time I use that $150 rebate from Sprint, hawk my 700p on Craigslist and close the deal on a 800w (Gps Included)!!
WSJ reviews HTC Touch Diamond: "can't disguise WinMo's flaws" {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 4th 2008 10:59PM @Imcbain-Wifi is included
General 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
GSM 850 / 1800 / 1900 - American version
3G Network HSDPA 2100 / 900
HSDPA 850 / 1900 - American version
Announced 2008, May
Status Available. Released 2008, May
Size Dimensions 102 x 51 x 11.5 mm
Weight 110 g
Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 480 x 640 pixels, 2.8 inches
- TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive navigation controls
- Handwriting recognition
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3, WAV, WMA
Customization Download, order now
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Card slot No
- 4 GB user available memory
- 192 MB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB ROM
- Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz processor
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD No
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, miniUSB
Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Games Yes, order now
Colors Black
Camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video; secondary VGA videocall camera
- Built-in GPS with A-GPS
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Voice memo
- MP3 player
- Motion-based games
- Built-in handsfree
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh
Stand-by Up to 285 h
Talk time Up to 5 h 30 min
Telus' HTC Touch Diamond gets video review {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 18th 2008 7:39AM Diamond over Omnia:
VGA display (2.8-inch, 480 x 640 pixels)
TouchFLO 3D Home screen (better than Omnia's Touchwiz UI)
Nicer design
More compact body
Lighter weight
Active magnetic stylus (Omnia has no stylus slot)
Touch-sensitive scroll wheel (better than Omnia's optical joystick)
Better sunlight legibility (by a small margin)
Standard miniUSB slot (as opposed to Samsung's proprietary custom plus)
Dedicated graphics chip with 64MB memory
Comes with the amusing Teeter game (uses the accelerometer)
Has pre-installed YouTube client and MP3 Trimmer application for ringtones
Better video playback performance
Omnia over Diamond:
Bigger, though lower-res display (3.2", 240 x 400 pixels)
Has a better, more solid build and finish
Almost double battery life
Better CPU performance (by a nice margin according to software benchmarks)
Quad-band GSM support (Diamond has two versions to cover all the four bands)
microSD card slot (Diamond has none)
8 or 16 GB of storage memory (Diamond has 4GB)
Much better 5 megapixel camera (better processing, higher resolution, face and smile detection, geotagging)
TV-out (Diamond lacks that)
Landscape QWERTY keyboard (Diamond has one but only in browser)
Auto screen rotation is available in all applications and can be switched off
Comes with DivX video support (Diamond has none, but DivX players can be installed)
Has pre-installed a custom Alarms app, a Video editor and a unit converter
