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BlackBerry Bold 9700 announced, launching globally starting next month {Engadget}
Oct 21st 2009 11:20AM i still want a definitive answer to this... UMA yes or no?
BlackBerry Bold 9700 official on T-Mobile Germany, November launch confirmed {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2009 4:17PM agreed, I'm not giving up UMA for 3G...
BlackBerry Bold 9700 official on T-Mobile Germany, November launch confirmed {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2009 1:28PM http://www.t-mobile.de/shop/handy/0,4855,2963-_31595-0-xxx_tariff_xxx-0,00.html
T-mobile @home (aka UMA) noticeably missing...
BlackBerry Bold 2 to be announced October 21 for T-Mobile, AT&T {Engadget}
Oct 8th 2009 11:19AM YES!!!!
OLPC gets microwaved, molded into stunning piece of art {Engadget}
Sep 18th 2009 2:21PM weird, i also wasted materials needed for impoverished countries and called it art. No wait, i'm not a jobless idiot.
Microsoft's training materials teach Best Buy employees how to trash Linux {Engadget}
Sep 8th 2009 12:37PM The manager is usually even less informed. I've gotten "sir, I'm the best buy employee here, I've done the training I know what I'm talking about"
I guess I should've done a .ppt 20 min training module instead of getting an engineering degree...
Engadget's back to school giveaway part 2: win an Xbox 360 prize pack! {Engadget}
Sep 8th 2009 12:33PM want this!
Microsoft's training materials teach Best Buy employees how to trash Linux {Engadget}
Sep 8th 2009 12:12PM best buy is the new radio shack, uninformed consumers truly believe its the only place to go for electronics and (more frighteningly) advice. Their employees are some of the most under trained with regards to actual tech knowledge then any elec store I've ever seen. The vast majority of them take ZERO initiative to learn about what they're selling, other then in the video game depts...
They resort to brute force and shear size to drive their sales not educating the consumer or taking into account what is actually needed to accomplish the required task. I've heard such things as "your pictures will be clearer with a larger memory card" and "gold plated HDMI is the only way to have HD picture and sound" at the tenley town location here in DC.
While I'm one of the first people to say that recently Apple sucks with its close-minded approach to how you can use YOUR hardware you bought from them and windows 7 is simply glorious, this is just another skewed marketing tactic best buy is doing (or supporting if its a microsoft-led initiative, just as bad) to get the their (mindless-drone) customers to buy what their biggest partners are pushing at them. 75% of the people who walk into a best buy for a laptop could use Ubuntu linux for ALL of their needs if they are given 20 minutes of training. The niche users who actually NEED photoshop, gamers, etc are the ones that probably couldn't use linux day to day.
(Quickly) educate the customer and let THEM make the decision, if its the wrong one they have nobody to blame but themselves (and can just install another OS...)
/end rant
How-To: Install Windows 7 and live to tell about it {Engadget}
Aug 11th 2009 1:36PM x2
BlackBerry 9700's arranged marriage to T-Mobile leaves its mark, seen in the wild {Engadget}
Aug 11th 2009 1:26PM PLEASE for the love of god can this have 3G AND UMA...
I love my 8900 but the tethering speed is killing me. has anybody heard a (potential) launch date/price?
