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Comment on iPhone 3GS – First Hands On by ddm

ddm — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:42:27 +0000

All this time, and the iphone is still tethered to AT&T. Blah, I’m holding out for Verizon.

Comment on iPod Refresh 2010 – My Hands On by David Kenward - The Mental Coach

David Kenward - The Mental Coach — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:03:00 +0000

Good review. The new iPod Touch might be enough for me to replace my 3rd Gen iPod AND my Palm Tungsten T5 (without making the jump to an Android phone).

Comment on iPod Refresh 2010 – My Hands On by PXLated

PXLated — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:13:57 +0000

Was ready to run out and buy a Touch until I saw that the camera resolution was crippled – wonder why in the heck they did that. They shouldn’t have and also should have added a GPS for geotagging – Stupid Apple, just stupid.

Comment on iPod Refresh 2010 – My Hands On by Jason Painter

Jason Painter — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:26:58 +0000

Classic is 160GB.

Comment on iPod Refresh 2010 – My Hands On by Cybertactix

Cybertactix — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:47:42 +0000

Small discrepancy – iPod Classic is 160 GB.

Comment on iPod Refresh 2010 – My Hands On by Jason Harris

Jason Harris — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:23:45 +0000

Question – I know the new iPod Touch has an onboard microphone for the first time, which is great…however, does it have an earpiece? Can you make a Skype call or IP call without doing a speakerphone type functionality?

My hope is yes – it’d be nice to use this as an IP telephony device, sans the speakerphone experience.

Comment on Facebook introduces Places location service – First Take by Hello Bridget

Hello Bridget — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:11:47 +0000

“Places” rite now only available in US rite? I really want to see the feature. But foursquare still the leader I guess..

Comment on Apple’s Fall Music Event – FIRST TAKE by Troy

Troy — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:03:47 +0000

I agree it’s a nice line-up. I have high hopes for the future of “Apple TV” and for an Apple TV that includes “Apple TV” and DVD built in, allowing me to have one well designed, beautiful TV that does evrything w/o the usual box collection under the TV.

Comment on Ten technologies that shaped a decade by Ving

Ving — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:21:36 +0000

I pretty much agree with SlashGear column. It’s really hard to imagine our life without some of things mentioned in the column.

Comment on Schadenfreude and Apple by Martijn

Martijn — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:36:50 +0000

“Bashing Apple’s devices simply won’t work” ??? Apple is bashing the devices of others! It is true many fiends of me don’t have an issue with the antenna but that is because they don’t want to. They love their phone so much that they forgive its flaws. I, on the other hand, have a lot of issues with their antenna’s because soud quality is afwul when I call them. Even a verry cheap samsung or nokia has better sound quality. And thats is proven in a lot of scientific tests. But hey, some people believe what they want to believe.

Comment on Ten technologies that shaped a decade by COFFEE with a BYTE

COFFEE with a BYTE — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:46:11 +0000

Good article man

Reminiscing of the past is something I try not to do, but its hard especially when you’re taken back when even better technology is developed.

Comment on RIM needs to make the BlackBerry business-sexy by DHS

DHS — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:27:39 +0000

As a BES administrator who also handles Exchange w/ iPhone and Droid, I can tell you that our IT staff of 200+ loves the Blackberry. Messenger, group chat, ease of synchronization, and speed are all reasons. I rarely even use a computer anymore, as I can be efficient and effective right from my 9650. Apple has come a long way, especially when Exchange is involved, but it hasn’t swayed the hearts of minds of those who truly use their Blackberry devices all the time, as a necessity. Droid, while great with apps, is horrible with email, particularly Exchange. That has been my experience.

I think Blackberry should make a commercial with a Droid user, an iPhone user, and a Blackberry user, similar to the “I’m a Mac vs I’m a PC” ads. The Apple user can be a young hipster bragging about awesome the iphone is, the droid user can be a tech geek, and the blackberry can be a business executive or IT executive.

“Apple has an app for it, Droid DOES it, but with Blackberry, it’s already done.”

Comment on Details, Details, Details. Why Apple’s MacBook Pro refresh matters more than you think by mark

mark — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:23:13 +0000

Jeff is right – this is the first time a 64 bit CPU is shipped on a portable Mac.
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Now, twenty more morons can show how smart they are :)

Comment on What the lack of a Verizon branded Nexus One means by Mitch Steenland

Mitch Steenland — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:32:27 +0000

While I like a bodily keyboard, after dealing with the Samsung Captivate for about 15 minutes, it’s exhausting to head back. Presently I’m debating whether or not to visit Verizon for the Droid X, cross to Sprint for the EVO, or stay with AT&T for the Captivate…decisions, decisions.

Comment on My Thoughts on Flash and Apple by Jon - Ambient Rings

Jon - Ambient Rings — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:43:18 +0000

Everyone says Apple has to step up and allow Flash but in reality it’s entirely up to Adobe to prove Flash belongs on the iPhone in the first place. From my point of view, there are a couple problems that Adobe needs to consider:

1) Flash performs poorly on everything but Windows PCs. Try Flash on any Mac and you’ll understand why most Apple fans don’t like Flash; it’s slow, unstable, kills the battery, runs the RAM hard, and is generally painful to use. It seems to me that if Adobe wants to intice Steve Jobs to allow Flash on iPhone, they might want to retool it so that it actually works properly on Macs.

2) Flash is proprietary, and does not conform to (or even attempt to conform to) web standards bodies by open sourcing itself. If Adobe wants Flash adoption to be ubiquitous, it should release Flash as an open framework. The fact that it refuses to do so means it’s just another proprietary software vendor, or rather, a proprietary plugin. Apple has no more reason to support Flash than it does Silverlight, Active-X, or any other plugins.

As others have said, I think it’s up to Adobe to prove it wants Flash to be ubiquitous. If it wants to be included in the “real internet” then it has to open itself up as an open source technology. Otherwise, it will never be anything more than a proprietary extension.

Moreover, as others have also noted, Adobe ought to be investing in developing killer HTML5 toolsets. Flash as a programming language is on the way out; Adobe as a brand associated with creative development on the web doesn’t have to be.

Comment on Let digital be digital by Josh Nursing

Josh Nursing — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:20:25 +0000

I expressed the same thoughts when the iPad was launching. Some people are not really optimizing the capacities of multi-touch touchscreen and the User Interface:

http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2010/03/29/new-apple-ipad-videos-show-a-glimpse-of-future-usability-issues-on-multi-touch-touchscreens/

Comment on Let digital be digital by Naser

Naser — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:14:20 +0000

I think we went too far with the computer interface and really we need to bring it a Little bit back to meet our expectation from computer world where things are more simple and the industrial design doesn’t effect the functions i think thats why we need to use the computer to writing document rather than typewriter imagine winword UI similar to typewriter !!

Comment on Can this Hero save Android? by htchero owner

htchero owner — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:33:01 +0000

Thanks for the nice article, I am very excited. I have had my phone for simply over a month now and am truly taking part in all the loose apps from the android market, being able to have the internet and navigation at my fingertips all the time. The one lower than idea function is the image/video textual content messages, as they are not downloading properly.

Comment on Is it time for Androids in the Enterprise? by Richard

Richard — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:18:36 +0000

Hopefully ‘Gingerbread’ will finally give Android the ability to specify connections through a wifi proxy server (like Apple, Nokia, Blackberry etc. have done for years). Until then, Android is useless in many enterprises, including my own.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1273

Comment on 3D TV Falls Flat by Mark

Mark — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:21:06 +0000

The fact is, none of these manufacturers are selling 3D TVs at all. They are selling a lousy fake which they market as 3D, but which requires those cruddy eye-crutches for every person involved. That is why you don’t like it. It’s bogus and low quality, and that’s never going to ring true.

I accept that the best we can do right now is to simulate a 3D experience, but we know what the real stuff will look like. Young Superman watched Jor-El escape Krypton with a true 3D viewer; The high councils in Star Wars used closed-circuit 3D. And you could tell it looks great! You wanted that in your own living room!

So when my holographic TV can be properly placed *in the center* of my home theater, and the sofas and chairs are swapped out to the perimeter, where they belong, so that we can all watch the game or the drama from whichever angle we choose – then we’ll have 3D TV.

When that day comes, I’ll be first in line at the TV store. But until then, they can keep their nasty headache-inducing face-crap to themselves!

Comment on First Hands On With Windows Phone 7 by Marion Abel

Marion Abel — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:27:16 +0000

Microsoft is no stranger to having partners galore in the cellphone enterprise, but its lineup of producers for the upcoming, surprisingly promising Windows Cellphone 7 launch is no less impressive. After plenty of rumoring, Microsoft has confirmed that Dell and HTC will probably be making Windows Telephone 7 telephones, in addition to ASUS, LG, and Samsung who had already been confirmed. All of those firms should have their stamp on hardware by the top of the 12 months, with the launch of the OS still vaguely slated for the “holidays” We have little question that each one 5 producers can construct some compelling, sexy hardware, but we’re notably enthused to see Dell really moving into the sport after the impressive Streak and that drool worthy leak a little while back. learn more at http://www.wp7forum.com fans group.

Comment on Is it time for Androids in the Enterprise? by Dantv

Dantv — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:36:35 +0000

Maybe Google should go back to their core business rather than trying to get into the operating system business with Android, which they give away for free.
Check out GOOG stock price the past year. They are not making any money with Andriod.

Comment on Is it time for Androids in the Enterprise? by Terrillo

Terrillo — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:00:30 +0000

You have made a good point, I believe one day down the line a OEM will create an Android skin just for business users

Comment on First Hands On With Windows Phone 7 by Cliff Forster

Cliff Forster — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:58:26 +0000

I’ve been desiring a Zune phone that is not marketed like a toy for tweens (Kin).

Thing is, I’m currently without a smart phone and there are so many great choices now. If Palm had trouble cracking the market with their brilliant web OS, how is Microsoft going to contend with Apple and Android who have gained an impressive share of that market. The market is growing, this we know, but the longer they wait to get in the ring with a real product the harder this is going to be.

I really hope they pull it off because I absolutely love my Zune and Zune pass and I would love to have that functionality integrated into a real smart phone.

Comment on 5 Things Missing from the Droid by Retta Latting

Retta Latting — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:01:37 +0000

The Motorola DROID continues to present new possibilities every day. I’ve had it for about 10 months and We have had a Blackberry attached to my system since September 1998. Getting connected is often a critical element of my existence so I am constantly reachable by loved ones and co-workers. I’m a bit addicted towards Market place for DROID Applications. If the device had unlimited memory I would test the capacity. I think this OS could be the way from the future and intend to grow with all of you to understand it by means of and via. Thanks for the post.