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Not exactly awe inspiring Apple, is it? http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/16/rim-standard-resolutions-bb10/

It is an Archos Child Pad which is already heavily discounted below $150.

According to Engadget this is a rebranded Archos Child Pad.

( who has? )

Engadget has. This specific method of lighting is new to e-readers, so I'm pretty excited to check one out in person.

There are a couple Android-powered cameras - might be worth checking them out.

Nikon Coolpix S800c

Samsung Galaxy (camera)

I saw paperwhite and was hoping this was a resurgence for E-Ink. Sadly no, it's not.

It's e-Ink, at least according to http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/06/kindle-paperwhite/. It would have to be, to have an 8 week runtime.

Not having the "connector" doesn't mean it can't do the job.

But the same thing happened last year for the nonexistent "iPhone 5". http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/29/iphone-5-cases-and-realistic-unibody-dummy-show-off-incredible-s/

You can get help migrating your apps to the Lumina using a program from Mark/Space that helps you move your data as well.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/mark-space-welcome-home-eases-us-into-new-nokia-lumias/

Disclaimer: I work for Quixey, a company not mentioned in the Engadget article, but which provides part of the back-end service.

It will only report quakes that are already over. News reports, online reporting "Did You Feel It?" pages, etc already do a pretty good job of telling seismologists that something just happened.

Valuable earthquake detection would be detecting the P-Wave from a quake in progress, and automatically broadcasting a SAME Code, combined with some kind of equivilent forcibly pushed to every cell phone connected to a tower. Japan has something like this already. California is kinda, sorta working on it, but I'm pretty sure it's grossly underfunded and not really a priority.

Earthquake models suggest a quake on the northern or southern reaches of the San Andreas fault would reach Los Angeles in about 40 seconds. That's actually a huge chunk of time.

Let's assume:

- 20 seconds to detect a quake / automatically crosscheck with multiple sensors and transmit a warning to a predefined area.

- 5 to 10 seconds for devices to receive, decode and go into alert mode. Weather radios are always listening for SAME transmissions and can decode more or less instantly (assuming the user has programmed in their location). Cell networks could probably get the data there in the time it takes for a regular text message to arrive.

- That gives you 10 to 15 seconds to pull your car over, stop doing delicate surgery, stop fixing your roof, etc and find something to crawl under. It also gives you time to trigger automated fail safes. Gas valves can be set to close, emergency generators can be spun-up, fire pumps can activate, elevators can go to their recall floors and hold their doors open, while fire station doors can roll-up on their own and lock in place.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/apple-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-galaxy-note-patent-lawsuit/

'Just to help you keep things straight, remember this is a separate case from the one that ended exactly a week ago with a decision in Apple's favor to the tune of more than $1 billion in damages.'

The 'it could temporarily halt sales in the U.S. market even before the trial begin [sic]' in the summary should have been a tipoff.

And when you start getting angry over people's siglines, you really make yourself look petty and foolish. You also make yourself look like a person who doesn't have enough objectivity for your judgment of whether 'you're [Apple] pissing away whatever good-will you may have had left' to mean anything at all.

Except according to actual WP7 owners, the 7.8 solution is fine: http://www.wpcentral.com/poll-results-majority-windows-phone-users-happy-proposed-78-update

Of 6400 respondants, 54% said they're happy, 20% said they're not but staying with windows phone, 20% said they're not sure, and only 6% said they're leaving Windows Phone.

Personally, I'm happy with the decision. They're moving the platform forward yet still porting features for legacy owners. I bought a Lumia 900 about a month before this news and I'm still happy with it. It does everything I want, and will be getting more features in the future. Most non-hardware related features are being ported back to the Lumia 900. By the time I'm ready for a new phone, Windows Phone 8 will be all the better.

As for you comparison to iOS, my Girlfriend has a 3GS. To say that it runs all the latest apps and the lates OS is a bit misleading, as she's missing features, and many of the latest apps and games built for 4 or 4S hardware cause her phone to lag and many of them just crash randomly. The same can be said for my iPad 1 and apps like Infinity Blade, Netflix, and MLB AtBat 2012. This is almost the same situation Microsoft is giving to Windows Phone users, except they're being upfront by calling it WP7.8 instead of WP8.

MS is not to be trusted? But somehow Google and Apple are paragons of virtue? Sure, it always pays to be skeptical of Microsoft, but no more so than any of the other major players in the phone wars.

They screwed the owners of their last two attempts - Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.

To compare, Apple's iPhone 3GS will get support for iOS 6 - and it was released more than 3 years ago.

So buying a Windows Phone falls into the category of "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me".

I think the issue is that the pinch-to-zoom patent that Apple has is more limited than most people think. Here is a write up on the patent: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/13/apple-awarded-limited-patent-on-pinch-to-zoom/ So the patent seems to be for pinching and zooming, then letting go and pinching and zooming again as one action. I'm no patent expert, but I'm not sure if that's the same as doing those two things separately as two actions.

This cyborg baby article reminds me of another that I saw recently: a child with a muscle condition can move her arms with the help of some exoskeleton support whose parts were printed out with a 3D printer:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/08/3d-printed-magic-arms-give-a-little-girl-use-of-her-limbs/

Yes, it is such a tragedy, because the dividing line is completely unclear now. Many people (presumably Samsung's lawyers included) did not believe that there was a violation

That seems unlikely. After all, one of the things that came out in the trial was that Google (and other third parties) warned Samsung that their products looked too similar to Apple's. And the dividing line was certainly clear enough that Microsoft has had no difficulty coming up with phones that clearly do not infringe on Apple's design patents. So how is it such a terrible tragedy if Samsung has to come up with original designs, the way Microsoft and other manufacturers have done?

No, Apple should not be protected forever. A design patent as a life of about 14 years, shorter than a utility patent, and even a utility patent only lasts for 20. That's pretty far short of forever.

I find it hard to believe that competition is "destroyed" if other developers choose to avoid infringing Apple's "rounded corners" (D'087) patent--particularly considering that the jury found that only 3 of the 8 Samsung devices considered infringed this patent. Would you say that Microsoft's new Windows 8 Phone is "not competitive" because of its failure to imitate Apple's "rounded corner" design?. Is a "bouncing scroll list" really so essential to phone function that no device without it is not competitive? And if bouncing scroll lists really are so marvelous that a phone cannot be usable without them, isn't Apple's invention of this feature so ground-breaking that Apple is entitled to a period of exclusivity to enjoy the fruits of its great invention?

This is a Droid Charge:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/02/droid-charge-review/

Now, perhaps you should rewrite your comment changing who, exactly, is "purposely trying to muddle the differences between (the products of Apple and Samsung)"! You might also want to look at the court evidence that Apple submitted, such as the infamous "pre" and "post" iPhone images - that looked absurd when Samsung produced its own version with a much wider, less edited, range of phones on show.

Wow, I just looked up what the Droid Charge looked like. It's really quite different from the iPhone. I think my lil' LG looks more like an iPhone than that one does.

Oh well, I guess they won't be done with this until everyone either has an iPhone or something that looks like an old Black Berry. Heh, I just realized... BB never actually sued companies over releasing similar phones like this did they?

Maybe if they cared more about their intellectual property they'd be in better shape today. No need to worry about the competition if you can wipe them out in the courts

The "pinch to zoom" patent is certainly getting a lot of attention. Based on this, though, it is more limited than most people seem to think:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/13/apple-awarded-limited-patent-on-pinch-to-zoom/

Caveat: I don't really follow this stuff closely.

Google doesn't sell android? That's weird because I bought a phone directly from them.

http://www.google.com/nexus/#/

Last I checked, the back of my Galaxy Nexus said it was made by Samsung, not Google. That would make Google a reseller and only legally liable if they violated an injunction.

Oh look...
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/05/google-confirms-galaxy-nexus-was-pulled-from-play-store-due-to-i/

They've invested more in R&D than anyone else in the industry

ORLY

My original comment was responding to a post that said "No Apple has patented a particular rectangle of a particular size". I pointed out that the Galaxy SIII was much larger than an iphone. That is true of the entire Galaxy line of phones and they all have the same shape. This is fact. I don't know why you are being such a little bitch about it. It does not matter if the SIII was part of the original lawsuit or not as THAT WAS NOT MY POINT. My point was that Apple is suing over the shape, NOT the size.

Also, Apple has sued over the Galaxy SIII in a separate lawsuit. I provided a link earlier if you care to go back and read it.

The Galaxy S III was not out when the lawsuit started. There is no way Apple could have included it in the original lawsuit. However, the Galaxy S II was released and absolutely was part of the original lawsuit.

The jury in particular found Samsung's Fascinate, Epic 4G and Galaxy S II smartphones were rogue products that warranted more than $100 million each in damages for copying the iPhone, although the panel spared Samsung much punishment for infringing the iPad. The jury rejected Samsung's counterclaims that Apple infringed some of its wireless technology patents.

(http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_b34_3/apple-samsung-patents.html)

Now go for a picture of the Galaxy line of phones. Notice the similarities? Notice that they all have the same shape with rounded corners? Notice how the icons all look similar and are arranged in the same "Touchwiz" manner? Is that NOT what Apple was suing over?

Apple sued over 28 different products. My 10 minutes of Googling has not managed to find a list of those 28 products. We do know that the SII was one of them. If the SIII was not on the original list, all Apple has to do is go back to that fanboi judge they have on their payroll and say, "Hey! We need the SIII blocked as well since it is a Galaxy phone and has all the same infringing features as the SII" and the judge will say, "Yes Master!" This is because Apple has already won the lawsuit protecting their "patents". Any other Samsung devices that have the same features that Apple claims violates their designs will be just as guilty as the 28 products listed in the lawsuit. Apple probably won't even have to go back to court!

Also, I have shown that Apple is trying to block the sales of the SIII just as they tried to block the latest line of Evos. They were unsuccessful blocking the Evos, but did get them delayed for a while at the port. Now with a judgment under their belt, there is nothing to stop them from going after the SIII or any other Android or Windows phone without sharp edges.

Without going and looking stuff up, can you, personally, name one innovation Samsung has brought to the table in the phone industry in the last 5 years?

Well the most obvious one is AMOLED. Perfect blacks and infinite contrast ratio which will spoil you and make it difficult to ever go back to an LCD (especially in applications where you have to wear polarized sunglasses).

Many phones use Samsung CPUs, most use Samsung memory (both RAM and flash). Lots of innovation improving the performance of those. I've heard they're also heavily involved in the wireless communications technologies, though I haven't looked into that myself. Supposedly that's where the FRAND patents they sued Apple for relate to.

If you extend it beyond phones, AFAIK Samsung was the first company with a handheld device with an all-glass front and touch-sensitive controls. A prototype of that was leaked in 2005 btw.

They also came out with the flat display, rounded corners, silver bezel look before Apple. I'm surprised they aren't applying Apple's threshold for suing and crying foul that Apple basically ripped off the front of their digital picture frame's design to make the iPad.

The jury is "stacked" in the sense that Apple is American, Samsung is foreign and the jury is All American (c)(tm).

If this case had been heard in the South Korean court, then the outcome would have been completely the other way 'round.

Proof? http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/23/samsung-apple-patent-lawsuit-south-korea/.

Even if they left, they wouldn't leave. Most iOS devices use Samsung displays.

For now - it's rumored that the new iPhone (which I do hope they'll just call iPhone 5 instead of 'New iPhone') will be using an LG display (with the capacitive touch sensor bits integrated into the display tech). http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/22/lg-display-starts-volume-production-of-in-cell-touch-screens/

When Apple really, really doesn't like you - they have no qualms just shutting you out. See also the replacement of Google Maps, the removal of YouTube app pre-install, the long delay in approving Google Voice (Siri 'competitor').

Samsung's electronics division doesn't make anything that is unique enough that Apple couldn't just jump ship on.

None of the things you cite really had much to do with screwing a competitor. Samsung is still producing displays for other devices and likely future ones. Google Maps is better off as a separate app, Google will actually be able to produce their own (remember, Apple wrote the previous maps app and just used Google for the map data). The preinstalled you-tube app sucked and most people used the web based one anyway as you could get better quality. Google is better off producing their own you-tube app. Google voice was never a competitor to Siri as it has nothing to do with Voice control but calls and messaging.

But, I agree with your sentiment.

Even if they left, they wouldn't leave. Most iOS devices use Samsung displays.

For now - it's rumored that the new iPhone (which I do hope they'll just call iPhone 5 instead of 'New iPhone') will be using an LG display (with the capacitive touch sensor bits integrated into the display tech).
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/22/lg-display-starts-volume-production-of-in-cell-touch-screens/

When Apple really, really doesn't like you - they have no qualms just shutting you out. See also the replacement of Google Maps, the removal of YouTube app pre-install, the long delay in approving Google Voice (Siri 'competitor').

Samsung's electronics division doesn't make anything that is unique enough that Apple couldn't just jump ship on.

Robot

You could also turn into a web cam or, with appropriate sensors, a weather station.

There's a good link I usually pass out when people start to talk about noticing the difference between 720p and 1080p.

http://hd.engadget.com/2006/12/09/1080p-charted-viewing-distance-to-screen-size/

Now I don't know where the line for 4320p would be since the article is old, but if you look at the line for 1080p at a viewing distance of 5 feet you need a TV around 38 inches. For 1440p at the same distance you need a TV around 51 inches, a difference of 13 inches.

1080p is 2,073,600 pixels
1440p is 3,571,200 pixels
4320p is 33,177,600 pixels

1440 is 1.33... times bigger than 1080
3,571,200 is 1.72... times bigger than 2,073,600
4320 is 3 times bigger than 1440
33,177,600 is 9.29 times bigger than 3,571,200

Using simple linear approximation:
If you take just a 3 times bigger standard 1440p -> 4320p you need 29 more inches, or a TV that is 67 inches, or 3,571,200 -> 33,177,600 you need 70 more inches, or a TV that is 109 inches wide at 5 feet to get the full benefit of 4320p.

I don't know about you but sitting 5 feet away from 109 inches wouldn't work for me. 67 inches is doable, but that's still a huge TV to be only 5 feet away. I don't think you can follow all the action across the entire screen from that distance.

No 2.5" 120 GB existed in 2001 either. 60 GB was a high-end laptop option in 2004. The first 1 TB desktop drive was released in 2007. And according to an old Engadget posting, the 120 GB Momentus was a big deal in 2005. Now, 7 years is of course a long time, but it's almost half of what you claimed. The minimum storage need for a modern OS has barely increased in that time, with the exception that you might to some extent have dual userspaces if you used to do only 32-bit and now support 64 as well as 32.

The dude who tracked down his stolen bike in Seattle used "Burner" app to spoof his CallerID... http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/09/burner-iphone-app-disposable-number/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GVpIaPEGM

• Sneak and Peek: https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/sneak-and-peek
• Stop and Frisk http://www.nyclu.org/stopandfrisk
• Warrantless Wiretapping http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/07/federal-appeals-court-says-warrantless-wiretapping-is-legal/
• License Plate Readers http://www.policeone.com/police-products/traffic-enforcement/license-plate-readers/
• Civil Seizure http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20091112/METRO/911120388
• Forfeit without Trial http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/megaupload-judge-recusal/
• Extraordinary Rendition http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/rendition701/
• Assassination without trial http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/world/middleeast/secret-us-memo-made-legal-case-to-kill-a-citizen.html?pagewanted=all

Many people are laughing all the way to the morgue.

Looking forward, Adobe believes that Flash is particularly suited for addressing the gaming and premium video markets, and will focus its development efforts in those areas. At the same time, Adobe will make architectural and language changes to the runtimes in order to ensure that the Flash runtimes are well placed to enable the richest experiences on the web and across mobile devices for another decade.

what does that mean? it means flash is being used as middleware in game development. other examples of game middleware include the havok physics engine, sundog, RAD, autodesk, the list goes on. i've seen the flash logo in my console games already, in fact more and more as of late.

oh look! here's something from autodesk so you can use flash to make console-quality games for the web - http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/autodesk-scaleform-flash-games/. i really wish html5 had rich, mature development tools like flash does. how come autodesk didn't choose html5 for this instead of flash? actually, i know the answer.

adobe killed flash player in android mobile browsers because android is too fragmented to ensure quality. that's from their blog statement. html5 has the same problem, except that it's fragmented by all browsers, and not just mobile ones. if you don't think so, explain why modernizr exists: http://modernizr.com/.

one last thing to rip your stupid viewpoint apart: you hate flash most for the invasive ads? and you think that's flash's fault? you think adobe makes those ads? with html5 being supported to replace flash in the browser, marketers are going to make the same fucking ads that they make now, except they will be built in html5 and you will have a much tougher time blocking those than flash. you're a dumbass.

if you think flash means flash player in the browser only, then you don't know what flash is. you don't know shit.

I suppose that the original post should have included at least two things:

a) Apart from the harmless prank, Google is actually moving towards sane aliases for G+ profiles: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/13/google-plus-custom-url/
b) For the impatients, there is a sort of "url shortener" providing the service now: http://iplus.im/

Apologies if someone else mentioned this already and I missed it in the discussion.

The BBC also recorded some of the events in Super Hi Vision Engadget has a review: "while watching the swimming event and cut-down highlights of the opening ceremony, there were moments when we could almost have believed we were looking not at a projected image, but rather through a window direct onto the Olympic Stadium or Aquatics Center itself."

The locked bootloader situation may have more to do with the carrier than the manufacturer, although Motorola certainly isn't blameless here.

There is a reason that the Samsung Galaxy S3 had an unlockable bootloader on every single carrier it was released on except for Verizon.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/09/verizon-blames-samsung-for-locked-bootloader-in-galaxy-s-iii/

For example, I don't recall them getting in such a huff over WebOS, because that actually had a unique approach and Apple had nothing to challenge.

You don't? Well I do.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/apple-vs-palm-the-in-depth-analysis/

They did the same with their phones:

http://mashable.com/2012/06/25/lumia-why-no-upgrade/

Release v7 phones then announce that they won't be able to work on v8 phones.

Guess it's a bit like their close partner Nokia, with the famous Burning Platform memo:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/

Acer isn't keen they were left out of the initial group (Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, Samsung) to build Windows RT tablets, selected by Microsoft.

Given that Acer announced a bunch of Win8 tablets at the same time when Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba and Samsung did, what is that "initial group" you're talking about?

Considering you haven't actually used a Surface, those are some pretty amazing numbers. Anybody remember the Zune? Me neither....

I'll bet this guy does.

Why would 3 failures of the mobile market want to get together?

Because three turkeys make an eagle.

http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/15/how-to-build-a-wifi-biquad-dish-antenna/

Yup, looks do-able.

Now you only need some motivated people in the area who dislike BT. That last part should be easiest of all! :)

So what?

Did the facts support the ruling? Or are you just assuming BIAS!!

  "All Things D got a copy of Koh's order, and we just gave it a quick read. Turns out that she granted the injunction due to the strength of the merits of Apple's case and the unlikelihood that Samsung would invalidate Apple's design patent -- the court already held that the 10.1 is "virtually indistinguishable" from the iPad's design and likely infringes Apple's IP. Furthermore, Judge Koh held that, because Apple and Samsung are direct competitors in the tablet space and "design mattered more to customers in making tablet purchases," Apple would be irreparably harmed by further 10.1 sales. Those two factors outweighed any hardship suffered by Samsung, and thus, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was stricken from US shelves."
- http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/26/judge-koh-stops-us-sales-of-galaxy-tab-10-1-puts-a-smack-down-o/

Any legal arguments you have against that? Note legal, not made up shit.

To clarify, "personal conversations" seem to mean "person and person" in contrast to "organization and person". At least, that's what Engadget's and few other articles say.

How good are they at distinguishing "personal" vs "non-personal" is yet to be seen.

Android Handhelds and related:
http://obscurehandhelds.wordpress.com/
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/8/3072142/power-a-moga-controller-hands-on
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/odroid-the-android-gaming-handheld-now-shipping-to-android-gam/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/android-gaming-tablet-looks-remarkably-similar-to-sony-psp/
http://arpandeb.com/02/2012/gadget-preview/3-handheld-android-gaming-tablet-consoles-review.html

Android dominance:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57448990-235/gaming-handhelds-relegated-to-niche-status-by-ios-android/
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Nintendo-claims-the-iPhone-killed-the-handheld-game-console_id29533/

--Netflix telephone customer support is US-based (Oregon) - which is the reason I signed up with them in the 1st place (I HATE outsourcing - and wanted to support them for making that conscious decision to keep support in the US.) I'm having some difficulty finding the original /. article that mentioned this, but here's a reference:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/netflix-beefing-up-service-center-in-preparation-for-globa-launc/

The bullshit is on you.

Improve your knowledge reading this.

I'm sure MicroUSB and other industry-standard connectors weren't considered. For how many years now has Apple been the last holdout with proprietary connectors?

Even if they did they'd still find a way to make it proprietary with something like the charger resistor trick or the headphone recess.

I'm sure MicroUSB and other industry-standard connectors weren't considered. For how many years now has Apple been the last holdout with proprietary connectors?

Even if they did they'd still find a way to make it proprietary with something like the charger resistor trick or the headphone recess.

Bullshit: iOS has 23% smartphone marketshare, 63% tablet marketshare, and nearly 100% of whatever category iPod Touch falls into.

And, as long as you toolbags keep thinking of this as Windows vs. Mac circa 1991, you're going to wrong about your conclusions.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/24/idc-q1-2012-world-smartphone-share/
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=10100CJ4VFI4