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when i get my nexus 7, i am going to use a flash drive for more storage. check this: http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/21/ultimate-hack-nexus-7-hooks-up-with-external-usb-storage-flopp/

It sucks a bit harder than the MK802, I think. If they end up similarly priced, then the Pi is still a better deal.

The company reported a record fourth quarter revenue of $18.06 billion, but did suffer a net loss over the last three months of $492 million....It's also important to realize that that loss is due to a one-time "goodwill impairment charge" associated with the collapsed aQuantive deal that set Redmond back $6.2 billion.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/19/microsoft-announces-record-q4-18-06-billion-in-revenue/

Excuse me but could someone clarify how is "big boobs" sexist phrase? It might mean either gender.

Ahhh, I see... they were talking about Steve Ballmer.

Now to get that image of him in sweaty wet shirt out of my head.

Speaking of head, there was the time the MS marketing guys cut a black mans' head off and pasted on a white one.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/microsoft-sucks-at-photoshop/

You don't know how wrong you are. There are so many things I think Slashdotters would appreciate knowing about the iOS jailbreak process:

1) The "Tethered" (easy) jailbreaks only work on pre-2011 devices.
2) 2011 and later device can only be freed using "untethered" jailbreaks.
3) "Untethered" jailbreaks using Apple's copyrighted code usually happen first, but are not distributed because they would be subject to DMCA takedown. The hackers want to do this legit.
3) Making the last untethered jailbreak (whether for the "tethered" pre-2011 devices or the other ones) actually involved what appears to me at least to be a spectacularly complicated process:

http://pod2g-ios.blogspot.com/2012/01/details-on-corona.html

TL;DR is that untethering iOS devices is spectacularly difficult, especially due to the fact that at least one of the best jailbreakers has been hired by apple.

sure because Samsung has never done anything like this ever before

Dell is the fourth largest PC vendor in sales numbers in the last quarter so a few people are buying their stuff still.

Look at Scrabble:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/04/scrabble-for-the-ipad-stir-in-some-iphones-and-its-the-best-1/

I would like to see more alternatives though.

William

Google has already thought of this.

as it has been said on here before many Kickstarter projects are a scam

Zioneyez used Kickstarter to steal $350,000 and delivered nothing

When people complained, Kickstarter said "no refunds"

If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. Problem is word is not getting out about all the scams on Kickstarter. All we hear are the successes, so people think everything on Kickstarter is legitimate when it's not, there are plenty of scams on Kickstarter.

How many stories did Slashdot run on ZionEyez? Answer: One, and even then the story was "Has this failed?" rather than "Kickstarter project stole $350,000"

How many stories did Slashdot run on Disapora? Answer: At least seven, even though Diaspora never met it's Summer 2010 deadline and many would argue it never achieved what was promised despite receiving $190,000 more than their goal

Is everything on Kickstarter a scam? Of course not, but Kickstarter promises nothing on any project, they just give the information. In that regard it's a lot like Craigslist. Craigslist doesn't guarantee the guy you hired for roofing is going to do a good job. Difference is Kickstarter is presenting the information like it's legitimate, and I think that's where the problem is, why people are offering millions of dollars on projects that are obvious scams, because they believe Kickstarter has somehow verified these people when they're really no different than the guy offering to wash your windshield for a buck.

Except there is no injunction against the Nexus, just the Tab 10.1

Except there was http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/30/028234/sale-of-galaxy-nexus-banned-in-the-us.

Keyword: was. Your slashdot article is dated June 30. This engadget article is dated July 6. So, as GP said, there is no ban on the Nexus.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/06/samsung-gets-temporary-stay-on-galaxy-nexus-ban/

So you want to play the dating game? If you had even read the first paragraph of TFA, you could have learned that the letters were send when the injunction was still in full force. And even ignoring that: the injunction still does exist, it's just stayed.

Except there is no injunction against the Nexus, just the Tab 10.1

Except there was http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/30/028234/sale-of-galaxy-nexus-banned-in-the-us.

Keyword: was. Your slashdot article is dated June 30. This engadget article is dated July 6. So, as GP said, there is no ban on the Nexus.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/06/samsung-gets-temporary-stay-on-galaxy-nexus-ban/

For example, Just before this post, I was reading this other post on Engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/12/exclusive-hands-on-with-the-lumoback-smart-posture-sensor-video/

Basically, Lumoback is KickStarter project, which monitors back bad posture, and help correct it. You can clearly see the medical application; a doctor could assign one to a patient to help them with back pans etc.

(Just to clarify, I am not saying it a *good* way to do so, merely that a medical aspect *exist*, which allows us to defines this tool as a "health" product)

So... Does (and Should?) the FDA have a problem with this? What about a Kickstarter project for hearing aids? That's also tech, at which point on the technological complexity gradient should intervene?

Similarly, clearly Kickstarter had no problem with this project, would Kickstarter allow a project for hearing aids, or would that defy their definition of "health" products? Again, when does the definition change?

Yes.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/26/nintendo-annual-financials-2011/

Out of the box, none. In theory, any which are rootable and allow you to replace the kernel, since it's only a question of having the corresponding drivers compiled in - once that's there, software support should be fairly trivial. In fact, if you can see the filesystem, VLC should already work.

That said, Samsung has apparently released a USB DVD that is supported by stock Android 3.x and above. Would be interesting to combine these two together and see how well it works.

How about a "people voting with their wallets" rating? Will you look at that, 59% Android vs 23% iOS. I guess Apple DOES have to worry about a thing or two, after all. Maybe it is because "you are holding it wrong" issue? khe hehehe

Anyone remember this? http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/apple-announces-third-party-software-details-for-iphone/

Apple announce "You won't be able to write native apps, just do everything in a browser!". They must've known they were buidling at app store at that time!

Well some of the folks at Google I/O have been dutifully hacking away at these, which were in the goody bags.

I know it isn't a perfect solution, but maybe Google will see the potential. And in the meantime, if it turns out to be as hackable as the Nexus phones are, hooray for us.

Market it to all the people bitching about how we now buy everything from China and have no manufacturing jobs left in the U.S.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-q-is-designed-and-manufactured-in-the-u-s-a/

Because it's designed and manufactured in the USA http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-q-is-designed-and-manufactured-in-the-u-s-a/

Looks like the streaming options for the Olympics will be better this time around.

Yes, yes they do.

It was just last month I was reading about it. Again.

Or is it that they only want this access for themselves and you're a tairist if you don't think the FBI should have all access to all your activities and communications.

A robot arm wrestler will win every time also, and is much more fun to watch.

And here we have a Samsung digital photo frame that looks very much like an iPad. The "sleek featureless design with rounded corners" idea predates the iPad and iPhone by a long way.

Perhaps, but it doesn't predate Apple's design patent for the iPad, filed in 2005. And the Samsung photo frame is not a mobile device as it is anchored to a powercord, is incapable of displaying anything but static photos, so it doesn't do video, and it has no touch interface. It doesn't compete with any product Apple has ever released... which is why Apple didn't sue them over it for infringing on their design patent: it isn't a tablet computer. If it had been a tablet computer... I believe Apple would have sued them. I'm not sure I see the point of bringing up the Samsung photo frame... what about it? Looks like the iPad but its not a tablet? I don't get it.

Sure a perfectly flat bit of glass with rounded edges and just enough room to grip it seems obvious now, but who had actually thought of it before?

Samsung?

Seems the Apple reality distortion field didn't die with Jobs. What really happened is that the lawyers the judge was questioning said he couldn't tell them apart, but when the judge asked if the others could, another quickly supplied the correct answer. In other words, they could tell the difference.

Did the lawyer who guessed correctly guess? It's a 50-50 shot that could save their case, so it would have been reasonable to do so. But maybe he didn't... in which case, why was it just a simple "that one" rather than a description of the distinct features that led to the conclusion?
See, what really matters is that the judge couldn't tell them apart and thought that a reasonable person couldn't tell them apart either. That Samsung's lawyers, who had meticulously poured over details of both the iPad and the Galaxy Tab, couldn't immediately say "yes, your honor, the Tab has features x, y, z that are distinctive from the iPad" was what doomed them.

But of course what really happened is rather inconvenient for Apple fans' theory that the Galaxy Tab's design must be a ripoff of the iPad, instead of taking its design cues from another Samsung product.

Not so much.

Fast forward to 2006... we have the Samsung Q1

And here we have a Samsung digital photo frame that looks very much like an iPad. The "sleek featureless design with rounded corners" idea predates the iPad and iPhone by a long way.

Take a look at this concept device from 1994, for example. Black, rounded corners, screen nearly to the edge, no front buttons...

Apple's entire design philosophy and many of its products were ripped off from Braun by your logic.

If anybody could have thought of it why didn't they?

They did. My dining room table has rounded edge. So did my old TV. So does my keyboard. They all predated the iPad. Apple patented "round corners on a table form factor". They weren't the first ones to think of it, just the first ones to patent it.

Heck, even Samsung thought of it before the iPad. They just didn't think of patenting it.

(And since Apple fans seem to always point this out, here's what the back looks like. Obviously it's different since it's not a tablet, but it's still very similar. The point isn't that Samsung invented the iPad before the iPad. It's that the design elements Apple is claiming ownership of in tablet-space were all widely used elsewhere before the iPad, and thus shouldn't be worthy of protection in tablet-space.)

If anybody could have thought of it why didn't they?

They did. My dining room table has rounded edge. So did my old TV. So does my keyboard. They all predated the iPad. Apple patented "round corners on a table form factor". They weren't the first ones to think of it, just the first ones to patent it.

Heck, even Samsung thought of it before the iPad. They just didn't think of patenting it.

(And since Apple fans seem to always point this out, here's what the back looks like. Obviously it's different since it's not a tablet, but it's still very similar. The point isn't that Samsung invented the iPad before the iPad. It's that the design elements Apple is claiming ownership of in tablet-space were all widely used elsewhere before the iPad, and thus shouldn't be worthy of protection in tablet-space.)

It matters because future Samsung products will be designed to not look so identical to an iPad that their own lawyers can't even tell them apart (in court they couldn't tell the difference between their own products and an iPad).

Seems the Apple reality distortion field didn't die with Jobs. What really happened is that the lawyers the judge was questioning said he couldn't tell them apart, but when the judge asked if the others could, another quickly supplied the correct answer. In other words, they could tell the difference.

Koh frequently remarked on the similarity between each company's tablets. At one point during the hearing, she held one black glass tablet in each hand above her head, and asked Sullivan if she could identify which company produced which.

"Not at this distance your honor," said Sullivan, who stood at a podium roughly ten feet away.

"Can any of Samsung's lawyers tell me which one is Samsung and which one is Apple?" Koh asked. A moment later, one of the lawyers supplied the right answer.

But of course what really happened is rather inconvenient for Apple fans' theory that the Galaxy Tab's design must be a ripoff of the iPad, instead of taking its design cues from another Samsung product. So that last sentence gets cut out from their retelling of the story, thus creating an alternate reality which better fits their predetermined view.

As for the lawyer who couldn't tell them apart, she's in her mid 50s, so probably doesn't have the best eyesight.

Apple participates in many patent pools themselves, and they have no issue with paying the same license fees as anyone else.

Actually that isn't true. In the Nokia vs Apple case, Apple refused to accept the standard pricing and Nokia had to request that the court order them to pay: "all Nokia's asked the court to do is set a price, it's clearly willing to simply accept cash and move on"

Office Home + Student costs around $99 OEM version (includes Word + Excel + Powerpoint + OneNote). That seems like a pretty reasonable price.

You're used to it seemingly :-( Software took another turn recently... The new Mac OS Mountain Lion costs $20 for instance.

They discontinued the 16gb version. 32gb+ models are not discontinued. They're releasing an updated tablet with LTE later this year.

Oh, the current PlayBook, 16gb model included, will also get updated to BB10.

Bash RIM all you want, but you can't deny that their new OS (QNX-based, btw) is impressive both technically and from UI perspective.

I don't even think it's worth talking about the ARM version. The real drawcard for this Windows tablet is being able to run all your old Windows programs.

For a lot of people, though, the "old Windows programs" really boils down to just Office. Which is still there on ARM. So don't discount it so quick.

But at the end of the day grandparent is right, the x86 tablet is going to be nothing more than a shrunken netbook. Asus Transformer with Win8. Except horrible battery performance & heat issues.

Asus has already announced Transformer with Win8. As for battery and heat, we'll see. There's no way a Core (rather than Atom) would match ARM there, of course, but it can still be good enough to be of practical use as a tablet.

Actual battery life appears to be nowhere close to what they claim. Engadget did a review. The MBP's battery actually lasted longer than the HP's. Plus how many charge-drain cycles is that battery rated for? How many Firewire and thunderbolt ports? Have PC laptop suppliers figured out how to do proper strain relief on DC-DC power boards to make the mag safe unnecessary. The last HP I had needed the motherboard fixed because the geniuses decided that solder made a perfect support. After a few years of just moving the laptop around (not accounting for people tripping over it) that just ends up failing.

How about resale value? Macs tend to hold value much better. Just looking at some old 2006 era laptops (Dell M65 vs MBP) it looks like the Mac is still selling for a few hundred more than the Dell.

So $450 for a few more hours on charge, maybe $300 back at the end of the day, no DC-DC power supply issues, and a few really fast ports.

Android is winning.

Yes, it is.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/29/nielsen-smartphones-account-for-nearly-50-percent-of-us-mobile/

According to its latest report on Smartphone OS shares, of those smartphone purchases, 48 percent of buyers went with Android, 43 percent landed iOS a close second

To be fair to Apple, Samsung called a lot of this shit onto itself by so blatantly lifting design elements from the iPad.

Oh really?

What was your question exactly?.

Ironically, this was the logic behind Elop's notorious Burning Platforms memo that justified junking Symbian, MeeGo, and any homegrown smartphone work (which as profitable) in favor of Windows Phone. "Adapt or Die" sounds good, but in this case it was used to adapt the bathwater for Microsoft's baby.

Kogan is reasonably well known: founded in 2006, they are one of the fastest growing Australian companies. They aimed to release the world's first Android phone back in 2008/2009, were the first with a ChromeBook, and they produce their own Agora line of Android devices.

This particular move may be clever marketing, but they also have a recent history of ambition and innovation beyond what you'd expect from a medium sized Australian consumer electronics retailer.

I'm going to hell.

Don't worry.... there's an app for that.

Can we please stop advertising for Kickstarter?

Kickstarter is a scam.

ZionEyez stole $344,000 and have not delivered anything in 11 months

Diaspora received $200,000, 20x their $10k goal. Suppose to be finished end of summer 2010, still in alpha but is "quite usable for some purposes".

When customers complain, Kickstarter says "no refunds"

Why are we still promoting them? Might as well burn your money and put it on youtube

> As far as displays go, why are you adverse to buying TVs? TVs are much
> cheaper than comparable computer monitors, and if you do your research.
> For example, a 32" monitor will run you between $700-$900, but you can
> get a very nice LED TV you can use as a monitor for half that.

a) Computer monitors tend to be much sharper than TV displays. Fuzzy displays don't work for computing

b) TV sets are still being manufactured with overscan http://hd.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hd-101-overscan-and-why-all-tvs-do-it/ just like they were 50 and 60 years ago... "because we've always done it that way". I have a 50" HDTV that's useless as a computer monitor, because the edges are all cut off, and the menu bar at the bottom is mostly invisible. It's great for feeding NHL Gamecenter Live into the HDMI (Flash inside a resizable Firefox window), but for spreadsheets/email/etc, it sucks.

A slightly fuzzy display is perfectly OK for motion (e.g. TV or streaming internet video), becuase you don't notice it with all the movement. But it bites when you read straight text.

The title of the post is about pixel resolution, asking where all the high resolution displays are.

Resolution and pixel density are two different things.

Distance plays a role too. A 9" display at less than a foot from your eyes will be different from a 30" display sitting two feet away. You don't need the same density at longer distances.

Here the TV chart, they don't have detail at the low end. http://hd.engadget.com/2006/12/09/1080p-charted-viewing-distance-to-screen-size/

Where are the 2k and 4k displays? Maybe they are waiting for that resolution since you can just double or quadruple things?

Contrary to popular misbelieve, the Prada was announced AFTER the iphone.

The original iPhone was announced January 9, 2007. First pics of the LG Prada appeared on Engadget on December 15 2006, and according to LG, it was unveiled for the first time at the 2006 iF Design Award in September 2006. Not saying this means anything, as I don't think Apple copied it, but your facts are wrong.

To be fair to Apple, Samsung called a lot of this shit onto itself by so blatantly lifting design elements from the iPad.

Oh really?

I hope you complained to Nvidia when they were burning cards up with their drivers.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/

The Senseg tactile display uses electrostatics to create the sensation of texture on a touchscreen.

Yes, there are prettier solutions coming out soon, like tactile feedback screen from Senseg

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/27/apple-patent-ejectable-sim-card-tray-nano-sim-war/

I'm pretty sure this is like when Google bid pi billion dollars for Nortel's patents. It looks to me like agree with you that the TLD namespace is being polluted. If they get .lol, it'll prove the system is stupid, if not outright broken.