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T-mobile will let you can unlock a Sidekick.

You'll be able to use your Sidekick as a phone, but will lose alot of the Sidekick functionality. T-Mobile uses Danger's servers for that functionality and those servers won't be accessible from the AT&T network.

T-mobile will let you can unlock a Sidekick. I have no personal experience with AT&T but a googling has told me that they at least used to use Sim cards and therefore should be usable on AT&T.

I have used T-mobile for years because they are the least bastardy carrier that I have a choice to use. As nice as it might be to have an iPhone, I won't switch carriers to have one, and I prefer not to void a warranty that I can't afford to shrug off.

I wish for your last paragraph to come true.

Use the excess heat to turn a fan to cool the chip. If there's not enough ehat to move the fan, then it's not hot enough to need to be cooled.

MSI is talking up using a Sterling engine to do just that. Engadget has a blurb about it.

What really strikes me as odd about the DSi is Nintendo's announcement that this will constitute a "Third Platform", not replacing the DS Lite but complementing it. How many markets are there for dual screen handhelds with one touchscreen by Nintendo? Especially since the DSi appears to be such an incremental upgrade over the DS Lite.

Source:
Engadget

I suspect you're closer than you think.

Some time ago, rumour had it that Microsoft had allocated ~300 of its best engineers to work on Midori, a product based on its Singularity research OS.

Singularity, for those not familiar with it, is a highly impressive piece of work. It's not actually Windows at all, in fact it bears absolutely no resemblence to any existing OS architecturally and didn't even support graphics when we were last able to look at it. But it was a ground-up fresh new OS that had the following characteristics: entirely .NET based (with extensions), extremely robust and extremely high performance.

In particular, Singularity is able to go about 30% faster on I/O intensive apps than traditional server operating systems like Linux and Windows because it doesn't use hardware process isolation, but rather does everything in software. Hmmm, an OS with no graphics support, no applications, but which can run .NET applications far faster than the competition. Sounds basically ideal for a server OS or "cloud windows" if you ask me.

The previous record holder was 40.7%

I'm not sure why this is here, this was a press release in Mid august.

T-Mobile removed the 1GB cap already.

Do you complain about your car not having a replaceable engine? No - it lasts the life of the car. When it wears out, you buy a new car or have a mechanic (if you're not capable) replace the engine.

Except that batteries don't last the lifetime of the iPhone; at least, not unless you have more money than sense and can afford to buy a new one as soon as your two-year contract expires. (Even then, that's twice the recommended replacement interval, and you'll notice the loss of battery life).

As if its difficult to find a dock connector cable. There are hundreds of millions of them out there and the spec/pinout is openly published. The iPod dock connector is so ubiquitous, car manufacturers are building cars with them built in. How many cars can you order with a USB connector?

Which dock connector? They're all subtly incompatible in interesting ways. Plus, there's things like the iPhone and newer iPods refusing to do video out via cables that don't contain a special proprietary lock chip, just so that Apple can make more money by forcing everyone to use approved cables.

WTF? You can use any 1/8 headset that doesn't have an oversized fat connector with the first gen iphone's recessed jack (including bose noise cancelling headphones and sennheisers). The 3G iphone has a flush jack. The first android phone doesn't even have a 1/8" headphone jack at all.

True. Of course, from what I've heard nearly all headphones don't fit.

iTunes isn't available for Linux. Neither is photoshop. Cry me a river. Next you'll bitch about it not supporting ogg.

It's not just iTunes being unavailable, it seems like they've deliberately put in effort to stop you using third-party software to sync. (On some of the other new iPods, they definitely have done this.)

Yes it has limitations. But calling it "ridiculously restrictive" is ridiculous in itself. It's sold more apps than any cell phone marketplace ever. Some develeopers are raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars PER MONTH. Yeah, the app store is so ridiculously restrictive it's going to collapse any day now...

Like who? Undoubtedly, it's profitable - just like selling small apps for Mac OS X is profitable. Of course, there's the risk that you'll put in the development time and Apple will reject your app for some silly reason, as some people have discovered the hard way.

Take your ball and go home. If you don't like Apple's rules or the design of the iPhone, don't buy an iPhone.

How very... totalitarian.

Fragile? Where did you hear that? The iPhone is by far the sturdiest phone I've ever owned, and that includes the construction oriented "rugged" phones that Nextel makes. Stop with your FUD already.

Now I know you're a Mac fanboy. No phone with a large glass screen is as rugged as (say) one of the old Nokia candybar phones, and that includes the iPhone. Better than ruggedised phones? No way.

It has a QWERTY keyboard. If a touch screen keyboard isn't "proper", refer to #8.

The camera CAN record video and there are FREE applications in that overly restrictive app store that let you record video with it. Just because the built in photo application doesn't record video, doesn't mean the functionally doesn't exist.

Congratulations! With third party software that wasn't possible when the phone was released, it's finally got functionality you'd expect in your average order-of-magnitude-cheaper cameraphone. How impressive.

Nope. You can get 8 or 16GB of space. If you need more, don't buy it.

What a very Apple attitude.

What's wrong with a capacitive touchscreen? Have you ever even used an iPhone?

Awful

Whereas the iPhone requires an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.5.4 or later, ADC membership, and familiarity with proprietary Mac OS X dev tools, the standard IDE for Android is Eclipse.

iPhone SDK requirements to develop an iPhone app:
OS X 10.5.3 or later (Intel or G5)
ADC membership (free but requires registration)
XCode (free bundled with OS X Tiger and above but not installed)
Objective-C language

To distribute iPhone app:
Yearly License: Individual $99 or Enterprise $299

Android:
Windows XP or Vista, OS X Tiger or higher, or Linux (tested on Ubuntu Dapper Drake)
Eclipse 3.3 or 3.4 (free download from eclipse.org)
Java JDK 1.5 or 1.6 (free from Sun)
Apache Ant 1.65 (Linux/OS X), 1.7 (Windows) (free from apache.org)

Good chart at engadget.

Holy christ, why am I feeding the troll.

1. Do you complain about your car not having a replaceable engine? No - it lasts the life of the car. When it wears out, you buy a new car or have a mechanic (if you're not capable) replace the engine.
2. As if its difficult to find a dock connector cable. There are hundreds of millions of them out there and the spec/pinout is openly published. The iPod dock connector is so ubiquitous, car manufacturers are building cars with them built in. How many cars can you order with a USB connector?
3. Yes, the mono bluetooth is annoying.
4. WTF? You can use any 1/8 headset that doesn't have an oversized fat connector with the first gen iphone's recessed jack (including bose noise cancelling headphones and sennheisers). The 3G iphone has a flush jack. The first android phone doesn't even have a 1/8" headphone jack at all.
5. iTunes isn't available for Linux. Neither is photoshop. Cry me a river. Next you'll bitch about it not supporting ogg.
6. Like what??
7. Yes it has limitations. But calling it "ridiculously restrictive" is ridiculous in itself. It's sold more apps than any cell phone marketplace ever. Some develeopers are raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars PER MONTH. Yeah, the app store is so ridiculously restrictive it's going to collapse any day now...
8. Take your ball and go home. If you don't like Apple's rules or the design of the iPhone, don't buy an iPhone.
9. Fragile? Where did you hear that? The iPhone is by far the sturdiest phone I've ever owned, and that includes the construction oriented "rugged" phones that Nextel makes. Stop with your FUD already.
10. It has a QWERTY keyboard. If a touch screen keyboard isn't "proper", refer to #8.
11. The camera CAN record video and there are FREE applications in that overly restrictive app store that let you record video with it. Just because the built in photo application doesn't record video, doesn't mean the functionally doesn't exist.
12. Nope. You can get 8 or 16GB of space. If you need more, don't buy it.
13. What's wrong with a capacitive touchscreen? Have you ever even used an iPhone?

I'm surprised you didn't bitch about no MMS support so you can get billed to send pictures over the proprietary cell network instead of just emailing them.

The situation with Podcaster and MailWrangler quite frankly sucks and no sane person will disagree with that. Apple's stance on this completely sucks. All we can do is complain and hope they'll listen. Generate enough bad press and something is bound to happen...

No tethering app initially...but the T-Mobile CTO stated they weren't going to do anything to actively prevent it.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/t-mobiles-cto-on-g1-unlocking-and-tethering-plus-a-few-detai/

Surely someone so interested in Blackberries as yourself would be aware that RIM has a new touchscreen blackberry about to be released called the Storm... http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/gsm-only-blackberry-storm-thunder-leaks-out/

Whether or not it's going to compete with the iPhone obviously has yet to be seen, but they're hardly resting on their laurels.

Engadget has a couple of screens:
The applications screen shows an email client next to GMail. This screen shows the email setup wizard. So it seems like there is an alternative to gmail.

Engadget has a couple of screens:
The applications screen shows an email client next to GMail. This screen shows the email setup wizard. So it seems like there is an alternative to gmail.

Back a few months, Sony sent out a press release, stating "Pricing for rental movies at launch ranges from $2.99 to $5.99, and pricing for purchased movies ranges from $9.99 to $14.99" I'd check the pricing on the video store, but the site requires Java to work at all.

They tout that you can copy these videos to your PSP, but that doesn't sound too hard to do yourself (check here for a more detailed how-to, if the first one sounded too easy =)

So pretty much, it's just like so many other video download sites that don't really offer much of a savings off of buying slightly discounted physical copies. And if you wait long enough, you're bound to find someone re-selling their physical copy for a fraction of retail (or download) price.

I think that T-Mobile is going 3G in their 21 major markets in the US at the beginning of October here... at least, that's the last news I heard.

available on newer Dell Latitudes. I'm not sure USB drivers are included, though.
Here's a review

Because, you know, after MSI threw in those free moviez, ASUS had to up the ante a little :)

You can't take the government out of research. Think of a world without your iPod. And I can't personally imagine a world without Matthew Lesko. Seriously though, Matthew Lesko!

The first Android phone, the HTC Dream, will be out "soon". Beware the curse of the early adopter however; while the Dream may (or may not) live up to its name, later offerings will surely be better.

It wouldn't be a problem if anyone could set up their own app store to distribute software to iPhone users.

I'm also an iPhone owner, people and companies are already doing this.

A vast amount of iPhone users have their phones jailbroken (if this poll posted earlier today is any indication, it would seem the majority do) thanks to the iphone-dev team. Cydia is a GUI application installed which uses apt at the backend, just like debian/ubuntu, for installing third party software. Pretty much anyone can get an app listed in the default sources, or you could make your own repository.

You do realize that sending this prime number via SMS would require 62501 sms messages, using the standard US sms character limit of 160. Let's see... at the standard rate for SMS in the US of $.20, ( http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/26695/congress-to-cell-carriers-why-have-sms-rates-doubled/ ) that comes out to, $12,500.20.

Now, assuming you can SMS at lightning speed and input 3 characters per second on a non qwerty keyboard (which is pretty dang fast if this story is to be believed http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/17/new-world-record-for-fastest-text-messaging/ ) typing that out will take roughly 926 hours or 38.5 days.

Now I'm not a doctor, but you'd also have to factor in the chance for physical, and mental harm from this extended bout of texting. No sleep, no food or water, and definitly no slashdot for 38.5 days, not to mention the incedible amount of stress placed upon the joints, tendons, and muscles of your thumbs and arms.

I say no thank you sir, no thank you indeed. Good luck in your epic endeavor!

"it's getting a sound thrashing from Moto and Samsung, who've cornered the Asian market where touchscreens are popular for their ability to let users input Asian languages without all that fiddly Qwerty nonsense."

The iPhone does have non-QWERTY touch-based Asian input. It looks gesture based, and it's been available since firmware version 2.0.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/05/iphone-firmware-2-0-adds-chinese-handwriting-recognition-newton

It looks like the submitter didn't do this homework before posting.

I don't know about other languages, but in Japanese, you enter the latin transliteration and get a list of possible representations in japanese / chinese characters, instead of drawing the character like you can do on other devices.
That said, since firmware 2.0, the iphone has handwriting recognition.

TFA claims that using the LED backlit LCD display adds 4 hours to the run time. I am highly skeptical of this claim -- when Apple introduced the LED backlight, they claimed a battery life benefit of anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Careful you'll upset the OS/2 fanboys and they'll rate your comment as "Troll" for revenge as they rated mine. They have meta moderator points to make sure their revenge sticks via multiple accounts and proxy servers.

The only person who thinks OS/2 is better than anything else is Commander Spock on the CNet forums who meta mod trolls here and mods down any comment that talks about something being better than OS/2.

AROS is more modern and has better driver support and better virtual machine support than OS/2 currently has. Some virtual machines cannot run OS/2 for some reason and modern processors cause SYS errors in OS/2 and it fails to even install. Which are reasons why AROS is better than OS/2 as it supports more processors and is multi platform in that it supports more than 32 bit Intel X86 processors. Also AROS has a much lower memory footprint than OS/2 so it runs faster. The OLPC laptop got AmigaOS running on it while OS/2 wouldn't run on it as an example.

Besides OS/2 would not be the way it is today without IBM licensing the best parts of AmigaOS for OS/2 Warp and above and AROS builds on AmigaOS and makes it more modern, unlike OS/2 Warp and eComStation that are still based on AmigaOS 2.0 but does not have the AmigaOS 3.1 improvements that AROS has.

So there, I just proved myself right in the parent post. Please mod it back up if you moderators are indeed fair. If not, I'll know you modded it down for revenge and petty jealousy.

AROS is based on AmigaOS 3.1 and historically

Well, considering that the WiFi distance record is at least 237 miles: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/19/venezuelans-set-new-wifi-distance-record-237-miles/

I would think firing a signal out of the atmosphere would give you better distance than parallel to the ground. If a previous poster was right that the ISS is only 200 miles up (sounds about right to me....) then a regular wireless card with a good dish antenna right here on earth should be able to connect tot he ISS wireless network if it's not encrypted. The only problem would really be keeping your dish properly tracking to the station while it moves overhead. But, considering some of the data that you'd probably be able to swipe if you were to connect to it, it would probably be worth it for some group of scumbags somewhere to try it.

I hope they're not using WEP 64 with the phone number of the ISS for the encryption key.....

Hmm I guess the deal now showed-up:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/doing-the-math-on-that-99-inspiron-mini-deal/

The problem is that you cannot get the cheaper notebook models and need things like the $25 more expensive color case, worthless AV software, and 3 year support too and it does not really come-out much cheaper.

If you can wait until 6 a.m. Central tomorrow, Sept. 5, youâ(TM)ll be able to get a Mini for only $99 with the purchase of a Studio 15, XPS M1530 or XPS M1330 laptop through 6 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9 (U.S. only).

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Anything like this?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ipod-gets-exploded-trapped-in-resin/

i can't stand it when people just blindly stick in an address and let some little thing on the dash tell them when to turn.. and just drive on not even bothering to look where it is going to take them.

Either that's some extreme hyperbole or you need to relax a bit, geesh.

You might be interested in these two articles which prove the posters point.

I doubt at those prices HP is creating a revolution.

Much more interesting is the EEE Monitor PC, which looks to be around $500, is a whole lot sleeker than that HP thing, and also function as a PC. Given ASUS' history on the EEE, there's a good chance it will run Linux.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/05/asus-intros-the-eee-monitor-all-in-one-pc-says-more-eee-models/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/cat-5-wedding-rings-help-nerds-couple/

punch card reader or a reel drive can be effectivly substituted with something like this:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/25/college-student-creates-paper-based-storage-system-no-not-that/

If printed on laser printer, stored same way as really old documents are, your data could restored even after few hundred years. Don't forget to include decoding algorithm and create several copies of your data, just in case.

Really, 25 years isn't all *that* long. 9 pin serial has been around longer than that, and USB and SD are much more broadly adopted than it ever was.

There are already issues in sports with people with prosthetic parts being "too good" at certain tasks. I imagine going forward this will become more and more of an issue. The paralympic games may become where all the action is at in the future.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/17/prosthetic-limbed-runner-disqualified-from-olympics/

I believe a major part of the problem with Fios in bigger cities is the fiber itself. Last year, Corning announced development of a bendable fiber, which will help the installation in multi-family homes. Not having ever had any experience as a fiber installer, I don't know if this is BS or not, but it seems Verizon is now making plans to penetrate the bigger cities.

In case you don't remember, the first multi-touch product was a keyboard. Apple bought FingerWorks and began incorporating its technology into their projects.

But as I wrote previously, the lack of tactile feedback is a deal-killer for anybody who types in their profession. It just makes typing too slow (55 wpm vs. 120 wpm).

Fortunately, the clever folks at FingerWorks (now Apple) have realized that, and they've been busily working on ways to reconfigure the tactile surface dynamically. I hope they work out -- it was very nice not having to move my hands to mouse.

I know I could not light my fire with my laptop.

Apparently you don't have a Sony battery.

But Linux wasn't coded in a forward looking fashion.

Absolutely true. The thing is we've been slowly moving to something else; samba volume shares/sshfs, java/.net/mono, virtualization, etc. Do we actually understand what is slowly happening everywhere?

The age of single machine OS is coming to an end. Even MS sees this from what I've read about Midori. I believe the future brings us a distributed OS even if it were run on a single machine. We've already got microkernel OS with services distributed throughout the net (or on a local machine) and it would be trivial to hack virtual memory subsystem to move the memory pages and process state tables around the net or integrate something like beowulf into every kernel by default. Start the local process, migrate it somewhere on the planet before shutting the local machine down and just migrate it back in the morning. Or start the process and migrate it to best available match in the available cloud.

Add some crypto, ACLs and signing mechanism, sprinkle with a bit of good will and voila!

OK, combining this bit of free association and the followup noting that nVidia licensed Transmeta's tech... how about an embedded processor with an nVidia GPU implementing x86 using JIT translation and CUDA for acceleration?

As-if?

See for yourself http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/19/nvidia-has-x86-cpu-in-the-works/

... makes the jokes funnier.
Like...
"They've made 140 million of those things and they still can't get them right. Drumroll...

But seriously...
Despite the popular opinion there are quite a few Zunes out there. Even the brown ones.
In fact brown Zune 30 was at the top of the Amazon's sales rank during the November of 2007 - because of the price drop.
So, no matter what the herd think is cool, cheaper sells better.

Oh and... No Zunes in Japan.
Or anywhere outside North America.
So I guess we'll have to wait with those statistics to determine which one is safer on a crowded Tokyo subway line.

I remember reading about 7.5 micron thick (thickness of paper) RFIDs coming out from Hitachi ealier this year. All Big Brother has to do is spray a few on their target and they are double-plus happy.

Isn't Sideshow pretty much exactly what ON was supposed to do except it's attached to the main screen?

Actually Sideshow is designed to work with a small secondary screen. As for why it never generated interest for the mobile user/traveler: Imagine having a device that you could use to just browse the web and use email, turned on almost instantly and was very portable! Better still, imagine making calls through it!

I'm wondering when I can dispense with the laptop completely and just use some sort of flexible/unfolding display attached to the mobile phone, along with a travel keyboard and mouse, at least for basic business needs.

Last I heard, it was a dongle you plug into the USB port on the back of the Tivo. Engadget reported it was supposed to be available 2Q2008.

Tesla has promised sub $60k and sub $30k cars...

Weren't about 30% of Vista crashes in 2007 due to nVidia drivers? Looks like almost 50% when you add in Intel and Ati. source

No if a private citizen does it they go to jail. If it is known to be illegal will any police officers go to jail for doing this? Of course not. Will their commanding officers be removed from police force for negligence of duty in allowing those under them to use illegal tactics? Of course not. Do the police give a shit if this is illegal, if they only get caught occasionally and when they do the suffer no personal penalties? Of course not.