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RIM has been keeping the N-Series phone under tight wraps. This is what we think we know: 720×720 display measuring 52-53mm wide somehow at 330 PPI -- weird, as you'd figure to keep the display square, each side would need to be ~2.18" with a ~3.08" diagonal or ~55mm width.

Someone figured that if the display isn't square what some possible aspect ratios could be (I haven't checked them, insomnia and laziness go hand-in-hand):
Resolution | PPI | Diag | Ratio | H... | W...
720×720... | 330 | 3.1" | 16:10 | 1.6" | 2.6"
720×720... | 330 | 3.1" | 16:09 | 1.5" | 2.7"
720×720... | 330 | 3.1" | 04:03 | 1.9" | 2.5"

That would be some crazy stretching though. I don't know that we'll see a cool portrait oriented keyboard phone this generation. Pure speculation: I agree that it would be nice, I just don't think it's going to happen. If we get anything in the future, I'd put my money on a 1280x720 landscape display on a keyboard model -- just like the display on the L-Series (all-touch models).

The PlayBook and Kindle Fire are basically cousins anyway. Quanta makes both of them.

As far as HULU it is HULU to blame as they have blocked the PlayBook from working on their site. You can try installing SimpleBrowser from App World. It lets you specify a user agent string HULU doesn't block. I simply use PlayOn to stream HULU from my PC.

Press Release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/feb02/02-19PhoneEditionPR.mspx

Touchscreen: http://gdgt.com/htc/pocket-pc-phone/
Smartphone (standard cell keyboard): http://gdgt.com/htc/canary/

Any other Google research I can do for you?

Press Release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/feb02/02-19PhoneEditionPR.mspx

Touchscreen: http://gdgt.com/htc/pocket-pc-phone/
Smartphone (standard cell keyboard): http://gdgt.com/htc/canary/

Any other Google research I can do for you?

I went from an iPhone 3G to a Nexus One, which I returned due to poor reception when holding the device. http://gdgt.com/discuss/nexus-one-has-cell-antennas-on-the-6sn/

I then got a Droid, which was the next best Android phone at the time. When my contract is up, I'll probably switch back to the iPhone unless significant improvements have been made to Android by then. Android has a very Linuxy mindset--it can do just about anything you want, but the user experience is very poor. Compare to the iPhone, which does slightly less in practice (for me at least, the only thing the iPhone doesn't do is tether) but is more or less a joy to use.

18 months is a long time in phones these days, so who knows what the future will bring. But for myself, for now, I wish I had stuck with Apple.

According to the liveblog at gdgt:

10:54AM - "Megapixels are nice, but what cellphone cameras are really about is capturing photons and low-light photography. So we've gone from a 3 to a 5 megapixel sensor with a backside illuminated sensor."

10:55AM - "It's a way of getting more light to the sensor... also, when most people increase the megapixels, they make the pixel sensors smaller. We've kept them the same size so they capture more photons. We've got a 5x digital zome, tap to focus, and LED flash."

So yeah, if it's accurate it's kinda cool that he at least mentioned photons - at least to the nerds!

According to the liveblog at gdgt:

10:54AM - "Megapixels are nice, but what cellphone cameras are really about is capturing photons and low-light photography. So we've gone from a 3 to a 5 megapixel sensor with a backside illuminated sensor."

10:55AM - "It's a way of getting more light to the sensor... also, when most people increase the megapixels, they make the pixel sensors smaller. We've kept them the same size so they capture more photons. We've got a 5x digital zome, tap to focus, and LED flash."

So yeah, if it's accurate it's kinda cool that he at least mentioned photons - at least to the nerds!

Why are so many outlets reporting no 3G? It's optional, it's using GSM micro-SIM, it's unlocked. Oy. It's all over the place at sites like this. Don't jump the gun!

Hmm http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/ not working, please do not slashdot the site which are not ready to take the load, or atleast let them be ready for high volume of traffic.

http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/

Yes it requires an account to download.

However it is not verified. AKA login immediately after.

I pounded the keyboard a few times and dloaded no problem.

I'd tell u my user and pass if I could.

And furthermore,

Here's the top down view with the joystick in focus

Madness.

This one's probably not Hitachi's fault.

They were upgrading their SAN, and they outsourced it to a Hitachi consulting firm

...assuming of course that the Hitachi consulting firm was somebody other than Hitachi.

If you understand the concept of storage abstraction, and take on face-value the reports that this is a botched SAN upgrade, then you understand that the culprit is not the server OS. No SAN-connected OS instance, "nix" or otherwise, can make data appear that isn't there.

11:48AM - Averages 2x speed increase -- some things are even faster. OpenGL ES 2.0 support. 7.2Mbps HSDPA. Big applause. "The new iPhone 3G S is a REALLY fast phone."

I have also read the official press release from Apple (not sure if it is already released yet, but it should be soon) and it also mentions OpenGL ES 2.0, so I think you got your upgrade after all :)

I listen to TWIT (This Week In Tech) regularly, mainly for Leo Laporte and any guest who isn't Dvorak. I don't find Leo to be particularly techy, but he's quite entertaining and controls the flow of the show well.

They mention Rev3 alot and also a new site called GDGT (GaDGeT) which is supposedly good - I must admit I haven't found time to check it out yet.

Okay no excuses, subsribing to an RSS feed is dead simple, so I'm going go ahead and subscribe to GDGT and check it out. - Oh and IO9 while I'm at it.