ArtInvent

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Motorola Droid X review (Engadget)

Jul 1st 2010 10:07PM The phone itself is one thing. What's never said in this review is a single thing about the carrier. To me, anything that's only on AT&T gets minus three points right of the possible 10.

Droid X is arguably the best large-screened phone; on the best carrier. That puts it at the top of the heap if you ask me.

To me the iPhone is in a different category, it's a 'normal size' phone. When you realize that a 3.5" screen is actually smaller than a credit card - I'm sorry, that's just not a computer screen I want to use for an extended period.

Exclusive: Samsung Captivate for AT&T preview (Engadget)

Jun 22nd 2010 2:27PM @commenter7 And it doesn't look like an iPhone like the Galaxy S released in other countries. Frankly I like iPhones except the physical design, which has too much glass, metal, and hard plastic. It's very cold and off putting. Why ape that? I would be much more interested in this, except it apes the other big problem with iPhones: the AT&T network.

Dyson Air Multiplier fans grow up to Tower and Pedestal dimensions (Engadget)

Jun 22nd 2010 2:22PM @rollocla The fans are in Bed Bath & Beyond sitting next to normalish looking fans. They aren't any quiter, cooler, or energy efficient. They still use fan blades (just hidden in the base.) And you could very easily buy a perfectly good serviceable normal oscillating fan for $30 or less, so the Dyson is literally ten times more money. Which you are paying because the air streams out of a clever slot in the round ring.

So yeah, I would say they're trying to make money out of thin air. And I'm afraid I don't buy the bit about 'less turbulence' either. This fan offers no benefits other than it looks neat. This smacks of a clever parlor trick without much practical benefit.

The Dyson vacuums are clever, and not outrageously priced at maybe 2-3 times what a decent conventional vac would cost. I fail to see how one of these Dyson fans should be priced at more than $100.

ASUS Eee PC 1201PN with NVIDIA Ion now available at an Amazon.com near you (Engadget)

Jun 21st 2010 12:05PM The real news in this line will be the Eee 1215, with Ion 2 and Optimus and a dual core atom. It would seem to be a perfect combination of graphics power, battery life, processor muscle, netbook size. When oh when will that be released.

Yeah, I have an iPad right now and the list of stuff it doesn't do has made me convinced I really want a super netbook instead. (Oh, say, for instance, all the comments pages that the iPad browser refuses to allow commenting on. Typing this on a desktop machine.) So much for netbooks being dead. But the iPad battery life is really good. 8-10 hours is a game changer, so I'm also convinced said netbook needs to have similar battery life.

Exclusive: Motorola Droid X preview (Engadget)

Jun 20th 2010 3:24PM @Btbessey Perfect size compromise to me. Screen is nearly as big as a Streak but the overall package is substantially smaller. I would even go for a Streak but hesitate at the overall size: they made it unnecessarily long, the plastic goes way beyond the screen edges. Droid X also has a bit unnecessary extra body top and bottom but not nearly as bad as the Streak.

It's pretty clear that a 5" screen phone that is thin and all screen would easily fit in your pocket, sadly no one seems to understand yet that you need to dump all the extra body sticking out around the edges. Until they do, this Droid X looks to be the best compromise of screen/body size so far.

Motorola Droid X stars in its clearest off-the-cuff preview yet (update: comparison shots!) (Engadget)

Jun 11th 2010 5:44PM @acp I've seen the X measures just over 5" long, which is indeed longer than the Evo.

The plus side would be that it's pretty darn thin except for the bump on the back around the lens. which I'm not so hot on. With the possible exception that if it somehow actually allows the thing to shoot passable 720p video and not the jerky over compressed crap that is coming out of the Evo and all the other new so-called 720p phone cams - that would be a win.

iPhone 4 announced, launching June 24 for $199 with new FaceTime video chat (Engadget)

Jun 7th 2010 10:01PM What I'm really getting at is that I want a bigger screen. I'm looking at the Evo and now the Dell Streak and going, yeah, I dig that. Knowing how I'm using the iPad, the 5" screen on the Streak looks like it would serve pretty well for those things, plus be way more portable than an iPad, which I pretty much leave at home all the time.

Honestly, I don't really want both a smart phone with a data plan and an iPad and a laptop. That's too many devices to pay for, keep the batteries charged, and upgrade every year when something better comes out. But I think I can handle a big smartphone and a laptop.

Can you imagine a 5" iPhone with that resolution? It would be unbefreakinglievable.

Jobs doesn't want to do that because he'd rather sell you both an iPad and an iPhone. And a laptop and an iPod or two for that matter.

iPhone 4 announced, launching June 24 for $199 with new FaceTime video chat (Engadget)

Jun 7th 2010 6:36PM @hey buddy I've seen the iPhone, I've seen the Droid, I've seen the Evo, I have an iPad.

The iPhone has a small screen. It's almost an inch smaller than the Evo's.

Text on a Droid, for instance, is just incredibly sharp, and that phone has a bigger screen and less resolution than the new iPhone. And this is why I say that any more than Droid resolution on a 3.5" screen is only going to matter if you've got a microscope.

There's no doubt they needed to bump the resolution up, because the 3G was pretty grainy compared to Droid, Nexus, Evo, etc. But there's also no doubt that they could have and should have gone larger as well. 4" would have been sweet and the phone could've stayed pretty much the same size.

iPhone 4 announced, launching June 24 for $199 with new FaceTime video chat (Engadget)

Jun 7th 2010 3:40PM The screen resolution bump is puzzling. I love high res displays, but on a screen this small it's kind of wasted, you simply won't be able to see it. 800x480 would be more than adequate. Excess resolution just makes games run slower and graphics chips do more work. I can only think that having the iPad and iPhone resolution much closer makes it simpler to code apps for both platforms. In short, this benefits coders first, iPads second, while for iPhone it's as much a penalty as a feature. Though at least they were able to do it and keep battery life high.

If they bump up the phone to like a 4-5 inch display, then, yeah, it would be pretty great. But 3.5"? No.

Dell Streak review (Engadget)

Jun 7th 2010 3:27AM @MMP7 dude, try a BookGem for $15, it will hold any kind of tablet or iPad or whatever. Genius. I've measured and it will hold this in landscape just perfectly.