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Zune HD gaming and app downloads confirmed: Twitter, Facebook, and 3D games on the way (updated) (Engadget)

Sep 15th 2009 1:56PM Another problem with the RoughlyDrafted piece: it's comparison of Quake demos is completely skewed.

The iPhone run is at 480x320, while the Tegra is running at 868x480, better than 2.5x the pixels. But what skews the comparison even more is that the Tegra is running with antialiasing and anisotropic filtering on, and the iPhone isn't. Slot this down to the Zune's 480x272, and not only should the framerate be terrific, but the image should look a lot better with AA and AF on.

The hardware in the Tegra may or may not be revolutionary, but apparently the folks at NVidia know a thing or two about optimizing the crap out of 3D graphics display. Hard to believe, I know.

Also, I'm a little stumped on how shipping a radio that delivers a bunch of digital channels in addition to the FM analog broadcast -- while the Touch, unlike the more advanced Nano, can't deliver any radio at all -- is a bad thing. Shame on Microsoft for supporting a format that radio stations are starting to broadcast in. What are they thinking?

Even worse, a product only being released in the US doesn't support European digital radio, though it does get analog. Which, if I'm not mistaken, gives it a leg up on the Touch.

But, of course, he suggests getting a separate portable radio, if you want radio. Perhaps an iPod Nano, to go along with your poorly-featured Touch?

Dell gives Zune HD a 15 percent discount for launch (Engadget)

Sep 14th 2009 5:31PM @cool8man,

That's not just any 3D racing game, either. According to gaming sites, that's Forza 3, a highly-anticipated racing sim to be coming out on the 360.

If they start porting XBox titles en masse (and targeting their gaming development resources at new games for Zune), this could effectively become the XBox Handheld everyone's been waiting for.

Toshiba's JournE touch multimedia tablet (updated with hands-on video!) (Engadget)

Sep 3rd 2009 3:16PM > And since Apple has a media RICH ecosystem in play already, their tablet form factor will just explode!

I've always said it's a shame that you can't buy any media that will play on Windows-based machines. Maybe someone will decide to get into that business -- I think there might be an opportunity there.

>They have no solution of their own for making a real statement with the tablet form factor.

Personally, I couldn't care less about them making a statement. I buy and use devices, not statements. If it does what it's supposed to do and costs a reasonable amount, Toshiba is doing its job.

Toshiba's JournE touch multimedia tablet (updated with hands-on video!) (Engadget)

Sep 3rd 2009 1:35PM Windows CE has a port of Adobe Reader as well as Foxit, so you should be able to read PDFs. Other ebook readers like Mobipocket also run on WinMo, and it is likely that some or all of these will work on this device as well.

Toshiba's JournE touch multimedia tablet (updated with hands-on video!) (Engadget)

Sep 3rd 2009 12:36PM Why is it so hard to believe that a vendor might think that a system that's only been out for a short period of time at a completely different form factor might not be ready for use on netbooks?

There are lots of ARM Linux distros with a lot more history of running on computer-like devices than Android has. Android seems like a decent-enough 1.0 OS for phones, but it's not like it has magic pixie dust relative to other ARM distros.

Meanwhile, Windows CE has been around for over a decade and happily runs on lots of different devices, many of them quite successful. Over that time, not surprisingly, it has had quite a stable of apps built for it. Why does that make it obviously unsuitable for such a device?

CrunchPad coming in November with built-in 3G connectivity, says Straits Times (Engadget)

Jul 31st 2009 6:34PM @bondsbw,

You realize this runs on Linux, right? You know, where the WHOLE OS is open source, and not just some pieces lifted from other open source projects?

Comparing it to Windows has nothing to do with this. Get back to me on the supposed openness of OS X when I can legally download a copy for free (including source), modify it to my heart's content, and load it on third party hardware.

OS X is a pretty good product, but talking about how open it is just makes you delusional.

Acer's Aspire Timeline 1810T gets a price, release window (Engadget)

Jul 27th 2009 8:13PM For me, 8 hr battery >>> Ion graphics, but everyone's different. Hopefully the Samsung N510 will be the machine you're looking for.

Acer's 11.6-inch Aspire Timeline 1810T: a netbook we can finally embrace? (Engadget)

Jul 26th 2009 3:01AM For 7-8 hours of battery life, you get integrated graphics. Even in a kickass ThinkPad X200s you get integrated graphics.

Stay tuned for systems with the Nvidia Ion for higher-end graphics in netbook-type systems, but the battery life will probably be awful.

If the news is important it will find me (Blog Maverick)

Mar 31st 2008 11:09AM Mark,

Aren't you the guy who was recently quoted as saying "the internet is dead", that it's "for old people?", and that the only thing new in the last 5 years is YouTube, which is a ripoff?

http://www.multichannel.com/CA6463169.html

You mean the internet is actually evolving, and allowing you to do new things after all? Who would have thought. Oh, wait: everyone.

Warner Music's brilliant new idea: Re-hash old ones (Download Squad)

Mar 28th 2008 12:46AM Yeah, that's pretty much the problem -- it *will* be mandatory. I agree that it it were non-compulsory, it might be great.

But why should everyone in America with an internet connection have to shell out $60/year (the proposed "fee" is $5/month) regardless of whether they have any interest in downloading music?

That's like taxing everyone who has electricity as if they had bought a Sony TV, and telling them they're allowed to go down to the store and get a free one if they want.