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Sharp combines its latest LCD improvements in LX series HDTVs {Engadget HD}
Sep 30th 2009 4:50PM is the LED backlight the local-dimming type?
Sharp combines its latest LCD improvements in LX series HDTVs {Engadget}
Sep 30th 2009 4:32PM Are these local-dimming LED backlights? That's important to me.
Apple rejects iSinglePayer iPhone app for being 'politically charged' {Engadget}
Sep 29th 2009 7:52PM I seem to recall the Obama campaign putting out their own iPhone app during the campaign. It was an "Obama for president" app, essentially. How is that okay, but this is not?!
Sprint temporarily loses its mind, wants $250 for Samsung Instinct HD {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2009 1:41PM Instincts have always used BREW for many of the built-in apps.
It's coming {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 21st 2009 3:13PM "Video not available" is coming? Whee! I can't wait for that! ;-P
HABEY intros Atom N270-powered mini HTPC, makes it crunch 1080p {Engadget HD}
Mar 11th 2009 6:10PM That is, by a wide margin, the worst Photochop job I have seen so far in 2009. WOW that's bad!
Welcome to the New Joystiq (3.0 if you're counting) {Joystiq}
Jan 27th 2009 6:16PM I find the "Source / Email / Share / Comments" bar confusing. The dark line at the top looks like a divider line. It makes it look like the bar belongs to the blog post below, not the one above. It would be a lot less confusing if all components of a post were grouped together visually and/or there were some kind of graphic divider between posts.
Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know {Engadget}
Jan 13th 2009 11:44PM A third party is working on an emulator for old Palm OS apps.
No IR.
Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know {Engadget}
Jan 13th 2009 11:41PM I thought the same thing when I bought my first iPhone. Then I discovered movies. Try putting a few movies on your phone for a long flight and see how quickly you want all the storage you can get.
Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know {Engadget}
Jan 13th 2009 11:39PM Bill is correct. Unfortunately, plenty of phones do put the memory card slot under the battery.
The idea - in theory - is that most people only put a card in once, then leave it, or perhaps upgrade to a larger card at one other time. Most people do not have a collection of cards they swap regularly, and only a minority use cards to transfer files to/from their PC.
Of course, minority or not, enough people do use cards to transfer files that manufacturers should put the slot where it can be accessed, and most do.
The reality is that some manufacturers put the slot under the battery because it's easier to design a smaller phone that way. Others do it because their software can't handle hot-swaps gracefully, so they prevent hot-swapping physically.
