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HTC Touch Pro2 for Sprint spotted in the wild, mid-June release? {Engadget}
May 19th 2009 8:21PM I think this might be my next phone. Physical QWERTY keyboard, FINALLY a good sized touch screen. My hope is that it also has wifi so that I can use it more effectively around my house where Sprint's data coverage sucks...five sites all pointing away from my home...with full bars everywhere else Lol.
I'm also interested in the Pre, and while the screen is still relatively small, I have serious misgivings about that keyboard. Absolutely HATE the feel of the Centro keypad.
Ideally, would be great if someone would come up with a portrait layout device with a large touch screen and a physical QWERTY keypad in a non sliding form factor. Think Motorola Q or Crackberry, with a large touch screen. Someone? Please? Anyone?
Intel fined record $1.45 billion in AMD antitrust case {Engadget}
May 13th 2009 11:08AM So what's wrong with offering a rebate in exchange for exclusivity? Who stopped AMD from using the same approach? It's a competitive world, and if a company can't compete based on it's product offerings (AMD), then perhaps they should take a different approach to stake out it's market share.
AT&T issues official statement on SlingPlayer's 3G blackout for iPhone {Engadget}
May 12th 2009 8:09PM It's their network, and they can allow or disallow whatever they choose. You can sue, but you wouldn't get anywhere.
AT&T issues official statement on SlingPlayer's 3G blackout for iPhone {Engadget}
May 12th 2009 8:06PM Until Apple manages to get it outlawed under DCMA
Sony Pictures responds to your poll results, discusses the future of BD-Live {Engadget HD}
May 11th 2009 10:33PM I buy discs to watch the movie and maybe the deleted scenes. I really don't give a rats ass about BD Live, and would just as soon see them kill the feature and drop the price of the discs.
BR Discs needs to get down to that magic 'impulse buy' price point and B&M's where MOST people buy their movies.
Surprise! The American Cable Association favors tiered broadband pricing {Engadget}
Apr 28th 2009 11:04PM The cable companies are just as evil and greedy as the bastards behind the Wall Street and mortgage failures. It's not about providing service, adding channels, or network upgrades....those are paid for by the double digit increases in our regular bills. Usage based billing is about one thing, greed. It's an attempt to squeeze every possible dime they can possibly manage out of their consumer...which is largely a captive audience.
Pure simple greed.
Surprise! The American Cable Association favors tiered broadband pricing {Engadget}
Apr 28th 2009 9:08PM Sadly, if the cable co's implemented ala carte billing for programming, the bill wouldn't likely be much less than what we pay now. The cost per channel would be higher because it's distributed over x thousand customers instead of y million customers.
I like the idea of what that town in the Carolina's did by essentially becoming it's own internet and cable provider...doing so at a far more competive price than the cable co's would offer (not that they COULDN'T).
To me consumption based billing is like taking a step back a decade or more. I remember the internet service providers had caps and billed some amount once exceeded. With the advance of technology and the broad implementation of fiber around the country I don't see how the cable co's can rationalize it. Unless of course they WANT to drive their customers into the open arms of the fios providers, or other solutions.
Surprise! The American Cable Association favors tiered broadband pricing {Engadget}
Apr 28th 2009 7:28PM Tierd speed plans are ok, CBB is not. The bottom line, usage based billing is yet another way for the cable companies to rape the consumer while providing mediocre to crappy service at BEST. They are masters of the art of how to nickle and dime customers in order to pad their bottom line...much like banks with their ATM surcharges, or the wireless companies and their per message charges for text messages. It costs virtually nothing, yet is easy cash for the bottom line. I can't see how it doesn't cost them any more for someone to download 500Gb versus 1Gb.
We need to jack your rates because our programming costs have gone up.
We need to jack your rates becasue we're upgrading our infrastructure to bring you more HD and faster internet
we need to jack your rates because...
Pity there aren't more options for broadband access. I would love to dump comcrap for fios, but my apartment mgr won't sign the access paperwork for Verizon to come on the property and install the equipment.
Public rage stalls Time Warner trials of consumption-based internet {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2009 1:42PM The joys of legal local monopolies. Greedy bastards. Actually come October, they will probably just implement the new bandwidth caps regardless.
Cable industry motto: Offer less, jack the rates regularly, and rape the consumer.
Unboxing the Moxi HD DVR {Engadget HD}
Apr 15th 2009 1:14AM @scyber
True it's not a exact match, but it's a closer comparison...Red Delicious vs Granny Smith :)
Even with the storage differences, you can add a small, 500Gb ext drive to the moxi to even out the storage, the Moxi still comes in a bit less compared to the TivoHD XL w/Lifetime.
I started in the DVR world with a ReplayTV and eventually changed to the TivoHD. The Moxi feature set is interesting and I hope it give the Tivo people some food for thought on how to make their interface better, more usable, and user friendly. Competition is good.
