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AT&T responds to Verizon's 3G ad campaign -- by bragging about EDGE {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 13th 2009 3:02AM Fine here in San Diego as well. I actually get better 3G coverage at home with AT&T than I did with Verizon. 99% of the time I am on 3G, rarely (once a month or less) I'll get punted to EDGE only to get back on 3G within less than a minute. I don't live or work in BFE though, and when I do head out to the middle of nowhere (East County) I hit areas where it looks like EDGE is all that's available.
I'm not in love with AT&T, but I am satisfied, for now.
Gigaware dongle brings HD Radio to iPod touch and iPhone for $80 {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 9th 2009 8:45PM HD adapter for my Pioneer car stereo is $60, and that's off eBay. If I wanted HD radio bad enough, the iPhone HD adapter would probably be a better choice because I could take it with me anywhere. The crappy part is that you can't charge your iPhone while using this adapter, meaning if I want to listen to the iPhone HD radio through my car stereo, I'd have to connect the iPhone to my car stereo via bluetooth and drain the battery. It'd be nicer if I could at least charge the thing with the HD radio adapter plugged in.
It really doesn't matter though. At $80, I'm not that desperate for OTA HD radio. I'll just keep listening to Pandora/Slacker through my car stereo's iPod connection.
Verizon confirms DROID tethering cost, will ask subscribers to double-down on their data plan {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 6th 2009 8:05PM ...or more specifically:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobilebroadband/?page=products_connect
Verizon confirms DROID tethering cost, will ask subscribers to double-down on their data plan {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 6th 2009 8:04PM This is the page of tethering plans, right?
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobilebroadband/?page=plans
Verizon confirms DROID tethering cost, will ask subscribers to double-down on their data plan {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 6th 2009 7:52PM *worked well enough
Verizon confirms DROID tethering cost, will ask subscribers to double-down on their data plan {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 6th 2009 7:51PM I just read Doug's comment below. I totally forgot you can't use voice and data at the same time on Verizon. This is one of the reasons I left to AT&T. Although Verizon has a near perfect network, AT&T's has worked good enough for me and the ability to surf the net for info while in a phone call is a huge plus.
$90 a month just to use voice and data at the same time, while GSM competitors are only charging $60 for phone + tethering to do the same thing? Verizon is ripping you off.
Verizon confirms DROID tethering cost, will ask subscribers to double-down on their data plan {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 6th 2009 7:46PM Dump the data card, sign up for tethering with your phone and save yourself $30 a month.
Verizon looking to bump early termination fee to $350 on 'advanced' devices {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 4th 2009 2:04PM Just pray to the free-market god, I'm sure that it will prevent all the carriers from doing the exact same thing so you have a choice of different levels of ETFs.
Paramount and Kingston team up for movies on flash memory {Engadget}
Nov 2nd 2009 8:29PM As mechachu said:
"And since when are flash drives limited to 4 gb?"
You can get up to 128GB on a thumb drive from Fry's. For thumb drives, the issue isn't size/space, it's cost. An 8GB thumb drive costs $15. I'm sure that the cost for them to make a DVD is a lot cheaper than that, probably a few cents. They need to bring the $/GB price down for thumb drives to make them a practical competitor to DVDs.
GSM DROID with multitouch pinch-to-zoom demoed on video hating America {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 2nd 2009 6:27PM Double tapping is much more hit or miss because, with any website fullscreen, a user's finger is so big that homing in on very small links becomes difficult without zooming. If the link is all by itself in a decently large enough table cell, 80% of the time I can hit the link without zooming, 90% of the time I can double tap to zoom and then click the link, but there's still that 10% of the time where no matter how precise I try to tap I'm sent to the wrong area of the page or just can't hit the link. I could double tap elsewhere and drag over to the location I need, but that doesn't always help because I still do not have precise control over the zoom level and there have been times when I've need to be insanely close to a link to click it.
Multi-touch gives the most precise control over zoom I've experienced over all of the phones I've tried. For me, that is the most intuitive way to navigate a webpage. It's like holding the page physically in my hand and performing some movement in concert to get a better view, such as bring the page closer or further to my face while moving it left, right, up or down at the same time.
I'm willing to agree that multi-touch is useless when it comes to one handed use. I have been able to do one-handed multi-touch gestures before, but it's tricky enough that I wouldn't call it practical. I'm willing to agree that for a majority of tasks, multi-touch is unnecessary because of features like tap-to-zoom. But, there are a few times where multi-touch has been a more intuitive way to navigate applications, that without it I would feel that the UI was a bit clunky, and with it I feel like the interface is much closer to 100% intuitive usability.
For casual use, I don't usually make much use of multi-touch, but when I'm in a heated web-surfing session on my phone, I make abundant use of multi-touch for one of the smoothest and most intuitive web browsing experiences I've experienced on any phone.
Now if only Apple would stop requiring me to jailbreak to get features like background apps, I would probably continue to be an iPhone consumer. Lacking that, I may just make the hop over to a phone like Droid, as long as it has an UI experience on par with the iPhone, and that includes multi-touch.
