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Captain Piccard's Solar Impulse takes flight {Engadget}
Dec 4th 2009 7:36AM I suppose it wouldn't be necessary to get licenced for night flying with those.
DIY touchscreen gloves are as simple as a few stitches {Engadget}
Dec 3rd 2009 6:33PM OR USE RESISTIVE SCREENS, NO NEED FOR FURTHER MODIFICATIONS!
Canon patent application points to touchscreen DSLRs {Engadget}
Dec 3rd 2009 4:44PM @(Unverified)
Medium format.
Nokia asks own blog readers what their favorite part of the X6 is, gets funny answer {Engadget}
Dec 3rd 2009 7:10AM @Wwhat
Oh right, in that case I approve. I shall forward an invasion strategy to my government immediatly!
Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 has multitouch, world-beating ambitions {Engadget}
Dec 3rd 2009 6:44AM So not living up to the battery standard Viliv has set. (They make UMPC's for which you can leave the charger at home!)
Entelligence: What's the future of Nokia? {Engadget}
Dec 1st 2009 6:26PM @smartmouth
Speak for yourself, I'm getting a linux phone / MID from Nokia as soon as I can conjure the money for it.
Not tech-centric enough for you?
Entelligence: What's the future of Nokia? {Engadget}
Dec 1st 2009 6:18PM @Sarig
With them not having a large foot-hold in the US, considering how different the market is and all, it might simply not be cost-effective to develop/change handsets for the US market, when they might not be a huge success.
So maybe Nokia is just willing to say f*ck it, and have the rest of the world instead :)
Entelligence: What's the future of Nokia? {Engadget}
Dec 1st 2009 5:58PM This was a good read, and I'm glad there's someone at Engadget HQ that's capable of writing about Nokia without resorting to flame-baits and trolling.
"There's more to the world than the US and North America, but if you're going to remain cutting-edge and relevant it's not a market that can be ignored."
The largest problem here is probably the carriers themselves. All operating on different technologies/frequencies, it's at odds with the rest of the world. And when partnering up with a carrier, they call the shots, making both software and hardware decicions. In a lot of Nokia's other markets, carriers are just someone that meters the usage between the callers, and that's it. They're just an information highway.
You don't see Dell or HP designing laptops with features taken out for use with specific ISP's, because these ISP's use some magical different TCP/IP than the rest of the world.
So yes, it's a possible problem for Nokia that they don't have dominance in the US, but it's not really Nokia that is to blame for not rolling over to the demands of a draconian carrier business that is as far from supply and demand and fair competition as is possible.
Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide: PMPs {Engadget}
Dec 1st 2009 3:32PM @Flowah
That's what I came here to say as well!
Fring brings one-way video calling to the iPhone {Engadget}
Dec 1st 2009 2:17PM @Mr Oos
I quite agree, everywhere else 3g phone means that it can do normal 3g things like, say, video-calling. Even a dumbphone can do that if it's got 3g and is from SE, Nokia and others. But American phones always seem to miss such basic features.
Not that I've ever had much of a use of video calling over 3g...
