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Motorola Entice comes to Verizon, available today {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 23rd 2009 2:08PM Actually it's not $39 - it's $39 on contract. There have been much better looking, better featured phones than this free on contract for years (most of them made by Nokia or Samsung).
Reheated scraps like this are not going to save Motorola.
Motorola Entice comes to Verizon, available today {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 23rd 2009 1:30AM Wow... what an amazing phone! Where can I get it? I've never seen such a revolutionary phone design. That UI looks like something new. Look at that style! And look at those specifications!!
Wait a minute...
My mistake. It's garbage. Go back to sleep moto.
FCC to propose new net neutrality rules disallowing data discrimination {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 19th 2009 3:33AM The fundamental problem is bait and switch. ISPs and Carriers sell 'unlimited data plans' but then start to knock of bits of data that they don't like, or compete with their own services.
If they want to sell a limited, controlled 'internet-lite' then they can - but they must advertise it as such. If they then sell a truly unlimited internet connection they are free to charge whatever they feel the market will bear (or not at all). What they are trying to do at the moment is get the revenue from the latter, but only provide the former and that's where the FCC should step in.
On net neutrality as mandated by the government, if the carriers took government grants to help build their networks then the government would have the right to step and force the network to be made available for the benefit of the wider economy. Unfortunatelty, if the government sat back and relied on the mobile carriers to pay for it all themselves then they can't complain when they set the network up for their own benefit.
Of course any one of the major carriers could do things differently already. The reason that none of them do has nothing to do with free market forces and everything to do with the cosy, locked-down cartel that is the US mobile market.
Welcome to the 'not quite free' market.
Intel begins production of 32nm Westmere processors {Engadget}
Sep 14th 2009 3:10PM 'you cant be handling it like that, even with gloves on'
Actually, you can! - I had an old Nat Semi wafer at home which I used as a table mat. You just can't slice it up and expect to work afterwards.
How would you change the netbook as we know it? {Engadget}
Sep 12th 2009 11:46AM You are all morons...
Everybody who is asking for a big screen, faster cpu, more ram, bigger disk but less money? If you want any of the above buy a $1000 laptop. If you want something cheap and ultra portable buy a netbook.
I am writing this on a Dell Mini 10. I have a monitor with an HDMI cable when I want a bigger screen. I have an external USB disk for all the data I cannot squeeze onto it and an external USB DVD reader for when I want to watch a movie. I have a USB keyboard and mouse when I want to sit down at my desk and work. But, when I decide to check my email down at the beach, I unplug all that dead weight before I walk out the door. If all of that is built into the device then you lose the portability of the device which is it's whole purpose in life.
I had a $1500 Samsung laptop. It was so big I never took it out the house, and so expensive that I wouldn't have done so even if I could.
Keepin' it real fake, part CCXXXI: Nokla E97 probably looks much better than it performs {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 16th 2009 5:33AM I think if an original thought ever entered a Chinese engineers head, he would probably have a haemorrhage from the shock. Their head might actually explode from the unexpected increase in activity.
Lucky they have so many talented Japanese, Korean, American and European engineers to copy or they would be REALLY screwed.
Original Motorola RAZR refuses to die, spawns new LuK Hot Pink version in Korea {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 24th 2009 1:52PM yeah... but the Mustang was a good car. This is Trabant dressed to look like a Mustang.
Great Movies You Won't Watch More Than Once {Cinematical}
Jun 14th 2009 2:42PM Actually I watched United 93 today and it is still as powerful as it was the first time I watched it. At the end my pulse was still racing as I was willing them to get that damm door open, as if I didn't know (as I did before the first time I ever saw it) that it all ends in a field in Pennsylvania.
Palm Pre runs Doom, smartphone-loving space marines rejoice {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 14th 2009 7:37AM Meh... Forget Doom, Quake has been running on the N95 for 2 years.
Samsung B7610 Louvre rematerializes, spec'd and caught on camera {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 14th 2009 7:33AM Yup... azerty is normal for France (and a few other countries I think)
