Archive for May 2nd, 2008
http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/mp4-handheld-nes-emulator-24-inch-screen-av-out-4gb/ How much can you fit in one gadget? This really cool 4GB MP4 player with handheld emulator has a video player,1.3 MP digital camera,neat games function,radio,video camera,audio camera and much more.Its 2.4 inch TFT LCD screen produces crystal clear photos at 25 fps.Also featuring an E…
Price: $299.99 w/ two-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate. The Verdict: It’s glossy black, so it will attract fingerprints as bad as Heidi Klum does MILF comments. The screen is bright and clear, with a good resolution—necessary, since it’s the phone headlining the mobile Television launch. The edges of the touchscreen are less responsive than the rest of it—when you flip to the QWERTY layout for text messaging, for instance, you might have to tap the space button more than once, or at least aim for the top of it (in the gallery there’s a picture of me mashing the center of the key HARD but it’s still not registering). The problem grew from sort of annoying to genuinely frustrating after cranking through a couple of IMs and text messages telling my posse where to meet up for Iron Man tonight. You get a somewhat smaller, more cramped keyboard when you go into email. (Which doesn’t have support for custom domains (that’s the “other” services screen), including Gmail, WTF.) It also drops haptic feedback for some reason, which I thought was unnecessary at first, but I kind of missed it with the email keyboard. Still, overall I’d give the typing experience a B-. The other huge feature of the phone, mobile TV, is as good as mobile Television gets, at least in the says (which might not be saying much). Startup is quick; changing channels is snappy enough; and the resolution is decent most of the time (it can get 1996-RealPlayer bad though) though it won’t rival locally stored video on your iPod or iPhone by any means. Content-wise, it has more or less what you’d wanna see in mobile TV, with the CNN exclusivity being the real clinch over Verizon’s V Cast. Sony PIX is a nice idea, but five minutes of dark, moody scenes in Memento gave me a headache, so I couldn’t imagine a whole motion picture. Bottom line, the phone is good, but falls short of very good/greatness, for a couple of reasons: The browser could use some work (it renders Giz better than mobile IE, since it tries to duplicate desktop browsing, but rendering times are awful, even on 3G, and zooming is extremely laggy). Also, built-in email is only for a few set services. The music syncing feature isn’t compatible with Macs, according to the manual. That stated, it is a solid multimedia touchscreen phone that does most of what it does well (mobile Television, touchscreen, XM radio) for people specifically looking for an iPhone alternative. If it was $199, it’d be a worthy value—$299 is pushing it. [AT&T]
May
02
2008
 
Plasma shipments up this year, but you’ll have to go abroad to even noticePosted by: admin in Life GadgetsApparently plasma TVs are no longer the “it” girl of the tech world, at least not here in the Shining City on a Hill. Shipments of plasma panels increased by 53 percent Q1 2008 compared to Q1 2007, but you’re not likely to notice unless you’re in China or Latin America, where plasma is more […]
Apparently plasma TVs are no longer the “it” girl of the tech world, at least not here in the Shining City on a Hill. Shipments of plasma panels increased by 53 percent Q1 2008 compared to Q1 2007, but you’re not likely to notice unless you’re in China or Latin America, where plasma is more popular than LCD. Why is LCD more popular than plasma here? A large reason is that consumers still think that plasma suffers from burn-in, which is largely a non-issue at this point. I personally own an LCD, but would absolutely be down with whatever tech can give me the best screen size:price ratio. Feel free to ask me stupid questions at our fiesta this evening; I have plenty of snappy answers ready for y’all. |
Powered by WordPress, Mandigo theme by tom.
Entries (RSS)
and Comments (RSS).
Hey, we just got one of those 
The Gadget: 
