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What the hell, have these guys never heard of hard drives?

Remember when you used to carry all the CDs or MDs you wanted to listen to around with you until iPods turned up? Yeah.... The same conveniences should be found in your home movie setup!
Good thing it comes with a removable battery then because this thing is gonna be flat in 5 minutes!

You show me one WinMo/WinCE device that'll browse for 6 hours with a standard (not fat extended) battery. They don't exist, and they all have lower specs!
I can't stand the juddery slide-show style 24fps film frame rate, it annoys me almost as much as the shaking of interlaced video (Why oh why is there 1080i? My TV looks way better in 720p than 1080i because at least all the fine edges of detail aren't shaking up and down!)

Whatever I'm watching sucks me in so much more when the motion is fluid and lifelike, I want to feel like I'm there watching the action not a series of photographs of it in quick succession.

If only everything was shot in 1080p 60fps or more! I've watched a few things in this format and it was so smooth, detailed, clear and realistic!

Have a read up on 100fps.com to see why interlacing and low frame rates are both horrible!
This all depends on how you define the internet.

Flash is a plug-in and not part of HTML specs, therefore not a requirement for a fully functional internet browser.

Claiming MobileSafari is not the 'full internet' because it doesn't have a flash player is like saying a car stereo that doesn't play MP3-CD is not a 'full CD player'


Personally I think the main cause for complaint is the iPhone 3G has made a lot of users realise just how poor their carriers 3G coverage actually is - they just don't realise it's the carrier not the phone.

A major cause for confusion is that in an area with strong GSM (2G) signal but only mediocre UMTS (3G) signal the phone will connect to the 3G signal (That will still perform better than the stronger 2G one - especially for data). So the user used to getting full bars in that area on a 2G only phone will think their phone is getting a weaker signal than normal.

There are problems here however... the phone might get a good enough 3G signal to switch to 3G from 2G, then lose it as the phone is moved out of 3G coverage causing a possible dropout/dropped call, even though the whole area is well covered by 2G. Again, this is not unique to the iPhone and is caused by spotty 3G coverage and up to the carrier to improve coverage. If you live in an area with spotty 3G coverage - turn 3G off until you need it.

Another thing to keep in mind is everyone judges their signal on how many 'bars' are displayed. Bars displayed share a very loose relationship with the actual signal strength, for example a signal at -90dB (medium strength) might be displayed as 4 bars on one handset and 2 on another, despite being the same strength on both phones.
Do they do a milligram version for those who prefer the more exotic products? ;)
Heh, I still keep reading Calpella as Crapella, they should really come up with a better name :)
That's because USB is not peer to peer like say, Firewire. It has a Host and a Client, and as such require different connectors to identify what type of connection the device allows (If it wasn't this way people would try to link two computers together and other such conveniences not possible with USB).


480Mbit = 0.46875Gbit so x10 would be 4.6875Gbit!

Unless you buy into hard drive manufacturer's bullshit or you think 'kibibit', 'mebibit' and 'gibibit' sounds good that is!
While you're right, they probably could care a whole lot less and are probably paying attention to the economy, I don't think that's what you intended to say! :)
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I own an iPhone 3G and I'm looking for a decent speaker / alarm clock for it. I am going to listen music in a mid-sized room, so I want nice quality speakers with solid bass. I also want to use it as an alarm clock, so it would be great if there is such a feature. The price can be low-mid to mid-high range. I was looking at the Klipsch iGroove SXT; it's powerful, slick and the reviews are good, but it doesn't have an alarm clock feature. It's no deal breaker if I can set it up from the iPhone, but I'm not sure. Thanks!"

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