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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/18/09

    In reply to iPhone 3GS Review Matrix: What Everybody's Saying
    Attention App Developers: Please come up with an app called "Time Banana". I don't care what it does. It doesn't have to have anything to do with time. It doesn't have to be a game. It can just be a banana with a Casio watch strapped to it.


    I just want an app called Time Banana.

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    06/18/09

    In reply to iPhone 3GS Review Matrix: What Everybody's Saying
    I have found the easiest way to enable tethering is to goto [help.benm.at], select mobileconfigs, select your country, then select your mobile provider. This will download a new config which you can install and will enable Internet tethering. I have tested this on O2 in the UK but there are loads of others on the site.
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    06/18/09

    @robertjohnforshaw: Wow, that IS easy! Tethering took 10 seconds. I can't try the MMS because there is nowhere to enter the carrier info on my phone.
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    06/18/09

    In reply to iPhone 3GS Review Matrix: What Everybody's Saying
    I'm still disappointed that they didn't change the physical design of the phone any; I freely admit that I like showing off new gadgets that nobody else has, but since the 3GS looks the same as the 3G, I expect to get a whole lot of reactions along the lines of, "Isn't that just the old one?".


    If I already owned the 3G, I wouldn't upgrade to the 3GS, but as someone who has, until now, been unable to purchase an iPhone (thanks AT&T for your 2-year contracts!), I'm definitely going to be picking this up.

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    Image of AqueousBeef AqueousBeef
    05/29/09

    In reply to Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Color-Screened Kindle Is "Multiple Years" Away
    How interesting... Same as the time I will even consider looking at an e-reader!
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    05/29/09

    In reply to Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
    God damn, that OLED screen is gorgeous. Come on Apple, time to step it up...
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    Image of Nathan Cline Nathan Cline
    05/28/09

    In reply to Palm Pre: "Better Than Viagra"
    wow, a three minute video and only about 8 seconds is actually true...
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/28/09

    @Nathan Cline: sounds like you were watching the video of my buddies wedding vows.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
    hopefully the production version is blurry as hell!
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    05/28/09

    @N@tedog: /sarcasm fail
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    Image of Hyperplasia Hyperplasia
    05/28/09

    In reply to Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
    The biggest problem for me is the lack of native podcast support. I live off the ability of my iphone/ipod touch to download podcasts on the fly.
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    05/28/09

    @Hyperplasia: You do realize that podcasts are just rss feeds to audio/video, right?
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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    05/28/09

    In reply to Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
    Hey this looks great, except for the fact that is has less storage than my 3rd generation iPod. This is a fucking joke.


    It has all these great features, but if you don't have enough storage then who gives a fuck.

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    05/28/09

    @NeoAkira: How did you get a star again?
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    05/28/09

    @inspiredEpic:


    By being observant and realizing that HD video files are quite large.


    @planetarian: When's the last time the iPod Touch and iPhone advertised themselves as an HD audio and video player? Oh that's right, they don't.

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    05/28/09

    @NeoAkira: Good question, how DID you get that star?
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    05/28/09

    @Chenzel: The exact opposite of the way you're not getting yours.


    SPOILER

    By not being a dumbass :D

    /SPOILER


    @planetarian:


    That's actually what I would expect them to do. That is, if most consumers weren't morons. But since people will buy this anyways and rationalize their needs around the storage available they could have packaged this with 4GB and people would still buy it.

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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    05/29/09

    @NeoAkira: Where did you happen to find the capacities of the player? That hasn't been released afaik, and I would hesitate to make comments that are based on speculation while claiming it is a fact.


    Remember all of the comments that went like this: "zune is so behind because they are coming out with 120gb, but ipod will have 240gb!!"

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    05/29/09

    @my secret identity:


    You can tell it's flash-based because of the size. Meaning that the absolute best possible outcome would be 64GB, but seeing as how they're already integrating a bunch of other expensive, battery-draining features into the player, don't expect more than 32GB, especially since the higher the GB the more batter it drains.

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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    05/28/09

    In reply to Palm Pre: "Better Than Viagra"
    Yo, Mr. Pre guy, better be careful about claiming your product acts like a drug or the FDA will come cracking down on you like they did with Cheerios.


    "The Food and Drug Administration says General Mills, the maker of Cheerios, is making inappropriate claims about the cereal's health benefits. Enforcement action may include seizure of violative products and/or injunction against the manufacturers and distributors of violative products."


    But also man, do you get a hard on from the Pre? Because that is a hilarious fetish. You must go through one of them a day at least with such "love"!

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    Image of seizurelitezrfun seizurelitezrfun
    05/28/09

    In reply to Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
    The UI is good looking, but I don't think it's better than the iPod Touch, honestly. The Zune HD, in music and videos at least, looks great and snappy but when navigating between videos and songs and albums and podcasts the iPhone/iPod Touch seems to be easier.
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    05/28/09

    @seizurelitezrfun: "when navigating between videos.."


    um... how?


    I had an ipod touch. HAD.


    Music on ipod touch: go to the main menu and look for the music app... load music app... go into playlists.... realize you want artist... hit back... go to artists... pick artist.... go to album... play song


    Music on zune: tap music... go into playlists... realize you want artists... swipe a time or two... pick artist... go to album... play song.


    And every time you want to get in and out of videos or music on the touch you have to open that app. Want to look at pictures while listening to music? pick song/playlist/whatever, hit home, go to the pictures app... look at pictures...


    That sounds really intuitive. On zune if I'm looking through pictures and want to listen to music, I open music, got to song/playlist/whatever, hit back a couple of times and I'm at the picture I was just at. Crazy, huh?

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/28/09

    @my secret identity: If you go into Playlists, and decide that you wanted to look through the Artists list, there's a row of buttons below that allows you to quickly access them without pressing the backtrack button.
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    05/28/09

    @my secret identity:


    Look for music app? Put it in your doc k.

    Load music app? My music app never "loads", it's nearly instantly there.

    Go in to playlists? Sure.

    Wanna go to an artist? Quickly hit back and go to Artists. It's not like it takes you more then 2 seconds to click "Back"

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    05/28/09

    @iFauxAffliction: God damn I need an edit button. >-<

    I forgot about the little thing on the bottom. Click "Artists" and walla.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/28/09

    @iFauxAffliction: You loaw mondo points for saying "walla".


    voila

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/28/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: wow I must be drunk.


    LOSE, not loaw. Sweet jebus.

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    Image of Rhew Rhew
    05/28/09

    In reply to Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
    I'm an apple fan, but I'll be the first to admit that thing is sexy. Unfortunately I think Microsoft just came in too late for the PMP to take that share away from Apple. But if anything could do it i believe this would be the device.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/28/09

    @Rhew: Hey, isn't that what they said about Playstation when Xbox came out?
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
    Yeah but WMP is as awful as iTunes...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/28/09

    @Log1c: But the Zune doesn't use WMP.
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    05/28/09

    @Log1c: Again, what's so bad about iTunes?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/28/09

    @midiac: The file transfer process is convoluted and it hogs system resources. It's not really that bad, but it's pretty clear that the whole system is designed as a music selling platform.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    05/28/09

    In reply to Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
    This is why apple should be a'feard- the microsoft method is not to make world beating products, or get to market first.


    They find a profitable market, enter it with a first gen product, and then just keep spending cash while they make the product incrementally better and better until nobody can remember when they sucked. See: operating systems, video game consoles, etc.


    They're not first, they're not best, but they've got the pockets to outlast anybody. And that makes them dangerous.

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    Image of Mykbibby Mykbibby
    05/28/09

    @m4ximusprim3:


    You, my friend, are talking out your ass.


    Is this product good? Sure. But Windows sucks. And if it was all about money, Windows would be miles ahead of OS X and Linux.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/28/09

    @Mykbibby: It doesn't matter. In a world where there's an operating system that dominates by such a wide margin, it only serves as a benefit to know how to use it.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
    I have some touchy issues with the iPod touch UI.


    Why does it get so side tracked if I go off playlist?


    I play one extra damn song from Fiddler on the Roof cause I'm just a dork and it makes me navigate back to my top rate.


    WHY WHY?


    Does the Zune figure this out? Cause if so I would switch just for that!

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    05/28/09

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: At least I don't have to be ashamed of listening to Zero Mostel and Milton Greene anymore :D


    But yeah, the UI has some pretty fudgy spots. I take issue with the "genius" playlist button being really easy to skim over by accident, but that's a minor quibble.

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