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iPhone 3GS Review Matrix: What Everybody's Saying
It's time for another roundup of pundits espousing heartfelt admiration and none-too-bloody criticism of a pretty hot Apple product. How did they—I mean "it"—do this time around? Have a look-see... More » -
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Palm Pre Review Matrix: What Everybody's Saying
When a bunch of reviews hit, it's useful—and sometimes funny—to see how they echo each other, and how they differ. More » -
digital cameras
Pogue Says Panasonic's Pseudo-SLR GH1 Makes a Great HD Camcorder
Hopefully things are cloudiest before they clear up: Nobody buys real camcorders anymore, entry-level DSLRs are all about HD video, and NYT's David Pogue picks Panasonic's Lumix GH1 as the current 1080p shooting champ. -
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OK People, It Might Be Time to Lay Off the BlackBerry Storm Hate
Sure, lots of important people weren't too impressed with the Storm. But this slippy, Freudian Google News headline sums up the unbridled hate towards the handset much better than it does the article. Much. More » -
geekery
The One Thing David Pogue and Unlimited Lives in Contra Have in Common
The Konami code is a secret branding, a geek stigmata—all it takes is that one brief flash, and you're immediately recognized as one of US. Is it any surprise then, that if you enter that hallowed sequence on DP's new Pogue-o-Matic gadget finder, you get to watch him do a special trick?
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Stephen Fry Slams the BlackBerry Storm
We have a soft spot for genius comedian-actor-writer-gadget-juggler Stephen Fry here at the Giz. He speaks things as he sees them, as an end user, with his usual wit. Lately he has been playing with a BlackBerry Storm and, like our review, he thinks that it's no you-know-who killer. In fact, he completely smashes it in his condensed Twitter review: More »
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NY Times' Pogue-O-Matic Guides Your Gadget Shopping, Sets My Heart Aflutter
Maybe it's because I have the hugest crush on David Pogue of the New York Times, but I find his recently released product finder guide, the Pogue-O-matic, absolutely adorable... and useful too! The Pogue-O-Matic is divided into four parts: cameras, camcorders, smartphones and televisions. If you were planning on getting people any of the above for the holidays, stop by and have little e-Pogue explain what details you should look out for. Being a gadget blogger with a finger on the pulse of the latest and greatest, I personally don't need the advice. But I'll be stopping by anyway... for you, Pogue. Just. For. You. [Pogue-o-Matic on the New York Times]
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By Elaine ChowComment by not a sailor boy: Elaine, Davide Pogue is clearly gay...i'm not saying that makes you a fag hag or anything. sorry to crush your... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Gizmodo's iPhone 3G Review Matrix
How do you read three lengthy reviews at the same time, really really fast? You jump to our review matrix of the iPhone 3G, first judged exclusively by the Three Amigos of Appledom: Ed Baig of USA Today, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and David Pogue of the New York Times.
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iPhone 3G Reviews Are In
The first iPhone 3G reviews have just hit, from Walt Mossberg of the WSJ and All Things D, Ed Baig from USA Today and David Pogue from the NYTimes. No one goes deep into the app store but here's what they think:
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By Jason ChenComment by GeorgeStag: I googled backup batteries for iPhone, this one is with higher capacity and smaller size than other brand, maybe you can... more » | Other threads
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smartpens
NYTimes: Pogue's Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Video
David Pogue has a quick video review of Livescribe's Pulse Smartpen that does a very good job of illustrating the concept. Worth watching on top of our own review. [Pogue's Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Video review]
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By Brian LamComment by neilparikh: PS: If you're looking to buy a smartpen, here's a discount code for $5 off online: 'SCRIBEA530' at www.livescribe.com N get... more » | Other threads
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Our MacBook Air Review Matrix
The so-called "four horsemen" of Apple product reviews have weighed in on the near weightless MacBook Air. You may have seen our post on it last night. You may have even caught one or two of the reviews. But only now can you sit back and enjoy the best quotes from all four reviews in a handy easy-to-read review matrix from your friends at Gizmodo.
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Where Is David Pogue's MacBook Air Review?
Wednesday night around this time, we like to check in with our favorite columnists. Tonight we expected MacBook Air reviews from Walt Mossberg at WSJ, Ed Baig at USA Today, Steven Levy at Newsweek and of course, David Pogue at the venerable New York Times. Only, when I refreshed my browser at 9pm, Pogue's Jan. 24 State of the Art column turned out to cover Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and MacSpeech Dictate, rather than the far sexier (and more controversial) MacBook Air. UPDATE: Pogue scoops the other A-Team members by reviewing the Macbook Air on the Macworld show floor. His response in the comments. [First MacBook Air Reviews]
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nytimes pulpbite
More Sling Player Upgrades Coming
Pogue reviews the Slingbox Solo, but the news is that the Sling Client is getting an upgrade in the shape of local pause and rewind controls. That's cool because you don't have to deal with the stream delay while trying to rewind or pause the TiVo back home remotely. More » -
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Pogue Reviews the OLPC
David Pogue is right about the OLPC in his NYTimes column this week. For those of you who haven't kept up with the changes in the One Laptop Per Child he sums it up nicely, demoing all the engineering miracles in the machine, addressing the low minded complaints of "snarky bloggers" (Where?!), going on to explain why it's an interesting and important thing for the developing world. The video does a great job, so I'll recommend you watch the video above. It definitely convinced me: Even more so than water or malaria shots or food, kids in third world countries need this PC. (David, I'm kidding. Nice column this week.) [NYTimes] -
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Pogue and Woz in the Geeks on Board Cruise Documentary DVD
Director Abe Greenwald just released his documentary of what goes on during Geeks on Board cruises, featuring Woz and David Pogue, among others. This is a trailer. Best part is when they go ashore to some exotic local and everyone lays on the beach far from the water, with laptops in tow. Gotta be hard to see the screens under those conditions, eh? [Amazon] -
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Pogue Sees Eye-to-Eye With Vudu Video-on-Demand Box (Verdict: Mostly Great)
Pushing out his review a bit before the official embargo lifted last night, our favorite Times wonder-reporter put the video store in a box, Vudu, through its paces and walked away mostly happy with the experience. Brownie points for: picture quality, slick five-button remote, pay-per-flick, and truly instant viewing. Buts: More » -
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David Pogue reviews macro software that'll speed up your computer usage; he ends up with a list of 5 for the Mac and PC you might find useful. [NYT] -
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Pogue Reviews Waterproof Cams, Sanyo Xacti E1 Floats Above the Competition
Pogue takes a a few waterproof cams down to the local waterpark for testing and finds Sanyo's 6MP Xacti E1 to be of better image and video quality than the rest. I've always found the Xacti cam's nice, but the low light performance to be lacking. That doesn't matter when you're talking about beach and pool time, however. I believe its image quality is better than the other cams in this roundup, but it's only rated to 5 feet of depth. More » -
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iPhone Applecare
[UPDATED: Confirmed at $69.] Applecare is supposed to be available for the iPhone this month, and the price may be $80. Joel Johnson, walker-of-Gizmodo-halls-of-lore, noticed this statement in Pogue's Missing Manual PDF, on page 277:$80$69 For an Extra Year, Says Pogue [UPDATED: Confirmed]"The iPhone comes with a one-year warranty. If you buy an Applecare contract ($80) you're covered for a second year. If, during the coverage period, anything goes wrong that's not your fault, Apple will fix it for free." Apple neither confirms or denies this price, butThe NYTimes tech columnist is pretty damn good as far as sources go. [UPDATE: Nope, this wasn't a final copy of the book, so it will have to be corrected at $69.][iPhone Missing Manual via JJ's Dethroner] -
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Nobody Picks on Pogue But Me
OMG, the internet is beating up Pogue for his iPhone video. We like picking on the guy, even when we're praising the authoritative, yet mainstream-accessible NYTimes gadget columnist. (See our photoshop contest entitled "Make David Pogue Cool".) And we've had our share of blog fights with the guy. But when I see the Huff Po, Valleywag, and others take shots at him without understanding how annoying it was for a gadget journalist to actually have to make a fair verdict of the iPhone amidst the buzz and anti-buzz, well, it doesn't seem right. I mean, just because you hate your job doesn't mean the rest of us have to. It's a phone, relax, people. More » -
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The Making of David Pogue's iPhone music video, with Gizmodo shoutout. [NYTimes]
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wisdom of the in-crowd
Opinions Side-By-Side In Our iPhone Review Matrix
If you were too lazy to actually read the four iPhone reviews that came out last night, we've done the hard part and stuck the most salient tidbits into a chart, hoping to see both agreement and dissent among the elders: David Pogue of the New York Times, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, Ed Baig of USA Today and Steven Levy of Newsweek. (What happened to Lev Grossman at Time Magazine? He usually gets the Apple stuff early too.) Jump for our painstakingly created review matrix—it's fun to notice what words they all use, and when one totally disagrees with the rest. More » -
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Pogue's iPhone Video Review
This is why we love Pogue. He reviews it, goes meta, and gives Mossberg a poke. And btw, he hates AT&T's EDGE network. [NYT]
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Breaking: Pogue Reviews the iPhone, Gives it 1.5 Thumbs Up
David Pogue of the NYTimes got his iPhone review up (the first one by 3 minutes. Suck it, Mossberg!), oh boy! So what's he think of it? Well, he likes it. Sort of. He's taken with the design, but has some reservations overall. More » -
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Winners of the David Pogue Photoshop Contest
Sorry for the delay on this, folks. We had to run the results through our computers here to make sure they were up to snuff, and you know that takes time. But we're finished, and without further ado, I present to you the three winners of the "Make David Pogue a Badass" Photoshop contest, each of which will be receiving an autographed copy of the Pogue book of their choice. Congrats to the winners, and thanks so much to everyone who participated! You're all winners in my eyes. Look for another Pshop contest in the coming weeks. More »
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Pogue Finds the Best Reasonably-Priced Noise-Cancelling Headphones
NY Times badass David Pogue took a look at noise-canceling headphones, looking for a pair that can match the quality of Bose's QuietComfort 3's without the ridiculously high price ($350[!!!). What he found were a bunch of pairs that did the job decently, and a couple that came close enough to the QuietComforts to make spending $350 an option only a real sucker would choose. More »
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By Adam FrucciComment by infmom: You can always buy a set of $15 Etymotics earplugs and make your own headphones. more » | Other threads
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photoshop shenanigans
David Pogue: Now a Badass, at Least in this Gallery
Man, you guys love to Photoshop David Pogue. I received over 100 entries to my challenge to make the NY Times tech guru cool, and it was a lot of fun going through them all. Mr. Pogue himself offered to send autographed copies of whichever of his books the top 3 winners would like, so look for a post about determining a top 3 later on. Until then, here are the best 24 entries as judged by me in no particular order. Sure, I'm not an unbiased judge (both entries with my picture got in, not just because I'm in there but also because they're the most insane), but I'm all you people have got. I chose entries that were either technically amazing or funny with some effort shown, even if the skill wasn't all there.
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Make David Pogue the Badass that he Deserves to Be
We love David Pogue here at Gizmodo. The NY Times tech guru is a playful geek whose love and passion for all things gadgety shines through with every over-the-top video he makes. He is not, however, the coolest guy in the world. Look, no disrespect, but you're no Justin Timberlake, David. More »
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Pogue on Email For Dumb Phones
Pogue's video tells us how to read our email on Dumb Phones. (You like that? That's my name for every handset not a Treo, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry.) More » -
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David Pogue's "Geek to Me" Show Airs Tonight
Set the TiVo! David Pogue's new show Science Channel show, which he writes and stars in, starts tonight. More » -
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NYTimes' Pogue Tests High Def Hard Drive Camcorders
Pogue's back from vacation, and this week, he's taking a look at high def hard drive camcorders (or, HDHD camcorders), marveling at the gadgets that giving your boring home videos the same picture pizazz as professional HD content. In his words, the picture is "sharp enough to slice a tomato." And your goofy dad will never tape over old content ever again because he accidentally hit rewind bfore hitting record. More » -
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NYT Pulp Watch: Pogue Spanks Sansa's Connect for Lame Yahoo! Connection
David Pogue of the NY Times saw so much potential in the Sansa Connect, the Wi-Fi music player that can tap into Yahoo's big online database without a PC in sight. But it disappointed him. And you know what happens when daddy is disappointed. Spankings. More » -
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NYT Pulp Bite: Pogue on 802.11n-ightmare Routers
Not an easy two weeks for the Poguester. First, he pulls an all-nighter putting together last week's video. And this week, he spends four days trying to get the N routers from Belkin, Linksys and Netgear running at the claimed speeds. That 300Mbps rating? It must have been measured on the moon, he quips. More »
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By Brian LamComment by JohnnieBlue: Welcome to the world of 802.11. The problems with 802.11 are inherent in the protocol itself. All the antennas of... more » | Other threads
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Sony's $20 Million Dollar Ad Campaign Dupes Pogue's One Day Video
The NYTimes writes that Sony spent $20 million at the BBDO advertising agency, so they could make some lighthearted gadget ads. A portion of that large sum bought them a Sony Handycam commercial that showed a 20 year old acting like a baby in a bathtub so his parents could relive his infant moments. What the NYTimes doesn't realize is that BBDO's ad they wrote about is disturbingly similar to that made by their own Gadget Editor in Chief, David Pogue. The video, which is our favorite, is about an AV conversion gadget also by Sony. He also made his video in a day, at what I'm guessing is far less than a portion of $20 million dollars. More » -
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NYT Pulp Bite: Pogue on Why TiVo Still Rocks
I am 100% in accordance with Pogue's reasons why TiVo Series 3 is still an important gadget that deserves your love. And David blows away last week's off-topic video with an animated deathmatch of TiVo versus a generic cable box. TiVo wins, all courtesy of broadband bits! More »
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announcements
Round Up Reference: The Best Apple TV Posts from Giz and Friends
Most of us have reached a turning point. That point is, if you hear anything else about Apple TV you're going to vomit. Don't hold it back, or it's going to come out your nose.
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My David Pogue Obsession Continues: Latest NYT Gadget Video Has Boobs, Arson and Snark
[Updated for improved fairness] What the shit is this? I think New York Times' David Pogue just challenged the Internet to a gadget-video deathmatch. I just saw this video where he cranks an iPod speaker backpack to 11 in a quiet library, has a bikini'd babe dunk it in a hot tub, and finally drenches it in lighter fluid and sets it ablaze. More » -
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Apple TV Pulp Bite: NYT's Pogue Faces-Off the Streamer with Foes; PC Mag Goes Deep
Mossberg's review and video were straight up. Let's face it: He didn't need any fancy angling other than the 10-day lead he had on everyone, including nemesis (by publication), David Pogue. More » -
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PogueWatch: David Goes Nuts on NYTimes Gadget Video
The last two weeks of David Pogue videos on the NYTimes website have shown us that the guy has totally cracked. And he has more fun at work than we do. More » -
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The NYTimes' Pogue: Obsessed with Nikon's Superzoom Lens
While David Pogue, the brain behind the Grey Lady's tech coverage, is on his geek cruise in the Carribean, he's had some "close up" time with a Nikon DSLR and a 18-200mm, vibration reducing lens. That's enough focal range to cover a Macworld Keynote from the thirtieth row back, and also get wide angle closeups of new iPods after. We have to agree with him in saying that's quite a hot piece of glass. (Our words.) More »
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