Even Amazon is getting in on this price dropping action. They have the Nokia N900 for $509 (with a $50 dollar rebate). Today they dropped that down to $479.99 (with the same $50.00 rebate from Nokia).
What is wrong with people and their blurry-ass photos? Gizmodo's number one tipster, Shakes the Clown. I expected this back in 2006 but we have better cameras now, wtf.
This thing looks awesome I can't wait to see a better picture/real thing.
Took me forever when this broke on other sites to figure out whats going on with the keyboard. In fact if someone at BGR hadn't posted it I would have never figured it out.
The keyboard is the back of the phone. Thats why you've got the camera on the "front" in this view (see bottom left, 5.0 megapixels). Its so simple but makes so much sense. The Env and all those other flip QWERTYs always seemed stupid because you waste space by having to have 2 screens. Something like the Env touch made even less sense because you lose the big nice touchscreen when typing and get the little crappy interior screen. All gone now plus I imagine its going to allow for the phone to be thinner and sturdier.
What I really want to see is if the buttons on the back retain any of their functionality when closed. Again, its something that makes soooo much sense I'm amazed that Moto is the first one doing it. I mean obviously there would be things that you'd have to work around if the buttons on the back worked but if they could figure out a way to keep things like physical navigation buttons and still retain a sleek clean front I'd say its a win. Seems like it would be pretty easy to get used to.
So if they don't fix it with the December 11th update, let's just hope your 5MP camera-phone isn't what you plan on documenting the Christmas and new year festivities with. Hanukkah, you're safe.
Sooo... What is the significance of a 49 day cycle (if it is a rounding issue, you would expect the change to be halfway through the cycle)? 49 days is roughly 4.23B ms. That doesn't seem significant. On the other hand, if we go binary, 2^32 is about 4.29B -- it does seem implausible to have a value stored in an unsigned 32 bit word. Of course that would be a cycle of 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.3 seconds.
To a non-programmer like me, this sounds positively silly. Then again, so does measuring the date by how many seconds have passed since January 1st 1970. So, I'm just gonna leave it to the programmers on this one and be glad a fix got issued.
Also. I am positively appalled that no one has made a werecamera joke yet.
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I read: just out-dated...
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Its too bad really. I love the innovative design on this and really want to see a high end version.
The next moto droid from verizon is going to be equally lackluster sadly.
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Took me forever when this broke on other sites to figure out whats going on with the keyboard. In fact if someone at BGR hadn't posted it I would have never figured it out.
The keyboard is the back of the phone. Thats why you've got the camera on the "front" in this view (see bottom left, 5.0 megapixels). Its so simple but makes so much sense. The Env and all those other flip QWERTYs always seemed stupid because you waste space by having to have 2 screens. Something like the Env touch made even less sense because you lose the big nice touchscreen when typing and get the little crappy interior screen. All gone now plus I imagine its going to allow for the phone to be thinner and sturdier.
What I really want to see is if the buttons on the back retain any of their functionality when closed. Again, its something that makes soooo much sense I'm amazed that Moto is the first one doing it. I mean obviously there would be things that you'd have to work around if the buttons on the back worked but if they could figure out a way to keep things like physical navigation buttons and still retain a sleek clean front I'd say its a win. Seems like it would be pretty easy to get used to.
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I feel pretty safe saying that no phone you buy today will work after that date. ;-)
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so... intrauterine device, or the old fashioned pill?
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i've had cars like that.
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Any takers?
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edit - damn, wasn't so original after all...
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Yeah it probably is actually.
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When one day all the zunes in the world die and MS's answer is "wait 'til tommorow"
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Also. I am positively appalled that no one has made a werecamera joke yet.