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apple

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. More »

Feature

9:00 AM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Wilson Rothman
20,704 views, 72 comments

Latest by n/a: I would let them track me..... even if it uses some battery Unless I only got 3 hours of talk time. in a smart world they would use the gps to enhance the tower and WiFi GPS triangulation. Of course in a more »

cellphones

Motorola Chops Off Handset Division

Today Motorola said it would chew off its woefully underperforming Mobile Devices group in order to safeguard its healthier businesses—namely Broadband & Mobility Solutions, which includes network equipment, walkie-talkies and business products. This comes after famous Wall Street curmudgeon Carl Icahn laid seige to the mismanaged company. Assuming the deal passes the usual legal and regulatory hurdles, shareholders will get shares of both companies, probably some time in 2009. Handset customers will presumably get nothing, at least in the short term: this doesn't seem like a vote of confidence for Motorola phones. [Reuters]

8:35 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Wilson Rothman
6,161 views, 27 comments

Latest by Spoony Bard: Goodbye Motophone. We hardly knew ye. Waittaminute, that's not right. more »

giz notes

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. More »

Feature

9:00 AM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Wilson Rothman
56,411 views, 76 comments

macbook air reviews

First MacBook Air Reviews Trickle In

Three MacBook Air reviews are in from USA Today, Newsweek and the WSJ. The first two reviews are both fairly positive, with caveats, but the WSJ's reads slightly less so. Lets begin.

More »

Feature

9:10 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Jason Chen
30,854 views, 71 comments

media

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]

9:08 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Wilson Rothman
5,729 views, 34 comments

Latest by Brian Lam: @Pogueman: David, don't let those types of comments bother you. We get them all the time, too. They're without much merit. more »

giz notes

Our Leopard Review Matrix

Don't have time to read over the full reviews from NYT's David Pogue, USA Today's Ed Baig and WSJ's Walt Mossberg? Read our handy review matrix instead, where we break out everything that wasn't merely feature description in an easy-to-compare chart. You can thank us later! More »

Feature

9:52 AM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By Wilson Rothman
40,689 views, 25 comments

linux

Torvalds Family Uses Windows, Not Linus' Linux

A piece by Lee Gomes in the WSJ argues that Linux has a long way to go. Proof of this, he says, is the fact that even back in the open-source mother country, Finland, Linus Torvalds' father and sister use Windows, not Linux. (His mother, however, apparently does use Linux.) Regardless of what Torvalds' dad might think, Linus did get some Windows trash talk in there: More »

10:38 AM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By Wilson Rothman
8,858 views, 33 comments

apple

Jobs Tells WSJ that AT&T EDGE Network Isn't Fast Enough

In an interview that mainly covered the virtues of the iPhone, Steve Jobs did admit to the Wall Street Journal that there was one vice: AT&T's EDGE data network. Called "pokey" by at least two of the four anointed iPhone reviewers earlier this week, the EDGE network is something that even Jobs wishes were "a little faster".
Quoth Jobs:
You know every (AT&T) Blackberry gets its mail over EDGE. It turns out EDGE is great for mail, and it works well for maps and a whole bunch of other stuff. Where you wish you had faster speed is...on a Web browser. It's good enough, but you wish it was a little faster.

iPhone 'Surfing' On AT&T Network Isn't Fast, Jobs Concedes [WSJ]

9:05 AM on Fri Jun 29 2007
By Wilson Rothman
6,784 views, 17 comments

Latest by MegaZone: AT&T *has* 3G - UMTS/HSDPA - and they're growing the network fairly quickly. It was Apple who decided to limit the iPhone to EDGE, not AT&T. more »

cellphones

Washington, D.C., Wall St. Brought to Their Knees by CrackBerry Outage

While we reported on the BlackBerry service outage (and subsequent magical restoration) earlier, what we didn't note was that it apparently threw Washington, D.C. into sheer chaos. Reuters was on the ground: "I felt like my left arm had been amputated," said Joe Shoemaker, communications director for Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Dick Durbin of Illinois. It was, in a word, "crippling." More »

11:50 PM on Wed Apr 18 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,932 views, 37 comments

rumors

Apple Rumor: 16GB Flash Based Video iPod

Wallstreet analyst, Daniel Amir, is claiming that Apple has a new flash based iPod in the works. This will not be "the" video iPod, but will at least be able to play video, a la the 5G. More »

8:22 PM on Fri Dec 8 2006
By blongo3
1,192 views, 9 comments

press

WSJ: iPods Break as Soon as the Warranty is Up

The Wall Street Journal took at look at the issue of iPods seeming to give up the ghost about 15 minutes after their warranties expire. Cracked screens, busted hard drives, and of course the infamous slowly dying battery are all issues brought up. The article states that only 5% of iPods need replacing, yet goes on to give all sorts of anecdotal evidence that iPods are the biggest lemon since the Yugo. So which is it, WSJ? More »

7:59 AM on Fri Dec 8 2006
By www.gizmodo.com
2,153 views, 96 comments

press

WSJ Still Hung Up on Unboxings

So maybe it's not the unboxing video that we were hoping for, but the WSJ's Emily Steel and the Dow Jones' Paul Lin have teamed up to bring you a video that further examines the unboxing ritual. Props to Emily for dropping in a cameo of the Nintendo Sixty-Fouuur kid, though we prefer the Nintendo Wiiii kid. – Louis Ramirez More »

6:40 PM on Thu Dec 7 2006
By Louis Ramirez
254 views, 5 comments

press

WSJ Drools Over Gadget Unboxings

The WSJ and reporter Emily Steel get it right, and in a timely fashion when it comes to their story on gadget unboxings, titled "At New Video Sites, Opening Up the Box is a Ritual to Savor". She says the ritual is here to stay. One interviewee, Mr. Nguyen, went so far as to say
"It is an art," he says. "You have to unbox it quickly, and talk about it at the same time."
We agree. So how long before the WSJ starts posting their own unboxing vids on YouTube? – Louis Ramirez More »

2:54 PM on Thu Dec 7 2006
By Louis Ramirez
708 views, 3 comments

Latest by Michael: ...I play World of Warcraft... more »

ipod

Mossberg Likes the Latest iPods, iTunes

The Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg and his colleague Katherine Boehret have been testing the latest iPods and iTunes for a few weeks, and in their review they note how Apple has risen to the challenge of the upcoming Microsoft Zune. Overall, they like what they see and hear:
Our verdict: the new iPods are more versatile and less costly than ever, but the new iTunes software is an even bigger improvement, although it has one big downside — its coolest new feature is so graphically demanding that it doesn't work right on some older computers.

It's hard not to dig hardware that was already great and has always been superbly integrated with its software, and now you get a lot more storage space for the same price and a 60% brighter screen, too. But so what if the iTunes Cover Flow feature is graphics-intensive? That's why it looks so cool. Anyway, shed the DRM nonsense that winds its way through iPod/iTunes, and the iPod would actually deserve its runaway popularity. – Charlie White More »

12:43 PM on Wed Oct 4 2006
By Charlie White
299 views, 16 comments

Latest by pithy: For anyone who might be wondering... I worked on a prjoect with Mossberg a few years back and let there be no doubt: he's a luddite dolt. I dont know how he ever got to be on the WSJ as more »

cellphones

LG Chocolate Phone Reviewed (Verdict: Ham-Handed)

The Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg took a look at the LG Chocolate cellphone offered by Verizon Wireless this week, and one thing's for sure: nobody can call him an LG Chocolate fanboy. The buzz-proof curmudgeon panned the phone up one side and down the other, calling its user interface "ham-handed," adding that it was designed as a music player first and a phone second yet doesn't do either of those tasks very well. More »

9:35 AM on Thu Aug 3 2006
By Charlie White
3,335 views, 5 comments

gadgets

IPC IQ/MAX: Trader's Friend

This thing is a big fancy phone for Wall Street traders designed by Frog Design. It has all kinds of crap all over it, as we can see here, but most interestingly is a quote by IPC's CEO, Lance Boxer: More »

10:25 AM on Wed Mar 15 2006
By johnb
1,481 views, 1 comment