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OCEntertainment
12:55 PM

In reply to Sony Xperia X10 Landing Sometime In February
"The X10 will make your Droid feel inadequate in February."

Yeah, sure. If you're a fan of fluffy Cloud 9 glass shards flying through heaven's serene yet sterile landscape. In which case....um, why'd you buy the Droid?

I suppose the Snapdragon would be attractive. Assuming they don't underclock it. Those bastards. #xperiax10
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valkilmerisawful
01:04 PM

@OCEntertainment: Also, I have a feeling X10 owners would happily trade 20% CPU clock freq. for multi-touch and non-Sony-ified compatibility problems that I'm sure it comes with. #xperiax10
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OCEntertainment
01:13 PM

@valkilmerisawful: For my part, I have yet to hear one compelling argument in favor of "multitouch" as a feature. Pinch-zooming I can live without. In fact, I prefer tapping an icon. Or, in the new version, double-tapping. Which sounds way more dangerous and less unintentionally sensual then "multitouch". Besides that, I haven't heard of any convincing implementations of multitouch to make it worth any speed decrease.

I can think of one that I've seen that would be cool....but no one else has said it yet. ;-) #xperiax10
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valkilmerisawful
01:50 PM

@OCEntertainment: I see your point there. I suppose multitouch is just a fancy-pants, and possibly overdone way to do the same thing. I also think this phone is exceedingly badass, or I will as soon as they post a real-time video of it not running like a steaming pile. I have a BB, so I have a zero-touch and was just temporarily twitterpated by the black magic that is multi-touch-ness. #xperiax10
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OCEntertainment
01:55 PM

@valkilmerisawful: If you're looking for this phone moving faster than my dead turtle Dave, this may be the video you wanna see: [www.engadget.com]
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namforellik
02:26 PM

@OCEntertainment: I'm really curious what the one thing you've seen that would be cool is. Please do tell. #xperiax10
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OCEntertainment
02:31 PM

@namforellik: [ocarina.smule.com]

^That's the kind of thing you just can't do with a single-input system. It's mostly useless, except in certain rare circumstances. Nonetheless, it is incredibly cool. In short: it exemplifies everything multitouch is right now.

Why no one else can point this out is beyond me. #xperiax10
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namforellik
04:30 PM

@OCEntertainment: Isn't this the same app that had people blowing into their phones and bricking them from moisture damage? #xperiax10
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tande04
10/17/09

In reply to Xperia X3 Might be Hiding Snapdragon Under Its Good Looks
I'm pretty sure that rachael was always rumored to be a snapdragon powered phone. That was part of the appeal in the first place. #sonyericsson
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tehsquish - Still plays Ultima Online
10/17/09

In reply to Xperia X3 Might be Hiding Snapdragon Under Its Good Looks
Any new android handset news is good news.

I really can't wait 'til there's a plethora of these guys to choose from. I finally got a chance to play with my buddy's G1 (not rooted). For first generation hardware and software its a pretty damn awesome device. Its as functional as my heavily modified windows mobile phone ever was.

I need a new phone pretty badly but can't afford to pay an arm and a leg like others have stated.

Who wants to help me find a cheap non-dumbphone I can use on T-Mo!?! #sonyericsson
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OCEntertainment
10/17/09

@tehsquish - Still plays Ultima Online: Assuming you played with the G1 recently, you probable used Donut (1.6). I've had the G1 since pre-Cupcake, and believe me in those two little updates it has come a long friggin' way. I think the regular updates are one of the best things about Android. And part of the reason I'll probably stick with stock Android.

As for cheap, I'd probably wait until after the holidays. By mid-to-late December, we should have a plethora of new phones out for all carriers. By January, there will likely be quite a few sales. The G1 came out in October, by March or April when I got mine, it was already available on Amazon with a Tmo plan for $100. When Android is more ubiquitous and the big release is done, you'll probably see quite a few more sales.

Best of luck, man! #sonyericsson
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ilovexspin
10/17/09

In reply to Xperia X3 Might be Hiding Snapdragon Under Its Good Looks
All I know is a "snapdragon" definitely took that godawful picture. #sonyericsson
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anexanhume
10/17/09

@ilovexspin: Apparently you've not been introduced to Mr. Blurrycam. He's the official pre-release-spy-shot photographer of the entire internet. #sonyericsson
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macpatrik
09/03/09

In reply to The Xperia Pureness Is Just Several Steps from Invisible
Damn, that's actually pretty cool. If I had a dumb phone, I'd look into this.
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
09/03/09

In reply to The Xperia Pureness Is Just Several Steps from Invisible
For a hype phone the video was pretty weak...
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anexanhume
09/03/09

In reply to The Xperia Pureness Is Just Several Steps from Invisible

Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could,... ... with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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Bertone77
09/03/09

In reply to The Xperia Pureness Is Just Several Steps from Invisible

Great idea! I will fork over cash for a cool 100% transparent phone, why has nobody done this?

Sure it would only be 60-70% transparent due to the batteries and such but it would go so nicely with my Accutron!
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reddingofish
09/03/09

In reply to The Xperia Pureness Is Just Several Steps from Invisible
Do the numbers ever light up? It would drive me crazy if I couldn't see the numbers. It does have a FM radio. I am so glad that phones are starting to come with FM and HD radios.
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met2art
09/02/09

In reply to Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Official, Runs Windows Mobile 6.5
That's a pretty sweet looking phone, and some very nice specs, too. Shame they had to go and cheapen it with WinMo. You can throw all the pretty interfaces you want on it, but that's still just the OS equivalent of wood-grain veneer on cheap particle board. When you stress it, it'll show its quality.
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TheSonOfKrypton
09/02/09

@met2art: Win!
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Beastage
09/02/09

@met2art: Oh wise one, please explain if you can...I doubt you can and if you dare to bring issues from days of old, I'll slap you till you faint.
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met2art
09/03/09

@Beastage: Windows Mobile has strengths, but it has many more weaknesses. Most of these stem from a lack of cohesive standards. At the very basic level, extensive issues with color depth, screen solution and processor speeds create huge issues with app support, as well as cohesive user experience with the underlying OS. Couple that with issues of reliability of independant APIs and you have a recipe for trouble. Coding has been, and continues to be, a problematic issue for developers. In order to provide the broadest level of compatibility a developer needs to include so much bloat as to make the app unwieldy and prone to error. Furthermore, the lack of standardizationin on the WinMo/hardware level further complicate issues. In and of itself, WinMo does some neat things, but it gets stressed easily. More recent incarnations fare slightly better, but that's mostly due to having more memory and processor power thrown at it as opposed to being a more stable product. Whatever your feelings on the matter may be, as someone involved with app development, I can say that WinMo has proven to be far more trouble than it's worth. It has its niches (enterprise level scalability), but it's certainly not innately user or developer friendly. The fact that it needs a slick "skin" in order to feel good is a bad sign, and until MS irons out issues with hardware variances that require coders to study reams of manufacturer specs, it won't ever begin to rival the iPhone OS, Android or Symbian.

Also, slap till I faint? What are you, 12?
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TonyWonder
09/02/09

In reply to Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Official, Runs Windows Mobile 6.5
imagine that thing running the iPhone OS? Giz should run a poll...see how many people would enjoy a physical keyboard on the iPhone or am I the only one?
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met2art
09/02/09

@TonyWonder: You are, most likely, offically on Steve Jobs' legendary "List" now. I'd lay low, if I were you, ya know?
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TonyWonder
09/02/09

@met2art:

Thanks for the heads up. I'll stay away from all handicap parking spots in the tri-state area.
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guineapirate
07/21/09

In reply to Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Poses Coyly For More Glamor Shots
Did the X1 just flop when it came out? Too expensive? I don't even remember. Besides that, why do phone manufacturers still think landscape keyboards are a good idea. Not a single one of the most popular phones on the market right now have one. I just... don't... know...
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tande04
07/21/09

@guineapirate: That was part of the problem (and continues to be the problem) no one really knew when it came out. Sony had hyped it so far before releasing it that by the time they did release it (unlocked only, not on a carrier) no one really cared when it came out.

And I'd say that landscape keyboards are still very much a good idea. The G1 still has one. Unless you don't consider it a popular phone.
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PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
06/11/09

In reply to More Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Pictures Surface, Show Windows Mobile 6.5, Strange New Keyboard
Is that little 1 superscript next to Text on the second photo how they display how many texts you've gotten? It almost looks like a superscript they use to refer to some small print.
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John Herrman
06/11/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Yeah, that's how it'll look. I know what you mean though--I half expect to scroll down and see a menu item that says "nope, just kidding about that text, loser."
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Heliophage
06/11/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: It works well. And texts (though I'm not sure if this is stock, or just in my cooked version) are branched like IM windows. So, instead of going to a page full of texts, you go to a page of "conversations," each one listing the texts made between each other like an instant messenger.

I like it.
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witnessx
12/11/08

In reply to Windows Mobile Browser Battlemodo: Can You Get the Real Internet?
And here's another thing, I've been toying around an iTouch for the last 1.5 month, and although fun, THAT browser has crashed more often than Pocket IE.
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Kaiser-Machead
12/11/08

@witnessx: I must be extremely lucky, because my touch hasn't crashed yet. *knocks on desk*
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Kaiser-Machead
12/11/08

In reply to Windows Mobile Browser Battlemodo: Can You Get the Real Internet?
After my time with Windows Mobile, and utterly hating it at the end, I've decided that it's actually a very noble effort to bring as much functionality to a mobile device as you can while running on countless choices of hardware. Unfortunately, whoever was supposed to be in charge of bringing this together into something that is wholly cohesive and user friendly for everyday use, was probably out taking a whiz for the passed few years.

On the other end, the iPhone brings exactly that, something that is cohesive and friendly overall. It's just that it takes a bit of the opposite approach of Windows Mobile. It brings far fewer functions that require software as supplements, and still lacks some basic functionality. However, I think a very good middle ground can be reached, but I don't think Windows Mobile is there yet. I have more faith in Android at this point, because Microsoft's slow-going effort to improve their interface has sapped whatever faith I had left.

I root for Android now. Sorry WM.
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