Exhaustive Tech Review: Windows Phone + HTC Arrive
This review covers both the Windows Phone operating system as well as the HTC Arrive hardware. Both Kelly and Nick worked on it, so Kelly’s thoughts will appear in RED and Nick’s will appear in standard BLACK.
Intro
It’s been a long time, but we finally got some extended time with Windows Phone hardware. The HTC Arrive is the first phone with Microsoft’s new Windows Phone OS for CDMA carriers, this one for Sprint. This phone was actually unveiled with its GSM siblings on AT&T, T-Mobile, and in Europe at the beginning of October, but we didn’t get to hear much about it until recently. We’ve had a few weeks with the device (none of us owning a Windows Phone yet) and are ready to render a verdict. I’ll be giving the phone a review from the perspective of a current Android (and former webOS) user.
Google Offers is Live Now
A few months back there was a rumor that Google was trying to buy Groupon for $6 billion and that Groupon turned them down because they wanted to go public. Well after that Google started working on their own version and now is the day that it launches. Currently it’s only offered in Portland, New York City, Oakland and San Francisco, Groupon expanded the same way. Read the rest of this article…
Amateur Radio Shows Steady Yearly Growth And Nick Can Suck Eggs (Rotten Ones, Too!)
When most people think of Amateur Radio, also known as “Ham Radio”, they think of a bunch of dusty old codgers sitting in front of a wall of wires and short circuiting old microphones, talking about the good old days and how they can’t stand the next door neighbor’s kid’s saggy pants.
Sure, those guys exist but Amateur Radio as a whole has taken quite a journey over the last 100 or so years.
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Raindrops On Roses And Apps On My Android
This article was provided by guest contributor Ryan.
Cisco Kills Flip
Three years ago, I got a bunch of people together to film Achievements; Sam showed up with a chunky little camera with a display slightly larger than a postage stamp. It was Flip’s first model, and while it paled compared to the $1400 Sony HD camcorder I was filming with, it was pocketable and a USB connector hid in the side as a spring-loaded switch. The quality was rubbish VGA and Sam used it to film behind-the-scenes stuff, but over the following years, Flip would end up developing a pretty big following.
T-Mobile Rolls Out $80 Unlimited Plan
T-Mobile announced today their new single-line unlimited plan for $79.99 with a two year agreement. This is UNLIMITED voice, text and data for any smart phone like the HTC HD7 or the myTouch 4G. What’s the catch? Read the rest of this article…
IE10 Platform Preview, Uggghhh…
Didn’t Microsoft just release IE9? Well get ready for IE10 with native support for HTML5 and CSS3! Microsoft makes such a big deal with browser releases because they still haven’t copied Chrome and how they just update you without telling. So we are going to have a 5th version of IE that is supported, yay! Download and video demo after the jump. Read the rest of this article…
The House of Representatives Wanted to Know if the Government Was Shutdown
This is one of those LOL stories. Zach Seward, a WSJ editor, created the website isthegovernmentshutdown.com. That’s not the funny thing though. What’s funny is the top 10 ISP’s for traffic, #9 was the ISP for the House of Representatives. In the top 50 referral traffic were the following government agencies: the Senate, the Navy, Homeland Security, the Justice Department and Health and Human Services.
[via: TechCrunch]
Finish Line Let Me Unsubscribe!
Seriously! I bought one thing from Finish Line and I understand that legally they can email me for up to 6 months after I purchased but you are supposed to be able to unsubscribe from those promotional emails. There is nothing in this email that lets me unsubscribe. I clicked on the privacy policy link and there is nothing in there on unsubscribing either. WTF! I finally found on this page what you see above BUT there is nothing in the email below like it says would be there! What am I supposed to do? If I block the email and later on down the road I decide to buy something from them again then I won’t get any confirmations or anything! Read the rest of this article…
The Engadget Eight Land, Give Us New Podcast
We made some comments earlier about how Editor-in-Chief Joshua Topolsky’s departure – as well as seven others from Engadget – seemed to signal the beginning of the end for the site. We were right. While the remaining Engadget staff is a great crew, There’s little doubt in my mind that Aol is going to screw everything up and that somehow the exodus has robbed the tech/gadget blog of a lot of its great talent.
