Your view: Comments of the week
Welcome to our new weekly round-up of the best comments, flamewars and discussions on TechRadar's comments threads. Read on for what's been stoking your fires over the last seven days.Are Nexus One owners the new Apple fans? We ask only because we stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest with what we thought were fairly gentle suggestions about how Google might improve its Nexus One.10 things Google should change for Nexus 2raykinstl got right to the point: "Is this ⌈...⌋
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MWC 2010: In pictures: Android and an ebook in a laptop
ARM was demonstrating some of the tech goodies it's enabled recently, and one of the stars was the dual-screened Entourage Edge device.Packing Android on one side and an ebook reader on the other, this is a laptop-style device designed to make paper textbooks a thing of the past.You can look books or web pages or applications up on the Android screen, and with the touch of a button port that over the ebook reader to check it out without draining ⌈...⌋
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Catch up: this week's most popular posts
This week has been all about mobile phones with manufacturers heading to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to show off their new handsets.We also reported on how the 50p per month broadband tax will be spent, what Google should fix for the Nexus 2, and revealed the 10 best free iPhone games on the planet.In reviews, we've had hands on time with the HTC Legend and Desire, and enjoyed 3D viewing on the Panasonic Viera TX-P50VT20 3D TV.Read on for ⌈...⌋
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HTC Desire ROM Puts Flash On Your Nexus One [Smartphones]
If you're a Nexus One owner and you have a sense of adventure—or are black-out drunk—you can now flash an alpha version of the leaked HTC Desire ROM on your phone. Speaking of Flash, this ROM has it. Have you secretly harbored Desire-envy ever since its unveiling at MWC? This is your chance to close the gap; the Desire ROM will give you its Sense UI as well as support for Flash 10.1, apparently. Of course, this is all very experimental, ⌈...⌋
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Tantalizing iPhone Code Clues Hint at Future Video Chat Capability [IPhone]
Morning! And welcome to another edition of "Hey, it looks like the iPhone might soon have video chat and a front-facing camera." Today's round includes the iPhone SDK, and the fact that it mentions a number of video chat commands:That there image is from the SDK, and all but hits you in the face with two icons that mention "accepting" and "declining" video. Parsing the evidence further, we discover this, a more direct mention of "video chat" in the telephony UI ⌈...⌋
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Inevitably Pricey Sigma DP2s Focuses Faster, Plays Well with Macs [Sigma]
I doubt Sigma's DP2s (stress "s") update will clean up Wilson's DP2 review in any real way, but the improved autofocus algorithm could help reduce the camera's complexity a tad. Thing's still going to be expensive though.Now that's only an educated guesstimate, using Sigma's existing pricing practices as a guide, because official pricing isn't available just yet. We only know of new features, aforementioned autofocus tweaks chief amongst them. The tweak is all about speed. As in, the camera will do ⌈...⌋
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APIDIS Automated Film Crew Could Produce the Perfect Sports Coverage [Sports]
At the end of many sport games, the commentators inevitably give shouts outs to the camera crew, who wave back with toothy smiles. It's a touching, simple "thank you" for covering the game. Sadly, these poor saps are all doomed.Now, I don't know when the end will come for these unfortunate souls, but I do know what the beginning of the end is called: APIDIS. That's Autonomous Production of Images based on Distributed and Intelligent Sensing to people who enjoy ⌈...⌋
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Sony Debuts Alpha DSLR Concept Cameras, Micro Four Thirds Competitor [Sony]
Today Sony made a play at the micro four thirds format we've covered extensively here at Gizmodo in the past. The camera in question arrives as part of a slew of just announced concept cameras in the Alpha DSLR line:- Concept model of an ultra-compact interchangeable lens digital camera system that packs the quality of a DSLR camera in an extraordinarily small body, along with interchangeable lenses (this would be the micro four thirds play mentioned in the lead - ⌈...⌋
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Myth Bustin' Box [Image Cache]
If you're MythBusters' (and Giz Explains') Adam Savage, you don't store your tools in just any toolbox. No, sir. You store them in a Savage Toolbox. Duh. [Braincraft]
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Waterproof G5WP Tops Refreshed GE Point-and-Shoot Lineup [Cameras]
There's a camera show going down in Anaheim right now, and with it has come a whole mess of budget cameras. GE put a few more on the growing pile today, including additions to its entry-level Power Series point-and-shoots.The blue example above is the waterproof G5WP, set to ship later this year for $180. Inside the dry casing are 12.2MP; an array of colors so long as you want red, blue or gray; and 4x internal zoom. The X5 model boosts ⌈...⌋
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