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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs iPhone 5: in-depth Review
Author: Melissa Shroeder
Galaxy S4 versus iPhone 5: an in-depth Review! http://bit.ly/15fGOUg Which is better, Apple’s iPhone 5 or Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 flagship smartphone? Find o…
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An in-depth look at Microsoft’s failed Xbox attempts in Japan
Author: James Cliff
Both the Xbox and Xbox 360 have famously failed to make a dent in the Japanese gaming market, but why? Eurogamer has put together a comprehensive report that looks at the challenges that Microsoft faced when it tried to carve out a place in the Japanese industry. The two largest issues included the perception of the console — Japanese gamers believed it was designed purely for Western-style games — along with Microsoft’s difficulties in adapting to the unfamiliar customs of the country. The Xbox 360 failed to turn around poor sales too despite a slew of games created specifically by Japanese studios. Microsoft will have yet another chance at success in Japan — as well as another opportunity to avoid the same mistakes — now…
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Microsoft Gives In-Depth Tour Of Windows Phone 7.8′s Supercharged Start Screen
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Microsoft exposed Windows Phone 7.8 last week. The system update got a bit of stage time information were still a bit lite. The Windows Phone group uploaded the video above and it ought to clear up some confusion around the new Beginning Screen.
Windows 8 brings a host of new characteristics, however many are concealed from the user, including the platform ’ s kernel. For more desirable or worse, the greatest visible change involves the Beginning Screen that will feature re-sizable tiles. However existing Windows Phone will not have the ability to leap on the Windows Phone 8 bandwagon due to devices requirements. And so, to most likely avoid a mad mob of users, Microsoft is delivering the brand-new Start Screen to existing phones with the Windows Phone 7.8 update.
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HTC One: specs, features, release dates, and our in-depth reviews
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The HTC One X, One S, and One V made their collective grand debut at MWC 2012 in Barcelona this year. After only a month’s wait, the two higher-end devices were out on the European market and announced for the US in various forms: a dual-core One X variant for AT&T, a similarly-specced but retitled Evo 4G LTE for Sprint, and the more or less unchanged One S for T-Mobile. This stream will help you track their progress to launch as well as cataloging our reviews as when new members of the One series become available.
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SPOILER, They Sucked: In-Depth Analysis Of The Phantom Menace Lightsaber Battles
Author: Ang Nguyen
Inb4 dammit Qui-Gon, you’re swinging like a f***ing padawan!
This is a humorous video (“aim like a drunkard, jump like an idiot”) showcasing some of the major lightsaber battles in The Phantom Menace and just how overly-cautious they were executed. Like, a lightsaber never comes withing like two feet of making contact. WTF! It’s not like they were using real lightsabers. You could have hired me for these fight scenes and I’d have let you swing a wiffle-ball bat at my head FULL FORCE (plus killed myself after the movie came out). Make contact? No biggie — I’m three-quarters retarded already! “I bet it’s more like four-fifths.” SEVEN-SIXTHS AND NOT A FRACTION HIGHER.
Hit the jump for the I’ve choreographed more realistic lightsaber battles in my living room.
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No Comments »How to Grow Medical Marijuana: An in-Depth Quick Grow Guide: with over 155 full-color photos/illustrations
Author: James Cliff
How to Grow Medical Marijuana: An in-Depth Quick Grow Guide: with over 155 full-color photos/illustrations
Most marijuana grow guides don’t meet the needs of medical marijuana patients who are allowed to grow as few as 6 plants. This guide gives directions for the easiest and most successful method of providing one’s own medicine with only a few plants.
Rather than point out a variety of methods, this book chooses soil-less with a specific soil mixture, which has the advantages of hydroponics without the risks. And presents an almost foolproof method of growing that almost anyone can master, using both CFLs and LED light.
It is intended only for medical marijuana patients in the states which allow it, or their agents and by purchasing this book you indicate that you are a medical licensed marijuana patient or the agent thereof.Most marijuana grow guides don’t meet the needs of medical marijuana patients who are allowed to grow as few as 6 plants. This guide gives directions for the easiest and most successful method of providing one’s own medicine with only a few plants.
Rather than point out a variety of methods, this book chooses soil-less with a specific soil mixture, which has the advantages of hydroponics without the risks. And presents an almost foolproof method of growing that almost anyone can master, using both CFLs and LED light.
It is intended only for medical marijuana patients in the states which allow it, or their agents and by purchasing this book you indicate that you are a medical licensed marijuana patient or the agent thereof.
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Nokia Lumia 800: in-depth 8-minute video documentary
Author: Jon Daniels
We go behind the scenes at Nokia’s London design studio with Stefan Pannenbecker, VP of Industrial Design at Nokia, Chris Linnett, Head of Lumia UX design and Kate Freebairn, Creative Director for Lumia UX design to explore the story behind the creation of Nokia’s first Windows Phone.
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Apple OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) in-depth preview
Author: Charity Woods
You can bid farewell to the days of Apple’s theatrical OS reveals — at least until OS 11 rears its head, anyway. In the meantime, the outfit has seemingly been content to strip away more and more pomp and circumstance with every subsequent big cat release. Lately, the company has settled into an evolutionary release schedule, eschewing full-fledged makeovers in favor of packing in lots of smaller changes, many of them quite granular indeed. It’s a trend that can be traced as far back as 2009′s OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), a name designed to drive home the point that the upgrade wasn’t so much a reinvention of the wheel as a fine tuning of its predecessor, Leopard.
The arrival of Lion (10.7), though, marked a full upgrade. With features like Launchpad and Mission Control, it seemed like it might be the last version Cupertino dropped before finally pulling the trigger on operating system number 11, and perhaps transitioning to something with an even stronger iOS influence. Right now, at least, the company’s not ready to close the book on chapter X, but it is giving the world a first peek at 10.8. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Mountain Lion.
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In-Depth Hands-On: Galaxy Nexus And Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0)
Author: Brandon Zimmerman
Say goodbye to Android as you know it. Ice Cream Sandwich (otherwise known as Android 4.0) is coming, and it’s the biggest upgrade Android has seen to date.
But fancy new software isn’t the only thing Google’s been working on: they’ve also just announced their new flagship Android device, the Samsung-made Galaxy Nexus. I got to spend a solid chunk of time with both the new hardware and the new software, and have returned with a venerable mountain of first impressions, insight, and the best damned demo video you’ll find anywhere.
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The Hardware
As an army of now-unemployed webOS employees could tell you: without good hardware, good software is nothing.
Fortunately, the Galaxy Nexus is — at least from what we’ve seen so far — good hardware. Really good. As in, quite possibly the best looking piece Samsung has ever built. Take the resoundingly solid design of the Galaxy S II, add the subtle curve of the Nexus S’ display, throw in some svelte curves for good measure — Ta-da! You have the Galaxy Nexus.
Appearing from the side as something not unlike a teardrop, the Galaxy Nexus tapers from above down into an ever-so-slightly thicker base. Unlike the “hump” found on the rump of the Motorola Droid X (or even the just announced Droid RAZR), however, Google tells me that the deeper base is designed as such for sake of ergonomics, rather than as a store-all for the device’s thickest components. Also unlike the Droid X, the Galaxy Nexus’ wider bit doesn’t detract from the device’s overall look.
There was one bit of the body that I wasn’t a fan of, though: the battery cover. Like with many a Samsung before it, the battery cover is made up of a chintzy-feeling plastic. You wouldn’t notice until you pulled the cover off… but once you do, it just sort of sticks with you. My opinion may be swayed a bit after having seen the exceedingly slick Kevlar rear of the Droid RAZR this morning — though arguably, the RAZR’s rear panel isn’t removable.
Samsung has been improving their Super AMOLED series of displays at a breakneck pace, and they didn’t ease off the gas for this one. With an HD resolution of 1280×720 (a first in the mobile world) and coming in at a mindblogging 4.65″, I couldn’t help but wonder: would the screen be too big?
The answer is no. In most cases, it felt no larger than the now relatively commonplace 4.5″ screen. Why? It’s all about the buttons. Where previous devices might’ve put their capacitive hardware keys, the Galaxy Nexus puts more display. The buttons become a part of the screen itself, allowing the screen to appear to be a more comfortable 4.5″-or-so during regular use, expanding out to 4.65″ (by hiding the onscreen buttons) only when it’s most beneficial to the experience (like during video playback.) This on-screen button trickery is an optional offering of Ice Cream Sandwich, so expect other manufacturers to pick it up stat.
Though I didn’t manage to finagle a sample shot to offer up as evidence, the quality of the device’s front and rear camera seemed about average. I tested the device in a relatively low-light room, and I was neither harshly disappointed nor overwhelmingly impressed.
The Software (Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich)
Ice Cream Sandwich is Android as it should be.
It’s the first time I’ve used Android and felt that Google has stepped anywhere near that truly fine balance between power, flexibility, usability, and good ol’ fashion beauty. Android has always been powerful — it just never really looked all that good doing it. Ice Cream Sandwich looks good. Really good.
Oddly, I never liked Honeycomb, the tablet-only predecessor from which Ice Cream Sandwich takes so many visual cues. Both Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich share a generally dark motif. Stretched out across a tablet’s display, that darkness can come across as a depressing, empty void. On the smaller display (as weird as it is to classify a 4.65″ display as “smaller”) of a smartphone, however, it’s sharp. I’m also a sucker for symmetry, and the center-aligned icons of ICS on a phone (as opposed to the side-aligned icons on a Honeycomb tablet) just look better.
Ice Cream Sandwich’s Finer Features:
- The widgets system has been overhauled, with the primary new trick being resizability. The Gmail widget, for example, can be scaled to show just two recent e-mails at a time, or, with a brief hold of the widget and a quick drag of the edge markers, up to three or four.
- You can, at long last, take screenshots right on the device. Outside of a few phones which had screenshot functionality hacked in by the manufacturers, nabbing a screen grab on Android generally entailed installing a massive SDK onto your computer and learning your way around the tools.
- The browser has been thoroughly improved. It’s got the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements, but also now allows you to save pages for offline reading and to request the non-mobile version of any page with just one click (presumably through a bit of user-agent trickery).
- The new camera is really, really fast. Shutter lag is non-existant, and it’s ready to take another picture in well under a second. I’m itching to do a quick-draw shoot out between the camera on the Galaxy Nexus and that of the iPhone 4S.
- The speech-to-text engine has been completely overhauled, and is remarkably fast. You speak, and it’ll transcribe each word in turn with but a second or two of delay. You’ve gotta see it to believe it (check it out in the video above at the 2:31 mark).
- Also well worth seeing (9:25 in the video above): the Face Recognition Lock. Android takes a few seconds to analyze the structure of your face — once configured, your mug is the only one that the device will unlock for. In low light situations (wherein the camera might not be able to see you well enough) you can fall back to a swipe pattern (which ICS requires you set up while configuring the face detection).
- To create a folder, you now simply drag one app on-top of another. Apps can also now be dragged in and out of the static dock area without trudging through settings.
- They’ve tucked in a rather talented photo editing tool, with everything from scaling/cropping to basic photo filters. It’s no Photoshop, but it’ll probably hold you over until Instagram makes its way to Android.
- To geek out for a moment, there was one small bit that was perhaps my favorite of all: the data usage monitor. With the quick drag of a few sliders across a graph, you can quickly peruse a timeline of your data usage, and narrow down which apps are the data-gobbling culprits. One more bar lets you set up automatic warning triggers for your data usage, while a final bar lets you set a point (say, half a meg shy of your monthly cap) at which your data connectivity automatically offs itself. As someone who gets nailed for data overages pretty much each and every month, I love it.
Ice Cream Sandwich is pretty. It’s polished. It’s animated, and shiny, and jam-friggin’-packed with gradients and alpha translucencies.
What it’s not — at least not yet — is flawless. There was a crash here and there, and a tense moment or two when a slider just… wouldn’t.. work. Google was quick to note that the build I was seeing was a relatively old one — but even if it weren’t, they still have weeks to stomp out the lingering bugs for the initial release, and months before anyone really expects Ice Cream Sandwich to trickle out onto a wide array of devices. They’ll fix it up right.
This is the first time in a while I’ve been genuinely excited about Android from a software standpoint, and I look forward to seeing more of ICS in the future. We will, of course, give it a full review as the launch approaches, so be on the lookout for that
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Windows 8 on a laptop in-depth preview (video)
Author: Troy Barnes
Less than 24 hours after it went live on Microsoft’s site, Steve Ballmer reported a whopping 500,000 downloads of Windows 8 Developer Preview. That’s half a million copies, if not eager Windows fans. Well, you can count us among them. Although we were treated to some private hands-on time with a tablet optimized for the OS, we hadn’t, until now, had a chance to use it on a laptop — i.e., the computing environment where we spend most of our time, and the one where we’re most used to seeing Windows, in particular.
For the past three days, we’ve been doing just that: getting acquainted with Windows 8 using the good ‘ol mouse-and-keyboard combo. And while that might read like a redundant statement (what recent version of Windows hasn’t accommodated a cursor?), Win 8 is a peculiar breed — It’s the first version of the operating system where finger input wasn’t an afterthought, but a first-class citizen. It’s clear that this time around, Windows is optimized for touch, but we had to wonder if that Windows Phone-inspired UI would present a steep learning curve, if it would get in the way while we tried to go about business as usual. So how’s that working out for us? Suffice to say, we’re not in Kansas anymore, so find your most comfortable chair and meet us after the break — we’ve got oh-so many details to delve into.
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Windows 8 on a laptop in-depth preview (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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