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Editor’s Letter: When it rains, it pours
Author: James Cliff
In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.
It’s been a slow couple of weeks here through the beginning of May. Everyone, it seems, was saving up to pile all of their announcements at once, leaving us scrambling and our RSS feed spinning. Over the past few days, new phones were announced by BlackBerry, Nokia, Sony and Samsung while Google has been dropping all sorts of stuff in our laps at I/O and even Microsoft got in on the game by confirming Windows 8.1 will be shown next month. Surely someone could have made a few phone calls and maybe pushed their bit of news up or back a week or two.
As I write this, late at night in a hotel in San Francisco, it’s Google I/O that’s dominating the headlines. New Android boss Sundar Pichai promised a very dev-focused event, moving away from the consumer-heavy fireworks of years past, and that’s exactly what we got, with Google spending far more time talking APIs and IDEs than tablets and smartphones.
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Editor’s Letter: 3D printing grows up
Author: Randy Miller
In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.
Another week with Google Glass and, as I grow more accustomed to having it in my life, I find myself struggling more and more to come up with reasons to wear the thing. I’m still very happy to stop on the street and give people a demo, but if I’m being honest, I don’t need that much attention from strangers in my life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still very excited about the potential here, but it’s safe to say the novelty is running out.
Still, this week Glass did get a nice improvement. The XE5 update was released late Tuesday night and shipped with a series of small but important niceties, like notifications from Google+ and the ability to do a search from anywhere in the UI. Unfortunately, this update also changes things such that uploads will only occur from the headset when it’s plugged in and on WiFi. That’ll help battery life — at a somewhat unfortunate cost to wireless functionality.
Filed under: Misc, Blackberry
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Editor’s Letter: The new consoles are coming
Author: Buck Howard
In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.
This week I’m writing from a special place: from the perspective of a Google Glass owner. Well, to be honest I’m not wearing them this exact moment — I’m actually at 30,000 feet, making the most of a Gogo connection, and when your phone is in airplane mode there’s not much point in wearing the headset. Unless, of course, you’re looking for a conversation starter. In that role, the headset performs impeccably even when turned completely off.
It’s been an interesting couple days wearing the headset around, days I’ll continue to chronicle on the site because I know many of you are eager to know what Glass is like. I know this because I’ve had dozens of strangers come up to me and ask, “What’s it like?” Suffice to say, Glass is very interesting and the potential is compelling, but right now the thing is somewhat frustrating in its limited functionality. That’ll change real soon as more developers get to grips with the Mirror API.
Filed under: Apple, Samsung, Sony, Google, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Nintendo
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Editor’s Letter: The fiber fight for Austin’s future
Author: Jon Mitchell
In each problem of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens releases a wrap-up of the week in news.
There comes a time in every modern-day geek’s life when they seriously consider relocating to Kansas City, merely to gain access to the marvel that is Google Fiber. This week, potential bandwidth pilgrims got another prospective location: Austin, Texas. Yes, the significantly trendy SXSW place has actually formally signed on with Google to start presenting the connection in 2014. Regretfully, we’re informed to not anticipate much in the way of access until the summer season of following year, which appears like ages, however that ought to give you a lot of time to save up for a deposit. Austin housing rates are soaring of late.
Not wanting to be overlooked of the celebration, AT&T promptly revealed its own effort to bring high-speed fiber connection to Austin simply hours after Google. Ma Bell is guaranteeing 1 Gbps rates and the exact same type of availability and contracts as Google’s service, hence creating an extremely intriguing battleground for high-speed connection. It’s the sort of fiber-optic gluttony that we ‘d all like to delight in some day, and if Google can keep pushing AT&T like this, maybe some day we actually will.
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Editor’s Letter: The social smartphone
Author: Heather Brown
In each problem of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens releases a wrap-up of the week in news.
There’s a great chance 2011′s HTC Condition, with its portrait QWERTY layout and committed Facebook button, never ever discovered its means into your social network. That last attempt at the mythical Facebook phone fell short to garner much praise, however if social networks provided up so quickly, well, we ‘d all still be using MySpace. HTC and Facebook go to it again, this week introducing the $ 99 First, specifically on AT&T in the United States.
Yes, it’s a name every commenter could adore (or hate)
Yes, it’s a name every commenter might enjoy (or hate), a title cheekily reminiscent of the HTC One. This, though, is a rather various gadget, aiming even more towards the mid-range and counting on some major social integration to make it stand apart. It’s the first phone runni– ng the Facebook Home interface, which will be available on many devices starting on April 12th. It provides a far more thorough Facebook experience than the previous apps have actually managed, and intriguingly Zuckerberg himself said that Home is “the next variation of Facebook.” Completion of the web? Stay tuned.
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Editor’s Letter: A not-so simple choice
Author: Stacey Cook
In each concern of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in information.
At a rather vitriolic (and frequently profane) presentation offered to a little team of frequently bemused reporters (myself included), T-Mobile CEO John Legere set out the company’s reinvention. In the interest of keeping things PG I will not repeat the vibrant language, but Legere accused the various other significant carriers of being not only confusing, but additionally misleading– ignoring the reality that his own business has, for years, enacted the similar policies. No more. It’s time for the UnCarrier to step up.
But, it is necessary to note that you’ll be paying full rate, or near to it, for your smartphone.
First is a series of contract-free Simple Choice strategies, which are comparable to those the business provided in the past. It’s $ 50 for “unlimited talk + text + web”– though the data use is undoubtedly restricted to 500MB. Stepping up to truly unrestricted every little thing is $ 20 more, which is a reasonable bit less costly than the greatest routines from competing carriers. But, it is necessary to note that you’ll be paying complete rate, or near to it, for your smartphone.
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Editors Letter: Who cares for the UNcarrier?
Author: Angela Stephens
It seems like a year ago already, but it’s been only a few days since we wrapped up our inaugural Engadget Expand event. If you weren’t able to join us in person, you missed a seriously good time. Attendees got to take a ride in a Tesla Model S, perform surgery using a da Vinci robotic surgery system and cruise around the show floor on the San Francisco Special edition of the electric ZBoard, which made its debut at the show.
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Editor’s Letter: The familiar 4
Author: James Cliff
In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.
Another week, another mega Android smartphone release! This time it’s Samsung’s eagerly awaited Galaxy S 4. Yes, we’ve lost the Roman numerals, as their marketing certainly hinted, but otherwise, not a lot has changed. In fact, even we experts, trained in the art of cellphone identification, are going to have a hard time telling the difference between this new Galaxy S and its predecessor from a distance.
Gallery: Samsung Galaxy S 4 preview
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Editor’s Letter: Homecoming
Author: Gabe Hall
In each problem of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens releases a wrap-up of the week in news.
Yet another week is over, dear readers, and it’s been an eventful one for me. I invested a few days in Detroit, wrapping up some testing for the AOL Autos Modern technology of the Year award, to be distributed at CES in just over a month. This suggests I got a little seat time in some spectacular cars like the Audi S7 and Chrysler 300C SRT8, sampling some remarkable brand-new infotainment and safety technologies – and some dreadful ones, too. Which stood out? You’ll need to hang around for the CES awards event to discover out.
Otherwise, it was a fairly peaceful week in updates, but a few of the most significant tales came just as we’re heading to press. Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a meeting with NBC’s Brian Williams, provided a little quality to the puzzle of the “Put together in USA” iMacs. He verified this isn’t just an anomaly, that Apple is intending on bringing assembly of one of its “existing Mac lines” to the States. Which line, precisely, remains to be seen, however the iMac would be a logical selection, because it’s currently being run in minimal numbers in the US. The Mac Pro also makes sense, a low-volume machine that features (fairly) basic home construction.
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Editor’s Letter: A littler Wii takes off to the Great White North
Author: Christen Arquette
In each problem of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in information. Beginning this week you can appreciate them on the website also.
The biggest shopping vacations of the year are over, which implies it’s time to return to paying complete retail for gadgets– or whatever Amazon is charging, anyhow. Sales on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday were method up over last year; Friday shot 26 percent over 2011, crossing the $ 1 billion mark for the first time. Cyber Monday sales, on the other hand, climbed up an estimated 17 percent for a sum total of $ 1.46 billion. With on-line sales so sturdy, the days of getting up at 4AM to stand in a cold line outside of Finest Purchase could be behind us, changed by hitting up bestbuy.com as soon as you get to your cubicle in the morning. I’m all right with that.
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