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Derek Otway updated 2 products

Derek Otway — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:41:36 -0400

1. updated RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 - June 8, 2010 at 8:41 pm

agreed: "high price point - on par with the Bold, considerably higher than most high end consumer phones"
agreed: "$100 MIR to reach the $199 price point (on AT&T)"

2. updated Apple iPhone 4 - June 8, 2010 at 8:40 pm

disagreed: "quality feel over the 3GS"
disagreed: "capable of full video chat via Apple's new FaceTime service (WiFi only for 2010)"
disagreed: "includes iOS (iPhone OS 4) - a multi-tasking OS"
disagreed: "720p video recording"
agreed: "Improved rear camera with larger lens"
disagreed: "a worthy update - much nicer than the 3G to 3GS upgrade"
disagreed: "slick industrial design looks a lot nicer than the previous generation phones - aesthetically similar to the iPad, iMac and Macbook Pro lines"
disagreed: "faster processor (Apple/Samsung/Intrinsity A4)"
disagreed: "Front-facing camera"
agreed: "Flash on rear camera"
disagreed: "Improved screen with much higher resolution (960 x 640px, IPS panel - highest pixel density of any phone)"
agreed: "Larger battery"
agreed: "24% thinner than the previous generation iPhone (9.33mm)"
disagreed: "now includes gyroscope for full 6-axis motion sensing"
agreed: "now includes gyroscope for full 6-axis motion sensing"
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disagreed: "Larger battery"
disagreed: "Improved rear camera with larger lens"
agreed: "rear-camera should've been upgraded to more than 5 megapixel"
agreed: "no legal way to unlock the phone / buy the phone unlocked (cannot use on other GSM carriers by swapping in local SIM card to avoid expensive roaming charges)"
agreed: "not a full aluminum body a la HTC Legend, Apple's PC lineup"
agreed: "still only available on AT&T"
agreed: "Meeting the bar, not exceeding it."
agreed: "does not support latest 4G network capabilities"
agreed: "lacks HDMI output - inconsistent, considering its other HD capabilities"
agreed: "still tied to Apple's restrictive app store and its wacky policies"
agreed: "now uses a micro-SIM instead of the standard SIM card for the previous generation devices"
agreed: "not a true multitasking environment"
agreed: "video calls are iPhone4-to-iPhone4 and WiFi-only"

Derek Otway updated 3 products

Derek Otway — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:00:04 -0400

1. updated RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 - June 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm

agreed: "non-touchscreen display"
disagreed: "high price point - on par with the Bold, considerably higher than most high end consumer phones"
agreed: "less wide than the Bold"
new pro/con: Small screen
agreed: "all-in-one, shares the good qualities of the entire BlackBerry lineup without any of their specific faults"
agreed: "Small screen"
disagreed: "same look and functionality as previous generations / models - not a revolutionary improvement"
agreed: "GPS"
agreed: "improved screen resolution"
agreed: "3.2MP camera"
disagreed: "ditches the trackball for an optical trackpad"
agreed: "full QWERTY keyboard"
agreed: "WiFi"
agreed: "3G"
tapped as "have it"
tapped as "love it"

2. updated Corsair Extreme Series - June 8, 2010 at 6:52 pm

agreed: "64MB onboard RAM cache"
agreed: "100+ years life expectancy "
disagreed: "RAID 0"
agreed: "Uses the Indilinx Barefoot controller"
tapped as "have it"
agreed: "No Self-Healing feature found on other models"
agreed: "240MB/s read and 170MB/s write"
tapped as "love it"

3. updated Samsung 2233RZ - June 8, 2010 at 6:50 pm

tapped as "have it"
tapped as "love it"
agreed: "120Hz refresh rate"
agreed: "cool new 3D feature gives users cutting edge graphics in over 350 games"

Derek Otway updated 2 products

Derek Otway — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:36:45 -0400

1. updated Sony BDP-S350 - August 30, 2009 at 10:36 pm

disagreed: "Slow changing tracks between DVD chapters."
disagreed: "No 7.1 analog audio outputs"
disagreed: "Remote feels very light and cheap, but works well."
disagreed: "Will not play burned DVD movies, recognizes the disc but says "operation cannot be performed on this disc""
disagreed: "Will not play MP3 CDs or DVDs."
disagreed: "No local storage, therefore not Profile 2.0 compliant"
disagreed: "Doesn't decode DTS-HD audio formats onboard"
agreed: "Has an audio video lag tweak for discs that might be out of sync."
agreed: "Great Blu-ray and DVD playback performance."
agreed: "It has a USB port in back for local Storage making it BD-Live 2.0 complient via the free firmware upgrade."
agreed: "Has come down in price significantly; find it for less than $250"
agreed: "Nice design"
agreed: "Not as expensive as predecessor - BDP-S300"
agreed: "Bitstreams all audio formats"
agreed: "Ethernet port for Web-content and firmware updates"
agreed: "Supports BD-Live"
tapped as "have it"
tapped as "love it"

2. updated Sony Playstation 3 - August 30, 2009 at 10:35 pm

agreed: "No backwards compatibility on the 40GB model"
agreed: "Some problems when playing PS2 games in regard to sound."
agreed: "Some of them had Blu-Ray drives with very poor longevity, which Sony Support has a very difficult time acknowledging."
agreed: "Very loud fans; it's not a good Blu-ray player for quiet listening environments"
agreed: "Design is too tall, are to fit into most entertainment units in its upright position."
agreed: "Very few good exclusive titles"
agreed: "Steep price in comparison with competition."
agreed: "Games can be expensive ($60)"
agreed: "Difficulty to program for is hurting quality of games being ported to it"
agreed: "Relatively small library of games"
agreed: "Online not as good as Xbox Live"
agreed: "No Bluetooth A2DP support for game audio"
agreed: "Not many games yet (as of April 2007)"
agreed: "XMB dashboard has a lot of confusing entries especially in the settings section"
agreed: "no cross-game invites, party chat, etc"
agreed: "frequent firmware updates are inconvenient"
agreed: "dashboard functionality missing a lot of features compared to Xbox Live"
agreed: "poor graphics compared to xbox 360 even though it has the better graphics chips(must be a software problem)"
agreed: "Games are required to be on proprietary blu-ray discs"
agreed: "Stole motion sensing concept from Nintendo"
disagreed: "The only Cell processor machine in the market"
disagreed: "Unleash all the blueray features"