That’s according Dave Winer in his post titled “Zealotry sucks, and so does the Droid”. But Dave thinks all of today’s phones suck:
Today’s phones are marvels of technology. I love them. But they all suck. Let me repeat that: THEY ALL SUCK.
Dave really does not like that the battery cover won’t stay on the Droid. But he doesn’t like the iPhone either:
It’s a lovely piece of art, run by a platform vendor with a shitty idea of users and developers and serviced by a phone company that can’t run a cellular phone network.
But Dave Winer isn’t the only one, Stewart Alsop, former editor and columnist at InfoWorld and now a venture capitalist, also doesn’t like the Droid. His main point from his article “Droid Doesn’t: It’s Not Ready For Prime Time”:
The Motorola Droid is truly terrible… most of the blame for the cruddiness of the phone really should be laid at Google’s feet, not Motorola’s.
So what are some things Stewart doesn’t like about the Droid? There are many: (more…)
Samsung‘s Wibro-capable SPH-M8400 smartphone is now available on KT in South Korea. The SPH-M8400 runs Windows Mobile 6.5 on a beautiful 3.7-inch touch-enabled Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) display with a 800 x 480 resolution. Other features include: 5 megapixel auto-focus camera, T-DBM digital mobile TV, WiFi, Bluetooth, Wibro, and an updated UI. Source: Akihabara News
The Eee PC 1201T from ASUS is a 12.1-inch netbook powered by AMD’s Congo “2nd Generation Ultrathin Platform” and NVIDIA’s Ion GPU. The 12.1-inch LED backlit LCD sports a 1366 x 768 pixel format and CPU duties are performed by a 1.6GHz MV40 CPU. Other features include: 2GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB hard drive, and a 6-cell battery rated for 5 hours. Source: 52Hardware (Chinese translated to English) via Netbook Italia, Engadget
Here are some Cyber Monday HDTV deals from Amazon (links go to Amazon’s product page):
: US$249.99
: $399.99
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: $2368.13
: $797.95
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: $1149.85
: $216.56
: $299.99Sit back, relax, and start clicking; it’s Cyber Monday. Here are the deals from Best Buy, sorted by price:
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