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Not like Paul would be able to cover Space X anyways…

Actually a lot of people complained about the last models keyboard, there was much praise when it was modified on this refresh.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree that Apple inspired other manufacturers to clean up their designs, but that’s about it. For me it’s like TV’s, no one is complaining that a company X’s TV looks like company Y. TV’s are now at the point where it’s just a screen, a small bezel, a logo, an LED or two and some hidden buttons and that’s about it. I think we’re entering this stage in laptop designs. You have a screen a keyboard and some ports, unless you’re throwing in a bunch of unnecessary features or buttons, it’s hard not to look the same as every other laptop.

What exactly do you mean by extra bells and whistles? What I see is that Apple users think of nearly all PCs as looking like ThinkPads…

And anything that looks remotely simplistic is just a ripoff of a MacBook.

The thing is Apple’s designs are very simplistic, there’s nothing really unique about it. It’s like if I draw an octagon, and someone else draws an octagon, you can’t really say it’s a rip off of my drawing. If you asked someone to describe a MacBook Air there isn’t really a distinguishing feature of the design that makes it different from any generic laptop. The closest resemblance this has to a MacBook Air is the wedge shape, but you can’t blame them for trying to make it as thin as possible.

Look at this picture for example…

It’s a generic laptop, how far has Apple’s design strayed from this look? Not very far.

No video? Seriously tempted to sell my M11x R2 for either this or the UX21A, pending pricing details and full specs+options.

Are you referring to the Windows RT tablet? ’Cause the Android tablet on the left, which is quite obviously the ME370T is 1280×800 (16:10). In fact the majority of Android tablets are 16:10, and most at that resolution, yet I see so many comments complaining about Android tablets being 16:9.

What if the item is like a $20 bill? Most people do not/would not wait around for someone to come back and get it.

I think I’ll wait for Super Strict Farmer II Turbo HD Remix.

What if they called it iPhone 4G, lol. Technically it will be the first iPhone with LTE, so it’s possible, though highly unlikely.

As for the resolutions, I think they have quite a few choices. Personally I think 1152×640 is a little wide for Apple, they’ve historically avoided 16×9 why would they go even wider? If they really want to keep the same physical width of the iPhone in portrait than I suppose they will be willing to make sacrifices so anything is possible, but I still think they would prefer to keep the same aspect ratio so apps can scale easier.

Keeping with the same aspect ratio, they could do 1440×960 (433 ppi) if they really wanted to go all out, or they could do 1280×854 (385 ppi), or 1152×768 (346 ppi), or even 1080×720 (325 ppi).

Way back when they were launching LTE, I was thinking they would do 4G plans in per GB packages, but you would get unlimited 3G as backup for when you run out. I thought this would be a reasonable compromise, and I was pretty ecstatic when I heard they would grandfather us into unlimited LTE, but I knew it wouldn’t last forever, and well the only thing keeping us on Verizon is the grandfathered plans, as soon as they take that away it’ll be time to decide between Sprint or T-Mobile.

I have a few questions about the specifics of this policy, though…

1.) If I’m grandfathered on LTE now, and the date passes, can I no longer renew my contract and upgrade to another LTE phone subsidized?
2.) If so, can I keep my unlimited plan by paying full retail and upgrading off-contract forever?
3.) If someone else on my family plan is on 3G now, and can’t upgrade until passed this date, will they force everyone else into this “data shared plan” or will it be on a “by-line” basis?

“Booorrn to beee an Americaaann!” -Nilay Patel.

Remember the Galaxy Nexus is 316ppi Super AMOLED, so we know they can do it at high pixel density. Also, non-plus (which is what I’m expecting) is totally feasible at 260ppi on a tablet when you compare it to the 196ppi Super AMOLED Plus, since they are near the same effective pixel density (measuring subpixels per inch) due to pentile.

I will watch the series, even if it’s just to support them in hopes that they decide to continue with the 3rd film. To be honest though I don’t have high expectations for the success of the series, and I wish they wouldn’t focus so much on using the series to gauge interest in another sequel.

Galaxy Tab 7.7, have you not heard of it? 7.7 inches, Super AMOLED Plus at 1280 × 800 (196 ppi). It doesn’t seem that hard to believe they could go a little bigger and better almost a year later. 11.6 inch 2560 × 1600 Super AMOLED (possibly Plus) 260ppi, not too unbelievable for a $500+ flagship tablet.

Yeah I’m worried this might ruin the movie for me. Noah Wyle is a pretty regular guy in real life, and in most of the characters he plays, so it’s not difficult to imagine him as Steve, but everytime I see Ashton as Steve, I’m going to have a hard time imagining that he’s Steve and not just Ashton Kutcher. He has such an overpowering personality that he’s sort of a character himself, it’s hard to detach from that and just imagine it’s not him.

IPS screens are still TFT LCD, so that doesn’t really disprove anything. And on those types of spec sheets (not consumer facing) it’s surprisingly common to see just “TFT” on many types of LCD’s, for example SLCD or IPS, etc. they seem to not care for specifics.

On the Vergecast, not the last one but I think the one before, he brought it out and mentioned that it had really good battery life, but the funny thing was that he forgot that people on eBay will sell you a phone without a charger. I’m guessing he still can’t find anyone he knows or a shop nearby that would have one. I can imagine something so simple as tracking down a particular (older) phone charger can become incredibly challenging without the internet.

I read “Matt Damon” at first. You can imagine my confusion.

He “cut the cord” a while ago, stopped paying for cable and was primarily using Netflix and Hulu etc. for TV. I wonder though without the internet if he decided to start paying for cable again.

This reminds me, he was (sort of) mentioned on Jimmy Fallon last night. Too bad he can’t see it, lol.

I think I remember him saying he was 26, but I could be wrong on that. Either way, he wasn’t trying to say that the internet has been around his whole life, but that he had been using the internet for most of his adult life, and that he wondered what it would be like without the internet. I’m 21, and I can certainly remember a time before everyone used the internet, but I was young enough that it probably wouldn’t have had as much of an impact as it would if I were in my teens or older. I was in middle school when I got my first cell phone though, and I really don’t know how people lived without them. Being able to contact someone at any time is really valuable, it must have been frustrating having to plan everything out like when you were going to meet up with somebody, and if plans changed, etc.

Glad I canceled my preorder. I just might pick one of these up if it ever comes to the US, hopefully it will come with a little bit of a price drop, pretty please?