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Google's secret new beverage enterprise

September 19, 2008 10:44am

Replace the "G"s with "C"s and you have the correct Southern pronunciation of "Coca Cola". "Co'cola".

Count calories and wake up to FM radio with Sony Ericsson's new cheapies

June 17, 2008 7:36am

Seconding the MOTOFONE F3 if your goal is cellular minimalism.

It's fantastically thin, has a segmented e-paper display, and mine survived submersion in dirty potted-plant water with absolutely no ill effects after a day of drying.

In addition to working very well as a phone, it has an alarm and speakerphone and rudimentary text messaging.

I've been using it for several months as my primary phone. My previous phone was a T-Mobile MDA/HTC Wizard.

iPhone vs PSP: which has the better specs?

May 14, 2008 10:47am

The PSP has two 333MHz cores, both "MIPS R4000" 32-bit processors, it seems. One for CPU, and one called the Media Engine, which seems to be split between graphical and sound processing.

Regardless, the iPhone hardware is 2.5 years newer than the PSP, so yeah, it should be plenty powerful for gaming. Control methods are definitely the primary hurdle. The DS has shown that there's a decent amount that can be done with a touch screen, but some game types just don't lend themselves to that.

The Woods: Battery life calculation help, because I am bad at maths and electrons

April 22, 2008 12:40pm

Watt-hours = volts * amp-hours

In the case of the solo 15, 12.8 volts times 12 amp-hours is 153.6 watt-hours. Hence the stated 154 watt-hours.

And the X300 battery is 11.2 * 2.44 = 27.328 watt-hours.

I'm not familiar enough with inverters to guess at the loss incurred there, or in the X300's power supply and charging system, but a 100% efficiency calculation would get you 5.62 charges.

Looks like inverters and AC adapters can get up to around 90% efficiency. So... 4.5-ish charges maybe. Conservatively, 4. If the computer isn't drawing power while it's charging.

Temporarily Without My Phone

March 11, 2008 11:20am

I've been using a Motorola F3 for over a month now. It's as basic as you can find a phone now. Very basic display (not even dot matrix), no Bluetooth, very basic SMS ability, contacts stored on the SIM card. It's meant for developing markets. My model is 850/1900MHz GSM, so it works pretty much just in the Americas. The instructions were in Spanish and Portugese.

I switched over out of curiosity from a T-Mobile MDA (HTC Wizard). I really haven't missed it.

A friend knocked the F3 into some water on Friday. It was totally submerged for a good 20 seconds. After letting it dry, it was back in perfect working order by Sunday.

With the extra-thinness and e-paper display, it feels like owning the infancy of the future.

http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-MOTOFONE-F3-Black-Unlocked/dp/B0013A7KMW/

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