It doesn't matter what material the case is made of if it's a) got a good grip, b) looks nice. At least the S3 seems a bit slippery but then again the glass back on iPhones is too.

In what way is it obvious that you can disable something by holding down a button meant for going to a previous view? It would make more sense to have it as a notification bar toggle as that can still be found but otherwise it's probably just a footnote in the manual (does anyone even read that for a phone?).

Why would they choose the most idiotic faucet design though? Those separate hot/cold water knobs are ridiculous.

It was never coherent and was full of usability flaws (drag and drop not working in obvious places, clicking certain things not causing expected behavior etc). Still is. The iPhone version is even worse.

Until digital devices can offer as good or better reading experience as real books, it would be a terrible thing to lose bookshops.

While I'm all for ditching the "let's cram lots of poorly designed software into our TV" trend, I wouldn't be surprised if the Seiki had issues with lots of the finer technical details like various pulldowns, color calibration, scaling etc. that the name brands have obviously spent some time figuring out.

By the time a current card no longer runs games well, there's a new single GPU card that is about as fast as the older card in SLI just without any of the limitations and most likely supports a newer version of DirectX, has more VRAM and runs cooler/more quietly.

If you're going to EQ (personally I would do that only to correct issues in the room you're in and that can usually be done on modern receivers instead of computer software) remember to do it at the volume you usually use to listen. We hear things differently at louder and quiter volumes so that bass boost you set at…

VDSL2 30/10 Mbps. Fiber to the building, VDSL2 from there to apartments.

It looks nice, but apart from the toggles I don't see it improving the experience much. What Apple went for was multitasking that doesn't take the whole screen and thus interrupt whatever you were doing. Also there isn't a huge need to know what state each app was in. In fact I'd say that just by having the icons…

With modern hardware the difference is completely trivial. There is no reason to use the Win98 look on Win7 or 8 except if you actually like how it looks.

I haven't really noticed any image quality degradation when using PS3 Media Server/Universal Media Server. I've even tried comparing with just playing the same HD file on PC but it looked the same to me on the PS3 as well. I'd guess any degradation depends on the initial quality and especially the settings on PS3…

Had one for about a year. I found that while I liked working standing once in a while, eventually I just wanted to sit down and lowered the desk. Changing the desk height became a bigger chore than the benefits.

Amen. I would be fine if it didn't have an uberfast processor or whatnot but at least give us something that doesn't have a miserable 800x480 resolution.

This is actually pretty tasty coffee.

I seriously hope they keep the plasma going. Their plasmas have topped image quality reviews for the last 3 years or so and judging by the one I've got, for good reason. I like it much better than the Sony LCD I had before.

Obviously, but that doesn't mean that they spent anywhere near as much time on it as S3. Another issue for smartphone manufacturers is that the tech in them just doesn't advance quite as quickly as smartphones are released. If people keep expecting "game changing" stuff with every release there's no way manufacturers…

So what were people expecting? The S3 was released just last spring and was in development for 18 months according to Wikipedia. It's no wonder that less than a year later the S4 is just a spec bump. To me it didn't come as a surprise because so far I haven't seen Samsung bring anything truly new to the table in their…

Agreed. Right now I'm a subscriber to Netflix and Spotify. Both offer streaming on the devices I want at a very reasonable price and good quality. While Netflix still has the issue of the US version having a lot more content thanks to the (4) mentioned by czol, I feel it still a service worth paying for.

Exactly. There's still shit like different pricing for different countries even when things like VAT are excluded. Adobe is a prime example, their downloads are more expensive for Europeans (again, excluding VAT) than US folks.