It was absolutely not the cheaper price that made me pick this over the touch. It was the Touch's lack of physical buttons. Dealbreaker. Have you ever seen the way a kindle screen picks up fingerprints? Besides, what's the point in covering up the screen with your finger when you want to flip pages?

Meh, I disagree, I like mine. I agree that the buttons are a bit of a pain, but I'd rather have them than the Touch's no buttons at all, which is going to leave a million fingerprints and be worse ergonomically. The smaller form factor outweighs the buttons being a bit of a pain.

probably because in that 16 months the iphone 4 sales have hardly dropped. that means it might not have *taken* 16 months, but that they could easily afford to wait that long because people were still snapping up the current gen.

how does the home button thing work? he says you tap the middle of the screen. how does that work in random apps like fruit ninja?

I think they're doing it on purpose. Maybe they get paid by the comment, so if they write like idiots they do better.

I have Dish, and found this snippet in the press release. So it's worth a shot...

price? link to buy? etc?

I think a lady called Car Talk last week claiming this happened to her.

*has been

So that's what I saw... cool

really seems like the wrong audience for this article

But this is a fact - a lot of bridge is played during the day. I believe that's because most people that play are older, so they're mostly retired, and can play on weekdays. That's tough for most people under 50 to pull off.

yeah people under 50 play bridge. it's a good game - it just requires quite a time commitment, which is why I think younger people don't play

the rapid charging port just sounds silly, since it reduces the life of your battery. when would that ever be worth it?

or don't even bother downloading it and feed the URL into this: [regex.info]

how many people were over there for the event? the GF's flying back from Berlin, she was driving the beetle there, just curious if she got to hang with you jalop folks :)

pot meet kettle, in the same article you admit to slumming yourself

large aperture = fast lens is a pretty common nomenclature. It allows for shorter (faster) shutter speeds b/c you have more light coming in the aperture. So shutter speed is not really independent, sure they are separate controls, but they are very much dependent on each other, as is ISO of course

I read a little bit about it. Yes it is that same tech.