@CommodorePerry: That's nice, but The first sentence in Digital Globe's description of their products is:

They have cell sites on the roof because the apple campus consists of relatively tall buildings and is located right on the 280 freeway.

So let's go from total over-reaction in one direction to an equal over-reaction in the other direction.

Consumer Reports stuff is just like the news in general. It sounds great unless you actually know something about the stuff being discussed in which case it's total nonsense.

@Cochese: Anarchist Extraordinaire.: Sorry guys, virtually ALL the high-resolution imagery is from airplanes. Zoom out a bit and yes, all the areas with only fuzzy coverage are from sat images, but most urban areas have sub-meter resolution which you just can't get from sats at a reasonable price.

@propengineer: Pretty much all this imagery is aerial photography from an airplane, not satellite imagery.

There's all this concern about 3D promoting amblyopia in children, but it seems to me with 2D you can look at the image with one or both eyes and pretty much get the same information. With 3D there's a definite difference viewing with both eyes coordinated, so I can't help but wonder if things like a 3DS would…

Note that you have to accept amazon spam email in order to keep your free prime subscription.

I like how the girls are routinely directing vehicles to crash into each other and thus the drivers seem to be completely ignoring them.

@R.b.3: I'm sorry, but you've been getting your sci/tech news from The Onion again.

This is a useless map because the real action is at the county and city level.

@boyracer: Well, the software version update that they came out with for the 3G was also installed on the original iPhone wasn't it? So the issue might affect "all iPhones" *today*, but the question is, did it affect the original iPhone and the 3g before the 3g reception "fix" version of iOS.

So, excuse me, but remember when the 3G originally had really bad signal strength and everyone bitched and Apple said "Oh, no problem, we have a software fix that will improve your signal strength"?

@rateoforange: Well, Mathematica tells me the result is ComplexInfinity and not Indeterminate as 0/0 would be :)

Aren't contrast ratios kinda meaningless once the black level gets close to zero nits (as the Droid is pushing towards)? At that point an imperceptible change could improve the "ratio" by many orders of magnitude, and any display with a zero black level will have an infinite contrast ratio.

I think this thing is going to completely trash your signal strength honestly. I'd wait for some serious reviews myself.

I'm really hoping to see some creative results from this one.

Haha, yeah, I updated a couple days ago and the thing crashes frequently, but actually it wasn't that annoying and I never lost progress or anything like that, even after it crashed just as I finished a particularly annoying level.