Wow.
EDIT: Whoops, nevermind. Apologies.
I had to link to this. That red line is nearly unbelievable.
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Joseph Mathewson Reviews the Nokia Lumia 800 -
Nice layman’s write-up. Overall positive, but I love this line:
It feels odd pressing the IE icon for anything other than browser testing.
Made me chuckle.
Chris Ziegler on HTC Making It Rain (Phones) -
I enjoyed this piece on The Verge. Awesome bit here:
It’s simple: make a large high-end device, a smaller value device, and a QWERTY device. Maybe one or two other specialty form factors, tops. That’s it. Update them once a year, and keep the names the same.
Goodness knows you’re running out of names, anyway.
Zing.
What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem - Boing Boing -
Great piece by Rob Beschizza for BoingBoing; I just got to it today in my Instapaper queue.
Love this bit:
But Sony rarely iterates, even when it’s onto something good. Everything is a one-off. It treats a billion-dollar business the way a microbrewery treats ales with silly names.
The rest of the piece illustrates how this is the opposite of Apple’s hardware design process.
And here:
Companies like Dell and HP will chance across good design every so often, but companies like Sony make good designs then abandon them intentionally because they’re blind to their own good design choices.
Hard to understand.
The Asus MacBook Air, sort of – Marco.org -
Here are Marco’s notes on the Ars review of the Asus Zenbook. The two photos of the Asus vs. the MacBook Air internals are astonishing. The layouts are identical.
Shameless.
Shopping in L.A. with Jesse Thorn: Style: GQ -
(via Instapaper)
Way more info from MG Siegler about the Amazon tablet being announced tomorrow. The question now is: even if the hardware is kind of half-assed, is it still worth getting one just to get into Amazon’s tablet ecosystem early? I think part of that will depend on price — if the hardware is lacking, the price will need to reflect that. Amazon has tons of room for error here. Let’s hope they see that, and act accordingly.
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Thanks to Todd at Celestial Teapot -
A quick thanks to Todd over at Celestial Teapot software. Not only does he write the single decent XML validator I could find, but he answers support email himself. On a Sunday. From his iPhone. And he finds bugs in like 2 minutes. Ninja.
Oh, and did I mention he writes another little app you may have heard of, called Fluid? Yes, that Fluid.
Thanks Todd!
Goddam ninja.
Instapaper’s (anti-)social network – Marco.org -
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