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Monthly Archives: May 2008

HTC Diamond is fatally flawed

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

HTC just announced their newest smartphone, the Diamond. The successor to the Touch, the Diamond offers some amazing hardware and software innovation that should have made it an iPhone-killer, but as with seemingly every Windows Mobile device, it suffers from a few design flaws that keep it from reaching its full potential.
First off, let’s look [...]

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Keeping it real

Friday, May 2, 2008

There’s an interesting article over on Wired about Hollywood’s inability to get science right in the movies. It got me thinking about how hard I try to keep the science believable in my stories, and who I’m really doing that for.
The project I’m working on now, Ghost Ronin, has been tumbling around in my brain [...]

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Just for comparison

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Okay, the new Touch Diamond to be announced next week is one of the worst kept secrets in tech right now, but I wonder how many people have done the math. The specs listed for the replacement to the Touch are impressive, to be sure, but the size is what blows me away. Mobile tech [...]

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