March 6, 2012 at 4:53pm
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Nice things:
- Slide show is great - the transitions (including Ken Burns) are really nice
- Airplay can wake it from sleep mode
- Airplay (but not good enough in it’s current iteration)
Bad things:
- fonts looks unaliased to me
- Airplay doesn’t always “just work”. maybe it’s because i’m using both the hdmi and optical output (so i don’t have to have the tv on to listen to music)
- Airplay sound quality is lacking — for non-dynamic range compressed albums like classical music, in quiet passages you can hear clicking sounds
- video quality of airplay mirroring is still not good enough for me
- lag. uncompressed wave files (which is how airplay works) shouldn’t have 3 seconds of latency
- too much loading time - flickr, etc takes too long to load (it should be buffered more)
Verdict: Returned.
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January 24, 2012 at 9:16am
· Filed under Science and Technology
Dial these codes on your phone and T-mobile will send you back your usage data:
- #MIN# (or #646#) for voice minutes used
- #MSG# (or #674#) for messages sent/received
- #WEB# (or #932#) for data used
- #BAL# (or #225#) for current balance due
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January 20, 2012 at 12:51pm
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Yeah, it’s a lame problem. Which case to get for phone. On the original eyePhone, I didn’t use one. So I did an Amazon smorgazbord and got 5 cases:
Mini-review:
Incipio NGP:
- Good protection, especially front glass lip
- Good tight fit
- Fit is a little loose near top and bottom (can see the bowing)
- Volume buttons too stiff
Speck GeoSkin:
- Didn’t realize there were bumps on the back
Speck PixelSkinHD:
- Can’t decide between blue and grey
- Larger opening for camera (less flare according to some reviews)
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