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Android 2.2 Froyo Update (Finally) Arrives For Epic 4G Users
It seems like Sprint’s second big 4G flagship phone got a bit of an unfair rep before it ever released. Samsung’s previously hyped efforts (namely, the Instinct and its ilk) were buggy phones that received little support post-release. With the Epic, Samsung has a winner of a phone with solid hardware and solid software that people looked over for HTC’s EVO 4g slate phone for a huge reason: Froyo. How it took them this long to bring the 2.2 update to the Epic we may never know (Froyo was being released to hardware when the Epic arrived on store shelves last September), but now that it’s here, it’s time for Epic users to celebrate! A round-up of features and updates inside:
Windows Phone + Sprint Announcement On February 24th?
To say I’ve been pining for this moment for a while would be an understatement, but it seems that the quick eyes over at Engadget were able to spot a tweet on Sprint’s Twitter feed indicating a new phone with ‘hubs’ for media content, which obviously refers to Windows Phone 7. In that same tweet was a hashtag for an announcement on February 24th. This surprise comes not long before a major Windows Phone update that will allow for CDMA hardware functionality (for those in the bleachers, that’s the protocol Sprint and Verizon use). Now obviously, Windows Phone can’t really top David Blaine, but we (I) don’t think it’ll need him.
This Is The Only Minesweeper Article You Will Ever Need To Read
Oh, sure, everyone knows about Halo, Fable, Gears of War, and Project Gotham Racing (well, not quite enough did), but few realize that the best game Microsoft ever published was Minesweeper. Included with Windows 3.1 and up, Minesweeper is the reigning champ of office un-productivity and it’s so deviously clever that few realize its absolute genius.
Movie Review: 2 Everything 2 Terrible II: Tokyo Drift
It’s difficult to explain the appeal of Everything Is Terrible! This seven-person video collective goes to small-time stores, gathering VHS tapes of the most weird and random content you can possibly imagine. From Nintendo field rep trainings to self-help videos and bizarre, 80s-era children’s programming, the content was already strange enough, Everything is Terrible! makes it stranger. I’ll let this serve as a primer before we move on.
Movie Review: Unknown
I don’t know how it happened, but European thrillers – plump with car chases, beautiful photography, and even more beautiful scenery – seem inexorably tied to blustery, winter nights here in Colorado. Last year, it was From Paris With Love, the year before it was Transporter 3 and Taken, and so forth. It also seems fitting that Unknown takes place on a snowed-over Berlin: it’s like those dastardly Europeans are tapping into my brain. What I’m trying to get at is, at the end of the day, is this newest Liam Neeson joint worth scraping off the windshield? Hmmm…
Movie Review: I Am Number Four
I’m not entirely sure where this rash of films adapted from youth-oriented novels came from, but it’s been a mixed bag so far. For every Harry Potter, there’s a Golden Compass, for every Diary of a Wimpy Kid, there’s a City of Ember, and for every Chronicles of Narnia film there’s another, more lousy Chronicles of Narnia film. Although I read books sometimes, I needed Wikipedia to understand that this is supposed to be the starting point of a six book/film arc, but it’s hardly a great beginning at all. In fact, I Am Number Four is pretty lousy, like a Narnia film.
How Big Does A Smartphone Screen Need To Be?
On a recent podcast, we chatted a bit about phones and their screen sizes. While Johnny’s former Blackberry was laughably small at 2.5in, his new Windows Phone (HTC HD7 w/4.3in screen) was on the way to shame the rest of us. So, how does your phone stack up? How big is too big? How small is too small?
Book Review: Dan Dunn’s “Living Loaded: Tales of Sex, Salvation and the Pursuit of the Never-Ending Happy Hour”
Until now, I hadn’t really pondered the professional drinker. I’m not talking about wine tasting here (although it is pointed out as one of Dan’s weak points) but rather the stone-livered specimen who travels across the country exclusively to sample the wares. Recommended by the It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Facebook page (good lookin’ out!) it only took a brief, hilarious sample on Amazon before it was in my Kindle app.
Do People Really Examine Game Graphics This Much? Digital Foundry and Head2Head Do!
Y’know, I did my bit of a graphics whorin’ back in 2001, when the comparison was a lot more exciting. I was an Xbox guy, so anyone who argued their console hardware or game had better graphics than Halo or Dead Or Alive 3 was high as a kite. Nowadays, we have not one, but two sites dedicated to these tight comparisons, which . . . it’s just not human.
Has It Been That Long? Today* We Celebrate 10 Years Of ‘All Your Base’!
*I’m a day late, shoot me.
On February 16th, 2001, the internet was graced with the presence of its first big meme, a starting point for a new frontier of inside jokes and fuel for an absurd internet culture, years before 4chan ever existed.
