- Editorial: Android’s problem isn’t fragmentation, it’s contamination
This thought was first given voice by Myriam Joire on last night’s Mobile Podcast, and the simple, lethal accuracy of it has haunted me ever since. All the hubbub and unrest about whether Google is trying to lock Android down or not has failed to address whether Google should be trying to control the OS, and if so, what the (valid) reasons for that may be. Herein, I present only one, but it’s arguably big enough to make all the dissidence about open source idealism and promises unkept fade into insignificance.
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- CE-Oh no he didn’t!: Sony’s Jack Tretton says Nintendo makes ‘babysitting tools’
Sony does what Nintendon’t? That’s the general sentiment from a brief interview that PlayStation chief Jack Tretton gave to Fortune this week, in which he talked up Sony’s strengths and played down (some may even say belittled) its competitors, and Nintendo in particular. That began with the relatively tame assertion that Sony’s decision to go high-end with PlayStation 3 is just now beginning to pay off while the other consoles are “starting to run out of steam,” before he took aim at Nintendo’s handheld business. According to Tretton, Nintendo’s handhelds all offer what he calls a “Game Boy experience,” something that’s great as a “babysitting tool,” but that “no self-respecting twenty-something is going to be sitting on an airplane with one of those.” Yow. Any self-respecting twenty-somethings beg to differ? Let us know in the comments below.
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- Alienware M14x manuals leak out, confirm the gaming notebook once and for all
Just yesterday Dell’s leaky website poured out details about the upcoming Alienware M11x R3 gaming notebook, and it didn’t take long for its larger brother to follow suit — today, we’ve got the full user and factory service manuals for Alienware’s M14x, confirming a number of juicy rumors. Unfortunately, there’s no mention of a Full HD 1080p LCD screen for the 14-inch visitor from another planet, but there will apparently be both 1366 x 768 and 1600 x 900 options on tap, both driven by NVIDIA’s GeForce GT555M switchable Optimus graphics with up to 3GB of dedicated memory. Of course, you’ll also find Intel’s latest Core i5 and i7 Sandy Bridge CPUs and up to 8GB of RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, SATA 6Gbps and optional 3G / 4G connectivity, optional WirelessHD, a two megapixel webcam, and even a 8-cell, 63Whr battery to make portable gaming vaguely possible. Hit up our source link to see how Dell put this machine together — and how you can tear it apart — while we wait for the company to finally make the smokin’ hot notebook official, and let us know how just badly our wallets will feel after it rips their innards out.
Alienware M14x manuals leak out, confirm the gaming notebook once and for all originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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