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"Executives who did not have specific technical knowledge and who had not studied a problem in depth would swoop down and issue some random, uninformed decree, and it would be implemented -- often with farcical results." Why does this sound familiar? - Reto Meier

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Source: Here are the first Googlephone's specs [Htc]

August 26 at 8:28 am - Link

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I really dislike the usability of this type of phone with slide keyboard. It makes the phone clunky and the keyboard is not really too quick to type with. I got rid of a similar model in favor of a simpler Nokia (which had a lot to do with the old one running Windows Mobile though, which IMO is a low-usability OS). - Philipp Lenssen

(This particular rumor aside) Well, clearly lots of people (myself included) like mini keyboards on Blackberries and the like. And if you want a keyboard and also a large screen and also to fit in the pocket, that sort of implies a slide or flip mechanism. - ⓞnor

IMO It's gotta have a keyboard to be usable as an serious email device. My current SE910 has a flip keyboard but the keys are too small to do anything but 'finger peck' would be nice to have a device that at least allows thumb typing. - Reto Meier

There are many ways to do a keyboard, like the iPhone shows with its software keyboard... I just find this particular hardware keyboard badly usable. Judging from past T-Mobile branded phones they also have a way of messing with the OS... like by occupying important buttons which are meant for navigation with T-Mobile-specific useless stuff :/ - Philipp Lenssen

By "keyboard" I mean "physical keyboard, with tactile feedback". The iPhone's soft keyboard is amazing for a soft keyboard, but I would never want to trade it for the real thing. Thumb keyboards aren't for everyone -- and apparently not for you, Philipp -- but I for one really do like them. - ⓞnor

Perhaps the Blackberry keyboard is a lot better, I don't know? I've used this HTC one... to do something simple as to enter a phone number you had to hold down a function key! http://blogoscoped.com/files/m... - Philipp Lenssen

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Google Map of All Olympic Medallists

August 26 at 8:28 am - Link

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Comic: The Woods, Part One

August 25 at 12:41 pm - Link

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New Gears Geolocation API powers mobile web sites

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Moving

August 22 at 1:34 am - Link

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Fujitsu intros 5.6in bonsai laptop... with Vista

August 21 at 5:04 am - Link

For £1346? Ummm No. - Reto Meier

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How to Prevent Any Political Progress (The American Method)

August 20 at 11:11 pm - Link

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Yummy!: Krispy Kreme Makes Grass Sandals

August 20 at 5:48 am - Link

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New Android SDK Beta Released

August 19 at 2:30 am - Link

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Take it with you, the whole kit-and-caboodle

August 18 at 10:49 pm - Link

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Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK

August 18 at 1:50 pm - Link

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Time to "Free the Airwaves"

August 18 at 7:06 am - Link

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Unwrap Mosaics, a Form of Video Editing

August 18 at 3:13 am - Link

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Insanely cool new technology presented at Siggraph. Unwraps 3D objects from video to create a flat surface. Whatever you draw on that surface is then dynamically applied to the video. - Reto Meier

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Google BargeView

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