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  • Review: enTourage eDGe dualbook

    Review: enTourage eDGe dualbook

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    To say that the enTourage eDGe dualbook is "just an e-reader with a bolted-on netbook" (or vice versa) is to pretty dramatically miss the entire point of this thing. The eDGe exists in a category all by itself, because it does an awful lot more than just an e-reader or just a netbook. As a unique product, there are a couple of unfortunate shortcomings, but on the whole the dualbook represents an exciting glimpse at new ways to access and use technology and content. Devin pooh-poohed the eDGe recently, but I'm pretty excited about it.

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  • Hands-on with the Entourage eDGe dualbook

    Hands-on with the Entourage eDGe dualbook

    Posted on March 12, 2010 | No Comments
    I received the Entourage eDGe review unit the other day, and have been playing with it quite a bit. A full review is coming soon, but suffice to say that I like what I've seen so far. Here are a handful of photos to whet your appetite for my forthcoming review!

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  • Nexus One still plagued with 3G issues after OTA software patch

    Nexus One still plagued with 3G issues after OTA software patch

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Nexus One owners have been griping about the device’s 3G connectivity issue since its release, and Google felt your pain and came to the rescue (even though they did sorta blame T-Mobile’s small 3G footprint for this). Or so we thought. After releasing an over-the-air update which was intended to resolve this problem, users are [...]

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  • Nexus One slated to arrive in AT&T 3G flavor

    Nexus One slated to arrive in AT&T 3G flavor

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    When the Google Nexus One was announced early last month, Android fans went giddy with excitement, especially since there is an option to buy it unlocked. The only downside was that if you wanted 3G service, you were limited to T-Mobile’s decent, but smaller network. AT&T users are still out of luck and limited to [...]

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  • enTourage eDGe dualbook gets deals with academia

    enTourage eDGe dualbook gets deals with academia

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    The enTourage eDGe dualbook made its official debut at CES last week, along with lots of other e-book readers, dual-screen laptops, and more. We mentioned the eDGe book store, but that book store is gaining usefulness with the announcement of deals with publishers McGraw Hill, Oxford University Press and John Wiley & Sons, which will bring a number of academic texts to the dualbook. And enTourage has just inked a deal with Blackboard, a leading e-learning platform. More details inside.

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  • Entourage announces e-book store for eDGe dualbook

    Entourage announces e-book store for eDGe dualbook

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    The Entourage eDGe, the world's first "dualbook" is a dual-screen laptop / e-book reader hybrid thingie. The laptop portion is pretty straightforward, but what about the e-book? In the already crowded e-book space, how can the eDGe compete? Well, today they've announced they're very own e-book store. That's right, a device that is not yet in anyone's hands now has its own bookstore. All sarcasm aside, this is a pretty good move to demonstrate the long-term commitment from Entourage to the eDGe, even if it is yet another e-book store (okay, so maybe it wasn't all sarcasm aside). Read on for the whole press release.

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  • AT&T responds to Verizon’s 3G ad campaign — by bragging about EDGE

    AT&T responds to Verizon’s 3G ad campaign — by bragging about EDGE

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments

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    My iPhone 3GS, in downtown Chicago, as I wrote this post.

    Verizon certainly seems to be getting under AT&T's skin with its ads focused on comparing 3G coverage -- not only is Ma Bell suing over 'em, it's now issuing PR to clarify what it sees as the inaccuracies of the entire campaign. If you'll recall, AT&T thinks Verizon's 1:1 comparison of 3G coverage maps makes it looks like AT&T doesn't have any coverage at all across most of the country -- which means that our nation's largest wireless carrier is now in the sad position of pimping its gigantic EDGE network in response. Let's all gloss over the absolutely huge difference in 3G versus EDGE together, shall we?
    With both 3G and EDGE coverage, customers can access the Internet, send e-mail, surf the Web, stream music, download videos, send photos, text, talk and more. The only difference - with some data applications, 3G is faster than EDGE.
    Right, right -- the only difference. That must be why Apple named it the iPhone EDGE Slightly Faster.

    Now, AT&T has a valid point when it says that its 3G map covers 75 percent of the nation's population, and that Verizon's conflation of total 3G coverage with actual network quality is slightly misleading. But you know what? We watch our iPhones drop from 3G to EDGE and even to GPRS all day long in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, and that has nothing to do with the damn map, and everything to do with AT&T's actual network quality. Let's put it this way: Verizon's ad campaign would be totally ineffective if it didn't ring so true, and the best way for AT&T to counter these ads is to build a rock-solid network, not filing lawsuits and issuing press releases bragging about freaking EDGE. We all clear on this? Good.

    AT&T responds to Verizon's 3G ad campaign -- by bragging about EDGE originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • It’s a netbook! It’s an e-reader! It’s the enTourage eDGe!

    It’s a netbook! It’s an e-reader! It’s the enTourage eDGe!

    Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Reading e-books on a netbook is a nuisance, right? But e-readers are a pain because they're a single-function device, which means your man-bag gets filled with yet-another-specialty-gadget. Behold the enTourage eDGe: "the world’s first dualbook, combining the functions of an e-reader, netbook, notepad, and audio/video recorder and player in one."

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