Alex

Um. Most police I see drive while talking on the phone. Who is going to enforce this and why doesn't this include police officers?

I love the the interviewing --- nice job trying to get the release date there at the end lol

All of you commenter's are taking this post (and probably life in general) FARR too seriously and are really sippin that troll juice pretty hard. I really think you guys are hating so hard because you're all jealous of the Engadget bloggers who have one of the nicest jobs out there. Subconciously you all believe you'd be better for the job and so somehow putting down their comments makes you feel smarter and closer replacing them. You are secretly hoping you're negativity will be somehow hopefully noticed by the higher ups and in response the bloggers will be terminated for being fanboys (like just about everyone else.) Next you hope that the genius who succeeded in the tremendously difficult task of noticing a biased post will be given a job in their place. From then on you will take your honorable place praising the unpopular and routing for the underdog while the majority of the population who owns the hot thing and doesn't give a damn stops reading your posts. Bottom line is this, negativity is just too easy.

I do have a recommendation for engadget; somehow mark highly opinionated posts as editorials and you will be able to tell all the haters to STFU. It'd be as easy titling the post like this: "Editorial: Resist Resistive touchscreens, for they are the devil's doing"

capacitative is THE THING right now -- even HTC produces mostly phone with the tech.

The reason it seems like its a cost cutting measure is because they're using the android platform and seem to expect that the average consumer will be unaware of the difference in screen tech. Market the resistive screen as a feature and it'd be a different story. No pen is really dumb too and furthers my previous point.

As an upside, I'd really like to see a highly accurate handwriting recognition area (that would slide onto the screen at any time - similar to the on-screen keyboards.) That would actually be something thats not being done and would probably allow for much faster text input than capacitative (not to mention tapping into a huge niche thats unfilled by current smartphones.)

Down with hate, up with debate.

What a joke. Are they kidding?

Great marketing:
Ninja Gaiden, Now with LESS violence!!!

any posts about my iphone's current firmware version being jailbroken!

sandbox

tap A to run.

I truly believe battlefield is the best FPS from our current generation. Beats Halo (technologically) hands down. I want to see the frostbite engine exploited more. (And no more mirrors edge tech demo vomit inducing BS DICE please! Points for creativity but that game really kinda sucked.)

I feel like bad company spoiled me with its destructible environments. Now whenever I play any other FPS I'm always thinking how last gen it is that I can't level a block. COD especially needs to get with it. COD:WaW kinda sucked unless you weren't yet tired of playing COD:MW.

Anyways this is great news. Mass effect 2 will probably really be awesome this time around.

Does anyone agree with me when I say that announcing DLC prior to a games initial launch is horrible for PR. I feel like the publishers aren't listening to the feedback from their market on this one.

Mutually exclusive list of scenarios leading to the release of DLC:
1) Game is popular (apparently unexpectedly) and so it makes sense to contract with the developer for addition DLC. (This is really the only noble presentation and this is the way it should appear to gamers. The handling of GTAIV's DLC is the only game I can think of that has pulled this off. Maybe Halo.)
2) Game is rushed to the public so planned features are not ready for release. DLC then becomes what should really just be a title update - except people have to pay for it. (This is the way it is appearing and its probably really limiting the popularity of DLC)
3) Game has features ready for release but are purposely left out with the intention of later being released. (This is the most obviously messed up thing to do and like #2 is probably really messing up the popularity of this feature.)

Far too many of these games are coming off as 2 & 3. I think it has lots to do with the timing of the announcement. The phrase "Planned DLC" should be a bit of jargon that needs to be avoided by those handling marketing and PR for these firms. And fellow Mkt/PR professionals out there who agree with me that video game publishers have got this all wrong??? I think I'm going to do some independent research on this topic and see if I can sell my work to EA.

I second that. After using it for a while now If find the new interface annoying and I actually find it much more difficult to find what I'm looking for.

Another thing, some old themes do not really work with the new interface as promised. Any theme that uses light colors in the upper half of the screen will make the menu difficult to see. Customizable colors for the win... honestly more customization in general would have been the direction to go in...

Oh and in reference to this post, that design looks a bit more creative...