08-19-2008, 01:38 PM
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Intellectual
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Rocco,
I too am interested to see what Android will bring to the table, but this post brings up another issue that I have been wondering about lately with regards to the "Thoughts" forums in general. I received this post in my RSS Feeds for Digital Home Thoughts, PocketPC Thoughts, SmartPhone Thoughts, and Zune Thoughts. Now interestingly enough when I clicked on each of the "View Article" links it brought me here to SmartPhone Thoughts. What I wanted to know is are you guys now cross-posting to all 4 sites with the link taking us back to the appropriate forum, is there something wrong with my RSS reader (I'm using Outlook 2007), or is there something wrong with your RSS feed?
I have noticed this pattern a lot lately and to be quite frank was seriously considering dropping all my feeds as I have been getting tired of reading the same posts over and over on each site. I signed up with all four as I do have an interest in topics specific to each area. I also realize at times it makes sense for some duplication especially between PocketPC and SmartPhone Thoughts. However, I am hard pressed to see what a mobile phone has to do with a Zune 
Not trying to pick on you, it just so happened that I opened my reader this morning and saw a new post in all 4 feeds and they were all this one.
UPDATE:
After posting my response I noticed that this apparently was posted across all 4 sites as I see it in the "feeds list" at the top of the pages for the other sites. I don't know how others feel about this, but I would like to say to all of you on the Thoughts team please stop. I would much rather have no news than duplication across all 4 sites. Yes, I know I can just delete the duplicates, but it gets old, and lately I have been noticing this is happening a lot more. As I mentioned above, I follow each site for topics specific to them not to see the same article 4 times.
Thanks for considering this and thanks too for all the hard work you all put in on our behalf as I do appreciate it.
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Red Zune80 / HTC Tilt 2 / Nook / iPad 16GB WiFi
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08-19-2008, 03:59 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bleeman
UPDATE:
After posting my response I noticed that this apparently was posted across all 4 sites as I see it in the "feeds list" at the top of the pages for the other sites. I don't know how others feel about this, but I would like to say to all of you on the Thoughts team please stop. I would much rather have no news than duplication across all 4 sites. Yes, I know I can just delete the duplicates, but it gets old, and lately I have been noticing this is happening a lot more. As I mentioned above, I follow each site for topics specific to them not to see the same article 4 times.
Thanks for considering this and thanks too for all the hard work you all put in on our behalf as I do appreciate it.
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There's only one post. The feeds all link to this post.
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08-19-2008, 06:10 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Specs?
The design looks pretty promising. Does anyone know the detailed specs, such as screen resolution, CPU type/speed, Ram/Rom, MicroSDHC?
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08-19-2008, 07:18 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by PdaAddict
The design looks pretty promising. Does anyone know the detailed specs, such as screen resolution, CPU type/speed, Ram/Rom, MicroSDHC?
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This is just the software in an emulator - there's no physical phone here. Android phones are going to be coming from HTC, Motorola, and other phone makers.
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08-19-2008, 07:54 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
This is just the software in an emulator - there's no physical phone here. Android phones are going to be coming from HTC, Motorola, and other phone makers.
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Thanks, Jason. Do you know anything about the HTC Dream specs?
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08-19-2008, 08:24 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by PdaAddict
Thanks, Jason. Do you know anything about the HTC Dream specs?
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Here are some specs I grabbed off of a few different websites:
- 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7201ACPU
- GSM/HSDPA (3.6Mbps)
- 128MB RAM
- 256MB ROM
- Large touchscreen with haptic feedback
- Full QWERTY keypad
- 5 inches long and 3 inches wide
- Keypad that either slides or swivels for easy typing/texting
- Internet navigation controls below the touchscreen display
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08-19-2008, 10:38 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto
Here are some specs I grabbed off of a few different websites:
- 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7201ACPU
- GSM/HSDPA (3.6Mbps)
- 128MB RAM
- 256MB ROM
- Large touchscreen with haptic feedback
- Full QWERTY keypad
- 5 inches long and 3 inches wide
- Keypad that either slides or swivels for easy typing/texting
- Internet navigation controls below the touchscreen display
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Nice! Thanks!
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08-19-2008, 07:58 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
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I read that Google will offer discounts to users that agree to receive adds in their Androide phone. The discounts are against your phone purchase and your service plan.
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08-19-2008, 06:26 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bleeman
...I have been wondering about lately with regards to the "Thoughts" forums in general. I received this post in my RSS Feeds for Digital Home Thoughts, PocketPC Thoughts, SmartPhone Thoughts, and Zune Thoughts. Now interestingly enough when I clicked on each of the "View Article" links it brought me here to SmartPhone Thoughts. What I wanted to know is are you guys now cross-posting to all 4 sites with the link taking us back to the appropriate forum, is there something wrong with my RSS reader (I'm using Outlook 2007), or is there something wrong with your RSS feed?
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You know, when I posted this at 2am I had a valid thought process for why I included it in all of our sites but for the life of me I cannot remember it. I guess this is why you shouldn't work after midnight... or feed magwai. 
To answer your question though our current news posting system allows us to take a central post to one forums, such as this, and hot link it to our sister sites when the post is relevant or we have an announcement that we want everyone to hear.
I understand your frustration with the feeds, I have the same frustration but we have a lot of Thoughts Media users that only parse one site and not all of them so if we only had the item show up no the 'home base' feed and not the other feeds, those users would miss out. I have had an few ideas that could help eliminate this frustration, that I am happy I am not the only one that whom has it, and hopefully I can sit down with Jason and go over those ideas soon.
So I guess what I'm trying to say bleeman is don't give up on the feeds just yet. They problem is fresh in my mind and I'm trying to think of an elegant solution for individual such as ourselves who parse the whole kitchen caboodle.
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Originally Posted by bleeman
Thanks for considering this and thanks too for all the hard work you all put in on our behalf as I do appreciate it.
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And thank you for continuing to come back to our sites. Without our readers us editors wouldn't have much to do
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08-19-2008, 07:17 PM
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Executive Editor
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Originally Posted by bleeman
I received this post in my RSS Feeds for Digital Home Thoughts, PocketPC Thoughts, SmartPhone Thoughts, and Zune Thoughts.
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It's very, very rare that we have something that goes across to all four sites - perhaps something memory-related, or some "big news" that impacts all users. I've changed the post to only show up on Pocket PC Thoughts and Smartphone Thoughts. I'll ask Rocco why his 2 AM brain thought it was on-topic for Digital Home Thoughts and Zune Thoughts.
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Originally Posted by bleeman
After posting my response I noticed that this apparently was posted across all 4 sites as I see it in the "feeds list" at the top of the pages for the other sites. I don't know how others feel about this, but I would like to say to all of you on the Thoughts team please stop. I would much rather have no news than duplication across all 4 sites.
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Bill, you're a long time reader, and I respect your opinion, but don't you think you're overreacting just a little bit? If you happen to see the same headline more than once, all you have to do it click onto the next item - it's not like you have to stop to read it. Although you mentioned deleting your RSS posts, so it seems like you're managing them like email - which isn't usually the way RSS is managed. We'll try to keep the duplicate posts under control, but given how rare they are, I think you're protesting just a wee bit too much. 
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