You know, with each passing day of not being able to see the Olympics live either how I want on TV or god forbid, stream anything worthwhile, it becomes more and more clear — NBC flat out sucks as a network. Earlier this year they handled the whole Tonight Show/Jay Leno/Conan Obrian fiasco in a less than stellar manner and now they are in the process of making this one of the worst Olympics yet. To say coverage is terrible is a gross understatement. The blatant tape delays until prime time are greed at it’s worst and a complete pain in the ass for those who actually care about the games, as by the time they actually see the tape delayed events, the outcomes of each have been spilled onto the internet in one form or another. But so far, this is all from the viewers perspective. That is until US Skier Jake Zamansky started tweeting of NBC’s shit filled Olympic’s broadcasts as well. Then it got interesting.
Earlier today, Jake Zamansky made a few critical tweets calling out NBC. The tweets were then automatically pulled onto the NBC Olympic website’s live scrolling Twitter feed. Pretty funny stuff huh? Oddly, NBC didn’t feel the same way. Instead, they’ve gone ahead and begun removing any and all negative or critical tweets from Jake Zamansky’s athlete Twitter page — censorship at it’s finest.
Perhaps the saddest part is in the fact that CCTV in China — a government run TV channel in a communist country who routinely takes pride in censoring outside media — has more and better live coverage of the Olympics. What does that say for NBC’s corny “fireside chats” each and every night, recapping old news and Olympic highlights that our hours upon hours old? All of this grief is merely touching on the TV aspect. We haven’t even gotten into the whole live streaming thing yet.
To recap: NBC completely butchers live Olympics coverage for their own personal gain — not in any way to actually broadcast and showcase the games in any sort of way….and they censor the hell out of critics. Awesome! Hopefully NBC doesn’t get their hands on the next Olympics and ruin them too. Then again, they couldn’t suck any more than they do now…
Regardless of your opinion on Windows Mobile, you have to admit that the HTC HD2 — all 4.3″ of it’s glass faced frontal beauty — is a drop dead gorgeous phone. Currently however, US citizens are left without any official channels to pick up a subsidized or even a US version of the device. That’s all set to change in the not too distant future.
A video (below) showing a new “2.0.1″ ROM showcases among other things, a very familiar magenta boot image that goes “Stick Together” — a TMO slogan. And this isn’t the Euro-TMO slogan mind you, but the burly chested American verison.
Without any official confirmation from TMO or HTC, this technically is still nothing more than a rumor. But with a boot image showing a US based GSM carrier in full garb as well as countless other murmurings and rumors that have centered around this very same device and carrier pairing make it a rumor that is hard to discredit.
We can pretty much bet on seeing this soon, 1H 2010 for sure.
While we all can surely appreciate being truly mobile and freeing ourselves of the corded shackles keeping our devices enslaved to the wall, it appears that Europeans are the most appreciative. Berg Insight released a report stating that 11.6% of all data connections were high-speed mobile broadband based. That is, 11.6% of all internet traffic in Europe originated from devices not connected by a hard wire (not just mobile phones, but devices such as computers with USB mobile broadband dongles etc.!
Furthermore, also in Europe, HSPA connected users climbed an astonishing 75% between 2007-2008 while their neighbor across the pond…the U.S. sadly has a much smaller user base of mobile broadband with only 4.5% of national U.S. users using mobile broadband. As you can see, the U.S. has quite a ways to go in terms of mobile broadband penetration. Of course, the U.S. occupies a vastly larger space of above water crust…
Have you ever heard of or seen pictures of the HTC Touch HD? Have you been drooling in anticipation of the HD gracing the American shores? Well droolers…it’s time to get a drool cup because you’re going to be drooling for a while.
According to Boygenius, an insider at HTC has announced via twitted that due to time constraints the HD won’t be released in the US. Apparently, by the time the phone makes it through the FCC and all tests had been run, the Touch HD will be old outdated news. The informant does go on to say that try have other things planned, so there is hope in your future. So it is a sad day for all of you HTC lovers indeed.
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Perhaps the saddest part is in the fact that CCTV in China — a government run TV channel in a communist country who routinely takes pride in censoring outside media — has more and better live coverage of the Olympics. What does that say for NBC’s corny “fireside chats” each and every night, recapping old news and Olympic highlights that our hours upon hours old? All of this grief is merely touching on the TV aspect. We haven’t even gotten into the whole live streaming thing yet.
