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ASUS’ Transformer Pad was tucked in beneath the Transformer Prime in the company’s range of hybrid Android tablets. The only problem however, was that the company forgot to really differentiate the two — with only a few hours less battery life the real distinction. But how has it been for you to live with? Did you get used to its slightly fiddly keyboard, have you been as smitten with it as our reviewer? Step into Jonney Shih’s shoes and tell us what you’d suggest he does differently when next year’s model comes out.

Filed under: Laptops, Tablets, ASUS

How Would you Change ASUS’ Transformer Pad TF300? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Let’s imagine you shunned purchasing a Lumia 900 in favor of HTC’s Titan II, the company’s final Windows Phone handset before its colorful reinvention. You were probably drawn to that 16-megapixel camera, but given the tight restrictions imposed by the operating system, there’s little else to separate it from its kin. The question is, what would you have done differently? How Would You Change asks you to share what you’d wanna see, should the company ever build the Titan III.

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, HTC

How would you change HTC’s Titan II? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Flagship phones are tricky customers when it comes to How Would You Change. Often, they’re handsets that have every feature thrown against the wall as companies see what sticks with customers. Hovering on the blistering edge of technology, it would seem there’s very few things wrong with (staff favorite) the HTC One X — although perhaps that makes any glaring that more notable. What we’d like you to do is place yourself in the position of HTC’s design mavens and work out what omission they could or should address when it comes time for a sequel.

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile

How would you change the HTC One X? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Few products make everyone here at Engadget quite as giddy with excitement as Lytro’s light-field camera. Given how regularly we need to photograph things, we were desperate to know if this was going to revolutionize the way we snapped pictures. It had more than a few things going for it, innovative product design, great engineering, it was fast, responsive and had a great UI. However, the pictures themselves were of a low resolution, and the depth-of-field trickery only works with extreme close-up-and-background shots where you can mess around with your bokkeh. As nice as it is in theory (and practice, on a well-lit day), it’s certainly not going to replace your DSLR any time soon — but given that the company’s presumably working on version 2.0 of the device, what would you suggest they tweak?

Filed under: Cameras

How would you change the Lytro? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Canon’s brutally designed PowerShot G1 X eschews flowing lines for angular, boxy lines that may only appeal to fans of Le Corbusier and The Smithsons. However, that harsh body covers a camera aiming to bring DSLR performance in the body of a compact. There are sacrifices, however — the optical viewfinder is useless, low-light performance isn’t good enough and it’s got a high price tag. Despite its failings, it managed to win over the heart of our reviewer when shooting pictures in good light. If you own one of these, how do you find it? Could you use it instead of a DSLR, or was the project misguided from the start? Let us know, in the comments below.

Filed under: Digital Cameras

How would you change Canon’s PowerShot G1 X? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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