Reader Joseph P. asks: I read both of your reviews of the Samsung Rogue and the LG enV Touch. Which camcorder has better video quality? Which phone by Verizon would you say has the best video quality for recording?

Hi Joseph,

Both the Samsung Rogue and the LG enV Touch recorded video at 640-by-480 resolution and performed well in testing. So did the HTC Imagio, although that's a smartphone and requires a different Verizon plan.

It would be tough to split the difference in quality between all three. The LG and HTC Imagio were slightly sharper and more colorful than the Rogue, though the Imagio blew one test by being out of focus the entire time for reasons unknown.

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We're knee-deep in the summer news cycle, which means that the big stories are few and far between. It also means that it's time for our favorite perennial tech rumors to start bubbling up again. Like, say, the long-rumored Apple Tablet, which has since become lovingly known as "the iPad."

We don't know a lot about the device, of course. In fact, we don't actually whether it's actually really a device at all. We've heard tell that it'll have a 10-inch touchscreen, and some speculation about pricing, which has been wildly varied. So we figured, why wait for Apple to let us in on the details? That could take forever.

Let's design on our own device. What would it take to put one of these devices in your hands, come October? Pricing, features, size, whatever. We want to know.

Have you downloaded and installed the new 3.0 software on your original iPhone or iPhone 3G? Were you among those waiting in line to pick up the new iPhone 3G S? Apple has done a pretty good job selling consumers on the advantages of the handset's new software, but as is the case with any new products, there are bound to be some bugs.

If you've experienced any issues with the software--or even if your experience has been flawless--we'd like to hear from you in our comments section. What sort of issues have you run into? Have you been able to resolve them? If so, how?

As we noted in a recent Appscout post, a study conducted by Pew found that roughly 60 percent of Internet users in the U.S. are still using their phones primarily for calls, rather than surfing the Web.

We want to know whether you've made the jump to the small screen for Web surfing. If so, what device are you using? If not, what's stopping you? Answer below, in the comments section.

This question came in from reader Steven Feldman:

Hi, just a question about USB 3.0. I am going to be purchasing a laptop in the next few months... I have been waiting because I want to get a SSD (solid state drive) in the laptop that can hold 256GB minimum for a reasonable price, but that is a story in itself. I have recently been reading about USB 3.0 technology being developed, and if I buy a laptop soon, I don't think I can upgrade it to USB 3.0 from 2.0 without replacing the motherboard.

I read online that products will be coming out for USB 3.0 in Q4 of 2009, but I don't care about the products; what I do care about is when laptops will be able to support the USB 3.0 technology. When are motherboards for laptops going to have USB 3.0 support in them?

See executive editor Jeremy Kaplan's answer after the jump.

Earlier this week, Amazon held an event in midtown Manhattan to launch the long-awaited follow up to its popular Kindle ebook reader. The Kindle 2 features a thinner body, a sharper screen, more hard drive space (2GB, which should hold about 1,500 books), text to speech, and a handful of other new features. Of course the new device also has its pitfalls, including a lack of expandable memory, no color screen, and a still-high $359 price tag. For a full rundown of the device, check out our hands-on preview at PCMag.

So we want to know: Are these upgrades enough to convince you to pick up the Kindle 2? If you already own a Kindle, do you expect to upgrade? If not, what sorts of improvements would Amazon have to make to get you to pick up a Kindle 3?

When the BlackBerry Storm first hit the market, the handset was riddled with technical glitches. Sascha Segan took a look at RIM's first touchscreen handset and was largely disappointed by what he saw: an iPhone competitor, which, thanks to a litany of software glitches, couldn't touch Apple's popular handset.

Last week, after some of the initial smoke had cleared--and software updates had been issued--we asked Storm owners how their handsets were treating them. The answers were mixed, of course, but a lot of them suggested that, while RIM's initial offering was, in fact, rather buggy, the subsequent updates had gone a ways toward smoothing things over.

It's been more than a year since PCMag.com first tested the magicJack, a clever VoIP device that lets you make very cheap phone calls using your PC. We've now retested magicJack in the Labs, and it works--most of the time. If something goes wrong, however, you are pretty much on your own. Just type "magic jack complaints" into Google and you'll see what I mean. I've offered upmy take on the magicJack, but I want to know what Gearlog's readers think.

How many of you have tried magicJack? And how much technical support can you reasonably expect when you buy a $40 USB dongle and hand over just $20 a year for unlimited phone service?

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When Sascha Segan first looked at BlackBerry's first touchscreen phone, he wasn't particularly impressed. While he liked some of the features--particularly the clicking screen and the quick Internet access--he found the Storm to be a lot more buggy than he bargained for.

RIM's CEO acknowledged as much, saying that buggy smartphone OSes are the "new reality." Whether or not you agree with that, it certainly seems to be the case that smartphone manufacturers tend to release products before all the kinks have been ironed out.

Since then, RIM has issued some software fixes for the phone. If you're a BlackBerry Storm owner, we want to know, how is the phone working for you now? Was it buggy when you first got it? Have subsequent updates helped? Let us know in comments.

Ready or not, the House of Representatives today voted to push back the DTV transition. Last week we put the question to an incredibly unscientific vote, asking readers whether or not they thought the American public was ready, if the transition were to go down this month.

The majority of you suggested that such a stall would do more harm than good--that, if America wasn't already ready for the transition, a couple more months wouldn't really do much to help. Still, there were fairly compelling comments on both sides of the argument. Check out a few of them, after the jump.

This question came from reader Andrew:

On your Web site, it mentions that the LG Voyager can be used as a modem, and the best way to do that is with USB. How do you access the Internet [using the Voyager] on a PC? Naturally, I was told that you supposedly are unable to do that. Any help?

My reply after the jump.

One thing seems certain: Any suggested lack of publicity with regards to the transition to digital TV has been addressed--at least temporarily--by the current plethora of coverage surrounding the battle in congress to push the date back from February 17th to June 12th.

The measure failed to get the necessary two-thirds majority in the house earlier today. Of course that doesn't mean that it's completely dead. The measure, which is supported by the new white house administration, may still have some life as a future standard majority vote.

Plenty of tech pundits, like, say, our own Sascha Segan, have made it very clear where they stand on the issue--but we want to know what you think. Is America ready for the transition? Has the government done a good job of getting the word out? Should the bill be pushed back? Let us know in the comments section.

Last week we reported that we were having some issues at our offices while attempting to watch the stream of Barack Obama's historic presidential inauguration. We saw some similar reports floating around the Web and discovered that we weren't alone, so we put out the call on AppScout to find out whether users were having similar issues.

On the whole, it seems, plenty of users were experienced similar slowdowns. David S. reported issues with his attempt to watch the ceremony on Hulu, which was streaming content from Fox. "It started out OK, he wrote. "But about 15 minutes before the swearing in, it started to hang and then the audio and video got out of synch. The video continued to get further and further behind the audio, and was very choppy, the audio was a bit choppy."

Check out more of our reader responses, after the jump.

This question came in from reader Dick:

I seem to remember an article somewhere that said some part of the spectrum being vacated due to the digital TV switchover was to be made available to a new communications service, which would allow people to buy a phone from anyone and use the new spectrum like a wireless internet service open to anyone with the right phone. I seem to recall the Google name was associated with the idea. I haven't anything more about it. Is something like this coming?

See Sascha Segan's answer after the jump.

This question for PC Magazine's lead analyst for printers and scanners, M. David Stone, came from reader Larry:

I have an HP 7130xi, which I bought at Costco several years ago. I don't print on it, and it's not even connected to a PC anymore. I use it for copying and faxing. I made the mistake a couple of years ago of buying a few ink cartridges, figuring I'd never need to buy any more. The other day I started getting messages that the color cartridge had expired, and because of this it wouldn't let me print with black ink. I tried putting in a "new" unopened color cartridge, but this made no difference.

I know this expiration stuff is a scam to make you buy more ink, so I Googled a bit and found a hack where you disconnect the motherboard battery for a bit (by sliding a credit card between it and the clip), and that made the expiration messages go away. But now it's telling me that my cyan print-head is bad. This appears to be a $33.99 item at Staples, and I'm disinclined to replace it, since I never print color with this stupid thing. And even if I replace it, I'm sure it will come up with some other reason why I need to buy more consumables.

If there's no way to make this HP unit behave, is there a good, cheap choice for me purely for very low-volume faxing and copying?

David's answer after the jump.