Posted by Matt on September 24th, 2008
What does it have going for it?
- It has a nipple!
It’s not a real one, it’s a roller-ball style navigation like the traditional Blackberry Pearl. OK, so having a touchscreen is supposed to make this kind of thing obsolete, but if you’re not used to touch then a nipple can make navigation a lot simpler.
- Web-kit based browser.
Just like apple’s Safari Surfing the net is going to be fast, but just like the iPhone there’s no flash support yet.
- Push email for gmail
It’s push email for the masses, as soon as you get a mail it gets received by your phone – and you don’t need a Microsoft Exchange server.
- It’s the shape of things to come!
Jump onto the bandwagon, and be one of the first to experience a phone with a Google OS.
- 3.2 mega-pixel camera.
Ok, lets be honest – it’s nothing special, especially as phones are around with 5 mega-pixels, but it’s still a higher resolution than the iPhone’s
- Memory card expansion slot
It’s not innovative, but it means that unlike the iPhone you wont have to worry about all those applications using up your storage space.
- Digital Compass as well as GPS
Real innovation here – it means there’s plenty of scope for navigational applications which orientate their maps directly to the way your facing.
- Open Platform
Unrestricted applications, you can download what you want, when you want.
Let’s be honest – here’s what you’re really going to hate…
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Posted by Matt on September 13th, 2008
Because sometimes you need a change.
As you can see I’ve changed my theme around a bit, It’s always good to do one in a while anyway. But I was looking at a few Wordpress themes, Googling, and hunting around – I came across this free one, I really fell in love with the ‘not just another blog’ style of it – It’s Aeros designed by Joe Fischler at thebuckmaker.com. He’s got some great themes that stand out, I particularly like the Fire and ice theme too, but you’ll can go to his website to check them out – He also offers custom design on request.
I’m going to change the background from the default one to a rural one that’s a little more local to where I live when I get a nice sunny day. It’s been an endless summer of rain, and clouds so I haven’t had much luck in getting good pictures recently.
Posted by Matt on September 9th, 2008
In a week where Will Wright’s long awaited Spore was scheduled to be no.1 after years of development, and weeks of UK TV campaigning it was the game from Pandemic Studios that hit the top slot.
Giving away free petrol in the middle of London during rush hour is bound to cause a stir, Gridlock ensued after the Last Stop’ garage in Finsbury Park started the hand-outs, with customers served by Mercenaries look-alike characters. Word spread like wildfire, complete Gridlock, led to massive online coverage which only increased traffic, followed up the next day by newspaper coverage about the stunt mainly about how irresponsible it was (by those in authority, thus appealing even more to the games target market). To Ease congestion the organisers shut down the offer after 5 hours, at just over halfway through the £20,000 giveaway.
Pretty much every UK national paper covered this story, as well as UK TV stations, blogs and gaming press.
For less than the price of a tanker full of fuel EA managed to get hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of publicity for the game, and additional Kudos with the anti-establishment crowd.
Click the links below to link to their EA related articles.
Job Done! – Just for the record here is the current UK top 10 games charts for the week ending September 6th.
The top 10 games chart is as below
- 1. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
- 2. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
- 3. Spore
- 4. Wii Fit
- 5. Carnival: Funfair Games
- 6. Mario Kart Wii
- 7. Wii Play
- 8. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
- 9. Big Beach Sports
- 10. Wall-E
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