Posts by Alex Walsh

Who makes the tellies for them? Presumably it's just a rebadge of an existing telly? I suppose they're looking to make a profit by selling massively expensive warranties?

Samsung Galaxy SII?

This is free/£99 on a lot of contracts now and benchmarks pretty identically. Is the Motorola different enough to justify the extra cost?

Nice bit of investigative journalism there. Try not to let it happen again or we might get unrealistic expectations.

"For you Kirk, zee Trek is over."

*pistol whipping*

Although I imagine he managed to find a well dressed German Fräulein to get jiggy with first.

Flex

I've had a play with a few of the tested tablets on the high street and the one thing that astonished me about most of them (HTC Flyer and Asus Transformer aside) was the lack of rigidity in them, especially compared to an iPad. Hand on each side, there's a good deal of twist in most of them, which on a £300+ product doesn't inspire confidence at all.

Power consumption

There's no power hit on doubling the cores to 4, if I remember some slides from an ARM presentation correctly.

How much?

RRP of £40?

hahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

open source?

Why not try oxwall now?

heh

So the clear market leader for the past two generations with the strongest brand name in consoles with Playstation, has *almost* caught up with the upstart? I'm _sure_ that must have Sony rejoicing.

My love for Playstations has been on a steady decline since the original machine mind you.

Backend infastructure spend shouldn't affect profit, it's capital expenditure. So the figures are even worse than you've suggested. Unless they've written the cost off, which is even worse :)

typical sony

They wait and wait and wait and then slavishly follow all the issues that have stopped Android tablets really competing with the iPad. Proprietary ports? A price scheme identical to the iPad? We all saw what that did to the Motorola Xoom didn't we?

*sigh*

Nice to see you take me up on the headline I suggested via twitter, shame you forgot to credit me :)

Why?

ARM's business model means they make money, but not a mad amount of money. And the skill is obviously in the staff, not the company. Intel have probably spent more trying to compete than they'd need to spend buying either ARM or it's staff many times over.

I understood Sony BMG Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, EMI and Merlin between them own around 18% of the share capital in spotify? Unless it's changed since the early issue back in 2008.

IMHO that alters things as little as Spotify should be seen more as a platform rather than an application in it's own right. It exists to stop punters paying their money to Apple or pirating, probably in that order :)

owners?

Aren't Spotify's major shareholders the record labels? Dividends aren't tax deductable but inflated licenses are...

3m?

That's not underwater, that's splashproof. depth is sorted by pressure isn't it? Moving the thing underwater will generate more pressure than holding it still, so you'll be lucky with a puddle. Get an proper enclosure for your existing camera.

Running scared

After the comical launch of the 4S yesterday, which is basically a fix version of the iPhone 4, fixing all the faults and bringing it up to spec with where other smartphones were a few months ago, Apple must be redoubling their efforts to stop better products reaching the market.

I laughed when I saw some apologists saying that £99/$99 for an iPhone 4 on a two year contract was a great deal now the 4S has been announced, tempting the 3GS owners (like me) to upgrade on the cheap. Why would I want an iPhone 4 though? It will be almost 3 iterations out of date by the time a 2 year contract runs out.

wifi

The only thing I've ever used the wifi for involved using my hacked PSP as a XBMC remote :-)

Still too expensive IMHO. Needs to be £70-£80

any payments not received back

should be reported to the police (Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)) under the money laundering act. Overpayments where the recipient has been informed of the error are treated as handling of stolen goods/money laundering under UK law and have been for several years now.

Hardly a bargain

You can pick a 4gig Xbox 360 up for around the £100 mark. If you don't do installs, that's just about adequate.

if the 3 mifi is anything to go by

then we could be in for some well made devices. I love my mifi, really well built imho.

Heello

Signed up and had a play around after reading this. Lordy it's slow. They reckon 100,000 sign ups a day atm but the only way to find people is through search, the What's Happening tab is disabled (so you can't see what everyone is pinging) due to server load issues.

Feels very slow and lonely atm :)

Nice to see

...highly paid analysts agreeing with what people on gaming forums have been saying since details were announced in January.

NHS rant

I think it was the NHS rant she did the other week, where she complained bitterly that the local NHS doctors surgery wouldn't let her queue jump for Hep A and Hep B jabs the day before her trip to Somalia that bought the insane old harridan to the attention of those of us normal enough to never venture to the Daily Mail's website.

Good work though. I'm sure a lot of other celebs would see the joke and match the donations, so how about it Liz?

when

..is this glut of cheap Acer products due on our shores? I'm in need of a new lappy but have put off buying one until this fabled chalice of discount goodness comes our way...

Wising up

People no longer want to pay a couple of hundred pounds for a handheld and then 40 quid for a game on it.

It's the curse of the Apple 59p game. The number of kids I've seen playing stuff on iPod Touches recently when in the past it's been a Nintendo DS of some sort is frightening.

RAM

I was reading on a dev's blog last week, that the RAM has already been cut on the Vita. If they've not started manufacturing yet, that doesn't leave them very long does it?

wait

Didn't you run this article a couple of weeks ago???

Unlikely

Unless it's a new version of the PS3 with motion control, I doubt that Sony could actually afford to develop and release a new console at the moment. They've taken a massive hammering financially recently and it's always been the perceived wisdom that the way for MS to beat them at the console game would be to accelerate the life cycle.

Monster!

It's always made me laugh. A digital signal is either received or not received, as I'm all too aware when it's pissing down on our exposed sat dish. paying £100+ for a HDMI cable is the modern equivalent of being gulled by a snake oil seller.

The only downside of cheapo cables are their propensity to fall to bits, which puts them in the not receiving category imho.

To quote The Stark House motto

From Game of Thrones, which has just finished it's first series on HBO (and has a new book coming out next month):

"Winter is coming".

Time to re watch the training manual that is The Day After Tomorrow then.

the real next gen

wont begin until Sony tells us?

Sorry, nobody is going to fall for that again.

sorry to rock the boat but

my TV has 3 HDMI sockets. Currently my boxee box, xbox 360 and BD player take them all up. If I want to plug my HD camcorder in, I have to unplug one.

HDMI splitters are expensive and a lot of them don't autoswitch, meaning you have to fiddle with yet another tiny remote. Put more functionality into one box, and save me a HDMI slot dammit Nintendo!