Sony Ericsson were once one of the most popular handset makers in the world. They had a long string of hit after hit, culminating with the (still superb) Sony Ericsson K800i. With the still-growing popularity of the Walkman series of phones, they’re one of the best-known feature phone manufacturers in Europe. However, is all of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2009’
8 Sep
Throwaway Tech?
They just don’t make stuff like they used to…
In this day and age, our lives are becoming increasingly integrated with our technology: 3G internet, the Smartphone boom (arguably catalysed by the iPhone and other similar touch-screen devices), ultraportable notebooks and netbooks, and the beginnings of cloud computing to name but a few. Even televisions can [...]
3 Sep
T-Mobile has Pulse
I was surprised to find this morning that there’s a third Android handset making its way to T-Mobile. T-Mobile UK’s official twitter page posted a tweet about an upcoming handset called the Pulse (below)
It’s the first Android handset on T-Mobile to be produced by a manufacturer other than HTC. Instead the Pulse is being built [...]
18 Aug
So THAT’S where old dashboards go…
Sony today announced (well, confirmed what everyone knew already) its new iteration of the Sony PS3. It’s supposedly slimmer than the original black monolith, so they went with the name ‘PS3 Slim’. Original.
My thoughts? Well to put it into a single word: Fugly. I don’t like the matt plastic, there’s no longer any chrome trim, [...]
12 Aug
Developer Opression? There’s an App Store for that
The Apple App Store. Quite possibly the main reason the iPhone is outselling most of the competition. Over 50,000 Applications, with over 1 billion downloads since it launched last July. It’s quite simple to develop applications for the iPhone, as Apple supply an SDK. You can upload whatever you want to the App Store, but [...]
8 Jan
Macworld 2009? What a letdown. Still…
Let’s face it, we knew Macworld 2009 wasn’t going to stop the earth revolving as soon as we discovered Steve Jobs wasn’t going to be presenting the Keynote. Obviously he felt Peter Schiller wasn’t ready to handle anything massive, so they just presented iLife and iWork ‘09, iTunes to go DRM-free and 3G downloads on [...]
