monkey business. our only business.
Utterly, utterly bizarre, though I wonder if anyone has ever ordered a whole box of 100? Patrick Bateman perhaps,?
Custom Gold business card by Mitsubishi
What better way to impress am important guest or potential partner than to hand him your business card…coated in a gram of pure gold?
[From Lifestyle - Custom Gold business card by Mitsubishi - Japan Trend Shop]
So after my comment yesterday on the crappy looking hardware that is the G1, Mashable present a fair comparison of the iPhone to the G1:
What most people seem to forget here is that iPhone is one, while the Android will be many. G1 is just the first of many different phones that will be inhabited by Google’s mobile platform, Android. It may not have multitouch functionality, as noted in Gizmodo’s most recent list of grievances, but that’s because the device itself does not support it. But some other device will.
I think…. as I still haven’t purchased and iPhone… I may actually go for an android device, the openness appeals tome. Android on and n96 maybe, that would rock.
Uh…. am I the only one that thinks the G1… and I’m talking the hardware, looks, well, a bit shit? It’s just a standard looking windows mobile HTC brick, but with android in it. They could have a least made a bit of an effort.
Sometimes the incompetence of the people at Sony staggers me:
Ghostbusters goes digital
An amazing sounding Technology Mall in Shenzhen, China. Photos here. Ooh look, there are some videos on You Tube too, it looks awsome, if you’re that way inclined. Also check out the bizarre cross shaped MP3 players in this picture
As I first step foot into the building, I am assaulted by a whirlwind of electronic components. Tapes and reels of resistors and capacitors, ICs of every type, inductors, relays, pogo pin test points, voltmeters, trays of memories, all crammed into tiny six-by-three foot booths with a storekeeper poking away at a laptop, sometimes playing Go, sometimes counting parts. Some booths are true mom-and-pop shops, with mothers tending to babies and kids playing in the aisles.
[From bunnie’s blog » Blog Archive » Akihabara, Eat Your Heart Out]
See my review below . It sucks. kthnxbai
So over the next few weeks I’ll be reviewing O2 Mobile Broadband on my Mac. Initial impressions are ok, though as I haven’t actually left the office yet I’m only getting GPRS speeds I think. Anyway if anyone is interested the modem supplied is a Novatel mc930D which will support download speeds over HSDPA/HSUPA up to 7.2mb…. when O2 get round to rolling it out. As per usual the instructions supplied are ok, however I found the actual Novatel product support page more useful. Will also try it under XP / VM Ware on the Mac using the O2 Connection Manager.
Update 1: So all I can get anywhere is GPRS….
Update 2: So no 3G anywhere in London or down the M4 corridor or Mid Wales. Spoke to tech support in wales to try and get it sorted. When he worked out that there was nothing he could really do to help, he told me that ‘Wi-Fi coverage was good in that area’? Wi-Fi coverage? Really? Anyway……
Back in London… went to Carphone Warehouse… Me: ‘This O2 mobile broadband you sold me… it’s shit’ CPW Manager ‘Right… what do you want me to do about it?’…. anyway. Got onto O2 Tech support again ‘Oh you need to put it into a PC and change the configuration’… me: ‘But I’m using a Mac’…. fuckwits.
Anyway, the long and the short of it. I tried it on various Mac’s. Mac’s running VM Ware / XP. Mac’s running Parallels / XP. Even uh fucking PC PC running fucking XP…… nothing ….. nada….. no 3G. GPRS only.
Took it back to the shop. Exchanged it. Now using a 3 dongle which is working beautifully (review to follow) thank you very much.
The moral of the story:
Dr Mr O2 Product Manager For Mobile Broadband: If you are going to support Mac’s, make sure you do, cos most Mac owners work in Marketing / Advertising / The Internet etc…. most of us have blogs etc. That means that we will probably write about our shite experiences of your products and tell people not to buy them. Oh look I just did… sigh.
“As with other HULGER products, The PLUMEN low energy light bulb prototype is a reaction to the lack of real diversity, imagination and personality offered by the market today”…. I like this idea, and as Nick points out, most long life light bulbs are pig ugly, these however would look quite nice sans shade hanging from your ceilings.
I have to say though, PLUMEN is what I would term and ‘IKEA ready’ name, but perhaps that’s a good thing.
(photo pinched from www.plumen.com)
Um….. can’t quite get Second Life to work (you know, for research purposes), on a brand new Mac Book Pro 15″ (the higher end model of the two). Basically if my avatar starts walking, after a while, he wont stop, as if the keys / mouse are stuck. Any ideas? can’t find anything about this anywhere?…
So my other half is in the market for a new laptop. She asked me what she said get. I said “a Mac Book Pro”. She said “A Mac? They’re like, rubbish!” (well something like that anyway). I said “no they’re not”. Anyway she was thinking about buying a Vaio, until someone came into her office the other day and said they’d “wished they’d bought a Mac Book Pro instead cos the Vaio kept crashing”, which made her re-think. So as she obviously doesn’t believe a bloody word I say, I wondered if you’d help me gang up on her and leave a comment her explaining why a Mac Book Pro is better than a Vaio. Mean I know, but if she wont believe me…
AppleInsider | Unofficial Mac tablet draws record crowd at Macworld (high-res photos)
“Axiotron, Inc., together with distribution partner Other World Computing, is drawing huge crowds at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco this week, as attendees flock to take its new Mac OS X-based “ModBook” tablet computer for a test run.”
Breasts really are honestly better for you than Apple Inc branded products. Trust me, I’m a doctor.
Mandy - SkyCam, originally uploaded by merkley???.
So Apple have done what they have done well…. hype…. everyone has posted a fucking picture of it or wrote about it like a daft bugger (me included).
But more thoughts….
1) Doesn’t it look like a PSP with the buttons cut off?
2) Oooooh isn’t it shiny… like a PSP? But ooooh…. wont it arf get scratched after a month in your pocket and all that prodding?
3) As JG says where’s the 3G and 5mp camera with a decent lens?
4) Actually it’s just like a Treo… or iPaq…. with a grooooooooovier interface
5) No really it is just a smart phone.
6) Uh…. 4 or 8 gig…. fuck’s sake. Is that the best you can do?
7) So if you’re not going to whack a 60gb hd in it, where’s the expansion slot?
8) Actually it appears to be a bit of a shiny all in one jack off all master of none device…. uh like an iPaq of Treo… just shinier.
9) Oh… can I run a Blackberry or exchange client on it?
10) OOOh but isn’t it shiny, can I have one?
So in summary without actually having seen the bugger…. very very very nice looking ui with some nice clever haptic stuff, but actually looks just like a smart phone…. just shinier.
So my first questions are: Will Apple sell it SIM free i.e. unlocked, or will it be sold tied to a network, or will it be sold via the networks? How the hell does ‘ear recognition’ work? Is it certified to run Doom?
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