After seeing some Rachel vids, I’m feeling a little artsy. So how about something for the BlackBerry folk? This latest theme to come out of Elecite has a rather unique color switching feature built directly into the theme. At the click of a button, you can switch between Black, White, Red, or Blue color schemes giving Shell a cool trick that other themes can’t claim as their own — for now. Those who can’t make up their mind as to what icons should inhabit their main screen can be at ease. The count stands at 4 dedicated, user-customizable homescreen icons with 9 more hidden icons on deck ready for action. Pretty much any device running OS 4.6+ will work. As usual, $6.99 is all that separates this theme from your Berry. And you certainly wouldn’t want to hold your Berry’s image back now would you? I didn’t think so.
Ya, this is one of those times where I just need to keep words to a minimum and let the video do it’s thing. In case you can’t see the movie, in short: these leaked conceptual demos of Sony’s “Rachel” UI are stunning and give Android’s pathetic stock media capabilities a kick in the digital groin. So much so I would even compare these as good or better than the iPhone. I love the iPhone’s media capabilities and perhaps it could just be that I’m tired of seeing the same thing attempted on so man competitors and this new, unique UI has my captivated. Quite possible indeed. All I know is I want it — bad. Sony, don’t f this up. Please. Bring this to market and you will have a winner!
The layout Sony uses is very Zune-like. Personally, I like it a lot. The latest Zune has a stunning interface so a direct comparison is actually a good thing. The navigation is quickly discernible as vastly different than anything Apple. Every little part of Rachel shows that Sony has truly put in some wrench time. Even small things like transitions between pictures is well done. The fade out, move, fade in effect is a nice detour from Apple’s more common, simple swipe. I really could go on, but I said this would be short. So another movie is in order. Gaze on…
No it’s not a stroke or play on a stroke. What it is, is a highly addicting game. The concept is simple: navigate your orb around and avoid the growing number of multi-color “hater” orbs coming at it. The developer ties the game in with a theory that the human mind can only track up to 8 things at once. Is it true? I spent some time on dear friend Google and saw varying numbers from 5-20 and so on. I think it’s highly subjective and varies form person to person. Science theory aside, the game is awesome. One that will keep you busy for multiple hours with 15 different levels featuring increasingly difficult gameplay.
One helpful feature is the ability to rewind a few seconds back in time. Playing a game for an extended period of time and getting to the last level only to come this close to winning and ultimately have our victory cut short is both a pain and frustrating. The rewind feature allows us to redo our small mistakes. A valuable feature for sure. It’s only $0.99 and will keep you busy longer than many games 2x-3x as much. Think it’s worth a shot?
As sad as it is, I don’t have a pimped out gaming PC. I’ve lusted for one for years. I don’t have a preference as to pre-built or custom though I know custom is the way to go for us picky folks. Still, other things keep getting in the way. In the world of gaming PC’s, the gamers #1 concern is a big burly graphics card. One that will move pixel based mountains and pwn Crisis framerates like a champ. Once such card that could be capable of such has so graciously allowed itself to be snapped is the Radeon HD 5870 X2. Mind you this is an early engineering sample of the card. Regardless, all you need to concern yourself with is the size of this card. It’s huge. 13.5″ huge to be exact. Really nothing else to say. Just sit back and stare. (Don’t stare with your mouth open though. Then you just look dumb…)
Seeing a headline mentioning anything geeky or tech based being banned often conjures up initial reactions of malice and disgust as such governments and government bodies that do such things do so for their own agenda — not the citizens’. With that in mind, hold off on any initial feelings you may have when hearing that the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has banned prepaid cellphones in Kashmir and declared that any existing SIM cards with such plans not be renewed. Again, it’s deeper than it appears on the surface.
You may be thinking that the reason for such a band would be the government trying to muscle out competition with their own proprietary format/spec/cash cow. But that isn’t the case at all. The Ministry cites “security concerns” as the reason for the kibosh. Heck, even the vague and often misused term “security concerns” can be seen as a front for a deeper issue.
However, it is a legitimate concern as according to the Ministry, security checks and other procedures are not being properly followed leading to users getting multiple connections and carriers and cellular providers taking advantage of said customers. Plus it doesn’t help that Kashmir and Jammu lie on a heavily turbulent boundary line with Pakistan. Naturally terrorists and those that aren’t so friendly prefer prepaid, month-to-month deals as….well…they probably won’t be around to see the life of a multi-year contract. Now the reasons become more clear. Don’t they?
Just because here in America we are use to carriers and the government sticking up for big business pockets doesn’t mean every government follows suit. Any Indiana readers care to chime in on the pro’s and con’s of living with such a rule?
Choosing a new smartphone in the current market is quite the challenge. You have the iPhone, a number of Android devices, the Palm Pre, countless WinMo units, and very, very soon the Droid. If you know a little something about the industry, you probably already know the most obvious differences between the devices, the manufacturers of said devices, and the environments those devices and manufacturers live in. What exactly do I mean? Look at the iPhone and Apple. They’re pumping out one model/year. Palm ups the ante though if we take their current pace and figure a whole year, we’re looking at 2-4 devices year. Android ups that number even more with projections for next year looking like 20+. And of course we have Windows Mobile with just as many if not more device launches each year with many manufacturers. As you can see, peoples’ perception of “quality” and hype get’s higher as you see the platforms making less separate physical units per year.
Now before we go to deep and get entangled in a web of confusion, we must point out that while each platform appears to be the deciding factor tied to a “less is more” philosophy, the real focus is even more specific — all of the way down to the manufacturer level. So before we go on, I’ll ask two million dollar questions:
Can Motorola really push out 20+ Droid quality handsets in one year when it took them so long to get 1 Droid over many years?
If they do succeed, will they effectively water down the Droid series and destroy it much like they did with the Razr line and styling?
Is Google going buttonless? That’s what the picture above and various comments via Twitter/blogosphere seem to suggest. This new layout cropping up does away with the standard “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” buttons and instead incorporates some simple text that states “Press Enter to Search”. Why would such a design be implemented? Beats me. I don’t see any logical nor aesthetic reason.
So far, the only affected users are reporting it on Windows machines using Firefox. Weird to say the least. Have you experienced this covert testing Google is apparently doing?
Somehow, somewhere, someone thought I knew a thing or two about mobile devices. Take a minute or two to check out Freescale's Smart Mobile Device Pundit 2012. There's some pretty big names on there and some awesome people. Not to worry. I won't judge you if you vote for someone else.
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As sad as it is, I don’t have a pimped out gaming PC. I’ve lusted for one for years. I don’t have a preference as to pre-built or custom though I know custom is the way to go for us picky folks. Still, other things keep getting in the way. In the world of gaming PC’s, the gamers #1 concern is a big burly graphics card. One that will move pixel based mountains and pwn Crisis framerates like a champ. Once such card that could be capable of such has so graciously allowed itself to be snapped is the Radeon HD 5870 X2. Mind you this is an early engineering sample of the card. Regardless, all you need to concern yourself with is the size of this card. It’s huge. 13.5″ huge to be exact. Really nothing else to say. Just sit back and stare. (Don’t stare with your mouth open though. Then you just look dumb…)
Choosing a new smartphone in the current market is quite the challenge. You have the iPhone, a number of Android devices, the Palm Pre, countless WinMo units, and very, very soon the Droid. If you know a little something about the industry, you probably already know the most obvious differences between the devices, the manufacturers of said devices, and the environments those devices and manufacturers live in. What exactly do I mean? Look at the iPhone and Apple. They’re pumping out one model/year. Palm ups the ante though if we take their current pace and figure a whole year, we’re looking at 2-4 devices year. Android ups that number even more with projections for next year looking like 20+. And of course we have Windows Mobile with just as many if not more device launches each year with many manufacturers. As you can see, peoples’ perception of “quality” and hype get’s higher as you see the platforms making less separate physical units per year. 
