September 2, 2010 | MP3 Players |
The mighty Apple yesterday, at the first official live-streamed event, ever, well and truly rev'd their entire iPod range. The maestro of superlatives, Steve Jobs, sporting a re-designed turtle-neck (imagine the hallway convo...Jony Ive sees Steve, and opens with, "Dude. Your turtle-neck design. I'm not feeling it...." The rest is history...) was on top form, and little wonder. The new range looks superb, and features many of the ...
August 18, 2010 | Cellular |
Smart-phones are cool. Smart-phones change the way you interact with the web and online services, completely. Social services like Twitter and Facebook and FourSquare, are simply elevated to a whole new level, when you have a smart-phone in your hand. Add a great camera and GPS into the mix, and the smart-phone, for many, becomes almost all the personal computer you'll ever need. But, there's a downside. At least here ...
August 9, 2010 | Digital Lifestyle |
Vodacom made the news again last week, happily, for some good, innovative-tech reasons. Seems like when Multichoice launched DStv Mobile last month, and we assumed this would be the replacement for the much-unloved and uncared for Vodaphone Live! based Mobile TV product, we might have been a tad hasty. To be fair, Vodacom HAD said that the Vodafone live! SKU would be retired, back in March, and they ...
August 8, 2010 | Digital Lifestyle |
We have smart-phones, smart-cars, and now? We even have smart-pens! And what, may you ask, does a smart-pen do? Does it magically correct embarrassing typo's? Can it smoothly convert doctor-script into elegant Monotype Corsiva? No, it's even better than those (undeniable awesome) ideas. The Pulse smart-pen records everything you hear, say and write, and links your audio recordings to your notes. so, when you review your notes by touching the ...
July 27, 2010 | Cellular |
My real-life introduction to AMOLED*, on a friend's shiny new HTC Desire, would not make for reproduction here. Sadly. It was a doozy. The display is just so...bright, and clear and vibrant, and, well, gob-smackingly beautiful, it scores a 12/10 on the first-impressions scale.
Unfortunately, that's not the whole story. The promises of absurd viewing-angles, and ultra-low power consumption, are not quite all they were made out to be. ...