This is brilliant:
Seeing as I’ll be driving past Newport tomorrow, I’ll be sure to be singing along to this.
Category: General
An Apple iPad from Wikipedia
The day after it came out, I had a play around with it in the new Best Buy store in Southampton. As an iPhone owner – after quite some time of resisting – it was nice and easy to get to grips witht the tablet offering from Apple. I could quite easily see myself sitting on the couch with one browsing various sites while not really paying attention to the TV. In essence, I could see it filling the gap that never really existed between my (Windows) laptop and my mobile.
But, what I don’t get is how you can possibly justify the price tag, bearing in mind what it does – or rather, what little it does, pound for pound. I can have a quick gander at news websites on my iPhone. If I want to watch video, I’ll do it on my laptop or Playstation 3. If I want to quickly check my email, my phone will let me quickly do so, while I can clean out my inbox using the computer.
The few brief minutes I had messing around with the Apple iPad proved that it is very good at what it does. Very good. Did it convince me it was worth it? Erm, no. Far from it. I’m sure if I would one I would love and cherish it – the sort of reaction all Apple products seem to provoke for some reason or another (although I think my 3GS is far from perfect, by any stretch of the imagination). The basic iPad, at £430 can only do a fraction of what my three-and-a-half year old, £500 Compaq laptop can.
I’m interested what the incoming tablets from other manufacturers bring. The apparent cancellation of the Microsoft Courier is a blow, as that genuinely looked like something new and different. HP’s Slate looks like it may also be around the £500 point, which will more than likely put me off. So I guess we wait and see what the Android family comes up with.
I’m really not too sure how I’d cope with this. A practical joke played on by your girlfriend, your boss, national media AND a beer company? Harsh.
Without doubt, the Nokia N97 is the worst phone I have ever had the misfortune to own. On paper, it seemed to be a great bit of kit with some great features – masses of storage, decent five megapixel camera, GPS and a touch screen to name but a few.
However in reality it is an absolute dog. Despite having 32gb of memory, it tries to install everything on a tiny C drive, which causes everything to crash. The touch screem often ignores you, as if you’ve done something to upset it and the camera lense gets scratched by the cover that is supposed to protect it. Brilliant. The battery will plummet from practically full to empty if you dare look at it in a funny way and you’d be quicker communicating with smoke signals than wait for the apps to do what they’re meant to (the excellent Gravity aside).
I had an N95 which was (and still is) a great bit of kit, so assumed the N97 would be more of the same, but it simply isn’t a patch on it. I decided against an iPhone for the reason that as good as it is, it still lacks some of the basics – for example I don’t like the onscreen keyboard (I have an iPod Touch) and would like to see a better camera – who knows what the next release will bring. Some of the Android phones look good though, like the HTC Hero.
With competitors such as these, it is no wonder the Nokia Vice President Anssi Vanjoki said it was a bit pants the other day. I’ve had it about eight or nine months now, and I thought that firmware updates would sort out the problems, but in the last fortnight or so if anything my N97 has got worse.
How I’ve managed to avoid throwing it against a wall I just don’t know.
I’m being told off by a nine-month-old puppy. The other dog wants to be left alone and have a quiet night on the couch, yet the puppy insists on jumping on him and biting him.
The older dog, Finn, keeps looking at me as if to say “I just want a quiet life” while the puppy, Sadhbh, will occasionally stop harrassing poor old Finn, and then she’ll stare at me with an expression similar to the one you’d imagine the black woman from Tom & Jerry would give the poor old cat when he did something wrong.
The big problem is that the now is 11.15pm. If they had done this two hours ago, it’d have been great. Like kids with sugar induced ADHD, they’d knacker themselves out before embarking on the long journey to the Land of Doggy Nod.
I have a feeling I might not be getting too much sleep tonight…
