The N97 is on sale for under $450 and I’m really tempted to purchase it. Even though I just got an E71. There’s definitely no way I can justify the purchase, the nearly $300 savings is slowly sapping away at the resolve.
The N97 is on sale for under $450 and I’m really tempted to purchase it. Even though I just got an E71. There’s definitely no way I can justify the purchase, the nearly $300 savings is slowly sapping away at the resolve.
Kindle now iPod App. That’s going to sell a lot of books for Amazon.
It makes sense, considering that not everyone wants a Kindle. On the other hand, everyone already has an iPod.
And it’s free. I haven’t read too much about the application so far, but I am interested in how it syncs up with your Kindle, in terms of bookmarks and highlighting.
I just picked up a Nokia e71.
Currently it’s in the “new toy” phase of gadget ownership. I’m enamored of its styling and snappy performance. Battery life is probably not indicative of real world performance as I am constantly fiddling with it. I’ve uploaded a video and a pic to flickr as a test and it went well. I didn’t realize that it was 3G until I checked flickr and everything was up there.
I imagine that there will be a lot more pictures being uploaded in the near future. Camera still has that purple characteristic of all E71 pictures, but I find that switching to the black and white settings for the camera negates that particular issue.
I really like the keyboard.
Going to see about using the FM radio tomorrow and then testing the GPS, possibly with geotagging photos.
Was slightly surprised when a phone call came through and it spoke the name of my contact. Neat, but probably going to turn that off straight away.
I’m going to see how many times I can say, “surprise” in the first ten seconds. Here’s the Tournament Edition Fightstick for Street Fighter IV.
It’s rather large. I’ve been sitting on this video for a while, I actually got the stick a week before Street Fighter IV dropped at my place, so I was using it to play Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix on the 360.
Actually using it to play SFIV is amazing, and I feel like I’m back at the Yellow Brick Road in Mission Valley on a Friday afternoon with the rest of Honors English IV.
The Nintendo DSi is something I’m very interested in. Not only is it another Nintendo Handheld DS, bringing my total to ridiculous, but it brings an app store to the table, something I think that would work very well on the DS.
It does work very well for the PSP, but there needs to be more on offer.
Like the entire catalog of PSP games, for starters.
But back to the DSi. It’s quite different from the two other iterations of the DS. It’s thinner, for starters. There’s also a new OS. The two screens are larger now by a quarter inch each. Two VGA cameras, one on the hinge and one on the outer face now adorn the case. These have been used for a photo manipulations application on the Japanese model, but if they’ll be utilized for games in the future is anyone’s guess. WiFi capabilities (hello WPA) have been enhanced, or rather brought up to date. An SD card slot has been added, which is how I’m assuming the app store will work. I guess Nintendo learned their lesson from the Wii.
Dear Nintendo:Â Don’t offer an application store if your device does not have sufficient storage to handle more than 35 apps. Â I’m just saying.
Backwards compatibility for GameBoy Advance games, is gone. So those other two models aren’t quite obsolete just yet. It’s not that they took it out per se, but they did remove the GBA slot, so it’s more of a physical limitation than the hardware is incapable of it. I’m not going to miss it.
That’s wha the GBA Micro is for.
The system firmware can finally be upgraded, which can be both a blessing and a curse. Patching is something I really don’t need in my handheld gaming, but seeing as how the previous DS only supports WEP encryption for WiFi, I’ll take the ability to update firmware over none.
The DSi is scheduled to be stateside on April 5th, in black and blue models, for $170. I’ll post something once I get my hands on one.