Admit it that title just totally freaked you out! No of course I am not reviewing a vibrator that plugs into your iPod. What do you take me for? Don’t answer that. I just found a review of the imaginatively (sarcasm) named ‘Ohmibod’ over at Geeks.co.uk and I just had to comment. It amused me because I have the mentality of a teenager. Seeing as I quite like that site and don’t want to get the boot I would keep my lascivious comments over her (total freudian typo but I am leaving it in because it amused me, I actually meant ‘here’) and only freak out people who expect it. In other words you guys. You thought I could go no lower after the post about my recent illness. You, of course, were wrong. Don’t read after the break if you don’t think you can handle it.
Well seeing as O2 and Apple have pissed me off enough that I’ll be leaving them both come the end of my mobile phone contract I have been on the lookout for a new mobile. I start my shopping pretty early. Anyway the new HTC Hero which will be on T-Mobile as the G1 Touch (I don’t know! Why ask me?) seems to fit the bill. It is probably the best looking Android phone so far. They have also done some much need work cleaning up the very Linux-esque Android interface. The 1.5 cupcake update was good interface clean up but HTC have really gone to town on it. They have at least improved Androids damned horrible clock.
It has all the usual bits you would expect for a Smartphone including 3G, GPS, Touchscreen, Camera (5 megapixel), Bluetooth, Wifi and playback for most audio and video formats. I have heard it mentioned that it will play Flash. Impressive, most impressive. Below is a video of the phone in action.
Since Asus released the 7″ screened Eeepc a while a go industry giants (Sony, Apple, Microsoft et al) and IT journalists alike have been prophesying the doom of the netbook. Why is this? Well for Microsoft and Apple it was simply because the netbook was going to cannibalise their own budding ultra-portable project the UMPC and Air. They were playing it down to big up their own products. Hence initially Linux was the preferred OS for netbooks. Sadly Microsoft got wise and now most netbooks, including my own, run some version of Windows. Apple still has its head in the sand but Sony jumped on the bandwagon. Sony being Sony however refuse to call the Vaio P a netbook and priced it way out of the league of people looking at the usual £150-400 netbook price bracket. Why nobody knows as that strategy worked so well for the UMPCs that nobody purchased. Read the rest of this entry »
Anyway the new HTC Hero which will be on T-Mobile as the G1 Touch (I don’t know! Why ask me?) seems to fit the bill. It is probably the best looking Android phone so far. They have also done some much need work cleaning up the very Linux-esque Android interface. The 1.5 cupcake update was good interface clean up but HTC have really gone to town on it. They have at least improved Androids damned horrible clock.