Got a new toy in the mail

July 29th, 2008

The very good people at Sony Ericsson have sent me a C902 Cyber-shot mobile to have a play with as part of their product review program and I’ve got to say it’s a nifty little phone.   Actually I don’t have to say anything about the phone at all (I’m not under any actual obligation to write about it or say anything positive but you should all know that they sent it to me).   But the truth of the matter is that from first impressions I think that it is a cool phone.

I’m a sucker for bells and whistles.

I don’t apologise for that.   You can read all about technical specs and ranges and stuff elsewhere I’m sure, I’ll get to them eventually! Obviously when I got it out of the box I didn’t read any instructions and started playing.

Problem number one, when I first get electrical consumer goods I rarely remove the plastic film over the screens etc so that it remains perfect for just those couple of minutes longer.   My laptop still has its plastic on the top to protect its outer shell.   So I didn’t remove the plastic on the screen on the phone.

Didn’t realise that it was covering the end of the phone also and couldn’t for the life of me work out how to slide out the camera (it has a slide out camera… sweet).   A friend of mine at work also tried and couldn’t work it out, we didn’t want to break it.   Embarresingly I discovered our own shortcomings and removed the plastic and the slid the camera out.

Then I discovered the games, there are games on my old Motorola Razr, well two and they weren’t very good.   This has Need for Speed on it and you steer by turning the phone, not that unresponsive keypad, by turning the phone.   Very cool.   One of the other games is the classic Solitaire.

So what!? I hear you ask. A phone is a phone!

Let me tell you, nothing makes me happier than having a game like Solitaire whilst waiting for my wife at the fitting rooms at Myer.

I’ll write more about the phone as I play with it, I’m hoping to make use of the 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus!

Did I mention I’m a sucker for gadgets?

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Twitter and bits

June 4th, 2008

I don’t use Twitter half as much as I would like to, actually that’s not 100% true, often I’m a Twitter lurker and I just eavesdrop on what others are saying.   I wonder if there is a term for that?   I’m pretty tired and it’s late so I’ll leave that to everyone else to work out!

I like the service, I think it’s clever and really only people who don’t use it think that it’s a stupid “I’m eating lunch” “now I’m finished” service (not that it doesn’t have those types of entries - heck even I’ve done that).

Someone on the Aussie Bloggers Forum once said that they liked it because they work from home (which can be really isolating) and it gives the effect of virtual office background chatter.

And they’re right, I used to have a soundtrack website that I would run in the background and read the conversations running.

So anyway I’m going to try using it more, I’ve just (not twenty minutes ago) started using mobile phone updates via sms which are pretty cool.   So check out my twitter feed or see it on the sidebar!

Oh yeah I’m the guest poster over at All that comes with it (Dan’s blog) so pop over there and read my thoughts on ‘The Net’.   Leave a comment telling Dan you were there as I’ve a feeling it’s his least popular one so far and I feel bad for him because that’s my fault.

If you’ve commented in the last couple of days and I haven’t responded please don’t worry I will respond as soon as I get a chance!!

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