The Sony Experia Play in our opinion is doomed from the off.
The planet seemed to be moving towards tablets before it actually arrived there, it somehow seemed inevitable. The iPod evolved into an iPhone, that happened organically, the touch screen was there already, you had your music in it and Guitar Hero was still cool so it seemed and easy slide into touch screen portable games. Sony’s attempt at a game phone seems 5 years too late somehow, and regardless of arriving late, its already out of date. Why start from scratch in a ultra-competitive saturated market when they could have followed the iPod-Phone movement and just made PSP-Phone, that would would have made more sense to me, they would already had a game library anyway.
Its specs boost “touch sensitive controls”, but we’ve had those since the N64 haven’t we? Where’s the touch screen controls? Rookie mistake. The specs on this look better, if not then the same at the very least. (you have to laugh at the now over 4,000 colours though don’t you).
I WANT TO SEE SONY INNOVATE SOMETHING ORIGINAL FOR ONCE! Shoulder button, L2 and R2 and all that, snes did it first. Playstation move, Wii came first. Four control ports, GameCube. Silly bollocks crash team racing game, Mariokart. But now at least they’ve done a gaming phone eh. Nintendo don’t have one of those yet do they. No, but nokia have have done it already Ericson. Over five years ago, keep up guys.
The retro iPod Alarm Clock is this year’s must-have iPod add-on – perfect for anyone wanting a smart accessory for their iPod and who would rather wake up to their favorite playlist than a repetitive beep beep, beep, beep beep, beep well you get the idea.
Pick one up over for £39.95.
Get it at this low price of $159.95 here!
All-in-one convenience and great sound. Tailgater lets you easily enjoy your personal soundtrack anywhere. This sound system features single-unit construction with speakers, amplifier, audio inputs and a dock for iPod all in one box. This high-powered, two-way speaker system has a built-in battery with level indicator for up to eight hours of cordless sound. Or you can plug in Tailgater’s power cord and rock out as long as you want.
Apple has seen fit to grace us with an new version of it’s iPod Shuffle. This is the tiddly version of their insanely successful music player, that eschews such unnecessary luxuries as a screen, or an on body control, in favour of being so minuscule that you could fit it in your ear [do not try and fit it into your ear].
This is both the genius and the downfall of the shuffle for me. It is so incredibly small that you can’t fail to be impressed that they’ve got a little battery, amp, computer and 4 gig drive into this chewing gum sized package, but I have a nano that I usually lose once a week, falling out of my bag, down between the seats in the car, or dissappearing through a penny sized hole in my trouser pocket (yes, I know I need new jeans). How much worse then if my expensive and fiddly new iPod is smaller than the lid of my pen? A friend of mine bought a MacBook Air, saying that he wanted to save the weight in his travelling case, a point I could almost concede if the weight saving was any more than a pair of socks. Here we’re talking grams of difference between this and a nice big, screen-having, control faced iPod classic, with a battery that’s going to give you much more time between charges.
Probably good if you’re a hardcore jogger, or being launched into space and trying to save weight, otherwise just keep wheeling that phonogram in a pram.
