Hopefully most of you reading this post will have also read my previous post about Assassin’s Creed Black Flag a couple of weeks ago? If not well shame on you, but I will forgive you because this post is even more awesome than the last!
Firstly Ubisoft have finally announced the editions of their much awaited game for the UK, Ireland and North America (Americaland) and here they are in all of their glory:
There has been a lot of activity surrounding Sony’s latest smartphone, the Sony Xperia Z, with Posters, TV and magazine commercials all over the place. Much is being made of the IP57 water and dust resistant features and this seems to be the main focus of the adverts we’re seeing at the moment.
There is a trend for phones with larger and higher resolution screens and the Xperia Z is perpetuating this with its 5 inch full HD screen. There are only a few other phones on the market at the moment with such high resolution displays, this one crams in 441 pixels per inch.
Design-wise the Xperia Z may be one of those love-it-or-hate-it phones. It has very square and straight sides that starkly contrast what the likes of HTC and Samsung are doing with their more curvy offerings. The Xperia Z certainly puts the slab in to the slab format.
In the video below you can see my looking at the hardware, checking out the OS and performing a quick benchmark. Have a look to find out how well that 1.5Ghz quad-core CPU performs!
The smartphone marketplace is crowded to say the least, but when Microsoft launched Windows Phone 8 it brought about something different than the rivals already had (iOS, android and blackberry) and although Microsoft partnered with Nokia to create smartphones and exclusive applications for Nokia phones, they decided in their wisdom to make HTC their official brand/launch partner.
And I have one of the devices in question for review, the Windows Phone HTC 8S which is the lower end device that HTC launched alongside its windows phone flagship the 8X.
Want to find out more about this little device and whether it can compete successfully in the marketplace? Well then please do read on, but first please take a look at the HTC 8S unboxing video from Matt.
Just as expected, last night Samsung announced the latest incarnation of their ever popular Galaxy S range, the Samsung Galaxy S4.
The specification looks impressive with 5″ FULL HD Screen, 16.GHz octa-core CPU and 2GB Ram it looks set to be a good contender against the new HTC One for the top spot.
There’s a few other interesting features and innovations on there too, including temperature and humidity sensors, ‘air gestures’, and a series of health accessories all in a package just 7.9mm thick.
Full press release and specification can be found below. Naturally we’ll have more for you soon!
I got my HTC One just a few days ago and so far have really enjoyed the experience. I’ve been working on the review already and no doubt many of you have seen me tweeting from the device already.
Here at last we have our first video of the new HTC One. In this video I show off the hardware and talk about some of the key features of the device and its specification. I then go on to look at the user interface and some of the new features of HTC Sense 5.0 including Blinkfeed and Zoe.
So check out the video below and look at that benchmark score! I’ll have more videos up later too.
Beyond: Two Souls was announced back at E3 2012 and is the brand new game from the creators of the much publicised Heavy Rain which was quite frankly incredible for its time, with the character animations and facial expressions. But with this new game they’ve pushed the graphical aspects even further creating a really immersive experience for the gamer that really showcases what the company QuanticDream can do with technology.
I thought that this trailer was exciting because of how lifelike the character model is, quite unbelievable really, and things can only move forward now that we have the promise of Sony’s PS4 this christmas, this title though is a PS3 exclusive which is also what Heavy Rain was back in 2010.
BEYOND: Two Souls is a psychological action thriller starring Oscar nominee Ellen Page (Inception, Juno) in the lead role of Jodie Holmes and featuring Quantic Dream’s unique brand of gameplay.BEYOND tells the story of Jodie, a young woman who’s known since birth that she is different from everyone else. She possesses supernatural powers through her psychic link to an invisible entity she calls Aidan and this gift has changed her life forever. You play through 15 years of Jodie’s life during the game which suggest that the games creators are aiming for a very emotional experience for the gamers of the world.
Willem Dafoe (Platoon, Spider-Man) who will star as Nathan Dawkins, a government scientist who works with Jodie to analyse her powers.
QuanticDream have released a North America release date of October 8th 2013 but have yet to release any information on other regions around the world but stay tuned for more information on this compelling game.
For now you can enjoy the trailer below.
Remember me is an interesting game concept for a game as it is a third person game where you use no weapon throughout the whole game, you instead have different abilities such as solid combat, but the main feature of the game (as it mentions in the trailer) is memory remixing.
You play in a futuristic city called Neo-Paris in the future year of 2084, Capcom, the games creator puts you in the shoes of a memory hunter named Nilin. The name of the game is basically that she strives to recover her own memory by remixing others to change events in the future.
The original release date was scheduled for May this year but along with this trailer is the official later release date of June 4th in North America and the 7th in Europe, hopefully this pushing back will give gamers around the world a great game.. Let’s wait and see I guess.
The trailer is below… Enjoy.
Stylus pens for touch screen devices are really nothing new, indeed the early touch screen phones and PDA’s all came with a stylus, they were pretty much essential.
However, as screens have evolved in to being almost exclusively capacitive technology the use of a stylus has become unnecessary and/or undesirable. That said, more and more people are looking for stylus options for use with their mobile devices, particularly with tablets where it makes sense to be able to hand write notes and sketches on the screen. Some tablets come with their own pens where with others you have to buy your own.
Now there are dozens of companies out there making hundreds of variations of pens that will work with capacitive screens. I’ve tried lots of these in the past and they range from cheap options that cost just a few pounds to much more expensive premium options. I’ve never been very impressed with any of the options out there, some have horrible rubber tips while the worst ones have actually scratched the surface of the display.
That’s where the Adonit Jot pens are way different. A few weeks ago a colleague showed me his Adonit Jot Flip that he has been using with his iPad. He let me borrow it and from that moment on I have been a convert. I’ve now got my own Jot Flip and use it all the time! The precision disc on the tip means that it glides safely over the screen while being really accurate. It has just the right amount of weight to give it that real quality feel and having the ink pen at the other end it a real boon too.
There are tons of apps out there that make great use of the stylus, there are a few that I have been using for the iPad but the pen otherwise works in the same way as your finger would. Of course it’s not just limited to the iPad, it’ll work with any device just as well.
So check out the little video below that I was compelled to share having used the pen so much!
For the last few years the Chomebooks have been simple and cheap solutions for those wanting an internet experience, instead of all the trimmings of a Windows based laptop. Google has recently unveiled their Chromebook Pixel, a high end Chomebook that combines stellar screen technology with the cloud centric operating system based around the popular Chrome browser. It’s an attractive chuck of technology and something of an experiment when you consider the competition out there.
Google have stated they are not interesting in seeing this machine fly off the shelves, instead they want to raise the bar of what a Chromebook can be considered to be. The Pixel has some decent specs, maybe not as much as you would expect considering the price tag of £1,049.00 however it does compare more to the Macbook Air than a more traditional laptop.
Just a few weeks ago you may have seen James pick up and unbox his PR version of the shiny new BlackBerry Z10 but today I’ve managed to get my hands on a full retail version of the Z10, and the one I have is in white! Hardware wise we are exactly the same but here we are looking at the retail packaging and what comes along with it.
This is literally the first time I’ve looked at BB10 so forgive my clumsiness with the UI, it takes a little getting used to. Make of that what you will.
Our BlackBerry Z10 White review unit came courtesy of Phones4U and works on the 4G EE Network.
Check out the video below and if you want to see BB10 and the UI in more detail have a look at some of our other BlackBerry videos.
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