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The sale continues tote Mac App Store also. Vice city and San Andreas are half price at £2.99 and £4.99 respectively. Even though Real Raing 2 HD is £1.49 for iOS, it’s still full price on the Mac App Store.

You say that but I don’t see how this can be any worse than the Microsoft fanboys’ reactions to the Lumia 900 review…

Ah finally an app where my broken accelerometer isn’t a curse!

Although the older player was sometimes sketchy, the player that has replaced it hasn’t worked for me at all. Hopefully you’ll continue to offer YouTube links so can download them with jDownloader.

So where can I download the MacPaint apk?

I’m imagining the ring from Titan AE

I’ll read this when I’ve finished Scamworld…

I was going to complain that it doesn’t have an optical drive, then I remembered that the only software I have on disk is a 3 year old copy of Photoshop. I am excited!

I’m so glad that UK carriers don’t piss about with the name and body of the phone to the same extent as US carriers. Evo 4G LTE, half matte and half glossy, seriously?!

And all of those deals are inferior to GiffGaff.

As long as I can get a 30 day full free trial and they continue to offer student editions at 80% off I don’t care where it comes from.

Me too. Every additional photo and video makes me want this game more and MOAR!

True. The SX is a seriously tasty piece of hardware.

Yeah me too. I’m using Pulp, but it’s nothing on Flipboard. Sigh…

I have nothing against the strap, it’s the boring as sin main body that I don’t like :/

Me too unfortunately. It’s a brilliant piece of tech and an extremely average body. Really annoying. If only the Pebble’s guts were inside the Nixon Newton…

Photoshop isn’t aimed at people like yourself. You may be better suited to Pixelmator or Photoshop elements, which are bith pretty cheap and should be enough for you to “mess around with” to your heart’s content.

I’m a Graphic Designn university student and paying £300ish for a set of software that I use for a couple of hours every day is VERY reasonable.

Well allow me to retort. What does Marsellus Wallace look like?

Yes the screen can be too big for the body. The bezel is too small at the corners of the screen and looks silly. I appreciate that a large amount of people won’t care or notice, but that doesn’t mean that the problem doesn’t exist. I noticed and I’m sure many others will. The fact that the designers didn’t notice/care is scary. Here’s some explanatory Photoshop.

1. A square in a circle. The square is too big and looks crammed in.

2. A circle in a circle. The circle has the same area as the square,yet looks fine.

3. A square in a circle. Number 1 again for comparison.

4. A larger circle in a circle. The circle is the same size as the corners of the square. This looks fine and not crammed in, even though it’s 53% large than the original square

If you’re going to design a phone “as nature intended with no straight lines” then you need to factor in the rectangular screen and compensate for it.

Without sounding like a douchebag; I’m a Graphic Designer, I know colours, and that phone is blue.

Officially on Samsung’s site it’s called ‘Pebble Blue’ so there’s either something wrong with your eyes and monitor or you were looking at the wrong image which is entirely possible.

I didn’t say I want it to look like an iPhone. I genuinely don’t like the iPhone 4’s design. It’s uncomfortable and impractical. My favourite phone hardware at the minute? HTC One S and the Nokia Lumia 900. You may notice that they both aren’t iPhones. Also, my mobile is a 4 year old Sony Ericsson C902 ‘candybar’ phone which I remain completely happy with. If I were going to upgrade I’d probably get a cheap Android to tether to my iPad 3 but that’s irrelevant. Dream hardware? A phone that isn’t as thin or light as possible, I want something that you can hold, has a nice wight and is comfortable. Possibly made of metal but certainly not something made of squeaky shitty plastic a la most modern phones. So something between the original iPhone, a MacBook Pro and the prototype Nokia N9 from 2010.

From the point of view as a designer and as a consumer, I want companies to innovate and push creative design, not copy the same old stuff and churn out rubbish every couple of months. I’m an Apple user and have been all my life but that doesn’t mean I’m narrow minded or irrationally biased towards one thing or another. Windows 8 Metro and BB10 and by extension webOS operating systems look fantastic. Will I ever use them? No but I’m glad that they’re doing something different. Innovation benefits everyone.

Unfortunately that seems to be something that Samsung don’t really understand.

Sorry Mum, I’ll try harder next time. To expand on my statement ‘ugly bastard’

First of all ugly:

1. The screen is too large for the body. I appreciate that with a 4.8" screen you need to keep the body size down as much as possible so people are actually able to hold it, but it looks, wrong. Maybe if the body were less rounded it wouldn’t look as bad, but then it would look just like the GNex, so that’s a no brainer.

2. That God awful blue. It’s blue enough to please an executive that wants it to have more ‘pazazz’ but it’s perhaps the worst shade of blue ever. Would there even be a blue GSIII if Nokia hadn’t made some of their phones cyan? Probably not. I don’t normally like 100% cyan, but the N9 looks fantastic. A cold, grey blue like the HTC One S looks great. Bright cyan looks great, but not this blue. It’s completely emotionless, bland and horrible.

3. The button positioning. The space between the screen and the home button is too large in proportion to the space below the home button and the bottom of the phone. Being close to the screen would hold it together, but currently it looks unbalanced, almost as if it’s going to fall off the bottom of the phone.

These are a few things that I noticed in a couple of seconds of looking at the image at the top of this article.

And now bastard;

I’m from Yorkshire in the cold, miserable North of England. I would refer to something unnecessarily/unusually large as a big bastard. For instance a Hummer is a big bastard of a car, generic basketball player is a big bastard of a man. He could be a nice enough lad, but he’s still a big bastard.

The same goes for this gargantuan phone. Though I thought that calling it an ugly bastard would translate my thoughts quicker and easier than the 280+ words that I’ve written above.

It fits perfectly:

Mother of God. So much hype for such an ugly bastard of a phone.