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So now the citizens of Dubai can enjoy a massively censored internet experience on an ugly pentile screen. What a marvellous proposition. I’ll move there immediately.

Wouldn’t it just make more sense to bite the bullet and go 1280×720? And the phone needs to be wider too, the current one is far too narrow for typing in portrait.

Are you American? I wouldn’t be at all surprised if kinect can only understand American accented english. I’m English, and speak standard English with no accent.

Maybe I should try rolling my Rs.

Anyone who believes Steve was always right should watch Jonathan Ive’s tribute to Steve at the Apple event after his death. He said that while Steve had brilliant ideas, he also had incredibly stupid ideas.

Steve changed his mind too, many times, so it’s entirely possible that he realised he was wrong to stick to small screen sizes for the iPhone. And besides, big screens dominate now so the people have voted, and they’ve decided they want large screens.

Monster World IV is really good, and few will have played it as it was only released in Japan.

Still this seems like a bit of a missed opportunity. I’d sooner see some of Sega’s great 1980s super scaler coin-ops make the transition, such as Out Run, Power Drift, Galaxy Force, Thunderblade, Super Monaco GP, and Space Harrier.

Amalur was a pretty weak game, especially coming so soon after Skyrim. Visually I think it’s art style was also really poorly conceived and contributed to it’s rather muted response.

Still, it’s always sad when a studio is in trouble, so I hope they pull through.

Blade Runner is a flawless, perfect, impossibly brilliant film. It should be left unblemished forever.

I predict if this sequel is ever made, it will be brainless action movie and utterly awful, as Hollywood doesn’t know how to make intelligent science fiction any more.

Blade Runner is one of the greatest movies of all time, and certainly the greatest science fiction movie ever. See it immediately.

Not bad for a phone with a crappy pentile screen and an ancient GPU.

I’ve always found the kinect voice stuff to be next to useless. While it’s just about possible to get it to launch apps, with much repetition and shouting, once video is playing it can’t hear a thing and a remote is then required. Anything I can do with kinect voice, I can do with an xbox remote in a fraction of the time.

A few points about this:

1 – There are, you may be surprised to hear, more countries in the world than America. This article is massively US centric.

2 – "Microsoft recently revamped the 360’s interface, too, and with a new Metro-style look the Xbox 360 is one of the easiest devices to navigate as well. " Have you even used the train wreck that is the new dash? It’s a cumbersome mess of wall to wall ads with anything remotely interesting buried behind countless layers of interface and ads. Oh and you also neglected to mention that most of the Xbox video apps have horribly broken black levels, rendering them useless to anyone with working eyes.

3 – The Apple TV interface is attractive?! Really? That would be the one with the mis-matched mess of iOS icons and masses of plain white text on a black background? It’s a beauty. A true design classic. And as for choosing the ATV as the best box, come off it, the Roku blows it away for content, as do the Xbox and PS3. For UK users the ATV’s lack of BBC iPlayer renders it about as useful as a chocolate tea pot.

The trouble with just making it taller, is that it doesn’t fix any of the fundamental flaws with small screens – that web pages are too small to read without lots of zooming, and that virtual keyboards are too small to comfortably type on.

To fix those, the screen has to be wider.

Is Sonic 4 60 frames per second on iOS?

I’m not sure such a small increase would be worth the effort. Phone screens are getting bigger, and people are buying them en masse so presumably they’re happy with carrying larger devices. Apple should just bite the bullet and go with a 4.8" 720p screen. Apple have always been about the high end, so it’s time they caught up.

I thought when I saw the headline it meant Crunchyroll, instead it’s US only Manga (which bizarrely started life as a UK only company) which is probably dubbed and in SD anyway.

When the Xbox has some 1080p Japanese language Crunchyroll goodies, I’ll be interested.

What’s with the bizarre American sports obsession Apple has with the ATV? By all means stick stuff like this on the ATV if people are interested, but do it as part of an open app ATV app store. It’s absurd to prioritise things which are ultra niche in virtually every country in the world.

Most people have probably just realised that:

a) G+ is just a Facebook clone
b) all their friends are already on Facebook, and not G+

Sp Google Plus will die, just as Buzz and My Space did.

Or in other words, “you know this really good new thing you were all looking forward to? Well it was quite expensive and we’d sooner spend the money on boats and prostitutes, so here’s something a bit rubbish instead. We’ll give it the same name as the really good thing you could of had, so you can pretend it’s just as good”.

4G is 100mbits minimum, so there’s no 4G in the US at all, anywhere.

Three have their problems, such as poor coverage outside of major towns and cities (mainline train routes are mostly ‘no service’, and their fallback GPRS has no data, just voice, rendering it totally useless.

Their customer service is also truly appalling.

However only Three and GiffGaff offer unlimited data, which is a must have for me and I imagine many others.

That’s nice but UK 3G is painfully slow. The most I’ve ever had is 3mbit and that only happens once in a blue moon. It’s usually more like 1mbit, and the latency is off the chart.

I have 50mbit cable which will be upgraded to 120mbit cable soon, and in a year or two it will be 250mbit. My latency is 5-10ms.

How on earth is any kind of wireless service ever going to compete with that?

I’m sure it’ll be a lovely machine, but I’m more interested in a new iMac with USB 3, Ivy Bridge, and a retina display. What resolution that screen would end up being, I can’t imagine.

The UK is completely bankrupt, it’s a basket case, it has no money. Didn’t you know that?

You can’t spend what you don’t have, and we absolutely cannot afford to turn large chunks of London into running tracks for a 2 week long sports day. But hey, lets rack up the debt, it worked for Greace!

The fact that so many X360 games are now shipping on multiple discs show yet again how incredibly long in the tooth the current consoles are. They’re ancient, replace them please, I’m bored of waiting!

So partially thanks to a bunch of traffic light fiddling idiots, London, and the UK, is saddled with the enormous cost of building Olympic stadiums which will essentially become derelict once the two week festival of commercialised, sponsored by McDonalds “sport” is over.

They should be taken outside and given a good kicking for being so brainless.

Three’s signal is non existent on trains, and their customer service is abysmal. Unlimited data is nice though.

I wonder if we’ll get this in the UK. I have a TiVo here and there’s no Netflix on it, all we get is the BBC iPlayer and Spotify. It’s also painfully slow to navigate, but I guess that’s just because the internal hardware is so terrible.