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@GA2G - TechMobile is running a piece about Xperia Play and games sales so far.
The author of the article also believes the Play should be a success the figures show otherwise.
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^^ yeah a photo would be more helpful
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Coming back to Life Aquatic - Dafoe is in that as well. I just started remembering some of his scenes, so I looked on Youtube. Someone has compiled his best bits from the movie.
YouTube - The Life Aquatic Klaus moments
My favs are the second slap scene and the 'step over the line' scene.
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Watched Appaloosa the other night.. Had hoped for more but it was most unengaging. Seemed to lurch all over the place..
I got the DVD in a 3-4-20 deal ages ago still haven't opened it. Will watch it at some point.
I rate both Ed Harris and Viggo Mortenson, so I think it's got to be worth watching.
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I remeber seeing Red Eye in the cinema, really enjoyed it. Nothing groundbreaking, but loved how your sympathies switch from cillian in the first half, to Rachaels in the second.
Yeah I liked Red Eye as well. It's a very exact movie. Not too long, and covers the story. Doesn't waste time giving you background into the terrorists. It makes you wonder why Craven doesn't make more thrillers like these rather than horror movies. Oh, by the way I love Rachael McAdams. I'll watch anything she is in - Morning Glory was actually pretty good.
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It was weird, but in a good way.
You have just summed up every Wes Anderson film!
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Saw 13 Assassins on saturday evening. A great a samurai movie, reminds me of the older movies especially Seven Samuari which I now need to watch again.
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The norovirus doing the rounds at the moment would get you to 52 kg in 28 days.
Yeah I had it back in January - lost 4.5 kg in about 5 days. Not nice :-(
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Nice meeting you yesterday dooks, thanks again for the stuff. Will post some pics when the build is finished.
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Glad we cleared that up. The battery doesn't 'fail' because the DHD has a large screen. The battery is used quicker because of the large screen. Size matters.
Bad phrasing on my part. I meant Fail as in a 'con', not that the screen fails.
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fasih, the Xperia Mini new or old, equal a poor choice in phones. It's a make-weight phone, that will be underpowered, with a screen that needed to be bigger, and will be abandoned for updates very quickly. Sony Ericsson will put their energies into their top of the range phones and their Xperia Play (Playstation) series. The Xperia Mini is meant as a small-handbag phone, or something for a young student, or child that keeps bugging their parent for an Android phone.
Agreed, I just want a small phone with 3G which I can on occasion pair (via Bluetooth or WiFI hotspot app) with a Tablet. For this purpose the size is perfect, it's main function will mostly be running a music player and scrobbling my tracks. Also the occasional email in emergency.
As far as the Xperia Play is concerned, it will provide the iPhone with the serious challenge of a proper games library, that no other phone will have.......along with the correct physical buttons to take full advantage of such games. Even though it was underpowered on its release, what will matter is how it sells, and I predict a sales boom for Sony Ericsson for that particular phone. My prediction is that the 2nd generation Xperia Play will be at least a dual core, if not a quad core phone, so as to keep itself relatively future-proofed. Then again, the profit margin is higher per phone if the latest system cores is NOT used. We'll see.
Sony is one strange company, I like the Xperia Play - but seriously I give it 6 months. The developer support is just not going to be enough to keep it going. Plus I don't think devs like the idea of optimising for one handset. Sony's interest is in the NGP. Ideally NGP and Android need to come together, some how. But I don't think they will. Since they are both being developed by different divisions within Sony.
I also think Sony Ericsson will be quietly cursing their cost saving decision, to have their flagship phone, the Xperia Arc, come out with a single core processor, against a raft of dual core competitors. It could have sold well, but I think its chances were blown by not being on sale at least four months before the dual core brigade turned up.
Again agreed, but the truth is that the decision is not just a cost saving thing. It's also a timing thing. It takes them a long time to re-work their UI customisations between Android releases from google. I think they decided it was more important to get something out rather than wait for 2.3 and dual core hardware. Sony is still Sony, some people will buy their stuff just because of the brand. The cleverness comes in know how many units to roll before your next hardware revision. I saw a piece earlier which stated that both Motorola, Acer and Samsung have produced some crazy number of tablets that aren't selling. Give it 2/3 months you are going to see a massive price cut to ship units.
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Has anyone on the forum gone for the Archos 101 Android Tablet
It seems to be more of a tinker's tablet, and not bad for the money. Though it looks like there won't be an official honeycomb update for it.
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No it doesn't. Desire S has a larger battery but it has a smaller screen and less memory.
The Desire S camera is also inferior to the DHD.I was reffering to the CPU and memory rather than camera. Since I thought the Desire S was a dual-core. But I just checked and it's not. So yes hippy is right, but at the same time the Desire HD failing has been the battery life due to the large screen.
So basically it looks like the Sensation is the HTC handset to get. No announcement from Orange.
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doner kebab is turkish. pizza is italian. problem?
This is not a new notion, peeps up north have been doing it for years! Whenever I'm in Bradford I hit the Great Horton Road and grab a 1/2 chicken, 1/2 lamb donor pizza.
That one looks like it is missing some cheese though.
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^^^I'll take a wild stab at the iPad.
I'm overdue an upgrade with Orange and it's time to move on from my well used HTC Hero. It seems the Motorola Atrix should be available now, should I get them to send me one or is there something better I should be looking at or holding out for?
Orange have the Desire S - which has better internals than the Desire HD. Also Sony just announced their new Xperia Mini's which should be on Orange soon. I'm gonna wait for the Sonys - can't wait to be rid of my iPhone.
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No you missed the big trick with iPhone and Google. Don't use the 'Google Mail' account type when setting up your email. Instead use the 'Microsoft Exchange' account type. It's actually easier if I point you to the official link -
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252
Just follow that and everything should sync nicely!
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A nice bike, I see why you posted so many pictures :-)
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I'm using the Google Calander sync and it works perfectly for me, both ways. What you are describing is odd. How did you set up the calendar access on your iPhone?
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Yeah it was one of those nights, just couldn't sleep so was cruising the forums. Should have hit up the Insomnia thread.
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To Live And Die In LA
Agreed, great film. Thanks for reminding me of it. Have the VHS somewhere, gonna have to get the DVD and watch this again.
William Friedkin directed this, his most notable movies are of course 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection'. I think Live and Die is styled very much in the same way as French Connection. His recent movies haven't been amazing, but watchable. I'm refferring to 'Rules of Engagement' and 'The Hunted' though I admit when I watched them I didn't know he directed them until the credits rolled. (Probably on TV - I'm sure the DVD cases mentioned it.)
I went to see this film in 1985, at the now closed down and built over, Edgeware Road Cinema....the one under the flyover and facing Paddington Green Police Station
I remember it well. I watched a good few movies there myself. One of the last one I recall before it was closed down to make way for the Metropole Hotel was Crocodile Dundee. (I thought it was good at the time, actually it hasn't aged to badly still works.)
It really is brilliant, with actors that all became stars in their own right. Its the mention of Manhunter above that brought this all back, because the "hero" is the same actor - William Petersen.
Yeah but it really was Manhunter that made him, after that he just did a bunch of TV movies ending up in CSI. Which funnily enough Friedkin has been working on too. This was Dafoe's first bad guy role - and I remember him in this more for some reason.
Speaking of whom, did anyone else see or remember 'White Sands'. Another movie I really like from the 90's perhaps because the BBC used to show it all the time, or at least it seemed that way.
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No stairway? Denied!
Enough of this, Mike Myers is now sheeiiiite!
Yeah, I blame Shrek!
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ACG's with cleats???
What, where, how???
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did you not hear, he's going to be in the sequel to a recent movie...
Repped - Teeth is one disturbing movie though!
Might pop down later, will see how it goes.
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I have friends that just got back from Thailand having spent the weeks around the bank holidays in Thailand and Cambodia. They only had 13 days so they didn't venture to Vietnam, instead they went the other way to Phuket to spend the last few days on the beach. I will get the low down and get back to you.