Toys R Us & Walmart’s August 12 Sunday Ads confirm a $50 price cut on the Xbox 360. Images available within.
These ads confirm the Hollywood Reporter’s scoop that a $50 price cut would begin in early August. Currently, it is uncertain if the $50 price cut is only valid for the $400 Premium system.
read more | digg story
The awaited Chatpad (which was announced back in May) has been priced and now has its own page up on Xbox.com.
* Chat on Xbox LIVE with ease featuring dedicated keys to letters and characters.
* Don’t hamper your style—the Xbox 360 Chatpad attaches seamlessly to your Xbox 360 Controller.
* Backlit buttons allow you to accurately type words even in dimly lit environments.
* Messenger Kit includes the Xbox 360 Wired Headset for the ultimate communication bundle.
Not sure why, but newton.com now points towards Apple.com
Is Apple in the process of producing an Apple Newton? Will it be a suped-up iPhone? Who knows! I’ll report more as I find out.
Virtua Fighter 5 for the Xbox360 will indeed have online play. Not only that, but the game will be the latest arcade version and will feature an expanded quest and dojo mode.
read more | digg story
Gotta give props to cheapassgamer.com
You read it right. $100 price drop for the Sony Playstation 3 coming July 12th.
I wonder if we can expect lines and armed robbery again.
read more | digg story
According to an open letter to the 360 community by Peter Moore:
You’ve spoken, and we’ve heard you. Good service and a good customer experience are areas of the business that we care deeply about. And frankly, we’ve not been doing a good enough job.
Microsoft is extending the warranty of all Xbox 360 units to 3 years. This is in response to the recent reports of Xbox 360s breaking down and requiring service.
The full open letter is below the break.
(more…)
This list of iPhone disappointments continues to be posted to forums. One such forum post grabbed front page on digg. Here are some key points. Click “read more” for a link to the full list.
1. Bluetooth is ONLY good for connecting a headset. That’s it.
2. There is no file browser on the device at all. Data must be organized (if at all) in the appropriate application.
3. The camera is a simple application that has ONE button: the shutter. Pictures come out okay on the device, but nothing too fancy on a monitor, especially if it was an attempt at a macro shot.
5. Web browser is slow, even over WLAN. Even the simple OneList web app that was created takes around 20 seconds to load over WLAN. You can not highlight, cut, copy, or paste and text from a website, and you can not save any images you find from a website either. The only nice thing about it is the tabbed browsing, which crashed on me when I went to Engadget and YouTube on two tabs. This is the only application that allows you to use the keyboard in landscape mode.
6. The keyboard sucks. It gets slightly better after the iPhone “learns” you, as the employees said, but even then, it’s not a device you can use with one hand comfortably, much less without looking.
10. The only form of customization outside of a lame default ringtone is the wallpaper, which you’ll only see when you need to unlock the device or when you get a phone call.
11. “Picture pinching” or using two fingers to zoom on any content is certainly fun to play with, but not practical whatsoever. This operation depends solely on using the device with two hands.
12. No document editor or native viewer. You can not store documents on the device to be viewed, they can only be viewed as attachments when they’re sent to your in an email.
13. Visual voicemail is laggy and reacts about the same way as pushing the fast forward and rewind buttons on traditional voicemail systems. The only advantage is for those that get that many voicemail messages a day that they need to sort them according to priority.
14. No games.
15. No voice dialing.
16. No speed dialing (which can be made up by the “quick list”, but getting to that quick list isn’t as fast as holding a single key on a real keypad).
17. No video.
18. No MMS.
read more | digg story
Powered by WordPress