Shopping for the iPhone or iPod Touch

Black Friday has come and gone and as usual madness and chaos ensued in many places. Now we have Cyber Monday where the only issue you are likely to encounter is a slowdown of your internet connection due to so many people shopping online at once.

iPhone or Storm it all depends on your needs

RIM or should I say Verizon has finally let loose the Storm across the U.S. Now, I could go on and continue with what I see as an energy wasting debate over which is better; the iPhone or the Storm but I won’t. There are enough articles out there for that. Suffice it to say the iPhone is mainly a consumer device and the Blackberry Storm is mainly a business device and both overlap into each others playground. While neither device is perfect and have their differences I think it is more important to realize that both devices do fill a void for many users. That void is a smartphone with a full touch-screen display, designed from a mobile device perspective not a computer perspective. I also give credit to both Apple and RIM for tackling the same problems but taking different approaches to solving them without giving up their different perspectives or entirely alienating their current user’s needs.

Sony PlayStation Portable System Update v5.02

Sony’s PSP is a very good portable gaming and entertainment system but has been plagued by one thing. Slow load times. This I have found to be quite unacceptable when trying to get in a quick game of Star Wars Battlefront for example. Loading a UMD and listening to it spin, then watching the screen as it goes through it’s start up routine is incredibly painful and very annoying. Being just a casual gamer, I could just imagine how you hardcore gamers must feel going through this process.