I am a gadget fan. I love gadgets. But only when they're worthy of the name.
My phone contract expired in August after 3 long years with the same old Sony W910i phone.
It's a great bit of kit, to be sure but I've only had it for 3 years because my last upgrade - an HTC Touch Dual - was an utterly unusable bag of arse. So poor in fact that I only used it for 3 weeks before giving up.
So my next one has to be 100% definitely the bomb as my 910i won't last another 18 months.
Sony have, since may been touting the Satio. An all-singing, all dancing monster of a phone that'll make the evil iphone look like a bag of arse.
I've read reviews, leaks, rumours etc for 6 months getting more and more excited at the thought of finally getting my paws on a new bit of Sony kit. (I'm a bit of a fanboy you see.)
I was slightly put off when it was finally released on Vodafone a week or so ago with people saying that although the camera is great, it plays music and videos really well and is a good phone, that the touch interface is cruddy and unrepsonsive and very very slow. But then I figured that was just sad apple-fans hating the idea of a challenge to their favourite wank-pad.
Yesterday, it was finally finally released on Orange. I went to my local Orange shop at lunchtime desperate to get my hands on the demo model, confident of rubber stamping my desire to have this bit of multi-media gold as my friend, confidant, recorder of experience, map, communicator, entertainment centre and life organiser for the next 18 months. 18 months that will see the biggest change in my life since I moved out of home.
And...
...It's bollocks. You need a hammer to make any of the touch screen icons work. The virtual keypad is as responsive as a comatose sloth and the screens change in geological time. It's totally counter-intuative, far too complicated and in real life looks about half as good as it does in the adverts. There was almost a tear in my eye as I realised the horrible horrible truth.
I'm going to have to get a fucking iphone, aren't I? Fuck.
My phone contract expired in August after 3 long years with the same old Sony W910i phone.
It's a great bit of kit, to be sure but I've only had it for 3 years because my last upgrade - an HTC Touch Dual - was an utterly unusable bag of arse. So poor in fact that I only used it for 3 weeks before giving up.
So my next one has to be 100% definitely the bomb as my 910i won't last another 18 months.
Sony have, since may been touting the Satio. An all-singing, all dancing monster of a phone that'll make the evil iphone look like a bag of arse.
I've read reviews, leaks, rumours etc for 6 months getting more and more excited at the thought of finally getting my paws on a new bit of Sony kit. (I'm a bit of a fanboy you see.)
I was slightly put off when it was finally released on Vodafone a week or so ago with people saying that although the camera is great, it plays music and videos really well and is a good phone, that the touch interface is cruddy and unrepsonsive and very very slow. But then I figured that was just sad apple-fans hating the idea of a challenge to their favourite wank-pad.
Yesterday, it was finally finally released on Orange. I went to my local Orange shop at lunchtime desperate to get my hands on the demo model, confident of rubber stamping my desire to have this bit of multi-media gold as my friend, confidant, recorder of experience, map, communicator, entertainment centre and life organiser for the next 18 months. 18 months that will see the biggest change in my life since I moved out of home.
And...
...It's bollocks. You need a hammer to make any of the touch screen icons work. The virtual keypad is as responsive as a comatose sloth and the screens change in geological time. It's totally counter-intuative, far too complicated and in real life looks about half as good as it does in the adverts. There was almost a tear in my eye as I realised the horrible horrible truth.
I'm going to have to get a fucking iphone, aren't I? Fuck.
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