Sony’s Kaz Hirai talks up virtues of touch controls, weighs in on PlayStation phone
The PlayStation phone keeps popping up time and again, and still no one at Sony is going to flat-out admit anything — but that hasn’t stopped stopped playful speculation. Even SCE chief Kaz Hirai is joining in the fun. “We don’t want gamers to be asking, what’s the difference between that [a PS phone] and a PSP… we have to come up with a message that users will understand,” he told The New York Times. “It would have to be a product that keeps the PlayStation‘s strengths intact.” So that’s the issue, then, differentiating a new PSP and a variant with phone capabilities — nothing a good marketing campaign can’t fix, if you ask us.
But enough about the phone, what of the PlayStation‘s portable brand in general? Hirai seems to fancy touch controls, actually. “Depending on the game, there are ones where you can play perfectly well with a touch panel,” he said, adding that “immersive games” — the ones he think are Sony’s focus, vs. the more casual fare offered by Apple and Android — do well with physical buttons, and that some games work well with the two. We can’t help but notice he said touch panel and not touch screen, which reminds us of the touchpad we saw on the PS phone leaks, but we wouldn’t want to harp too much.
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I bought some apps on the android marketplace on my new HTC Desire with a card, and it was saved to my account, but now I want to remove this card, how do i go about doing this?
49/365 (Android pesadilla)
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3:27 A.M. Steve jobs se encuentra durmiendo en su nueva cama con forma de Ipad (cómoda, de mucha calidad, con un tacto inmejorable), pero está sudando y se mueve de un lado a otro… está teniendo una pesadilla…."El muñecote de Android le está persiguiendo y da la impresión que pronto le va a hincar el diente"….
Steve se despierta gritando "NOOOOOO… POR LOS CLAVOS DE CRISTO… QUE ME COME".. pero sobre la marcha se da cuenta que todo era una simple pesadilla.
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3:27 A.M. Steve Jobs is sleeping on his new iPad-shaped bed [comfortable, high quality, the softer in the world], sweating and shaking…He is having a nightmare: the Android guy is chasing him and will soon catch and eat him…
Steve woke up shouting "NOOOOOO… FOR CHRIST’S SPIKES… IT’S GONNA EAT ME!!!", but soon he realises it was just a bad dream.
Strobist info: YN460 a 1/8 de potencia a la derecha de la cámara y bote de pringles con tela difusora.
Paper Toys:
Steve Jobs
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Controls, Hirai, phone, playstation, Sony's, talks, touch, virtues, weighs
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Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, battery case, continues-apace, fashion, handy, incase, iphone 4, iphone4case, liking, mistress, result, snapbattery, snapbatterycase, touch
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Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: accessory, apple, browse-the-app, dreamworks, games, iphone, ipodtouch, result, touch, viewmaster
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Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: continuum, event-happening, hummingbird, samsung, samsung-mobile, touch, verizon-wireless
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Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: avi, cinexplayer, iphoneapp, ipodtouch, smaller-variant, touch, xvid
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Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple peel 520, Capabilities, engadget, formally-bring, gentleman, ipod, ipod-touch, ipodtouch, peel, pre-order, preorder, sorely-tempted, suspicions, touch, yosiontechnology
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Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: awareness, engadget, environmental, essency, filters-outside, headphoneapp, iphone, ipod-touch, ipodtouch, levels, touch
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Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, blood, entry, event, iphone, ipodtouch, neighborhood, streamlined, touch
Nokia C3 Touch and Type hands-on
Nokia continued the precedent set by the X3-02 at Nokia World last week by rolling out the C3 Touch and Type, its second Series 40 -based handset to make use of that pretty unusual touchscreen / numeric keypad combo. Unlike the X3-02, the the new C3 variant features a more traditional keypad layout by dropping the *0# row down below the 789 row, but since T9 only makes use of the first three rows to do its thing, it shouldn't make much of a different in practice for typing usability
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: below-the-789, budget, c3 touch and type, c3touchandtype, entry, keypad, layout, money, nokia world, nokiaworld2010, precedent, resistive-touch, series 40, touch
Apple patent app hints at iPod-based phones, Peel 520 turns shades of green, red, blue and yellow
Looking for that elusive CDMA iPhone?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: accessory, apple, apple peel 520, applepatent, applepeel520, cdma, chinese, colors-at-least, cupertino, device, requisite, telephone, touch