Sword, Action, Blood and Kojima!. That’s what we need to have a pure bloody action game from Kojima. This game was first announced at E3 2010 and it was called as Metal Gear: Rising and I think I like it more than this one. Oh and the title is longer now. They added the Revengeance word in there. Metal Gear: Rising was better. It will be available this 2012 on Xbox 360 and PS3
As I told you in my earlier post. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S is one of the most sexiest smartphones around. I tried it for just a week and I just love it. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S (I shall call it X-Arc S or SEX Arc S) is just an upgraded version of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. The phone still features a sleek and slim profile just like the original one, the only difference between the two is that the SEX Arc S has a faster 1.4 ghz and has more variant colors.
Sexy oh-la-la
Of all the smartphones I tried, I think Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S is the sexiest of them all. The curve body and the arc back cover was so sweet. I just fell in love with it. Because of its thin profile, I always feel that this phone is prone to breakage. The chrome-y sides makes the phone look sexier but I don’t like the pure plastic body of it. But I think they choose that to make the phone lighter. Oh and I almost forgot!, this phone is soooooo light. for its size. I love it.
Sooo thin Baby!
The hardware keys
Camera
the HD Camera
Sony Ericsson has been known for creating devices with excellent camera quality. And just like the one that we reviewed earlier, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray (we called that as X-ray the Exmor-R equipped camera didn’t failed me. The camera of the X-Arc S isn’t good, it is great!. Even at low light conditions the camera still manage to have a bright pictures. And at normal conditions, the contrast and saturations went well too. I believed that it is better than the images taken by iPhone 4 and Galaxy S II (except that 1080p video recording. Geeez).
Another feature that I like about some of the 2011 Xperia line of phones is the 3D sweep panorama. Creating a panorama shot in the Xperia Arc S is so easy, you just have to sweep your phone slowly from left to right and kaboom! you’ll have a 3D panorama picture. Too bad, You can only view the 3D panorama picture when connected on a 3D TV. Anyway here are some of the pictures that was taken using the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S:
The picture is well saturated
Excellent at Low light conditions!
Giant Lego Christmas tree!
Using the 3D Sweep Panorama!
Oh and here’s a video of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S. It can only record a HD 720@30 fps. Yep the upgrade isn’t a dual core processor, they just bumped up the processor by 40% (You can compute that easily, you don’t need a calculator!). I don’t think there is a drop in frame rates. The video is still smooth at low light.:
The 1.4ghz performance
The Xperia 2011 line of phones almost have the same specifications. All of them used a Qualcomm Scorpion processor. From Xperia Mini to Xperia Arc, all of them used a 1 ghz processor except for this one. This one uses the same processor but this one is overclocked by 40% (I was a bit disappointed, they should have made it to a Tegra 2 just like the Sony Tablets).
This is what I hate with Sony Ericsson. They released a single core phone when the high end phones on the market is already on dual cores. And until now, they still don’t have a dual core phone (I think they’ll be releasing one early next year, The Sony Ericsson Nozomi. BUT THERE WILL BE QUAD CORE DEVICES NEXT YEAR!!!). I still don’t know if they’ll change their strategy since Sony already bought the remaining shares of Ericsson.
Anyway, the performance on the Xperia Arc S was good. I rarely felt some slowdowns on the device. Most of the time when I open the Timescape, it take a second or two before it loads completely.
Battery Life
The battery life was good. At normal use, I reach 1-2 days before the battery died on me
Verdict
I loved how Sony Ericsson created this phone. It has a large screen, easy to hold and thin. Too bad they only used a plastic body (which makes the phone less solid and prone to breakage). The camera was excellent even at low light. I think It can even replace your point and shoot camera. I was disappointed because they just used the same processor which was just overclocked by 40%. The high-end market is on Dual core Sony Ericsson!. Anyway, I still think that this phone is great.
Boys and girls!. We’ll be extending the JAM Online Giveaway so that there will be more people who can join especially this Christmas break. So what are you waiting for?. Haven’t joined the contest? join now and get a chance to win a EUROO EMS-3000 speaker!. Oh I almost forgot, you can join the giveaway here: http://www.jeromeancheta.com/2011/11/jam-online-giveaway-euroo-ems-3000.html
Last wednesday (the day before my birthday). HTC invited us to witness the launching of the 3 newest phones in their 2011 family of phones — HTC Radar, Rhyme and Explorer. The HTC Rhyme and Explorer are equipped with Android with the latest HTC Sense while the HTC Radar is a Windows Phone 7 Mango phone. The Explorer targets those people who have a tight budget while the HTC Rhyme are made especially for girls (Yeah thanks to that charm accessory).
A lot of bloggers that I know and some celebrities attended the event. Anyway, here are some of the pictures in the event
Our friends at Widget City has now posted on their Facebook Pagethat they’ll be selling those Blackberry phones that were announced at Indonesia last month — the Blackberry 9380 and 9790. The Blackberry Curve 9380 is the first BB Curve to feature a missing QWERTY keyboard while the other one is the cheaper version of the Blackberry Bold Touch that BB users had been craving for. Anyway, you can order a BB 9380 and 9790 starting tonight at Widget City.
Twitter just introduced its new design for their website and I think it would be more user-friendly than their past layouts. Oh and this one is soooo clean and modern. I really like the design, too bad I haven’t tested it yet personally because it isn’t out yet. Oh and the mobile app for iOS and Android has been changed too!. There are now new tabs to choose from — Home, Connect, Discover and Me. Anyway if you want to know more about the new layout of Twitter, you can check it out here: http://fly.twitter.com/ . Oh and there’s a video after the break!
When I asked my friends what do they think of HTC. They told me that they create a phone which has excellent design and structure but it is too expensive for them. They’re right, most of the HTC phones ranges from 10k(HTC Wildfire S) – 30k(HTC Titan). But there are some affordable phones from HTC like the HTC ChaCha, HTC Wildfire S and the HTC Explorer. HTC explorer is an Android phone with 600 mhz scorpion processor with the latest HTC Sense 3.5 compared to HTC Wildfire S’ Sense 2.1. Oh and it has a 3.2 Megapixel camera sensor (Which I think is too looooow). I recommend this phone for those who want to have their first smartphones.
HTC Explorer Specifications
102.8 x 57.2 x 12.9 mm, 108 g TFT capacitive touchscreen, 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
HTC Sense UI 3.5 90 MB storage w/ MicroSD up to 32 GB
512 MB RAM
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
HSDPA
3.2 Megapixel camera w/ 480p video recording Qualcomm MSM7227 600 MHz Scorpion w/ Adreno 200 Li-Ion 1230 mAh battery
This christmas Nokia is doing their part to help those children have a very happy and cheerful christmas by giving us a way to send an ecard to our friends and loved ones by just using our laptops, tablets and phones. Just go to http://www.nokia.com/ecard, type in the name of the recipient, write your Christmas greeting and press ‘send’. And you know what, Nokia will be giving a donation for every card sent and opened.
So what are you waiting for?. Give an ecard now and help those kids!
Excited for Ice Cream Sandwich?. If you are then you might want to get this phone at Widget City!, the Galaxy Nexus!. Obviously, this phone is made by Samsung (Look at that, it has Galaxy in its name!). It is the first phone to receive the much awaited Ice cream sandwich update by Google. Some of the features that I like about this phone is the curve 4.65″ HD screen. Yep, it has a 1280 x 720 (that’s bigger than my first laptop, the Dell inspiron 2500!). Anyway if you want to know more about the specs of the Galaxy Nexus, you can check it out here. If you want to buy one at Widget City for P38,800 just click here!
Good news for PS3 owners!. If you are drooling and wanting to have a PS Vita AKA PSP2, then you might just want to drool more because the PS Vita will be allowed to stream PS3 games straight to your PS Vita. Well, there’s one thing that I don’t really like about it, the resolution is stuck at PSP resolution. That’s 480 x 272 compared to PS Vita’s 960 x 544 resolution
Well, you just need a firmware update to your PS3 to enable this (which I think will be available soon). You can do this as long as the PS3 and the PS Vita is connected to the internet and I think you really need a fast internet to enjoy playing PS3 games on your PS Vita. Here’s a video of Killzone 3 on the PS Vita after the break