O2 Drops Unlimited Data

UK phone network O2 has scrapped unlimited data downloads for smartphone customers.

news.bbc.co.uk—10285910.stm

All new and upgrading customers will have their usage capped at between 500 Megabytes (MB) and one gigabyte (GB) depending on their monthly tariff.

shop.o2.co.uk—tariffs.html

Inevitable?

Would have liked a price drop for a lesser service

O2 has said that the changes will affect just 3% of its 21m customers, who will have to pay additional charges for their data use.

"That 3% are using something like 36% of the data capacity of 02's network," said Mr Wood. "If O2 get it right, everybody will get a better service."

Other changes - unlimited texts....

MMS now 20p per message instead of a number of texts from your allowance

Price for old handsets were excellent though - £180 for 3g, £255 for 3GS

Hopefully this will see speeds maintained or increased over the short term

Is this very much different to their old fair use policy, but just more honest?

iPhone 4 and iOS 4

16GB - £499, 32GB - £599

store.apple.com—iphone

Unlocked, no white

Bumper - £25 !!!!!!!!

Apple online store swamped - much demand then?

600,000 pre-orders

mashable.com—iphone-4-pre-order-stats

Great spreadsheet showing cost options

spreadsheets.google.com—ccc

Vodafone looking good option

O2 not accepting new customers until end of July - existing customers only although that includes broadband customers

iOS now out

Same as gold master released on day of WWDC keynote

Gorgeous design. Tiny. Still no blu-ray. Unibody - No need for spatula’s

www.apple.com—macmini

Fast

Expensive!

If you’ve got the cash it’s a great HDTV device

Call of Duty Black Ops

9/11/10

Downloads first on 360 for 3 years

Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid)

MGS Rising

Sword action - cut what you like

Gears of War 3

4 player co-op

More of the same

Fable 3

Oct 26th

Mmm...more of the same but a revolution

Halo Reach

September

Niiiice

Kinect - Brand name for Project Natal

Sign in by waving :-)

Voice recognition

Looks to work well

Video Kinect - video chat

Tracks you as you move around

ESPN - gold members for free

Kinectimals - virtual pet

Kinect Sports - from Rare? Hurdles (track and field), football, bowling, boxing, table tennis, volleyball

Kinect joyride - racing but shit racing

Kinect adventures - use entire body to play - hole in the wall - piss

Your Shape from Ubisoft - fitness game

measures physical dimensions

looks interesting

Dance Central - match dance moves to onscreen characters - new Rock Band?

Kinect For Xbox 360

Brand name for Project Natal

Launched this year - Nov 4th in USA

Star Wars next year - we can all be the fat kid being a jedi :-)

Pre-order via Game for £20 - no pricing this week!!

Forza with kinect - virtual steering wheel, head turns camera

Walk up to an around car - why couldn’t I do that with a joypad

Coming 2011 - assuming thats Forza 4

New Xbox 360

Built in wifi N

250GB

Same price - £199

Whisper quiet allegedly

5 usb, hdmi, port for kinect

Shipping to retailers today

Available later this week

Everyone in audience gets a new console

First reports - it is quiet and it’s a good redesign

July 16th in UK

Goldeneye - Wii exclusive

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - 2011

Nintendo 3DS

3D screen on top

No glasses required

Verdict - gives a good illusion of depth - stare at the screen, don’t more head or effect is gone

Touch screen on the bottom - touch and 3D don’t get along

There's a motion sensor and a gyro sensor in the 3DS. There's one camera on the inside, and two camera lenses on the outside, so you can take 3D photos.

Will show 3D Hollywood movies

Kid Icarus demo’d - looks like a Wii game...on a 3DS

3D is the big push

Wipeout looks amazing, other games not so - too much happening

Move

40 devs working on Move games

Sep 19th launch, $50, nv controller - $30, move+eye - $99

Demo with Tiger Woods - looks very accurate

Playstation Plus

Exclusive in-game DLC and other content

Free full games, changing each month

Early access to demos and betas

Auto-patching feature, which will detect, download and install updates

$49 a year

Also includes Qore

Allows chatting across games

Will work if only one person is a plus member

GT5 - Nov 2nd...............2010

Killzone 3 next year - 3D and Move support

3D looks amazing

arstechnica.com—killzone-3-in-3d-incredible-but-who-will-get-to-enjoy-it.ars

Portal 2

Next year and also steam cloud support

PS3 will have ‘best version’ according to Valve

steam provides the game with "auto updates, community features, downloadable content, and more."

Meh unless you like gimmicky add-ons

Missing titles - Last Guardian? Nothing from Valve apart from Portal...next year

Lot’s of remakes and this year editions

one more thing...

Secret of Mana on the iPhone in 2010

www.joystiq.com—secret-of-mana-coming-to-iphone-this-year

Crackdown 2 demo out today

Fast, less laggy than expected

gizmodo.com—onlive-streaming-game-service-tested-at-home-finally

Fuzzy graphics

Compressed - PS2 like

Provided your internet is fast enough and you can deal with the fact that the graphical quality isn't as good as it could be, this is quite a tempting offer. You gain the ability to able to play stuff on lousy hardware (and Macs!), spectate your friends and rent games instead of buy them, but lose a little bit of visual sheen. I think that's fair.

We did warn about this

Yahoo and HP tie up to print ad’s directly to printers

So not only do I pay extra for this printer, you then use up my expensive ink printing an ad I might not want