WebOS wins. Point blank.
Ok i’ll go into a little more detail. With WebOS the interface is what it should be….. user friendly! Every application is opened in its own little window. When you want to close an application you get rid of that window (flick it off the screen).
With Android each application opens and then you close it, but wait oh its not closed and others are mysteriously running. WTF. So you download Advanced Task Killer app, very hand, and this shows that a whole bunch of app’s are running when you can’t see them in a window or didn’t open them. Annoying.
I’ll admit my Galaxy S2 is much faster than my Palm Pre ever was, the battery kicks its ass (once i figured out how to stop all the social apps syncing all the time and downloaded Advanced Task Killer), the camera is amazing and the app store is huge. But my Palm linked everything. My Facebook to my calendar and contacts, Flixster to my calendar, my emails to my calendar so that I knew exactly what I was doing that day. It was really simple to connect things and control syncing. The way an interface should be.
If someone actually put WebOS on a fast phone with a decent camera, and then convinced a UK service provider to sell it i’d buy it every time.
Gamefest 2011
So i’ll admit i’m not the biggest gamer in the world but my boyfriend Euan is so we went down to Gamefest in Birmingham to check out the latest games coming out. It was held in the NEC which is mentally big, and has crap road signs, but we got there. As you walk in the door I can only describe the scene as the biggest amount of geeks you have ever seen squashed into a room at once. I think the guy girl ratio was about 10 to 1, and half the girls were actually mums being nice.
The room was divided into areas, Xbox, Playstation etc and then the huge games had there own stalls. The first place we went was MW3, and after queuing for about an hour and a half (which wasn’t bad!) we got into play it. I say we, I stood and watched, but it was still pretty cool. Once that game was played we just wondered about the rest of the afternoon and had some fun.
Overall my favourite game was the new F1. Mainly because you got to sit in a racing chair with pedals to play it, but the graphics were amazing. A close second was the new Mario Kart for the DS. Really good fun.
Some new sites.
Over the past few months I have been working on a couple of sites. Both are WordPress sites designed for very different clients. One is a site re-design and the other a new site.
Depthcharge is a re-design of a html site. This new site lets the DJ’s update their upcoming gigs.
Car Trade Scotland is a new site designed to show cars for sale. Each car needs a description and pictures, which are in a lightbox. Each new post is a new car with a contact form on each for customers to ask questions.