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Sony Wins The iPhone 7 Content War

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I’m not sure if Sony’s decision to reveal the new PlayStation hardware today and force a head-to-head with Apple’s reveal of the iPhone 7 family is a suicidal marketing move or a tactical masterstroke, but I’m leaning towards the latter. Although the iPhone is going to dominate the digital pages (and is likely to make the main evening news bulletins on television and radio around the world) there’s always going to be a hunger for the story that isn’t about Tim Cook showing off a new iPhone that looks and acts remarkably like last year’s iPhone. With the reveal of

Trivial Posts #19: Chernobyl, Zuul, And An Original Cast Recording

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What I’ve Been Up To Having spent two months with the OnePlus 2 handset, I’ve written up my experiences of the difficult second smartphone from the Shenzhen manufacturer. You can read the long-term review over on Forbes. There’s also some thoughts on Apple Stores as churches, and why Microsoft needs to ignore the MacBook as it promotes the new Surface devices. And I’ve enjoyed reading the following links! Dry Pork Slabs My best man went to Chernobyl and wrote up the experience. A wonderful look at just how bad mankind can make things: Stopping a few kilometres from the reactors

Trivial Posts #2: Concrete arrows, Serial’s listener numbers, and Sean Bean dies

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Everyone seemed to enjoy the first ‘Trivial Posts’ from last week, so let’s do it again . If I’m honest it’s going to take a good few weeks to get established and find its feet so you were always getting Trivial Posts #2 (and it’s probably guaranteed through to the end of January at the very least), So, once more, a collection of posts that brings together interesting posts, ideas, video clips, essays, images, and anything else that catches my eye on the Internet. Don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you never miss anything trivial! A Line Of Arrows Across America

The PSP is leaving the Japanese train station

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As Sony retire the PSP in Japan, I look back at one of my favourite PSP franchises. To me, Densha De Go was the PSP. I’ve moved on to the PS Vita now — that was a Day Zero purchase on the strength of the PSP system, and again the long-lasting games are the ones that attract me (notably another Need for Speed, in this case Most Wanted, and Little Big Planet). But if there was one game (indeed franchise) that I think of when the PSP is mentioned, it’s Densha De Go. Read on at Medium.com.

Reviewing the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet

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Sony continue to iterate their Android line-up to good effect. I reviewed the Xperia Z2 Tablet over the weekend, and while owners of the first Z Tablet don’t need to be looking yet for an upgrade, anyone looking to the market for a new ten-inch Android tablet should seriously consider this tablet. …every piece of hardware is about compromise, and Sony has made different decisions to Samsung, Amazon, and Apple with the Xperia Z2 Tablet. Those decisions (go for a thin design, focus on media consumption, and beef up the IP55 and IP58 protection) have created a distinctive tablet range