Week In Review: WP7, Siri, Apple TV And Kinect

Windows Phone 7’s Xbox offering and Apple’s Siri platform were both on the receiving end of some heartily felt rants this week, while Apple TV launched TV show purchases in Australia (or did they?) and Kinect voice controls finally went live. Welcome to week in review; the stories that were the highlights of the week from December 5th to December 9th.

Microsoft Needs More On Xbox Live For Windows Phone 7

It’s over a year old, and still Windows Phone 7 doesn’t have any marquee gaming experiences that make it stand up above iOS or Android. Not good enough, given the Xbox branding…
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Rant: Siri Is Apple’s Broken Promise

Even though Siri is in beta, everyone expected it to be the second coming of smartphones. It hasn’t been, and that’s left lots of people disappointed…
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Samsung Flexible OLED Concept Video Shows How Kids Will Waste Time In The Future

Samsung has shown off a video of what it believes flexible OLED displays will be capable of in the future. It’s only a concept, but it’s exciting enough to consider freezing yourself in carbonite to be defrosted when it actually launches.
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How Well Do Kinect Voice Controls Work In Australia?

Kinect voice controls finally launched down under this week, but did all that extra development time help with your awful ocker accent? Apparently yes, according to most of you…
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Apple TV Can Now Stream TV Shows In Australia

Can it? Really? We couldn’t get it to work, but others could. Looks like the update may have been preparing us for TV show purchases, but it hasn’t officially gone live yet. Stay tuned for more…
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Most entertaining story

The Most Perfect Hamburger Makes My Mouth Orgasm

Despite a headline with too much information, the science that went into creating this burger is insane…ly awesome!
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