Posts by Matt Buchanan
Random Stuff
The Real Most Important News From The Chrome OS Event (Not)
4:34PM Matt Buchanan | Forget Chrome OS. The two things you actually need to know from today’s Google event? Sergey Brin wears Vibram Five Finger shoes. And carries a Motorola Droid, not a super secret phone we’ve never seen before. See? More »
Screens
Giz Explains: The Difference Between A $US600 TV And A $US6000 TV
7:20AM Matt Buchanan | You can buy an HDTV, a nice big one, for six hundred bucks. Or you can pay six thousand. It’s presumably somehow better. You’re probably wondering, “What the hell makes it better?” Here’s the breakdown. More »
Phones
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Hands On: Why Aren’t My Pants On Fire?
8:40AM Matt Buchanan | I’ve been wondering why there hasn’t been drooling, crazy-eyed hype for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10, which sounds like a wet dream on paper: Android, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, awesome 8-megapixel camera, massive 800×480 and a very pretty interface. I know now. More »
Phones
Sony Ericsson’s Custom Android Interface Is Called Nexus
5:03AM Matt Buchanan | Sony Ericsson’s custom interface for Android on the X10 — and other OSes, like Symbian and Windows Mobile in time — is going to be called Nexus. Like other custom UIs du jour, it’ll integrate a bunch of services, like for social networking. More »
Phones
Samsung Behold II Non-Review: Oh God, The Ugly
9:40AM Matt Buchanan | Samsung’s Behold II is the most impressively ugly Android phone in existence. The custom interface is so bad, so gaudy and so confusing it turned my brains into ooze. More »
Games
Slaughtering Nazi Zombies Not As Insanely Fun On iPhone
5:30PM Matt Buchanan | For some reason, shanking a Nazi zombie and watching a mist blood spray across the screen, with five more waiting to gnaw my arm off in a dark, disgusting prison cell just isn’t as much fun on the iPhone. More »
Software
Adobe Flash 10.1 And AIR 2.0 Betas Released: Life Is Better Now
4:11PM Matt Buchanan | The first betas of Adobe Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 — delivering full GPU acceleration for buttery smooth Flash video playback and multitouch gesture support — are out. You should get them now. More »
Phones
Palm Pixi Review
9:20AM Matt Buchanan | Why prance around it? The Palm Pixi’s very existence is pointless. More »
Peripherals
The World’s Smallest 16GB Flash Drive And Oh Hey, Sarah Palin
1:53AM Matt Buchanan | Somehow the presence of a winking Sarah Palin does not make me any more inclined to believe in the veracity of Wink’s claim to be the tiniest 16GB flash drive “on the planet”. But maybe it is, have a look. More »
Design
