Sony Ericcson just announced that they’ve started shipping their latest Android-running Xperia phone, the X10 mini pro. The official retail price hasn’t been released, but preorder listings on online stores have the unlocked unit going for $400, or about a hundred bucks more than the vanilla X10 mini.
Thanks to the likes of the 1960’s cult classic Night of the Living Dead, zombies have found their way into modern literature and into recent years’ more geeky Internet meme-fests. And thanks to the likes of the Resident Evil franchise and World War Z, they’ve pretty much gotten a huge bite out of today’s pop culture. This, perhaps, came out of humanity’s need for a respite from all the gratuitous vampire glitterotica spewing in large doses lately.
And thanks to the likes of Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland and Plants vs. Zombies, media houses have given zombies a somewhat scientifically sound and more humorous approach. And then there’s Zombie Pizza.
Nokia seems to be enjoying the iPhone 4’s “death grip” issues. Days after new iPhone owners have been reporting dropped calls and signal loss caused by holding the phone a certain way (to which Jobs himself just told the fan “not to hold it that way,”), a post over at Nokia Conversations titled “How do you hold your Nokia?” takes a not-so subtle jab at Apple, mentioning that you can hold Nokia phones any way you want—or at least hold it like a phone, which is how it’s supposed to be held, anyway—and you wouldn’t suffer from signal degradation. Oh snap! That’s downright trash talk in the mobile phone world (where trash talk is generally pretty lame compared to the sports world and grade school playgrounds, so pardon us for blowing this totally out of proportion). Especially after Steve Jobs explained that “every phone has these areas of sensitivity.”
Here’s an interesting—albeit limited and somewhat very exclusive—promotion: Samsung is giving away free copies of EA’s Need for Speed Shift mobile game at the Samsung Apps online store. It’s pretty easy to get too; in fact, they’re giving it away to the first 1,200,000 users to download it, so if you’re reading this now, you’ve got a good chance of snagging a hot mobile game for free.
Sorry if it confused your brain-grapes, but that slim, diamond-shaped thing in front of the keyboard isn’t an oddly-shaped flatscreen display. It’s a whole nettop PC by eMachines, actually. Called the Mini-e, this is the first system sold in the US to rock AMD’s new low-power Athlon II Neo processor. Probably not the most powerful nettop around (which should be fine, since if you’re buying a nettop, power shouldn’t be one of your top concerns), but it does look cool, considering what they managed to pack into it.
