Alex Atkin UK

I refuse to touch Qualcomm after the Xperia X1 lack of GPU acceleration BS. I just don't trust them.

You sell a SoC it should include all necessary drivers to make it work properly, or at least enough information to write your own.

You can't beat TI, they have been in this business for a loooong time and really know their stuff.

@Jack0817

Built-in wireless a selling point perhaps?
Also newer players generally are quicker and use less power.

Also its smaller:
16.9"(W)" x 1.7" (H) x 8.8" (D)
vs BD-P3600
17.32" x 2.17" x 9.84"

@ToniCipriani

Kinda missing the point I think.

This is not a case of "I will buy an N900 to use as bluetooth keyboard" its a case of "I already own an N900, oh wicked I can use it instead of buying a bluetooth keyboard AS WELL".

I don't think anyone is claiming its a sole selling point of the N900.

This is the problem the N900 has. People are too busy running things on it that are pointless that it still is missing software that is actually useful. :(

@theone2000

The keyboard on the Universal does seem overkill to me. Personally the best keyboard I have used was on my HTC Wizard, never had any problems with it. I wish they had put that on the N900 as particularly if they also bumped the screen up to 4.3", it would be that much bigger.

In fact, if the N900 had just one more row it would probably be fine. Its the missing row that made special character layout none-standard that tends to trip me up.

Hmmm, how much is wrong with those comments.

The PS3 does not have the best games (my favourite games include Crackdown and Fable 2) and unless you only just bought one does not run whisper quiet (though granted, not quite as loud as my 360 but still the fan goes nuts once half way through a movie) and no it doesn't have the RROD, it has the yellow light of death instead which is an identical problem to what causes the RROD.

The only good thing about 24p is that these 120Hz TVs happily convert it to 48fps. How they then update the screen smoothly I do not know, nor care, but it looks infinitely more pleasant than 24fps. I hate going to the cinema now, its juddery, blurry and too dull. I really do not understand cinema purists as in my opinion, modern HDTVs are far superior, much more comfortable on the eyes.

Sure, there are artifacts as inventing none-existent frames can never be perfect, but at 24fps there is such drastic differences from one frame to the next that I feel dizzy and you can't make out the detail in the scene anyway (this is at the cinema as well as HDTV). The higher the frame-rate, the smoother the transition, the more detail you can perceive. There is even talk of Hollywood adopting 48fps as soon as its cost effective to do so. People forget, 24fps only exists because it was the worst frame-rate they could get away with, it was about money, the cost of film, how quickly the camera can expose the film, it was NEVER about being the best frame-rate for human viewing. Just like how MP3 is "good enough" for most people, its not ideal by any means, as is 24fps.

All these people who say the PSN store is better, what planet are you on?

Is it easy to find a list of PS3 demos only, NOPE.

Is it easy to identify a title at a glance, only if you recognise the thumbnail. So to me that's a big NO again. Why would I recognise the art of a game I haven't played yet?

Is it quick to download, HELL NO. I was flabbergasted at how many menus it takes to just download something from PSN store and after all that, you STILL have to install it once its done. It takes a LOT longer than on Live.

Just downloading Lemmings was a trauma. I bought it, downloaded and was puzzled that it wasn't in the list. I then saw the filesize and thought "hand on, the trial is much bigger, maybe I need that first" so I download that and behold that did the trick. But it STILL displays Trial Version even thought its the full version. How is that clearer than how the 360 works? Its not.

Also, the PS3 menu system is great initially but once you have a few files on your PS3 its unmanageable. Why cant I put my videos in directories? They have some cheek slagging off Live when their UI and marketplace has even LESS categories so its harder to find stuff. With my 1080p TV in for repair its even worse, the icons are too small on a 32" at 720p.

So to all of you saying Microsoft could learn from Sony, what drugs are you on? At first I agreed but having USED the PS3 for a few weeks I have already found it cumbersome whereas the 360 is so much easier to use.
At least on 360 I can list ONLY Arcade games, or ONLY demos whereas on PS3 its just one looooooong list so finding anything takes careful browsing. If I ever have as much stuff on PS3 as I have on my 360 it will be painful.
For a start, by comparison the Playstation Store has very little on it.

Sony, you can laugh at de-listing once you have even close to as much content as Microsoft. You are only making yourselves look foolish right now. I don't see you with 100+ downloadable full-games, I was really disappointed when I signed up for PSN and found how little was on offer as I truely thought your store WAS better than Live, until I experienced it for myself.

This system is pure crap, seriously.

I mean the Eyetoy worked brilliant .... in carefully controlled conditions. In my house however its next to useless as it picks up reflections off all the furniture and I do not have a big enough house to create an "Eyetoy safe room".

So yeah, in theory all these things can be done. But the REASON why it has to be done with silly glasses/headware is to make it work in ANY house regardless of what junk might otherwise confuse a camera.

About region coding. True, most people do not know what it is. However people adopting HD formats right now are MORE likely to know, because its mostly techno geeks that MUST have their movies in HD NOW.

The kind of people who haven't a clue about region coding are also not going to know the difference between a HD-DVD and a Blu-ray so have more serious matters to think about. In fact, a lot of those people will avoid HD entirely because they wont even perceive an improvement in the picture quality.

Theres a certain kind of person adopting HD right now, its the kind that likely DO know about region coding unless they got ended up with a Blu-ray player purely from buying a PS3. Its one reason why Sony promote ignorance too, by giving people a product they do not really understand.