Well, lists of links and commentary are almost as good as opinion and life-stories, right?

[fhtagn]

For many years now the ultimate question has, contrary to Adams, been known: What is beer? Curiously, it falls to an American marketing campaign to tell us.

I have recently upgraded my mobile phone. Well, what I actually did was dither about between my two choices (The HTC One X and the Samsung Galaxy S II) and then eventually click on box to

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[1st_law]

The Samsung has an OLED screen, it does. Consequently everyone here in the office seems to have one.

Of course I'm quite happy with my brand new iPhone...

[fhtagn]

::laughs:: I can quite confidently say that neither screen resolution nor properties nor composition were of any significance in my decision making whatsoever. I did not know that about it.

[1st_law]

Thanks for confirming my belief that our striving to increase efficiency, improve colour, viewing angle and daylight readablity goes completely unnoticed by the great unwashed. The only thing that might get their attention is reducing the price, but I suspect that goes into the pocket of my evil corperate overlords.

[fhtagn]

My pleasure. I'm afraid that whilst the improvements may well be wonderous, I just take it for granted that such things happen in the background. My currnet phone has a lovely display, and anything which claims to be better or indeed just more recent is therefore good enough. Upgradability, processor power, and things like NFC-capability - those are interesting. The display just needs to be be able to display text at an adequate resolution.

That said, I don't use my phone for video, or gaming or any of these fancy new-fangled hobbies they're trying to invent for people to justify their markets. I imagine that when the hardcore mobile gamer appears, these things will be dissected with all the passion they normally apply. And then bypassed to use picoprojectors and AR, in all probability, because people are fickle and toys need to be different.

[1st_law]

I think the mobile gamers are already here. They're listing the iPad as a "platform" just like an xbox and full-on mobile RPGs with FMV and the works are already for sale.

[fhtagn]

Ouch. Kids these days, how times change, wow I'm old etc.