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Jo Lively

June 18, 2005

Probably the biggest living well promotion to hit Australian televisions since "Life be in" it is Jo Lively's more all round message of "Eat Well, Live Well, Play Well", something I wish I did.

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Of course my generation were a bit young for life be in it, and now we're a bit old for Jo Lively's message, so I officially feel screwed. Ahh well.

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W800i

June 17, 2005

Sony Ericsson make some of the best phones, and their recently announced models do not dissapoint.

My favourite of these models is the W800i. Why?

It's a camera (with print quality @ 2 megapixels), phone (tri band) and MP3 player in one. Not only that it takes memory cards up to 1GB and is supplied with a 512MB one. The only thing to disapoint is that instead of going with a standard like SD (aparrently the PS3 will support SD), the W800i only supports Sony's heavily overpriced Memory Stick Duo. It's not really that much expensive, but when you're buying 1GB of it, the small percentage is quite a bit of money I could spend on music.

The good points is that it supports MP3 and AAC unlike sony's failed attempts at MP3 players in the past which required the use of their propietry Atrac 3 plus format. The only disapointing thing is it doesn't appear to support WMA, but AAC is just as good and you can use iTunes to convert to the format sans-DRM.

The phone is a step in the right direction, and while it looks great (I love orange), it isn't completely right, but I also felt that about the SD format when it was first released in order to squash consumer rights.

Unfortunately I won't be able to afford this phone as the inclusion of a 512MB card seems to indicate it will premier at retail at between $600 and $1000 AUD (speculation mine).

Sony have a real opportunity to make camera phones right with the inclusion of a 2MP camera, the largest I have seen advertised attached to a phone, and combined with Sony's CCD and lense technology it isn't likely to disappoint for a camera phone, though it still isn't likely to rival a dedicated Camera with a proper lense. Also aparrently a first among camera phones is the inclusion of an autofocus on the camera, so no more taking out of focus pictures.

Whats more it that it can pump out a massive 15 hours of music with the phone turned on! This figure rivals the iPods rediculously inflated claim of 12 hours.

While it could seriously replace your iPod shuffle, the fact is the camera in phones is still much to be desired compared to dedicated camera. But who can complain at only a fraction the size and weight of a real camera. It will be classed as a good enough to take everywhere, good enough for prints (6x4's)and the web. But it isn't good enough to have the pictures blown up to 8x10's.

It's good to see this phone comming soon and only being a fraction larger and heavier than my T100 (smallest lightest phone I've ever seen, well 2nd smallest, and ties with a Nokia my friend used to have).

Well, I'll see how this plays out, still I won't be able to afford it, but it would be one cool toy.

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