What phone?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Who would have thought that choosing a new phone would be so damned difficult? When I bought my Sony Ericsson w810i, I went in to the Carphone Warehouse and said ooh, this looks nice! Can I have a play? The sales guy duly obliged and after offering me 8 months half price after cash back I signed up. It was so quick and simple so what has changed?
Sony Ericsson do it for me. I’ve played with my Dad’s Samsung and my Mum’s Siemens and I just don’t like how they work. For me, ease of use is key.
So I’ve been looking around on the net for various Sony Ericsson deals. It’s pretty likely that I will stay with Orange to avoid overcomplicated things – say what you will about other networks but I have never had problems with them, in fact they have always delivered to me just what I’ve asked for.
So what phone? What deal? Mobiles.co.uk has been at the top of my bookmarks for some days now, but despite a wealth of variety in phones and providers, I find myself looking at the same pages time and time again. My options are slowly narrowing but just when you think you’ve discovered the right one, there’s a drawback.
Here are some of the phones I’ve been looking at…
Read on..
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Mourinho out, USB cap in
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Who would have ever, ever put money on Jose Mourinho to be the first premiership manager to face the axe this season? They say he left Chelsea by ‘mutual consent’ but I don’t believe it for a second.
“The decision comes after the club held a crisis meeting to discuss the indifferent start to the new season.”
It’s been no secret that there has been some tension, shall we say, between the Abramovich, the boardroom and the big man himself but Jose is not the kind of manager to just up and leave in such a sudden and frankly shocking way. He always declared his love for Chelsea and desire to see out his contract which ended in 2010, and with the most loyal team of players behind him it would have had to have taken a serious bust-up to force him out the door.
Abramovich has always had a few screws loose when it comes to football. No other club has had so much money to throw around and it’s fantastic for building a world beating squad but letting this Russian look at the players market is like taking my Nan to Halfords. You end up spending £70 on a wiper blade that doesn’t even fit. Shevchenko and Ballack are great players; don’t get me wrong, but in football you build your team around the system and not the other way around. Tactically Mourinho is sound. It may not be fascinatingly entertaining but his system works. Two Premiership titles prove that. Bring in these multi-million pound stars (OK, Ballack was on a free transfer but at £130,000 a week he is also the most highly paid footballer in the UK) and you’ve got players who look great on posters but shocking on the pitch.
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Screw heads
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
They are way more complicated than they need to be. A certain Mr H.F. Phillips came up with this great invention for a screw head that is extremely easy to use and allows a certain flexibility when deciding what size screwdriver is required to get one of the things in or out? So why do a lot of manufacturers still insist on using screws that require the most precise of tools to use them. Perhaps it’s a safeguard against tampering hands like my own.
My Sony Ericsson w810i has taken some beatings over the past 16 months, not least the screen. It works as well as the day it came out of the box but on Friday night I must have dropped it six too many times because the plastic covering that protects the glass plate above the LCD has enough scuffs and scratches to make using the phone a real headache.
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