I well and truly hate Smallville. This is for many reasons but among the top 3 are:
1. At 20, Superman can’t fly, which is just ridiculous
2. They made Superman and Lex Luthor be friends for years, which was as natural as watching a golf game between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
3. They create scenarios that he will not encounter until he is much older. The height of this was when he met his evil counterpart, Bizzaro, when he was 22. Now that is just absurd, but it seems at the tender age of 3, the iPhone is meeting its Bizzaro Android Nemesis, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.
Where the iPhone was smooth curves, the X10 has sharp edges. Where the iPhone has its own new, expensive, navigation system, the X10 has Google’s Free Navigation Software. I expect the biggest difference to be that the iPhone has a great media player the X10 has a comparatively awesome but, as always, sub-iPod media interface. The X10 does deliver a hammer blow to iPhone with its amazing camera. With 8.1 Megapixels, Geo-tagging, image stabilizer and facial tagging, the X10’s camera will do as good a job taking photos and videos, as an iPod will do busting out my newfound love for Deathcab for Cutie.
On a day to day level, its important to note that Bizzaro, i.e. the X10, is powered by a Snapdragon 1ghz processor that will run so fast around the iPhone 3GS that Apple won’t even realize what’s happened. At least until they add at least another 3 letters to the next iPhone’s name.
Superman gets his power from the earth’s sun; Apple get there hold on the personal media player market with the best marketing since Big Tobacco realized that they were so convincing, they could even let you know that they were trying to kill you. The X10 gets its power from the infinite well of open source, Android. This is going to be, according to Sony Ericsson, the first of a family of Android-based phones that it will launch over next year. This probably means the end of Sony Ericsson’s use of Symbian software, not that we are complaining.
With the new power Android gives Sony Ericsson, the X10 will not only be able to compete with the user interface of the iPhone, but probably better it. More and more cell phone manufacturers are using android, mostly because it open source. So the amount of development that will go on outside Sony Ericsson will allow them to update, improve and develop new applications at a rate, which Apple is unlikely to match.
While it is true that the Android market currently has less applications the iTunes App Store. 10,000 apps in the Android Market to 100,000 in iTunes, this is only true for a limited period of time. As unlike the iTunes App Store, the Android Market, submission criteria are not as rigorous as iTunes. Still for the time being iTunes is the market leader in range, quality and depth. But mark my words; soon there will be more Android apps than you can shake an accelerometer at.
The X10 also incorporates two new features known as TimeScape and Mediascape. TimeScape bundles up all your social networking into one location, so that all your tweets, Facebook status updates and MySpace (whoever still uses MySpace) can be controlled from one location. MediaScape collects all MP3’s, videos podcasts and online media such as YouTube, into one large media player, which sounds like a rather smart idea.
Android is set to be a real iPhone competitor, and as each manufacture personalizes Android to suit their client base, there won’t only be one iPhone competitor. There will be tons.
The Sony Ericsson X10 with its sharp design, impressive specifications and Android kernel, is set to be the most exciting iPhone competing Android device yet. But then again, people thought Bizzaro could beat Superman.
Arieh Esra
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Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Agreed. Like with the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks awesome, but I highly doubt they have captured the true Sherlock Holmes.
Hey
Superman (post inifinite crisis) learned to fly at 16, when he got his other powers. Interestingly, the original creators bever intended for him to be able to fly, and some argue that “flying” is just an extension of his ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Hey buddy, so your an expert on superman ? When did superman learn to fly? please tell me, i would love to know. The fact is that when people are dealing with comic books there are so many different storylines for the same characters become totally different over time. Like take batman from the 50's an 60's, they are all done it bright colors and is quite campy. Then look at Frank Miller's batman and you can barely tell that they are supposed to be of the same thing. So do not criticize smallville.
TV & movies are too focused on special effects. The story line suffers and the original attraction for the character is lost. Failure is found with unneeded improvements.