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A Perspective

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This article makes me uncomfortable, and also makes me laugh.

Consoles are big, important, and Sony has the best one. Why do we have a WII? Well, we do because it was cheaper, and kind of novel at the time (April 2008) … hard to find in our area, DH brought one home from a NYC business trip.

We got a PS3 in December then, why? We wanted one, more serious gaming platform, PLUS it could play Blu-Ray movies which we were deciding we’d switch to (from DVD) and finally get some real HD content on our big screen tv, which we hadn’t before December with the WII or the old DirecTv box we had.

We still love the PS3, and have 2 of them now. I have also had a PSP since 2007, and getting a Sony Console in with a PSP around already was great. It’s not that we didn’t have gaming before this either. We had a GameBoy in the early 90′s, an NES, then a SNES, then a PS One, then a PS2.

I have a super duper Smart Phone in an HTC Evo 4G … I have games on it, and on my HTC Evo View Tablet. Both Android. What kind of gaming is it? Stuff like on my PSP or PS3, the “Casual” games, like Bejeweled, FieldRunners … good games, but not heavy games. Seriously who would WANT to put Resistance or Prince of Persia or Uncharted or any other big game onto a phone or non-serious gaming device.

The point of Sony putting games on Android soon is that it’ll get more people into their (Sony’s) games and get them looking at MORE SERIOUS gaming if they haven’t yet bitten into that, or haven’t for a long time. It would be the games that can be handled on those devices. Most devices aren’t capable of heavy gaming. Even my good HTC Evo isn’t. The battery, after a year of use, needs replaced to use it for phone and browsing, other apps, AND gaming. Ha! Ha! Ha!

I do play FieldRunners HD for Android on my phone. If I get through Drylands on Medium two times, starting with a fresh battery, that’s about all I can do. That’s ludicrous! I can play FieldRunners on my PSP that has a nearly 2 year old battery and use, and I can play all day and into the night, or whatever. Hours and hours and hours.

FieldRunners HD for Android is nice, but there is no in-game-music. FieldRunners for PSP is nice, slower speed, but there IS in-game-music. All in all the play is similar, but I like touch play, like on the Android, which is why I do want a Play Station Vita in February 2012 when they are finally available here. Gaming devices with some social connection are heavy enough for one device. I can’t have my Phone be a Phone and Social Media and Games and be my Portable Music Player too.

I have a Sansa E280 that I don’t use anymore. I listen more on my computer anyhow, and sometimes on my phone when we go out. I listen less to my own stuff out and about though. Anyhow, it’s that the phone I have needs a new battery, an extended one, plus a charging stand of some kind. I do want that, and want to use it for my music player because I am a scrobbler (last.fm) and immediate scrobbling is what I love. Makes me feel good. I am not going to use a PSP or a Vita for music playing, but will use my phone for phone and music and email and such, and use my PSP or Vita for games, and the PS3.

The article linked at the top of this post is seriously funny. Seriously. What’s your perspective on this?

HTC Sense 2.1 Calendar All-Day Event problem

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I have an HTC Evo 4G phone, and an HTC EVO VIEW 4G tablet. [HTC]

I like them both. The tablet has an updated HTC Sense. The Calendar is nicer on the tablet, from the phone, with this one caveat:( It’s very annoying) All-Day Events in the calendar show up at the top of the day, also show in the agenda, but if you TOUCH one of them, that opens a “No Appointment” blah screen.’ Where are the details? In the event, but they aren’t accessible unless you EDIT the event, and for that you need to long-press on the event in another view, you can’t do anything with it in the “No Appointment” screen.

I don’t WANT to edit the event though, only VIEW the information.

On my phone the list of events for a day, the same All-Day Event shows in the list of things for the day, and if you touch such an event it opens a View Event screen of all the details for the event.

That is what I am missing. I hate how the tablet treats the very same events as the phone has, so differently. Same calendars, it’s not the old “HTC Calendar Bug from 2010″ It’s Sense 2.1 induced, no doubt, and I can find not ONE SINGLE entry online about it yet.

I’m assuming that the HTC Flyer (1st cousin of the HTC EVO VIEW, or little brother, whatever) has the same problem.

It’s not just my calendar, it’s also calendars I share that belong to someone else, they all work one way on my phone, great, and a different way on my tablet, not great, bad in fact.

I hate having to search and search endlessly and never come up with something. I use a billion different ways to describe what I’m looking for but can’t find anything but the old calendar bug about All-Day events from early 2010.

Treat this post as an entry into the arena for this HTC Sense 2.1 calendar bug (or design) –get rid of it HTC! Fix it so the details for the All-Day Event show when a basic touch is performed.

Twittering miserably

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Well I am finally Twittering. I’ve ignored it, and was in the living room yesterday when Mike and Mike on ESPN2 was on the television and Golic and Erik Kuselias were talking about things, and got to something that was sent to them about Twitter, and this was one of those “listen up” moments, of course, when they show how dumb they are, or something. They looked really old fogey, not having a clue about Twitter.

I had a clue about Twitter, just figured “why bother” as I have little to do with anyone but me and my family, and my husband is the only one with a phone, everyone else being too young … and so didn’t bother with it.

So the M&M show got me thinking, I know I don’t blog as much as I used to, can’t think of anything to write half-the time or more. My hubby ignores the emails I send him, he ignores my blog posts, he sees some of the txt messages I send to his phone. So maybe Twitter could help me … not just fill-in the gaps between blogging and emails and txt msgs… but create ideas for blogging again, and get my hubby to notice, and maybe get him more communicative with me, and find some other friends out there after all too, maybe.

So I started up with Twitter and had a blank-of-a-time and couldn’t figure out what was going on trying to get my phone verified. So after playing with Twitter, I changed all the stuff on that account to nuthingness and worked at it backwards, using my device, phone, as the starting point, creating an account on the web from my phone number there since I couldn’t tell what it was doing (trying millions, it seems, of times to verify my phone) with my first web profile … The “devices” area of my online account seemed flaky, and just wouldn’t stay, would go away as if I hadn’t even tried to verify my phone # … that’s how it got so messed up on my phone …

So then I go and get an account for my husband, and I click the devices area and get that started, but then left it, not going to his phone at that time.

I finally got my phone making more sense, except it didn’t update my Twitter, then suddenly did, many minutes later, then I got another one of those “reply with your name” Twitter messages and I didn’t bother sending anything (such silly things happened earlier, I just plain wanted it to work with my account on twitter.com/home [as logged in])

To go further, every time I had sent a “stats” command at twitter with my phone I would get “followers: 0 following: 0″ and thus I knew it wasn’t truly connecting to my account.

I know it’s working now, the stats msg is “followers: 1 following: 1″ … I can only hope my account stays connected to my device, but I don’t have a lot of faith, though I have full faith in my hubbies staying true. Whatever that is.

Awhile after I had gotten Frank’s web account set up and us following each other there, I got his device set up and voila, it worked flawlessly, exactly how MINE didn’t from the start. Figures.

Unfortunately now I have to teach Frankiepoo the simple differences of using Twitter on the device, and when not to use Twitter, but use straight regular txting. Maybe when he understand he’ll say, “ewww, I don’t want to Twitter at all!”

I hope not. I have to fight to get myself out there and sometimes he seems to be more introverted than me. FWIW.