Posts tagged with: Apple iPhone
Beyond Cupertino: Venturing off the well-trodden path to Apple’s door – Part I
We’re guessing that our readers, with a gnawing urge for individuality, may share our growing frustration with Apple: the ubiquity of its products. So, here’s are guide to the best alternatives. In Part I, we look at smartphones.
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 1 December 2011
Thoughts on the iPhone 4S
Apple announced the successor to its all-conquering iPhone 4 this week and most people – from Nokia fan-boys to die-hard Cupertino disciples – are calling it a disappointment. They’re saying it’s an incremental upgrade at best, at worse, a bitter let-down.
Our take? Read on…
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 6 October 2011
Forget the lightening: Nokia E72 steals the iPhone’s thunder
If we had approached you, as the organizer of a major navigation/smart-phone launch event, and slurred our way through the tale of how we dropped our Nokia E71 into the porcelain throne late one night and were still fiercely proud of it despite weakened battery life, what would you have done? Kicked us in the [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 15 June 2010
Dammit. They’ve done it again
Do we need to say any more? You’ve read it all elsewhere already right? No? Then, head on over to the mothership or for an only ever so slightly less biased take, the excellent Engadget roundup. Bottom line? Apple has made good on most of our very high expectations and then added one delicious little [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 8 June 2010
The next iPhone: Why it’s everything we could have wanted and more
We don’t normally write about unannounced products but this week’s media furore over the prototype that Apple left in a bar and was subsequently sold to the tech blog Gizmodo has left us feeling as if the next iPhone has already been announced. We certainly think that we have enough details – both technical specs [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 22 April 2010
How does the Nokia N97 mini fare against the iPhone?
Before we write another word, we owe you an apology. Well, an explanation at least. You see, we’re as tired as you are of every new phone being compared to the iPhone. It’s dull, predictable and, most of the time, inappropriate. One of the things we love about the world of gadgets is diversity. Hell, [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 26 January 2010
Love The Prodigal Guide? Have an iPhone or iPod touch?
Yeah yeah, we know, you already have a hundred different ways of reading your favourite blog while on the go: the mobile site, our RSS feed, Twitter. Well, as of today, if you’re sensible enough to own an iPhone or iPod touch, you have another one: a dedicated Prodigal Guide app for iPhone. That’s right [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 14 January 2010
Why we don’t write about Apple. Much.
Remember that pesky kid at school who used to get top marks on every piece of work she turned in? Come on, every class has one. Well, at Tech High, Apple is that kid. The boys and girls at Cupertino so rarely put a foot wrong that – although their achievements are incredibly impressive – [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 10 July 2009
Nokia N97 now shipping but has Nokia done enough?
Nokia clearly thinks that the N97 represents some sort of comeback against the likes of the iPhone and Pre – see the ad below in case you were in any doubt – but now that the N97 is shipping and the first lacklustre reviews are coming in, we have to ask: has Nokia done enough? [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 12 June 2009
Make way iPhone 3G, here’s the Nokia E71
While the rest of the planet was salivating with excitement at today’s launch of the 3G version of Cupertino’s finest, the Guide quietly went off on its own and bought itself a Nokia E71. “Why?”, you ask. After all, we’ve already declared the iPhone the best phone on the planet, how can a 3G version [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 11 July 2008
