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Classico Giro Utrecht – COMPLETE!!!

May 14th, 2012 | Posted by biatch0 in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

Here’s what I’ve been occupying my time with recently :)

May 11th, 2012 | Posted by biatch0 in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

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Another Look at Mobile Contracts in Malaysia

April 3rd, 2012 | Posted by biatch0 in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

The HTC One X (and the cheaper One) have recently been unveiled in a number of countries. As usual, telcos from all over the world are clamoring to suck in customers to new contracts by offering deals on this shiny new device. Over in Malaysia, the nice blokes over at SoyaCincau have provided a somewhat comprehensive look at local Malaysian contracts and pricing. For those of you of the TLDR variety, I’ll sum it up quickly;

  • the HTC One X has an RRP of RM2099 (~€525)
  • for a minimum up front payment for the device of RM1000 (or approximately €250), you’ll need to go along with a monthly commitment of RM138 (approximately €35) over a contract period of 24 months for a grand total investment of RM4072 (~€1018)
  • for a minimum total investment of RM2215 (~€553), you will need to fork out RM1699 (~€425) for the device and put down a monthly commitment of RM48 (~€12) per month over a 12 month contract period with the telco with possibly the worst reputation in Malaysia

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Amazon Kindle Touch for European release

March 28th, 2012 | Posted by biatch0 in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

The Amazon Kindle is one of the most popular devices on the market. However they have had competition from Kobo and Sony recently, which caused them to go one step further and release a new version. The Amazon Kindle Touch has been available in the US for five months now, and they are finally releasing it across the UK, France, Germany and Spain.

For any UK readers, the Kindle Touch is going to be sold for £109 with wi-fi, and £169 with both wi-fi and 3G connectivity. The device will allow the user to buy books to read from Amazon “on the go”. There is also an “experimental” web browser, that could access other web pages like the PartyPoker site, Facebook and Tumblr. However it will only work when wi-fi access is available.

If you are familiar with the basic Kindle reader, you will find that the new e-reader is 70 grams heavier and larger. And with a brand new operating system, you can read books in both landscape and portrait mode. US users were restricted to portrait until recently.

Amazon has access to more than one million books on Kindle. With the original so successful, what made Amazon create a touch screen version?

“It is the best-selling e-reader in the world, but the comments that we got back… were ‘we wish it had touch’, and so we’re excited now to bring this to the UK market as well,” Jorrit Van der Meulen, Amazon’s European vice president of Kindle said.

On the downside, European users can’t lend the books they read to other people, which is an option the US does have. Perhaps sales of books dipped too far after the US launch?

Amazon Kindle Touch will be available to the countries specified above from the 27th April 2012.