Bill Hung's Mini Photo Feed

2013-01-31

Kleenex Japanese Tissue

1st time to see this. Spotted in London, tissue from Japan

2013-01-30

AKB48 Strawberry Pie

From official AKB48 Cafe & Shops in Japan. Thanks Miya!

2013-01-29

China Review Console Ban

The dawn of a new era? @City A.M. newspaper

Yoda Advert

Yoda advertising Virgin Media with London Underground as backdrop in Metro newspaper today

Weibo Inner Circle and Location Game

Weibo introduced Inner Circle and this Spot-wrong-location-info-for-prize game

2013-01-27

2013-01-22

2013-01-17

It's all about 4K this year. The text for the top left TV said '110-inch HiSense XT900 4K TV. Yes, you read correctly - this TV set is actually 110 inches, meaning you probably. Wouldn't even fit it inside most living rooms. And that's not where it ends - it was also one of the new generation of ultra-high definition "4K" sets that will set the standard for the crispness of resolution for the next few years.'
That was a new brand name for America, which tech blogs call HiSense a no-name brand in 2012

2013-01-15

Twitter (Tweetro) on Windows 8

Tweetro, not available now. Apparently there were controversies of this app.

2013-01-09

Atari Headset

Half price for £10 via HMV

2013-01-05

YouTube Speed Stats

6.42Mbps to YouTube, when the peek tested speed are 16.07Mbps/0.96Mbps (Up/Down).

YouTube said I am slow in London standard but fast in Sky DSL standard... =_="

2013-01-04

TV Show: Made in Japan

A new TV show called Made in Japan starting January 26th, with 唐沢寿明(Toshiaki Karasawa)

2012-12-29

Angry Bird Smart TV version

Playing the special build of Angry Bird for Smart TV at PC World today. The gesture feature is available to Series 7 and 8 of Samsung Smart TVs

Lenovo Yoga Convertible Laptop Hands-on

11.6-inch. 13 hours of battery life is cool. But 2GB RAM and 64GB SSD harf drive probably won't be enough. Not exactly tablet lightness, feels like an ultrabook weight. £699.99 EDIT: 1.3kg according to online source

Wii U headset at PC World

spotted today, £16.99. Mic is in the cable attachment thing with the volume and mute buttons

2012-12-27

Sony Ericsson T630 spotted!

This phone is very similar to my first phone Sony Ericsson T616 (T610 in the US). When I brought my T616 to Japan, I was surprised Japan has never seen such petite camera phone. At 95 gram, it's not even 100 gram. And it's the popular camera phone when there were very few camera phones. EDIT: bought it!

2012-12-26

IMDb LoveFilm Instant List

discovered this IMDb.com feature today. Shortlist of my watchlist for movies available on LoveFilm

2012-12-22

JSTVゲット

226.80ポンドがかかった。今年紅白を見えるように。

2012-12-21

1 Billion+ views for Gangnam Style Video

One billion is a lot...

Kobo glo, arc, mini

at WHSmith today

2012-12-20

Keep London Tube Wifi for Free

if you are a EE, t-mobile, Orange, or Virgin customer

2012-12-18

Book of Spells from Hogwarts Library

Christmas company game allocation, with LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and LittleBigPlanet Karting

2012-12-17

Bandai Bear Arrived

Thanks James for the Christmas gift! Love it. He's gonna be called the Handai Bear after my name ハン

2012-12-13

Kowloon's not a Slum

For the record, Kowloon's not a slum (pic from the EDGE magazine)

2012-12-07

British Gas Wireless Power Monitor

shows watt and temperature. Uses much smaller batteries than the e.on one

2012-12-03

Fail iPad Advert at Sainsbury's

Advert poster of the older iPad with 5MP camera and older 30-pin connecter. Displayed with actual demo of the newer lightning connector "iPad with Retina Display" at a Sainsbury in London, in the mid of Christmas season 2012

Angry Bird Speaker

now at Sainsbury's for £12.49

2012-11-30

PPStream now with Games

A PC-android strategy game and a three kingdom game so far. Downloadable for free like most of the videos

2012-11-29

PS3 Sales £135

By tesco until 2012-12-5

2012-11-28

Meizu MX2 Announced

on Nov 27, 2012. http://www.meizu.com

2012-11-17

t-mobile (well, EE) 3G wifi tethering speed

5.7Mbps Down, 0.69Mbps Up. Tested today

2012-11-13

Call of Duty Black Ops 2

out today

Apple on Samsung Not Copying

And the bottom of the apple.co.uk, Apple links to this page http://www.apple.com/uk/legal-judgement/

Which said:

"Samsung / Apple UK judgment

On 9 July 2012 the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that Samsung Electronic(UK) Limited's Galaxy Tablet
Computers, namely the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 8.9 and Tab 7.7 do not infringe Apple's Community registered design No. 0000181607-0001. A copy of the full judgment of the High Court is available from www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2012/1882.html.

That Judgment has effect throughout the European Union and was upheld by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales on 18 October 2012. A copy of the Court of Appeal's judgment is available from www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html. There is no injunction in respect of the Community registered design in force anywhere in Europe."

2012-11-01

nook, "amazing in bed" advert

new one with GlowLight to fight kindle paperwhite

2012-10-27

niconico douga Q

New niconico douga pages and player. Now with English interface and 16:9 broadcast support. You can search for other video and put videos in queue while you are watching one video. The scrolling comment feature and twitter/facebook sharing feature remained.

The bottom of the page showed language support for Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and English. Support countries: Japan, United States, and Taiwan

2012-10-26

New Google Chromebook Hands-on

11.5-inch, £229, 1,1kg, 6.5 hours battery. Chrome version 23. Samsung made. There is one more expensive one made by Acer too, but not recommended by the Google staff in the Google shop (which is within PC Word Tottenham Court Road London)

Windows 8 Hands-on

no surface tablet yet. Tried the desktop

2012-10-25

kobo mini £59.99

5-inch, 2 week battery life. kobo glo £99.99. kobo arc coming November 15

2012-10-22

itsu Promotion

Chocolate Edamame

2012-10-20

New chromebook £229

2 page evening standard advert in London. google.co.uk/chromebook

2012-10-05

Scrabble OSPD4

F-A-R-T is NOT a word

The Tablet Phone Arrived

Only 11 months wait...since launch

2012-10-03

360 Chrome Browser vs Google Chrome Browser

The Chinese 360.cn Chrome Browser (version 5.5.0.646 non-beta version) has the higher HTML5 score of 469 (+13 bonus) against the score for the latest Google Chrome (version 22.0.1229.79m not-dev and not beta version) at 437 (+13 bonus).

The 360 chrome browser branched off from the Chromium version 20 branch, and uses the same code base as google chrome

2012-10-02

Samsung Galaxy Note

Galaxy Note 2 is just out. Carphone warehouse is still doing Galaxy Note for £499.95 (down from £549.95), while Three.co.uk started selling SIM free Galaxy Note 2 for £499.99.
PS: John Lewis is still selling this for £499.95+VAT. This phone coloured black was first launched in London at Carphone Warehouse on Nov 17th 2011, together with Google Galaxy Nexus. Then the white version launched at John Lewis on Jan 23rd, 2012. 2 weeks after I lost my Galaxy S1. Initially with android 2.3 ginerbread, and Samsung later released android 4.0 ice cream sandwich update. Bought this phone today.