Isaiah's Tech

My dreams were shattered today. It turns out that the Motorola touchscreen phone i talked about a couple of weeks ago is a fake. It was rumoured to be called the Motorola Touch ZINE HD. It looks like it was a cross between the Motorola ZN5 and Motorola E8. Good photoshopping skills, bastards. The design was mighty gorgeous though and it looks like this won't be Motorola's Android device. It'll be something more crappy. It was too good to be true, eh Motorola?

Even though Midway is on the brink of filing for bankruptcy, the head honchos over there are deciding that they might as well release another Mortal Kombat game. This is just about the dumbest thing i've ever heard. Ed Boon, the maker of Mortal Kombat will be "picking up $900,000 for the completion and sales of Mortal Kombat vs DC. He's also getting $105,000 in bonuses for the franchise itself, coming from sales of older titles and other things like movies." Midway needs to just die already. I think it's clear to see who won in the fighting genre between Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

If you use Flickr, it could be your lucky day. They have just announced that everyone using Flickr will get video capabilities. So, you'll be able to upload whatever videos you want to share with other users. But, if you have the money for it, you can upgrade your account to "Pro" to include uploading HD quality movies. To be a pro member on Flickr, it's $25 USD / year. It's not an overwhelming price, but some people just choose not to pay and i would be in that category. This video service is just starting out so maybe one day you'll get to upload HD video for free.

Could CeBIT be the place where LG unveils the LG Viewty II? It certainly could be. With this picture taken from CeBIT, it could very well be the Viewty II. The LG GC900 (possibly the Viewty II) has a 3-inch touchscreen, an 8MP camera with autofocus and xenon flash, geotagging, DivX support, up to 32GB of memory, WiFi, aGPS and will even have slow motion video capabilities. The GC900 will also have the 3D S-Class UI that the LG Arena has. Unfortunately as of right now, there are no pictures of the phone and the price and availability are also unknown.

I guess i should end off mentioning that i have my first Physics test tomorrow, so i won't be blogging much tonight. This could be my only post of the night. I blogged twice during lunch already, so i guess 3 blog posts in one day is good enough. Even though with CeBIT under away, there's so much to blog about =(. Maybe i will tonight while i watch American Idol with my girlfriend. Anyways, wish me luck because i'm going to need a ton of it. Oh, and prayer would be good too. I have about 7 things starred on my Google Reader at the moment, so i could be blogging a ton tomorrow, we'll see. I am going to be busy tomorrow though as i'm planning to travel the world.

Motorola Touch ZINE HD (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/motorola-touch-zine-hd-is-likely-fake-hearts-break-around-the-w/
Next Mortal Kombat: http://kotaku.com/5163271/midway-to-keep-paying-mortal-kombat-creator-to-make-new-mortal-kombat
Flickr Gets Video (and picture): http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/flickr-video-go.html
LG Viewty II (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/lgs-viewty-ii-set-to-take-center-stage-at-cebit/

So, for Valentine's Day my mom got me the fattest food / milkshake ever. The Baskin Robbins Large Chocolate Oreo Shake. It's so good. Today is a fattening day. Egg and Cheese Omelette, Mac and Cheese and throw in some Bacon and Ham in there somewhere. Yummy Valentine's Day. Oh yeah, i had a box of Ferrero Rocher too, mmm.

BBC aimed a camera outside this London Waterloo Station in England to catch people falling down the icy steps. It doesn't snow in England very often, so this is probably something that won't happen again for a while. A bunch of people fell down these icy steps and i really felt sorry for them as i watched the video... Okay, i lied. It was funny. You can watch the video here, via BBC News.

As Midway files for bankruptcy, there is a list here of how much they owe and to what company. Of the $283,033,000 that they owe, about $150,000,000 are owed to Wells Fargo Bank. Brutal. Looks like they have the "most to lose" in this situation.

I am now watching the NBA All-Star Game, just in case you wanted to know.

BBC Watches People Fall Down Icy Steps (and picture): http://i.gizmodo.com/5153767/bbc-watches-people-fall-down-icy-steps-interviews-them-afterwards
Midway Owes $283,033,000: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/02/13/list-bankrupt-midway039s-creditors?%3F