I'm tracking many items at the amazon sites, and today there are many items getting lowering prices on the sports department in all of the amazon locales, mostly uk, probably due to their summer sport campaign. More than 100 have dropped price lower than my best track price.
Remember that if you are from europe you will get a free delivery for amazon items if you spend at least 25 pounds, here you can check for your country, maybe not the best time due to the exchange pound-euro is high, but if the offer is good enough is always a good time. I reckon that you should always check for a free delivery buying online, it gets you the oportunity to buy in small amounts, as you tend to group as many items as possible to minimize the delivery expenses for item. So, amazon.co.uk's free delivery is your best bet here.
I am searching for some equipment for my mountain bike routes, I want a new helmet and a Camelbak hydration pack, with a waist strap or the other option is a good backpack and a Camelbak reservoir, as it seems those are the best. I have yet to decide on the helment, the ones I like I found them a little expensive, but for good security it pays. For the hydration pack I found those a little expensive too, but in other sites those are even more expensive and if you add it the delivery cost it raises too much. I love the Camelbak Octane, what you think?
Here you can check some interesting items that got my attention due to their price drop, but yet has to decide what to buy because of the great number of items
Woww! So many items to check, when I get any of them I post a review, there are many on the way, but the lack of time as always....sorry guys
Os dejo unas cuantas cosas interesantes para mejorar vuestra casa, primero, un cubo de la basura, qué mejor que poner un poco de orden en casa y qué mejor que empezar por los residuos, 2 comparimentos, residuos y orgánica.
Como me gustan las tostadoras, ésta la quiero regalar a mis padres, siempre se quejan que tienen que tostar el pan de "payés" 2 veces, primero por un lado y luego por el otro, nada mejor que una tostadora para rebanadas grandes y con un calentador de bollos, ideal para calentar los croissants. Una pila de petaca para el despertador, maldito, estoy harto de ponerlo en hora cada vez que se va la luz... esto de vivir en un pueblo a veces también tiene sus cosas malas.
Una regleta nueva, me encantan los productos Belkin, tienen algo especial, a ver si así consigo poner un poco de orden detrás del ordenador.
Recordad que a parte de comprar a partir de nuestros enlaces de amazon.es o utilizar Wishlist Manager.
Para mis salidas en bicicleta hace tiempo que tenía pensado comprar un GPS y después de semanas informándome sobre las posibles opciones, preguntando en foros y buscando información, me decidí por coger uno específico para bicicleta, ya que es mi deporte principal, el elegido fue el Garmin Edge 500 Bundle, a un precio que rondaba los 200€, el pack completo, con sensor de cadencia y un monitor cardíaco.
La mejor utilidad de tener un GPS es qu puedes guardar tus rutas por la montaña sin tener que gastar la batería del móvil. Otra opción interesante es el nuevo modelo Edge 510, que incorpora novedades principalmente en sus capacidades de conectividad. Si no lo tenéis claro aquí tenéis una comparativa entre entre el Edge 500 y el Edge 510. Ahora que el nuevo modelo ya ha salido si podéis conseguir el Edge 500 por menos de 180€ os lo recomiendo, los cambios que han realizado en el Edge 510 para mí no son demasiado importantes como comento en este post y sobretodo el incremento de precio es significativo.
Me planteé la opción del Garmin Forerunner 310XT que lleva un monitor de ritmo cardíaco pero la falta del sensor de cadencia y que sea un poco más caro me ha hecho decantarme por el Garmin Edge 500 (modelo 010-00829-01), pero si vuestro deporte es el triatlón o os gusta practicar un poco de todo, sobretodo correr y preferís el formato reloj es vuestra mejor opción.
Y por último y no menos importante un producto importante para el cuidado de vuestra bicicleta, si queréis mantenerla limpia y evitar el polvo y barro usad un poco de "cera dura" para mantenerla como el primer día, así evitaremos que la suciedad quede pegada. Aquí tenéis un bote de cera que compré hace un tiempo, aunque comprado en Inglaterra, debido al envío gratuito a España tenemos un buen producto sin movernos de casa.
Recordad que a parte de comprar a partir de nuestros enlaces de amazon.es o utilizar Wishlist Manager.
Hair Clipper Remington HC5030 Performer: Professional clipper, good performance, with cord but does not get hot with use like many other that use rechargeable batteries. It also can be used with europe plugs.
Advanced Steel, self-sharpening blades with pro-groove blade with comfort tips
Lube for Life, 0.5 mm precision blade and taper level for cutter length adjustment
Corded for constant use with rubber grip panel
Nine attachment combs (3-30 mm)
Comes with sectioning clips, left and right ear guides, scissors, neck brush, comb, cord holder, cleaning brush and three year guarantee
Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows (PC): Perfect if you already have an xbox and need a new controller that also can be used in your PC for playing games like a console. Come with a wireless usb adapter so it can be used on your PC, if you have another wireless controller you will be able to play 2 player games :). Here and here you have a good review.
Recordad que a parte de comprar a partir de nuestros enlaces de amazon.es o utilizar Wishlist Manager, también podéis sacar provecho de #WhereToBuy, una web en la que hemos colaborado en su desarrollo, y con ella podremos buscar los mejores precios online.
I received the Samsung Galaxy Nexus about an hour ago. These are my first impressions & I will add to the review as I become more accustomed to the phone.
SETUP
I've upgraded from another Android phone (the HTC/Google Nexus). All I needed to do was take the SIM out of the old phone, snap the back off the Galaxy Nexus, install the SIM and battery and refit the back cover (a little bit fiddly on first attempt).
Then I plugged it in using the supplied plug adaptor and micro-USB connector and powered it up. After entering wifi network details and the username and password for my Google Apps account, the phone was ready to use.
It immediately began installing the various apps that I had set to AutoUpdate on the old phone and, after a few minutes of that, it told me that there was a firmware update. This took about 3 mins to perform, including a reboot of the phone.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The screen is gorgeous - large, vibrant, and really easy to read. It's much larger than the Nexus One, but it's lighter too. The phone is much faster than my old Google Nexus - apps spring open, and flipping screens / navigating menus is near instantaneous.
One niggle is that the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android works differently to the previous versions. The app tray is swiped sideways rather than up/down - muscle memory/force of habit means that I've found myself performing the old gestures in this first hour or so. I guess that will fade pretty quickly.
I've taken some stills and video. Both are straightforward to perform, and the picture quality seems good (need to check it on a PC screen) but I seem to have put my finger over the microphone a few times while filming - need to work out the best way to hold it to avoid this in future. I have uploaded some photos to the product page. You can find them under the main product image.
The Gmail app is much nicer than on my old phone. Clearer, faster to use, and the menu options seem to be in a better place than the previous one. Calendar seems to have synched up correctly too, with multiple calendars from my Google apps account showing.
UPDATE: About 2 hours in
I tried out the Portable WiFi Hotspot. It works perfectly - managed to get my iPad 2 connected and accessing the outside world. Also, I've got an integrated Bluetooth hands free system in my car and the Nexus paired perfectly with it.
'Contacts' seems to have been replaced by a 'People' app that pulls together contact info from Gmail, Google+, Twitter & WhatsApp and attempts to consolidate each person's Connections under their contact info. It's possible to tweak this so that you don't end up with everyone you follow in Twitter clogging up your contacts. Noticeably, it doesn't offer to integrate information from your Facebook friends. I'm not sure how useful this is, or indeed if I am correctly understanding what info it is pulling together, but I can see a real danger of your genuine contacts being swamped by the profiles of online acquaintances. Consequently, I've chosen not to view any of my Twitter contacts in the People app.
The auto dimming screen brightness seems too low to me - I'll have to poke around to see if I can tweak it.
Call me a Siri Iriot, but I thought I'd try using the microphone icon to tell the phone to 'Call XXX YYY at home' and the speech recognition worked very quickly to find the correct contact details.
I made a call and the quality was perfect. No volume problems. If you have a picture associated with a contact then it takes up the whole screen background when you're talking. The in=call options (keypad, loudspeaker, hold..) appear at the foot of the screen.
UPDATE: 6 hours in.
I noticed that some of my photos and videos were crystal clear in the background, but not on the subject. The trick is to tap the screen over the item you want to be in focus. [Correction: tapping the screen focuses on a subject in camera mode. Doing the same in camcorder mode captures a still whilst the video is still being recorded. ]
Seek time for autofocus in low light is slow.
UPDATE: 3 days in.
I've got used to the different gestures in Android 4, which is great.
Tinkering around in the settings I found one that disconnects the WiFi connection when the phone is not being actively used - I've selected that as I think it might extend battery life.
Speaking of which, with normal use (more data access than calls for me) the phone has been running for 20h 14m since the last charge and is still showing 34% battery.
UPDATE: 5 days in
Generally I am delighted with the phone but there are some more niggles that are worth knowing about.
1. The phone has crashed twice and frozen once. The crashes were while opening a contact and while using the Facebook app. The freeze was when opening the app tray. I'm not so worried as I'm sure subsequent updates to the FB app and/or system updates will address such instability.
2. [This now fixed, as Flash for ICS is available from Android Market] There is no Flash support as Adobe has yet to compile a version for Android 4. This means that apps like BBC iPlayer, that depend on Flash, don't work. This is frustrating, but Adobe & Google recently announced that Flash and Adobe Air support will be rolled out soon.
3. Some apps are not yet Android 4 compatible. Again - this is something that should be addressed by publishers of popular apps.
UPDATE: 13 Jan 2012
There was an Over The Air update waiting to be installed this morning. It is a bug fix release of the phone operating system. Now running Android 4.0.2
If you have any specific questions, add them as comments to this review and I'll see if I can answer them.
UPDATE: 10 Jan 2013
After reading that Ubuntu is planning to release a smartphone OS, Ubuntu OS, and a few days ago I read that they released a beta version for our Galaxy Nexus. Now, is a good time to get it a low price just to try it. I will check it out soon.
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Galaxy Nexus (GT-I9250) Reviewed by Fernando Mateoon Jan 13 2012 Rating: 4
This is a message for video games companies, "don’t expect me buying any DLC", I am not a big fan of the hype of new releases, generally in all circumstances, but in video games world we know that companies release games with a very adjusted development dates, so we often see that some new releases lack some stability, or if you prefer they are plagued with bugs due to low testing time.
In this console generation, with the help of online marketplaces, has appeared the, so hated by some, DLC (Downloadable Content), some are free and some of payment, which adds an extra profit for these companies and distributors (owners of marketplaces).
A decade ago there were expansion packs that added extra content, some were even developed by other companies, so the original developers only may get some income by royalties.
There has been much controversy with those DLCs, much of them are unnecessary but some, even being of low quality put a real ending to a game or saga, like Mass Effect. You can say these are "evil" practices and it’s probably true, the real problem is that those DLCs are probably developed at the same time as the game and probably could be in the final release.
We know that companies center their efforts in new releases and not in maintaining released projects as those, even the effort you put in it, will not generate much income. So what’s the main problem? In the end it's the cost associated to customer support.
In the side picture you can see how the DLC would be if it were applied to culture, for example the Mona Lisa, we should have to pay some more to see it completely.
What is a GOTY Edition?
With the DLC boom and also the boom of market segmentation, giving us a variety of editions of game release, from the standard to a collector's edition with some extras, has started appearing the so called GOTY (Game of the year) editions.
These editions are late re-releases of games where they take the original game plus all the patches and all the DLCs that has been released, and, sometimes, and probably this game will have a reduced cost in comparison with new releases. In major games, you could expect a GOTY version for sure, unless the game was not successful enough.
So why not wait for the GOTY edition of this major releases? The answer is simple: the release hype. This hype that Apple executes with mastery, and Google may be trying with its Nexus 4, means that a lot of players will be online for games with online game, but if you wait a year or two for the GOTY version the game probably won't even be able to be played online.
Below we can see a survey of gamers of the reasons why they did not buy DLCs, it surprises me that the main reason is privacy, I would say that my main reasons are that they are expensive due to the low quality of most of them, and most of all that they are trick to juice a few extra bucks from us.
DLC Quest: A parody of how games could end being
Recently I played the indie game DLC Quest, the game parodies to the limit the DLC abuse, it's a simple 2D platformer with a good doses of humor, fun enough for someone critic with this DLC problematic.
The game starts with limited options you can not even go left until you buy an "ingame DLC" to be able to move left, at least you don't have to spend an extra penny, it works with the coins you found on the game.
The game is short as I always defend that they should be, even shorter than I expected, but a nice game to spend a small time, if I remember correctly I even not spend more than an hour playing it, but it was a good time, remember that time is money so we should know beforehand were are we investing our time.
If you think about it, there are more free-to-play games out there and many of them yet do not abuse the playing techniques but we will see how it ends in the incoming years and the next generation of consoles where free-to-play games seem to be a tendency.
In this video you can see a playthrough of the game, if you want to play you better not see it!
Do you feel the same about DLC and GOTY? Did you buy any DLC in the last year? Please leave your opinion in the comments section, thanks!
