Honestly I think this is amazing how technology has advanced since I was a kid. I remember DOS operating systems, and now we have touch screen tv’s and cell phones that can actually fit in the palm of your hand. I can’t even imagine what will come out 20 years from now. The possibilities are endless.
I think for 2009 the big thing will be Final Fantasy 13. At first Final Fantasy started out as a Nintendo exlcusive then became a playstion exclusive. This upcoming year will be the first time a Final Fantasy game will be for Xbox. It will also be the first time that an installment of the Final Fantasy series will be making an apperance with the Next Gen consoles. The guys at Square-Enix have always impressed the world with their phenomonal graphics, let’s see what happens this year. I think this will be huge for many people who own 360′s that are fans of the Final Fantasy series. I know I am stoked. I loved Final Fantasy Vii, and I still play it today on my psp. Hopefully Final Fantasy 13 will be as good as VII, I need a good rpg game to spend my time on instead of replaying old ones.
One of the two products that I have found played a signifcant role in the year 2008 was the blackberry Storm. The Blackberry storm is a smartphonedeveloped by Research in Motion (RIM). It is part of the 9500 series of phones. It is RIM’s first touchscreen device and first device without a physical keyboard and will feature a touchscreen which reacts physically like a button via SurePress, a Research in Motion patented technology of providing feedback. It will be available through Vodafone in the UK, Ireland and Australia, Verizon Wireless in the United States, Telus and Bell in Canada. The Blackberry storm was the first touchscreen Blackberry to be released. Now with the introduction of the storm, Blackberry is capable of competing in the ongoing phone market. Touchscreen phones are the newest phones to come out and is known to youth as the “in” thing. The BlackBerry Storm is a world-phone, and one to be seriously considered in the new year of 2009.
The second product to be released in 2008 that I found played a significant role and made a large impact on the market is the HP Touchsmart commputer. In case you haven’t noticed, « Touch » is all the rage these days. It was only a matter of time before a PC maker was to build a touch-PC, it just happened to be HP. The idea behind the HP Touchsmart is to engage consumers by having them interact with their digital media in a whole new way. It will take some work to convince me to get one of these, but I suppose that in places where a keyboard has no reason to be (living room, kitchen) one might be tempted to use a touch-computer like this one. (Of course, it does come with a wireless mouse and keyboard) Come back to this site to get our first impressions as we play with it today. The Hp touchsmart computer allows one to have physical contact with the comuter while controlling it as if a mouse, all at the same time. However, the HP Touchsmart cannot yet compete with the Mac brought to us proudly by Apple. The HP Touchsmart is not as fast as the Apple iMac.
