NDSi - Get?

I am thinking, key word. THINKING of getting an NDSi

I have perfectly good reason of doing that and the least of them is coz it looks cool or its another new NDS console or coz I wanna stick it up me ears. But I am faced with the questionable question of, is it worth it getting it? Yes it has dual touch screen. Yes it has bigger screen. Yes it has nicer speaker and yes it has cameras, yes it has all those nifty little gadget that will make a nerd scream in ecstasy whenever they touch it.

FEATURES

1. Enlarged Screen (17% Bigger at 3.25")
[Sweet]
2. Reduced Size (about 12% thinner)
[Sweeter]
3. Two built-in cameras
[Still waiting to see what's this for]
4. SD memory card slot to save pictures and display them on Wii
[Don't need this]
5. Built-in Browser
[Nice, but still need to see how good it is & how does it cope with heavy sites]
6. Built-in Music Playback
[Don't need that, I have an iPod for this]
7. Download & Store games on SD card
[Eh? They supporting pirates now?]

But the thing is, is it worth getting it NOW? I mean its new, its ability is not yet tested, the game that support it is not yet coming in drove, and like every new things, I wouldn't be surprised that the new batch of NDSi will get a similar broken hinge problem like the old first batch of white coloured NDS.

Granted asking such a question or even stating such a thing in a fanboy forum will create riots but still I am dying to know if there is any foreseeable problem with the new NDSi. Meh, I am being a scardy cat by not making a move now but my wallet is much more important than a scream fest. I can do that in the coming Final Fantasy Orchestra in Singapore. Which reminds me, anyone have spare ticket for that? I found out too late about it and the tickets are already sold out. Sigh!

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-45qx-71-170-49-en-84-j-70-3ahp.html

But if I were really going to get an NDSi now, I am going for a special edition one such as the Kingdom Hearts Version above which you can start booking for SOON at over

HERE

A bit of comparison between the

Older, Old & New DSs

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Bose In-Ear earbud

Funny thing about this earbud, its a bit uncomfortable at times. I mean, when its on my ear itself, it feels like its falling down. Which I have read about online everywhere else but when I had them on medium size and left it there, and granted I might have positioned it slightly erm... uncomfortably. It became quite painful after a while.

I think I will be changing the earphone size to the large sized one. It sit snugly inside my ear with no fear of falling our or what not. Granted, I am not sure if it's supposed to be used that way. Anyone have any idea?



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Seiko watches bought from City Chain Malaysia went Haywire after 2 month

Oh yeah, thats basically it.

2 month ago, my lovely gf bought me a Seiko watch as part of our anniversary + valentine gift. The watch is anything BUT cheap. It is expensive, so lets leave it at that. So now its 2 month later and guess what happened?

The damn watch brokedown. I swear to god, it did not bang it, scratch it or drop it or does anything to warrant getting it broken but there it is, it refuse to work. This is what happened.

The watch will stop whenever the second timer reaches 40 seconds. Shake the watch vigorously when you are wearing it or turn the watch knob a bit and the watch will resume normal operation. Move around while wearing the watch and it will get stuck again. Leave it alone at the altar or table and it will also get stuck and stop again.

Pink Circle: Thats the Second timer which stopped every time it reach 41 sec

Blue Circle: see that circle? thats the alarm circle. It still moves perfectly fine

See the whole watch? Yeah, it stopped at 2. If its working well, its supposed to be in sync with the alarm timer. Which is to meanm its supposed to be 4:15 not 2:00

The battery is perfectly fine, the alarm clock which is another 3rd smaller timer inside the watch which moves in synch with the time also works well. Its just the second timer which counts the second (duh?) that fucks up. I am giving a hell of hurt tonight to the City Chain salesman if he aint polite. Granted the bugger is innocent. I still feel like venting on him. Mr. Nice Guy I am not tonight

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Blog post

 Huh.... I just realized why I haven't be able to blog lately. Well... not lately but more like for the past one year.The thing is, I am trying too hard to be a gaming blog. I figured that gaming blogs need only talk about games. Hence the lack of post due to the fact that review are not fun to write and sounds too much like a job. I want to write whatever crap I like without the need to answer to people.

Meh, that is also one of the reason for this post I guess... The uselessness of this post is beyond even my explanations. There is no reason for me to post this blog post at all but reason seems to have taken a leave of absent so expect me to rant. A lot. Which reminds me, I have another thing to rant about Seiko watches.

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Really bad day

 Ever had one of those really really bad day when you want to just smack everything in sight and break some legs? I am having one of those days now. I couldn't get that satisfying nagging feeling that I would feel pretty good if I flip my desk over, throw my desktop at the unfortunate soul seating across me and then do a bit of WWE chair smacking on another unfortunate soul.

Meh, this is the time of the day that I can relate to the game Grand Theft Auto. Granted I find the senseless killing that I do ingame whenever I play it as nauseatingly stupid, I still couldn't let go of the feeling that at least someone is churning out the right game for the masses.

Let er rip boys!



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Bose- In Ear

So I have been hunting for the right earphone, considering the fact that I am a picky person it took me a REALLY long time to find which one that suits me. So I tried out some earphones from Sony, (didn't like it, too normal), Philips In-Ear (not bad sound but the rubber is irritating when it rubs against my body and create shrak shrak sounds) then I tested out Shure, Senheisher and what not which is way over my budget.

2 months down the road I found a little thread by a relatively unknown fellow (to me) in a local forum. He is selling an OEM version of Bose in-ear. Now the thing is, he started off the thread by INSISTING that he is selling OEM, not original. He also kept a well updated thread and lots of imformation that is relevant and appreciated. But what was interesting is his pricing. Its competitive like hell.

An original BOSE In-Ear goes for 99usd, he was selling the OEM version at 49.30usd. Virtually halve priced! That perks my cautious radar. But he did a thorough comparision for his product against known fake BOSE in-ear and his OEM came out the winnah. I took the plunged and order a set. This is the part where it gets interesting

Authencity Review

I did a little bit of comparison myself and this is what I manage to came up with based on a site I found online.

http://www.freewebs.com/americano212/

The site above provided picture to picture comparison of each item and comparing it to the current one I have, it scored all on authencity.



Personal Review

Comfort

The comfort level for this is high. That much I can tell you first. I had a number of In-ear phones and each of them have their own quirks. The in-ear makes my ear feel pain, or the cables create weird shreeking noise when I move around and various others.

BOSE-In Ear works on a different concept altogether. It is called In-Ear but in essences, it stays outside the ear and have the rubber tip going into your ear, giving you THAT In-Ear music without the need to fully seal off your ear. This of course means that you are privy to everything that happens and all the sounds that will disturb your music. So the logical thing to do next is to crank up the music, and that's exactly what I did. 

Sound 

Now there are a lot of those different frequency thingy machingy. I had zero knowledge about that but cranking up the music does not by any chance distort or crack the music, in fact, the louder it goes, the crispier it is. But maybe coz the music is louder....

It is also worth mentioning that the sound emitted from BOSE In-Ear is heavier on bass and not so good on the treble. Its a very good set of earphone if you punch your head clean full of heavy bassed music. In fact, listening to Tocas Miracle by Fragma, my heart thumped faster. It is good. It gave me goosebump.  but if you are more of the classical music listener well, the sound came out nice but.... it can be better.

Furthermore,the sound sounded (pun intended) a bit rounded on the edges, I am not sure why but when compared to my Creative In-ear which admittedly have been used for some time and requires no burn-in. The creative has a clearer crispier sound but it also has slight crackling sound at the volume i was pumping the music. 

But the BOSE In-Ear also provides some of the clearer version of the music I have been hearing. I can now sometimes pick up apart a few of the sound that were mixed together. Granted I have only used the fellow for less than 3 hour. After burning it in for a couple of hours more ( 30++ or was it 50++?) the sound might be different then.

Conclusion


So if you asked me, is this a good buy? Time will tell if this will live up to the original BOSE, but it is a damn good buy for the price offered now. With the high base and good treble. Get this if you can and are on budget. If you have more to throw though, invest in those higher higher ends. 

P/S: The code for registration attached actually works on www.bose.com too!

Pictures

What you see is what you get.

  Lanyard

 

 

Cloth Clip

Earbuds - Small to Large

 

The In-Ear 

 

 

Bose Branding on cable

 

Gold 8.35mm angled jack in

 

The earphones

 Notice the wire mesh on the earphones? Its the higher quality type which is close knit instead of the immitation type. 

  

Attached Leather Case

  

 Able to fit an Ipod Mini!

 Product Leaflet

 

Instruction Booklet

   

Warranty Card

First time user leaflet

 

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