tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40902153236032693862024-02-18T23:33:41.251-08:00thatblondeAnindayunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042443470196243546noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4090215323603269386.post-42853175600654194962016-09-01T08:56:00.001-07:002016-09-01T08:56:01.864-07:00ZTE's Axon 7 is a $400 champ<div style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.1562px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.1562px;"> first made a splash with the Axon name last year by sending out mysterious press invites teasing what eventually became the Axon Pro. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Axon Pro was a respectable first attempt at a flagship-caliber, budget-friendly smartphone. But it ultimately had issues with overheating and wound up being forgettable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">After using the Axon 7 for a week, it’s apparent ZTE took the lessons learned from the Axon Pro and applied them here. For a $399 unlocked phone, the Axon 7 punches way above its weight class and easily competes with phones that cost almost twice as much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Axon 7 carries over the same metal housing of the Axon Pro, with minor tweaks here and there. Gone is the gimmicky dual-camera system on the back, which ZTE replaced with a fingerprint sensor below the rear-facing camera. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sandwiching the screen are the same two speaker grills, but the front-facing camera breaking up the top speaker. ZTE shrunk the Axon 7 just a tad, making it shorter and a bit thinner when compared to last year’s model. That’s a good thing, as our review found the Pro to be far too tall for one-handed use. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In fact, the Axon 7 is slightly smaller than the OnePlus 3 despite both devices having the same 5.5-inch display. Speaking of the screen, the AMOLED display on the Axon 7 is a looker. Colors are bright and vivid without being oversaturated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Axon 7 runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, with ZTE’s MiFavor UI 4.0 Android skin. As we’ve seen other Android makers do over the past few years, ZTE has taken a very light approach to the scope of tweaks and customization. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">For example, there’s a nifty wallpaper feature that changes your lock screen images every time you wake the device. You can even swipe through images on your lock screen should you get bored. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">One aspect of the lock screen I didn’t like at first but grew fond of was that notifications aren’t prominently displayed at all times. Instead, you have to tap on a notification icon to display alerts on your lock screen. It’s an extra step, and an annoying one to adjust to, but at the end of the day you gain some privacy and an unobstructed view of the lock screen images. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Because the Axon 7 is unlocked to work with AT&T and T-Mobile’s networks, ZTE doesn’t have to bend to carrier demands and overload the phone with crapware. Meaning, you can expect only a few system apps pre-installed outside of Google’s standard affair, but nothing like an AT&T or Verizon phone loaded with everything from VZ Navigator (seriously, how is that still a thing?) or a DirectTV remote app.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Another appreciated option ZTE implemented is the ability to change what the soft keys on either side of the home button do when touched. Prefer to have the back button on the right side of the home button, like on Samsung’s Galaxy line? Or would you rather have the recent app button there? Well, you can set it to do that too. Overall, ZTE’s approach to software on the Axon 7 is to get out of Android's way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Inside the Axon 7 is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of memory, 64GB of storage, with microSD support up to 128GB and a 3,250 mAh battery. These specs parlay into a device that runs fast, with little if any performance issues. Battery life was more than enough to get through a day of use. Granted, it’s not going to last through an all-day sesh of <em>Pokémon Go</em><em>,</em> but I don’t know of a single device that would. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Equipped with Quick Charge 3.0, you can go from a complete dead battery to 50 percent in around 30 minutes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">On a few occasions, I caught the phone in the midst of rebooting while sitting on my desk. It’s hard to say what caused the sporadic restarts. It could have been an app I installed, or something with the device itself. Though I do have the same exact set of apps installed on over a dozen Android devices right now and don't have this issue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Outside of the random reboot, my biggest complaint about the device's overall performance is related to the fingerprint sensor waking and unlocking the phone. This isn’t even really a performance issue, but more of a user experience dilemma. (At first I thought it <em>was</em> a performance hiccup.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">As with the 2015 crop of Nexus devices, you can place your finger on the Axon 7’s fingerprint sensor to simultaneously wake and unlock the device. Most of the time this occurs without issue. But when the Axon 7 doesn’t recognize your finger there’s a short vibration and nothing else happens. The screen remains dark and fails to provide any more information as to what the vibration meant. At first I assumed the device was unlocking, but the display wasn't properly lighting up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">To clear up any confusion, it would be nice to have an error message on the display to let you know what is going on. Mind you, the Nexus 6P vibrates once when it successfully reads your fingerprint and twice when it doesn’t. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The dual-lens setup on the Axon Pro was nothing more than a cheap parlor trick for adding depth-of-field to a picture. Thankfully, ZTE realized this and did away with it for the Axon 7. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now you’ll find a single, 20-megapixel camera on the back and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Video capabilities include 4K recording. There are several shooting modes built into the camera app, each one designed for a different setting including sports, slow motion, and panoramas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Overall, the camera snaps crisp photos in outdoor settings where there’s adequate light. In low-light scenarios, auto-focus takes a bit more time to sharpen and photos come out a bit on the grainy side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Those interested in using Google’s forthcoming virtual reality platform Daydream will be happy to know the Axon 7 is ready for it. While that means little to users today, it will prove beneficial later this year when Google releases Android 7.0 Nougat and its Daydream headset. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Of course, that means ZTE will need to update the Axon 7 to Nougat shortly after Google makes it official.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">$400 well invested </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Just a few weeks ago, OnePlus made a big splash with the OnePlus 3, and it was well deserved. The OnePlus 3 is a solid phone and well worth the $400 price tag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And so is the Axon 7. Actually, it beats the OnePlus 3 in terms of screen quality, megapixel count, and Daydreaminess. At this price, you get a fast phone that takes sharp photos and is ready to turn into a VR machine when the time comes. At the end of the day, you can’t go wrong with the Axon 7 or the OnePlus 3 if you’re shopping for an unlocked device on a budget.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Budget-friendly <span class="bullet">•</span> Flagship caliber <span class="bullet">•</span> Solid battery life <span class="bullet">•</span> Sharp screen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">ZTEs Axon 7 offers top-of-the line features for a lot less than Samsung’s best offering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">BERLIN — Cool doesn't even begin to describe Lenovo's Yoga Book, announced Wednesday at IFA 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Yoga Book is about the size of a children's hardcover book — Lenovo compared it side by side with a hardcover Dr. Seuss book — and serves as a mini tablet, laptop and a digital notebook</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Yoga Book is thin, light and wild. Lenovo is launching two versions — Android ($499) and Windows 10 ($599) — later this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">10.1-inch full HD display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The device has a 10.1-inch full HD glossy display on one half and a matte surface on the other half. Its hinge allows the screen to fold 360 degrees backwards into a mini tablet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">With a touch of a button, the matte half turns on a "Halo" keyboard and trackpad layout. Typing on it is similar to typing on an iPad, which is to say, there's absolutely no tactile feedback and no actual key actuation. As much as I hate the shallow keyboard on the new MacBook, typing on a flat surface is even worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">If this sounds familiar to Wacom's Smart Bamboo, that's because it is Wacom technology. The digitizer is sensitive enough to detect scribbles through a stack of paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Spec-wise, the Yoga Book is powered by a 2.4GHz quad-core Intel Atom x5 Processor, 4GB of RAM and has 64GB of storage (expandable via microSD card). Lenovo says there will be Wi-Fi and LTE models. There's also an 8-megapixel camera on the front. Lenovo claims up to 15 hours of battery life for the Android model and up to 13 hours for the Windows 10 version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's an interesting concept, to say the least. It's clearly aimed at students, notebook lovers and scrapbookers, but it's hard to tell if it'll ever take off.</span></div>
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</figure>Anindayunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042443470196243546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4090215323603269386.post-84066498467420416312016-09-01T08:53:00.001-07:002016-09-01T08:53:55.006-07:00“Mr. Robot” is now a mobile game that’s played through a fake messaging app<img height="293" src="https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/screen-shot-2016-08-17-at-5-06-49-pm.png?w=738" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.1562px; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /><br />
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The hit cybersecurity-focused TV show “<a href="http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mr. Robot</a>,” a psychological thriller popular among the tech crowd for its <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-usa-hacking-unusually-accurate.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">relatively accurate portrayal of hacking,</a> is now a mobile game. Released by <a href="https://telltale.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Telltale Games</a> in association with NBCUniversal, and developed by <a href="http://nightschoolstudio.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Night School Studio</a> in collaboration with Universal Cable Productions, the game is played through the fictional E-Corp messaging app, allowing players to communicate in real time with characters in the show.</div>
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The game continues the show’s technically correct naming scheme, too. While episodes of the show are often titled with names referencing video files, like .avi or .flv, for example, the iOS game is called Mr. Robot: 1.51exfiltrati0n.ipa – the .ipa referring to the iOS application archive file format. On Google Play, the file is named Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n.apk, referencing the Android app file format instead. (Gotta love these little details.)</div>
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The game itself takes place during the first season of the TV show, according to the app’s description. The premise is that you find a smartphone on the ground outside the Fun Society Arcade at Coney Island. As fans of the show know, this is the meeting place for the hacking group, fsociety. As it turns out, the phone you’ve found belongs to Darlene, one of the show’s main characters, and a black hat hacker poised to commit a large-scale cybercrime.</div>
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You’ll “play” the game by texting different employees of E-Corp, the global tech company being targeted by the hacking group, as well as interact with characters in the show, like Elliot, Darlene, and Cisco.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some companies like Apple like to wait until technologies are mature before integrating them into products. Others like Samsung take a different approach and throw many things at the wall in hopes a few will stick. Neither approach is wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">With the launch of Samsung Galaxy Note7, the best smartphone you can buy in my opinion, it's worth taking a look back at how Samsung turned its "gimmicky" and "niche" curved-screen edges into a signature design element on its flagship phones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">To understand the Note7 design, we need to take a trip down memory lane back to 2014. Instead of a just a single Galaxy Note 4, Samsung also released the Galaxy Note Edge. The Note Edge was the first Samsung smartphone with a curved edge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Technically speaking, the Note Edge had two separate displays: the main flat portion of the screen and the curved edge panel that ran along its right side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Galaxy Note Edge released in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Samsung touted the Note Edge as the ultimate productivity phablet combining the Note 4's S Pen stylus and dual-app multitasking features in Android with a bent display that could provide quick access to app shortcuts and notifications.</span></div>
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<span class="microcontent" style="color: #222222; line-height: 31.92px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Samsung changed the conversation from being "Why own a big phone?" to "Why own a phone that looks like every other phone?"</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Though <em>Mashable</em> Tech Editor Pete Pachal really liked it, the phone's extra $100 premium over the regular Note 4, asymmetrical design and wider width — not to mention the panel's limited third-party support — ultimately doomed it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Note Edge was written off as a gimmick by many. iPhone fanatics, who were just starting to get behind the idea of a phablet with the the iPhone 6 Plus, laughed at it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Samsung may have failed with the Note Edge in terms of selling it in large volumes, but it succeeded by implanting its futuristic design into the public consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">By launching the Edge Note, however proof-of-concept it was, Samsung changed the conversation from being "Why own a big phone?" to "Why own a phone that looks like every other phone?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In early 2015, Samsung aggressively moved to turn the Note Edge's single-curved edge panel into a real differentiator between it and other phones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">But as usual, Samsung had one foot in and one foot out. It couldn't commit to such a radical change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And so we got the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge at the same time. The two phones were identical save for the <em>dual</em> curved edges on the S6 Edge. And again, the S6 Edge commanded a $100 premium over the flatscreen model.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Mashable</em> ended up concluding the regular S6 was a better phone than the S6 Edge on account the extra hundred wasn't worth it just for the curved-glass aesthetic. And not just that — the S6 Edge's "Edge" features were also less useful than the vision the Note Edge laid out since it didn't even have shortcuts to apps, only shortcuts to five of your contacts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Months after the S6 Edge's release, Samsung still wasn't sure what to make of it. There were <a href="http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/report-samsung-s-galaxy-s6-failed-to-wow-u-s-consumers-as-smartphone-demand-fell-q2" style="color: #00aeef; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reports</a> the regular Galaxy S6 didn't move the needle and Samsung underestimated the demand for the curved model. And by the time Samsung got the mix right, consumers had moved on to either an iPhone or one of the many cheaper midrange phones that started to offer premium design and features for a lot less.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Maybe it was the extra premium or maybe the Edge features were too gimmicky. Whatever the reason was, there was one thing consumers couldn't ignore about the S6 Edge: It looked hot as hell — like a device from the future. Samsung just needed a better reason to hook people in on the curved glass beyond mere looks.</span></div>
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<span class="microcontent" style="color: #222222; line-height: 31.92px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">One thing consumers couldn't ignore: The curved edges on the Edge phones looked hot as hell.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the second half of 2015, the company release the Note 5 <em>and</em> S6 Edge+<em>. </em>Once again, the two phones were virtually identical internally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">But Samsung sent a mixed message to consumers again. While the Note 5 was marketed as a phablet for power users (it's got the S Pen, after all), the S6 Edge+ was marketed as more of a phone for consuming entertainment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The distinction would have worked if not for the fact the S6 Edge+ had additional Edge panels like the app shortcuts that were missing on the S6 Edge. With the extra features, the S6 Edge+ was arguably well-suited for productivity, too... minus the S Pen, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">A firmer stance on the Edge</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The benefits of the Edge's curved screens were better marketed this year in the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">As before, Samsung kept the specs the same on both phones. But this time, there were good reasons to buy the Edge model over the regular one: a larger screen, useful Edge features <em>and</em> a larger battery. Samsung finally justified the $100 premium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anecdotally, I've seen more S7 Edge's in the wild than I've seen the smaller S7, which isn't a surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The appeal of the S7 Edge goes beyond its curved-glass features. Like its Edge predecessors, it's more fashionable than flatscreen phones, which all look very similar at this point. The Edge's curved glass sides literally give it an aesthetic edge over the iPhone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The curved screen edges are no longer an experiment, a gimmick, a nasty bend that catches unwanted reflections for the sake of design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">As I wrote in my Note7 review, Samsung's curved glass has evolved quite a bit over the past couple of years and it's finally culminated into the phone's gorgeous design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">For two years, Samsung wasn't sure if the Edge's curved screen would stick. With most critics giving the Note7 rave reviews, it's pretty obvious now that merging the Note7 with the Edge was the best decision Samsung's made in years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Note7 gives you all the productivity features of the S Pen and Note series <em>and</em> all the power-user features from the S7 Edge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Samsung's Edge is now <em>the</em> thing that makes a Samsung phone a Samsung phone and everyone knows it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The well-reviewed Galaxy Note7 from Samsung has, unfortunately, run into a major technical problem that may taint its otherwise successful launch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Distribution of the Galaxy Note7 is reportedly being delayed due to a new, unexplained series of product quality tests intiated by the South Korean electronics giant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Shipments of the Galaxy Note7 are being delayed due to additional tests being conducted for product quality," a Samsung spokesperson <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-smartphones-idUSKCN1161BL" style="color: #00aeef; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told</a> Reuters on Wednesday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Although the company did not elaborate on what the specific quality control issue is, the same report mentions claims of exploding batteries from local news sources in South Korea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And contrary to the aforementioned "delayed" statement from Samsung, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency <a href="http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2016/08/31/0503000000AEN20160831012100320.html" style="color: #00aeef; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claims</a> that shipments of the device have been completely halted in the wake of various reports of the Galaxy Note7 exploding while charging its battery. The report cites five claims of exploding devices since Aug. 24. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In recent days, photos have begun to crop on sites like Baidu showing what some users claim are Galaxy Note7s that have allegedly suffered accidental fire damage. However, there has been no confirmation from Samsung that the burned phones showing up online were definitely impacted by battery or charger malfunctions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The <em>Korean Herald</em> <a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160831001057#jyk" style="color: #00aeef; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reports</a> that Samsung is investigating the matter and may release the results of that investigation soon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The next Samsung smartwatch might not be a single model, but three, according to a new report.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.sammobile.com/2016/08/09/explorer-is-likely-the-third-variant-of-the-gear-s3-smartwatch/" style="color: #00aeef; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>SamMobile</em></a><em> </em>reports Samsung's Gear S3, which is expected to be announced at IFA next month, might come in three versions: Classic, Frontier and Explorer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The names Frontier and Explorer could hint at a more active-focused lifestyle or ruggedized design. A separate report from the Samsung fan blog claims the Gear S3 will have a built-in integrated GPS, an altimeter, barometer and speedometer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Gear S3 will likely stick with its round display and rotatable bezel, which is used for navigating around the Tizen operating system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Furthermore, the report claims the Gear S3 Explorer model will come with three buttons located on the two, four and 10 hour marks. If we were to guess, we'd say these buttons might be used for stopwatch functionality or perhaps as programmable shortcut buttons to launch apps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps, the buttons could work like the Galaxy S7 Active's "Active" key, which can be used to launch an programmed app, or send out an emergency message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All should be revealed soon enough. <em>Mashable </em>will be reporting live from from IFA</span></div>
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Women put up their hair and on their stern faces<br />To catch their mates at the scene of a crime<br />They created in their own minds<br />With hearts bursting with love<br />And fears large as the distance between them.<br />The muscles still ripple beneath the skin-tight shirt,<br />The strut still counters the booty shake,<br />Or so the earth still confirms as true,<br />Like it says her blue eyes still beguile the moon<br />From the sky.<br /> But all that is unacknowledged<br />In their dance, the trading off of silence<br />Of couples games that seem so deadly<br />But are only play.</div>
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If I was a poet<br /> I would get some kind of award<br />For the most times married, still it's the lovers<br />I reflect on, how I stayed in their corner rooms<br />For the poignancy of conversations in front of<br />Old televisions, with their mothers' serving spoons<br />As the buzzards circled the rooftops.<br />It always ended the same, they all died poor and lonely<br />After leaving me, and though I liked to wallow<br />In the pathos, I always found some misplaced stone<br />Who gave forever in the touch again,<br />Who went through every pore<br />And lived in every atom<br />Until there was no notion of a separate me anymore,<br />A kind of passion that can only come<br />From the deepest part of the stars.<br />Always the same woman,<br />Always all women,<br />The deeper they revealed their soul the more true that was,<br />So it was easy to be true -- for me at least<br />If never quite for her -- I can only follow,<br />Say "yes" to her resolute "no",<br />Give her emotion some legitimacy,<br />As if I have no skin,<br />As if it wasn't a game,<br />As if everything I say<br />Isn't her.</div>
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As we sit in the outdoor cafe,<br />Black tiles gleaming like a crossroads<br />Of nostalgia and longing,<br />She still all of them: this one's laugh, that one's<br />Sudden glee, another's snide response,<br />But it is still as distant as it always was,<br />An inexplicable eruption of grace, annoyance,<br />Savagery, pleasure, sweetness, calm, wisdom ...<br />From some place I cannot go<br />No matter how tightly I grip her hand.<br />Words pass but immediately dissolve,<br />Energy merges but at the service of a capricious puppeteer,<br />Looks say what they mean but the mood keeps changing<br />Like the lights of the day on a quest beyond our meanings.<br />It seems as if our positions will be stone<br />Left to weather the elements alone,<br />But then a blue sarong comes along to remind me<br />Of what each put aside for the other,<br />The space we've held for a never quite revealed mystery;<br />Bought from a beach peddler it becomes the rug<br />That ties the room together, all dissonance and distance<br />Falls away, into the radiance of a body<br />Moving like the surf toward me.</div>
Anindayunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042443470196243546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4090215323603269386.post-53386881312091084342016-09-01T08:46:00.001-07:002016-09-01T08:46:09.930-07:00Tom Brady's Hair<div class="post-body entry-content" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 490px;">
No one saw this coming<br />the dominance this year<br />how effortless it moved the ball<br />through beasts and schemes and snow,<br />so strong and multi-layered<br />so perfect like Apollo,<br />with nods to every football decade<br />of hair: the shag, the crew, the mullet,<br />from Bobby Layne to Willie Joe<br />to something once barbaric,<br />like the first white guy to wear a pink tuxedo<br />no quarterback dared pull this off before,<br />and it's well-thought-out, superb in all its details<br />it's not a tawdry gimmick or a trick,<br />no pseudo-Rastafari braids or Polynesian fro<br />it's a coif of the messiah<br />that jostles in the wind<br />like Jehovah's very breath.<br /><br />No one saw this coming<br />this Samson per Giselle,<br />no one imagined Belichick<br />would have his finest hour<br />in the autumn of his career<br />by whispering, from his concrete-colored hoodie<br />in his impressionable prodigy's ear<br />"this off-season I need you to concentrate,<br />put the work into your hair."<br />
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Anindayunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042443470196243546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4090215323603269386.post-34219460977793834082016-09-01T08:44:00.001-07:002016-09-01T08:44:02.394-07:00Event Recap: High Tea With Melina Marchetta<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">Every so often Better Read Than Dead in Sydney hosts </span><a href="http://www.betterreadevents.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #eb7fcb; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">high tea events</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;"> with Australian authors, and yesterday they had their biggest ever with Melina Marchetta. There was so much interest they had to move the event out of their bookshop and in to a hall around the corner. They do a great job with creating a lovely high tea atmosphere, the food is awesome, and you get to hear an amazing author discuss their work - it's basically my idea of heaven. Also tickets are only $10, which is crazy good value. Seriously, I am obsessed with how brilliant these events are. And of course yesterday's event with one of my absolute favourite authors was extra brilliant.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;" /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.44px;">If you're wondering what those non-Melina Marchetta books are - I won the lucky door prize, woo!</td></tr>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">Melina discussed everything from writing </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">Looking for Alibrandi</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;"> to the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">On the Jellicoe Road </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">film script and the novel she's just finished. Some of the highlights:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;" /><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Melina left school in Year 10 and at her mother's urging did a course to learn to type. Instead of typing random things <b>she began writing what would go on to become <i>Looking for Alibrandi</i></b>. She would write little snippets of story and pass it to the girl next to her, who kept asking for more, which encouraged her. So her very first reader was a 16-year-old girl. But she said<i>Alibrandi</i> went through many, many rewrites, and even after she got an agent and later a publisher it needed work. She didn't keep a record of the process, but she believes she got rejected between five and eight times before <i>Alibrandi </i>was rescued from the slush pile. From the time she first started writing it through to when it was published, it took about five years. Her other novels have taken about 18 months from writing the first draft through to being published.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Her love of reading was what got her in to writing.</b> She had never seen a character like herself or her world portrayed, and that's what really drove her to create <i>Alibrandi</i>. But although she created a story within her world and tied to her experiences growing up in Australia with Italian heritage, she said it's not her life story and Josie Alibrandi is not her: "Josie is much smarter than me and I am much nicer than her." </li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">She said <b>"write what you know" is great advice</b>, but that doesn't mean it has to be exactly your story - you can use your experiences or emotions to create a fictional journey: "My own life is very boring - the highlight of my day can be getting an email or going up the road to get a coffee." Melina used <i>Saving Francesca </i>as an example of this - working at an all boys school, she knew what it was to be a minority in that environment, and she used that in <i>Francesca</i>. </li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">She was very proud of <i>On the Jellicoe Road </i>but when it was first published, nobody was really interested in it. She even had a bookseller tell her to her face that she didn't like it. <b>People wanted her to keep writing </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Alibrandi </i><b>and </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Francesca </i>again and again, and didn't know what to make of this completely different story. But then it was published in America, and it was really what cracked the American market for her, and suddenly people in Australia were interested in it too. Now it is one of her most beloved books.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Despite the themes of her first two books, she was never interested in writing about multi-culturalism forever - <b>what interests her most, and what ties all her books together, is identity.</b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Melina sees </b><b style="font-style: italic;">Finnikin of the Rock </b><b>as a companion novel to <i>Alibrandi</i>. </b>It has the same theme of identity, and searching for who you are, and of people displaced from their homeland. She was inspired to write <i>Finnikin</i> when she was living in New York for a couple of months, and she was sitting on the subway and saw an advertisement about refugees. And as she was sitting there she realised everyone around her was talking in different accents and languages, and everyone, included herself, was disconnected from their homeland. Those two observations led to <i>Finnikin. </i>She wanted to write a story about refugees but she didn't want to set it in the here and now because it would be too political, so she created the fantasy world. </li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b><i>Finnikin </i>is almost as much Evanjalin's story,</b> but Evanjalin didn't get a POV because she's got too much to hide.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The descriptive language was something she worked hard to get right when writing fantasy. While most of her novels undergo at least five rewrites, she rewrote scenes in the <i>Lumatere Chronicles </i>up to 20 times. She would write a scene, and then sit there with a thesauraus to find just the right word for each thing she wanted to convey, to create a rhythm within the prose. She said<b> the important thing with fantasy is that there is a song that is sung through the writing.</b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><i>Finnikin </i>and <i>Francesca </i>were both written as standalones, but they <b>each had characters that wouldn't leave her alone</b> (that'd be Froi and Tom!).</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Tom Mackee was originally supposed to be the villain in <i>Francesca</i>. But one comment he made in the novel - about being the first Mackee male to get to a certain age with his liver intact - stuck with her over the years. One night Melina was watching an <i>Australian Story </i>about Vietnam vets who were going back to Vietnam because the bodies of five soldiers had never been recovered, and she had a "mystical moment" where <b>she felt Tom Mackee sitting next to her saying "that's my grandfather." </b>He also said "and Georgie Finch is my aunt" - she had been thinking of Georgie as a character for another story at the time. She said she doesn't really buy into what a lot of writers say about things just coming to them, or that writing is some mystical process - "it's mostly really hard work" - but that was one of the few moments she's had like that. And that led to <i>The Piper's Son.</i></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Jimmy Hailer's story is very much in Melina's head right now</b>. He and Siobhan did not appear in <i>The Piper's Son </i>because she could only include who Tom brought with him, and he didn't bring those two characters, but she was aware their absence was a presence that was felt, and they were still there even if they weren't an active part of the story. She has been thinking of Jimmy in the past two days in particular, and she knows what will happen in his story, but she needs to get the chance to write it. She said she firmly believes stories are written at the right time - and she feels that now is Jimmy's time. She wanted to stress that it won't be YA - Jimmy is about 25 or 26. He is still drifting, as Jimmy does. He will get stuck in a house for three days due to a flood, with another character who was in a short story Melina wrote last year (I have yet to read that one - I need to). There will be two other main characters, in their 40s - another woman who was in that short story, and her love interest. It will be about these four characters, but the old gang will definitely show up in some way. </li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>The novel Melina just finished is unlike anything she's written before.</b> Her agent describes it as a "literary thriller" and it is an adult novel set in London. It's about an explosion on a bus that is tied to an explosion on the London underground 14 years earlier. She said while in the past her novels have been about young people where older people play an important part, this one is about older people, where younger people play an important part. It was partly inspired by Melina's feelings over anti-terror laws. </li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Melina is currently tinkering with the <i>Jellicoe </i>film script</b>. She said it has to be absolutely perfect because they're hoping to get the right backing in the new year to finally get it made. They've auditioned actors and she said if it was made tomorrow, she knows they definitely have a Jonah Griggs, Ben Cassidy and Jude Scanlon - and they are all "amazing, and hot too". But she can't say who they are because by the time the film gets made they might not be able to do it for whatever reason (Hollywood might snatch them up - "and Hollywood will definitely snatch them up" - or they might get too old, for instance).</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Melina said film scripts are incredibly difficult and complicated</b> because there is a lot more to consider than when writing a novel. And the people who are funding it are not necessarily interested in what's in the novel. It sounds like the <i>Jellicoe </i>script might be quite different from the book, but she said the "six most important things" that are in the novel are also in the script. She also said that everyone who has read the script has loved it.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Her advise for writers: just write!</b> Melina said she meets a lot of people who say they want to be writers but aren't actually writing anything, and she understands the difficulty of putting things on the page and the fear that it will never live up to what's in your head. She said her latest novel was in her head for a year before she put anything to paper - and it ended up being even better than what was in her head. She said you need to write something every day - it doesn't have to be much, and you might end up throwing out three quarters, but that one quarter might be the hook you need to hang the next thing on. Even if one sentence out of hundreds is gold, it's worth it and that's what you need to do. </li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You should also <b>rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. </b>Melina said people ask her how she, for example, plants something early in a book that doesn't have meaning until much later on, and she said that's the sort of thing that comes through rewriting. It's only when you rewrite that you really know the characters and can really flesh them out and add those little, meaningful details. But you need to get that first draft done as the foundation to then go back and rewrite and make it better.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Melina is the queen of YA and it seems she will soon be the queen of adult fiction too</b> - of course she didn't say this, but I am. If you haven't read her books you should <a href="http://www.betterread.com.au/book-search/search.do?authorName=%22Melina%20Marchetta%22&txtQuery=%22Melina%20Marchetta%22&searchBy=author" style="color: #eb7fcb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">go buy them all right now</a>.</li>
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Anindayunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042443470196243546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4090215323603269386.post-1155583554750809612016-09-01T08:41:00.001-07:002016-09-01T08:41:57.630-07:00Book Vs Movie: The Neverending Story<i style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">The Neverending Story </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and having</span><a href="http://bellesbookshelf.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/review-neverending-story-by-michael.html" style="background-color: white; color: #eb7fcb; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px; text-decoration: none;"> recently read the book</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">, I thought it was time for a revisit. Did it stand the test of time? Well... yes and no. The special effects obviously aren't great, and the acting is really, really bad. But the story is still pretty magical. It may be the nostalgia talking, but I still enjoyed it. Even though I laughed at it way more than with it. On to the comparison...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;" /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.44px;"><i>Note to filmmakers: getting a kid to scrunch his eyes up and splashing water on his face does not equal realistic crying.</i></td></tr>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">Changes that worked</b><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The land was named Fantasia in the movie, rather than Fantastica. Maybe it's because I grew up with the movie, but I much prefer the name Fantasia. </li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">We first meet Atreyu in the Ivory Tower, rather than his own land. I can understand why this was done - I'm sure it was for budget/time reasons, but I liked how it moved us straight in to the action.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Atreyu doesn't have green skin, but really I think it would have just been distracting. Apparently the filmmakers did experiment with turning the actor's skin green with a few different techniques, but nothing looked right. I'm glad they passed.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Artax the horse can't speak as he can in the book, but again I think it would have just been cheesy if they had carried this over to the film. Plus Atreyu has the ability to understand him, anyway.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">There were only two gates to get to the Oracle, not three. It's not as pretty or "magical" a number, but I can see why it would have been cut for time constraints. The Oracle itself is a pair of sphinxes, rather than a bodiless "song" - again, I can understand why this change was made. As it was in the book I don't think it would have worked on screen.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The Nothing looks like a storm, rather than literally nothing. Again, the book version wouldn't have worked in a visual medium.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Atreyu meets the Rock Biter. I liked that it tied the beginning of the story in to the larger narrative.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">We see Falcor and the other characters almost immediately after Fantasia is restored, as opposed to the numerous chapters it takes to get back to them in the book. They're the characters we've come to care about, so it makes sense to continue the journey with them as soon as possible.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The movie only covers the first half of the book - but where they end the story makes a lot more sense than the way it was dragged out in the novel.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.44px;"><i>I used to think Atreyu was dreamy. Huh.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; line-height: 20.02px;">Changes that didn't work</b><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">In the book, Bastian's dad is still mourning the loss of his wife and barely functioning, neglecting Bastian as a result. Bastian, while he misses his mum, wants to get on with life, and part of the beauty of the book is the way his journey ultimately takes him back home - to his dad, and to love. In the movie, however, it is Bastian who is struggling to cope without his mother, while his dad urges him to move on. His dad is caring but distant and a little hard on him. I just felt Bastian's loneliness was more palpable in the book, where he had effectively lost two parents at once. The movie also didn't resolve Bastian's relationship with his father, which was frustrating.</li>
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The book-within-the-movie, <i>The Neverending Story</i>, is described as a dangerous, one-off magical item, whereas the book-within-the-book was just one of many pathways to Fantastica, the land of stories. The movie version weakens the allegory of what it means to get lost in a story. In fact, Fantasia is described as the land of dreams, not stories, in the film. Not the same thing!</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">When Bastian takes the book, he leaves a note saying he'll bring it back - something he doesn't do in the book. While this makes him a nicer character, it doesn't explain why he has to hide away in the school attic all day, creating a plot hole.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">AURYN's power isn't explained properly, so, for example, it's not clear why Atreyu isn't pulled down by the sadness in the swamps.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Falcor rescues Atreyu, not the other way around. This is pretty random and doesn't explain Falcor's devotion to the boy.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The Nothing doesn't seem as threatening as it does in the book - people don't feel the compulsion to walk in to it (that, for me, was the scariest part). We even see Falcor flying through the Nothing - which makes absolutely no sense. It's not Nothing if you can fly through it! OK, it's not Nothing if you can see it either, and I said that worked for the film - but having Falcor and Atreyu travelling through it just makes it seem even less frightening.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The Empress is much less empowered in the movie. She doesn't take action herself, as she does in the book. Leaving zero strong female characters.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The Empress gives Bastian sand, "all that's left of Fantastia" to make a wish, instead of AURYN. Seriously, why did they bother putting AURYN in the movie if they weren't going to make use of it?!</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">After Bastian restores Fantasia, EVERYONE comes back, "like the Nothing never was". I'm all for a happy ending, but even Artax comes back - and he didn't even die because of the Nothing. He died because of the swamp. It makes no sense, and again undermines the danger of the Nothing in the first place.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Bastian flies on Falcor's back through New York City (don't ask me how they get there) to take vengeance on his bullies. An eye for an eye isn't exactly a good message (though perhaps I'm particularly sensitive to that thanks to the current atmosphere in blogland), but moreover - it's just tacky, cheesy and really, really lame.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.44px;"><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><i>Remember the finger thing?! I didn't until I saw it again and then had all these flashbacks to my friends and I trying desperately to get our fingers to do that. I don't think any of us succeeded. Luckily, we didn't break any fingers either.</i></ul>
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