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John McLean

11:55 AM on 27 November, 2008

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Oh dear. That really is a laundry list of failures isn't it! It never ceases to amaze me that some tech companies feel they have to rush products to market so quickly that even the most basic of quality control testing is seen as taking too long. Step forward BT with your dismal Vision box.

Round of applause for the companies that actually take the time and money to make sure their product works as intended before releasing it to the unsuspecting masses. I'm thinking of Sky (much as I dislike their world domination, their boxes are, from my experience, rock solid, with a responsive interface and useful features like setting up Sky+ recordings remotely - listen up BT!). Apple also are pretty high on quality control - the iPhone may lack some basic features (cut & paste? MMS? Video?) but what it does do, it seems to do in a slick and reliable fashion. And Sony, for all they are criticised, produce some of the best built, best thought out kit in the market. The PS3 may have been late to the console party, but only because Sony spent so long getting it damn near perfect - exceptionally well built, reliable (unlike the competition), and with by far the slickest interface known to man.

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joose

12:14 PM on 27 November, 2008

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The PS3 may be more reliable than the xbox but I don't know of many Wii's being sent back. In addition while the PS3's interface may be good, my experience of many Sony products is of convoluted interfaces, so bad that I know tend to avoid them.

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John McLean

12:45 PM on 27 November, 2008

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My Wii bricked during a firmware update and had to be sent back. Sony may have a history of bad interfaces and proprietary formats and its early MP3 attempts suffered from horrendous software, but it seems to have learned. Current Sony MP3 players don't need proprietary software, are good value and actually sound good with a nice interface. Sony's latest TVs use a version of the XMB (cross media bar) interface used in the PS3 and PSP, so you're getting a consistent interface which is IMHO very, very intuitive. And they seem to have given up on proprietary connectors and formats - PS3 sports standard USB ports, the controller can be charged with a standard mini-USB, control is via the Bluetooth standard, the console has standard HDMI and RJ-45 ports, the 60GB version IIRC has card readers for SD and others, not just MemoryStick, and the console communicates quite happily with any DLNA compatible music / movie / photo server.

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Bob Fraze

9:03 PM on 27 November, 2008

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NEVER MIND THE FIRMWARE UPDATES WHEN ARE YOU GUYS ACTUALLY REVIEWING THE STORM??!! Why the delay? I'm with Vodafone, but willing to flit networks - handset will be the deciding factor. Trying to decide which way to jump between Storm, iPhone 3G, Renoir, Pixon and G1 (last one an outsider but I am a big Gmailer, so...) I NEED SOME HELP HERE!!!

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AndyVandervell

9:05 PM on 27 November, 2008

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Fret not Bob, it's within days...

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Gordon394

1:40 AM on 28 November, 2008

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@Bob - for me I'll just put it like this: I really wanted to love the Storm, but...

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