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May all of your gadgets and toys propser in the Year of the Ox.
Have a fun Lunar New Year holiday – we know we will – so much so that we’ll be off this entire week and back on Monday, February 2nd! Take care and be safe!
FoneTV is a HK$18 monthly service plan for mobile TV in Hong Kong.
Smartone Vodafone introduces TV-hungry Hong Kongers to FoneTV: a new service that starts at HK$18 a month to access 12 channels including BBC, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV and Cartoon Network to start. Not bad.
For a premium price you can get E!, Animax, Racing shows and more importantly HK and Japanese AV and Adult Anime channels for prices ranging from HK$18-$38 extra a month. Or go all out and get package deals around HK$100 a month, so you can view your soft core porn anywhere in Hong Kong.
The special deal going on now is if you sign up for any of these channels you’ll get a pair of Sony Ericsson noise canceling headphones (worth HK$638) for FREE.
Head over to your nearest Smartone Vodafone shop now to sign-up and never ever have to stand with other people looking at those jumbotron monitors in Hong Kong ever again.
Ultimate Ninja Storm takes this week’s Playstation 3 sales top spot.
Sony updates us with the Top 5 best-selling games in Hong Kong and topping the list this week is the Namco Bandai recently released Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm. Soon after its release it became the fastest selling PS3 game in Hong Kong.
Other hot games selling this past week in Hong Kong: closely fighting for the second rank are four other games LittleBigPlanet, Hakuna Matata, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation and MotorStorm II from Sony. Gamers are frantically trying to get their copies for the action game LittleBigPlanet. The visuals and the sound effects are astounding.
It’s a lighter, smaller, 10 megapixel new digital camera from Canon.
Canon introduces PowerShot A480, the extra-compact, lighter and upgraded version of their popular PowerShot A470 digital camera.
Its time to enjoy the all-new PowerShot A480, the latest compact and take-anywhere digital camera from Canon that is packed with loads of user-friendly features. It is 25% smaller than its predecessor. This cool, little piece comes in four attractive colours, red, black, blue and silver to suit your preference. PowerShot A480 boasts simplicity of operations without compromising image quality. It has Canon’s hallmark Digic III processor, 10mp sensor plus the face and motion detection technology. You can be assured of great image quality and superb colour reproduction.
Square Enix to taunt English-language gamers for at least 6 months.
In a non-surprising move, Square Enix has announced that the English version of their highly-anticipated Final Fantasy XIII game for the Playstation 3 will see an April 2010 OR later release date in North America, so say Reuters.
The only good news is that the game will be available on the Xbox 360 as well as the Playstation 3 which may sound blasphemous to some, but it will bring big sales for Square. With 85 million copies of Final Fantasy and 47 million copies of Dragon Quest sold, I guess they don’t need to rush perfection to the “gaijins” out there.
Hong Kong gamers will no doubt get the Chinese-translated game guide books and be enjoying the Japanese version (which is scheduled to come out in the second half of 2009) long before the Americans see it. We can all still dream about this great fan-made game box art below:
UPDATE JAN. 29: Thanks Square! We thought we could hold out until 2010, but this trailer you released today just made us decide to get the Japanese version and just figure it out ourselves:
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