Toyota Alphard

Dream land.. The Magical place Queens find quality time with their Kings. A wonderous mystery where sleeping beauties smile in their sleep through a thousand miles of sweet kisses. Where an adventurous child, who unable to sit in one place, has the freedom to fly. A kingdom where a king rulse his court and back-seat knight. Thus, it is in the world of Alphard where every dream abides.

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New Honda Hybrid

New Honda Hybrid Arrives in April 2009, Honda's development of an all-new hybrid hatchback has been a poorly kept secret - so much so that the automaker revealed that the car, which targets the successful Toyota Prius, will launch in April 2009.

Richard Colliver, executive vice president of Honda's U.S. operations, let the facts loose during a speech at the Management Briefing Seminars event in Traverse City, Michigan.

As we've seen from numerous spy photos, the car will be a five-door hatchback - much like the Prius itself, but also akin to Honda's hydrogen fuel cell-powered FCX Clarity (pictured). Although technical details were skipped, Colliver mentioned the car would be lighter than the existing Civic Hybrid sedan.

Colliver expects the car to be less expensive than the Prius, which helps justify Honda's sales predictions. The automaker is looking to sell 200,000 units worldwide on an annual basis, with half that figure stemming from North America alone.

Source: Automotive News

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Land Rover Mobile Phones

Following on from the news that the Sonim XP3 is all set to pick up where the JCB Tough Phone left off, another announcement’s popped up today, stating that Sonim are going to pair up with something else that’s got four wheels and a massive engine. According to Engadget Mobile, next year we’re going to see mobile phones from the motoring marque associated with mud, off-roading, and driving up inaccessible mountains.

Yep, 2009 will see the first ever Land Rover-branded, Sonim-made mobile phones. Has there ever been a more perfect match-up than that..?

Three models are due to be released in 2009, the Land Rover S1 and the S2 G4, followed at some point later in the year by a third, as-yet-unnamed mobile phone. There aren’t any piccies yet, but we can take some not entirely stupid guesses as to what they’ll be like.

Big.
Probably Green.
Rugged.
That is all.

However, since Land Rover’s are also a bit high-tech in places, could this be where we finally see a Sonim mobile phone with a camera on? It’d be interesting, especially if it’s a camera that’ll work underwater. Whole niche market there, boys, get it made! However, we can pretty much forget the phone having a winch on the front, no matter how much I want one. Oh, and be warned, if you have a Land Rover mobile phone, it’s reasonably possible some deranged ecomentalist won’t be able to tell the difference between it and a 4by4, and call you a planet killer, despite the fact that when you factor in environmental impact of production, the Land Rover’s probably a greener car than the Toyota Prius, and unlike that godawful G-Wiz thing which is made of bacofoil, it won’t throw battery acid all over your face, and the road, and every innocent bystander round the car, if and when you crash it…

But anyway, I digress… so, while Porsche are still hooked up with Sagem for their mobile phones, the cars known for being able to nut their way through Burma are joining up with the mobile phones known for being able to, yes, nut their way through Burma…

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Bill Gates bans iPhones for his kids

Bill Gates bans iPhones for his kids, no-one is surprised, Completely unsurprising news, now, from the pages of The Register, where they’re reporting that Bill Gates has put a blanket ban on his kids (or his wife, for that matter) owning either an iPod or an iPhone.

What that’s you say? The former CEO of Microsoft saying that his family can’t have things made by Steve “I’m Bill Gates’s arch-nemesis” Jobs? Surely not!

You have to admire the way people are saying that his kids should have some say in whether they get an iPod or not, without first researching the subject and finding out that his kids are, in fact, aged approximately 13, 10 and 5, and therefore, will get what they’re given, and lump it. They should think themselves lucky they don’t get a lump of coal and half an orange each at Christmas! And as for his wife, Melinda, she is quoted as saying, “Every now and then I look at my friends and say, ‘Ooh, I wouldn't mind having that iPhone.”

Yikes, in the house of the former CEO of Microsoft, that be banishment talk, surely?

But hey, the iPhone is and always was a triumph of style over substance, and quite frankly, there are a lot of phones that’ll outclass it (and if we’re talking just Windows Mobile, have the Toshiba TG01 as an example, for starters…). Of course, there’s always the possibility some might argue that Windows Mobile is a triumph of substance over any kind of style whatsoever, and in a way, they’re right.

That’s fixable by adding on a new interface, just like the did with the HTC Touch HD (and I know I’ll get flamed to a crisp about this, but can people please stop saying Windows Mobile is still rubbish, even with TouchFLO on? Actually use one, then try to convince me it’s rubbish…)

Can you fix the iPhone’s shortcomings by adding a new camera on, on top?

Anyway, I’m straying away from the central point of my ramblings here, which is this: er, it’s his house, and the kids are all under 13. No they can’t have a say in what gifts they get bought. That’s the parents’ job.

Besides, with a dad who’s worth in the region of $58 billion, and who could probably ring up HTC and say, “Make me a brand new version of the Diamond, NOW,” and who is making a multitouch, touchscreen table, I don’t think they’re exactly gonna come off badly out of the dea.

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