Brevity Review: Adidas Boat Lace ClimaCool Shoes — Highly Approved
This is a first for me: reviewing shoes. Granted, they implement ClimaCool technology, and since that is a technology, it passes the imaginary restrictions and requirements I’ve put in place the past few years about what I can and cannot review. They’re cool, cost only seventy dollars, and look flexible, so I had to.
With that out of the way, I guess it time for me to say what the Boat Lace CC shoes by Adidas are like: like socks combined with slippers — they’re very comfortable, as soon as I broke into them within 30 minutes from taking them out the box, fresh shoe smell included. And since they possess a “water grip” on the soles, paired with the fact they actually are sneakers, they make for some very comfortable summer footwear, that actually look great with jeans, no matter what size the shoe is (like the size 10 that I wear).
Adidas Boat Lace CC Gallery
Style-wise, the Boat Lace CC comes in two flavors: black or “grey”, the latter more like a mocha brown. All models have the green accents, with the famous Adidas triple parallel stripes in white. Costing only $70, they are a very healthy suggestion for anyone who wants an easy pair of sneakers to wear, without the restriction of movement or air. When I was between the ages of 10-14, Adidas was the only brand of shoe I used to wear when playing tennis tournaments back in Florida. I happy to see that a couple of years later, Adidas still has awesome designers with great technology — basically, they’ll make any bipedal happy. Nice work, Adidas.
Score: 9/10
There’s a new build of native Firefox rolling about the Google Play Store for Android, specifically version 14. It adds Flash support, speedier browsing, a new welcome page, those new Australis style tabs, and HTML5. Most reports make mention of the fast startup times and overall quicker browsing experience, so don’t mind me while I go load it up on our variety of dual-core Android handsets, like the Galaxy S III. Anyways, let’s not forget a better phone makes the experience even faster. Press release below.
The usual weekly roundup post, ’This Week On LaptopMemo’.
In other news, Nintendo announced a big 3DS, called the 3DS XL. What additional value this will add is unknown to me, but it will cost $199.99 and include a 4GB SD card. The 3DS XL sports a 4.88-inch top display and 4.18-inch bottom display, and launches on August 19th in red and blue. Oddly, Japanese and European models will ship sans their AC adapters in an effort to keep costs down, and it is unknown if North American models will follow in an identical fashion, but it would be a laughable proposition in this market.
So, while big players like Samsung and Apple have S Voice and Siri, respectively, as their voice control/assistant applications, HTC has been left out of this particular playing field, and it would be a shame for everyone not to see what HTC’s crack at a voice control app would work and look like. Anyways, HTC only produces some of the best hardware and software on the market, so it would be well-timed and a smart business decision for the Taiwanese phone manufacturer to give it a shot.
Flipboard, the best app when it comes to combining your favorite social networks, feeds, news sources, and websites into a magazine format finally debuted on Android. And while all that is nice and well, Samsung has a deal going with the team at Flipboard, where every new Galaxy S III in the United States has the app, pre-installed. And hey, it is a pretty great app anyways, so there’s no hard feelings right? Right.
While today was supposed to be the flawless debut of the Galaxy S III in the United States, consumers had other ideas: the SGS III is actually somewhat troublesome to find, as it is being pre-ordered more than any other Samsung device before it. T-Mobile is actually the only carrier with Galaxy S IIIs readily available — AT&T, Verizon, and U.S. Cellular all are releasing their Galaxy S III units “in the coming weeks”. Sprint, which was supposed to also launch their Galaxy S III today on 3G (with 4G LTE debuting later this year on the device), low supply has foiled their plans. Still, in only my 24 hours of using it, the Galaxy S III is the best Android phone on the market — but let me leave the real details for the upcoming review. Samsung’s press release is available below.
The explanation of Windows Phone 8 is incredibly lengthy, but here’s what matters, using as much brevity with detail as possible: Windows Phone 8, in all its glory, will not be headed to older devices (like the brand new Lumia 900). In fact, older devices will see Windows Phone 7.8, a sort of watered-down version of WP8, with only a couple of the new features (like the new Start screen). That being said…