Next week’s Toy Fair will see the launch of Animin, a modern take on the virtual pet phenomenon that uses augmented reality to project your little animal friends out into the real world via a smartphone or tablet display. The game is your classic virtual pet kind of thing, only they “exist” in the real world as graphics overlaid atop your phone or tablet’s view of your surroundings.
They evolve and get sick as virtual pets tend to do, but seeing as this is 2014 the app also includes voice recognition and instant messaging integration, making it a more social take on the pretend veterinarian genre. Here’s what it’ll be like:
A small computer animal would appear to have done a poo on the table. We think children might therefore like this sort of thing quite a lot, as they tend to enjoy anything that involves poo, real or fictional, and computer animals are almost as popular.
That was a video of fashionable people liking it. So if they like it, unfashionable people like us will surely like it too. Animin launches later this year.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
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