I am generally not a big fan of love songs. ‘Hey There Delilah’ makes my skin crawl. But this week’s Song of the Week is a love song with enough of an edge to make me comfortable. London based McFly touts themselves as the youngest band ever to hit number 1 in the UK album charts. Their ‘The Heart Never Lies” is Song of the Week. It will be released next week and appear on their forthcoming from their forthcoming Greatest Hits album which will include three new tracks, but you can catch the track and video on their MySpace page.
The band has moved on from the pure pop sounds of their early hits and no longer sound like a polished Beatles/Beach Boys cover band. Instead, this track shows a promise of more maturity both musically and thematically, building on the promise of some of the tracks from last year’s album, Just My Luck .
Sprint today launched Touch, the latest addition to its product line. Manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC, the phone has a full touch screen, an mp3 player, and e-mail support, and was touted as an answer to AT&T’s iPhone offering. Some of the phone’s features are very competitive with the iPhone in its first incarnation. The EVDO Rev. 0 network is a substantial advantage for Sprint, but the half Gig of SD storage in the base configuration is uncompetitive with iPhone’s 8 Gig onboard, and Pocket Internet Explorer is not a competitive mobile browser.
Sprint has a competitive product line overall, and Touch will certainly help, but it’s no iPhone.
