This being my first blog posting of 2009 I was intending to write about the future of the Android platform and maybe throw in some speculation about MacWorld which is coming up next week. However, I wasn’t in a speculative mood, and even the prospect of a 32GB iPhone didn’t excite me – especially since I’m not that far into the AT&T two year contract with my 3G iPhone.

Instead , after a break of about eight number of months or so, I decided to start up my Xbox 360. This was after I’d hooked it up to my small HDTV along with the PS3. I’d  briefly read about the new Xbox dashboard interface, the “New Xbox Experience” recently, but was still pleasantly surprised once update was downloaded and installed.

The NXE – the New Xbox Experience – has avatars which are reminiscent of the Wii Miis (Mii pronounced to rhyme with Wii). Anyone who has played on the Wii will think, hey, this looks slightly familiar. That’s were the similarity ends though, with the new interface a lot different from the old tabbed one, and actually quite impressive. Among the new options added are the ability to install games on the hard drive, and run them from there – but with the original disc in the DVD Drive. The interface relies a lot more on graphics than on text and seems a lot more fluid.