Thanks to a friend who sent me this video link after reading I was interested in upgrading up to a Omnia phone. I was honestly expecting a standard unboxing not what I actually got. Good on Samsung or whoever for adding a little humour to this usually too over done part of product geeking.
Month: September 2008
Even more spam dating emails…
So following from my post about spammers affected dating sites. Here's even more for your viewing pleasure.
From rosewood88 (member since 2008-09-05) – Hello sweet love one
Hello
pls u can get back to my box with my email here angel_mary444@yahoo.com thanks wait
to meet u soon becos i will only hv the chance to check my box ok.
I am angela mary wood, and i am 25 yrs old live in ELTHAM LONDON. seeking for a sexy
and caring partner who has a like minds like i do,simple mature lady,honest, family
oriented,God-fearing. submissive to her man. love gardening, camping and fishing
…like to spend most of her time in working and doing all housechores. my hobbies
include love making,going to the beach side,having fun,fishig,tv,traveling,listening
to music and making love with my husband alone.my Eye Color..black,Hair Color…black,
Height..5'10-(178cm),Body Type.average,Race..white cau,
all kinds of romantic songs,i can also describe myself as
kind/volunteer,sincere,loving,caring,i am ready to meet a man to love and a man who is
ready to care for me …..i just wanna meet a man thats why i decided to show my
beaty up in this site and this is my first time of doing something like this…i
just..wish to meet the right man to marry and settle down with for life.
I
hello ,
i am named as Grace Ansah. i am 30 years of age and very lonely
. i am a lady who is fair and pretty . i am respectful, truthful,
honest , patience, humble, lovely and also nice to all peoples. i
am a lady who is in ghana now . my mum was from the canada and my
dad from ghana. i am in ghana now but for the mean time , i lost
my parents when i was at the age of 28 in a car accident. i lost
them very bad and since from then i stoped schooling .. life
became very bad for me . i have stopped schooling and now living
alone. for the mean time i am alone and now looking for a man to
marry . a man who will love me only and care for me . a man who
will never hurt my feelings . a man who is going to be truthful
and honest with me . a man who will be caring , a man who will
marry and make up a sweet happy family with . i wish and hope to
hear from you to know each otehr aas well. i will be very nice to
hear u so pls reply me back.. this my email adress:
grace_ansah80@yahoo.com . or u can txt or call this number”
00233245483378.
Social radio listening with Radio Pop
If you've not checked out Radiopops yet, go sign up now. Its a beta/prototype by the BBC radio labs team. It also shows the type of thing we are thinking and building inside the BBC but can't really make public easily. This is mainly a technical issue about platforms and scaling but I think its better that its made clear this is a prototype that have it hanging around the BBC for years because its not build with the house technologies not the most handy for the job.
What would your next phone be???
Its getting around to that time of the year again, when I start thinking about which phone I should be getting next. The other good news is that Google Android is confirmed for HTC phones, so there's some serious changes in this space. But generally the hardware is
HTC Dream
HTC Dream which is meant to be the launch phone of the Google Android operating system. Although I don't really like the block on the right and the keyboard looks quite small.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
Now this is a shock, Dark horse SonyEricsson creates a windows mobile phone which some interesting tweaks to the Windows mobile Gui. It also supports a 3inch touch screen with a resolution of 800×480 which is insane. Everything else is there including HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0, Wifi but no GPS. Its also got a slight tilt which is useful plus the keyboard looks like a dream to type on. I've also heard on forums that it might have up to 16gig of memory which is great.
HTC Touch Pro
This is the natrual upgrade choice from my HTC Kaiser/Tilt. Its smaller, lighter and has a VGA screen. HTC have also included the new TouchFLO 3D interface (hopefully they turned on the ATI hardware drivers for this phone). Everything else is pretty much the same, HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0, Wifi and GPS. The Keyboard is improved and the whole device just looks sharp and beautiful. It also seems like Orange will have this soon because they already have the HTC Touch Diamond.
Samsung Omnia i900
This is the other dark horse in the room. Samsung have made some news with the Blackjack windows mobile device but I've never really consider it because I don't like those blackberry type devices. Anyway, this is a looker and has the specs to go with the looks. 3.2 inch touchscreen supporting 400×240 resolution. Like everyone else, they've tweaked Windows mobile to include a couple of new features but once again HSDPA, Bluetoooth 2.0, Wifi and GPS. Its also got 16gig of memory in the box and unlike the rest a 5mpx auto focus camera which also supports VGA camcorder recording, the rest are 3mpx auto focus and QVGA recording. Samsung have gone one better by including FM radio, Geotagging ability, accelerometer and even TV out for playing back video. The only thing missing is the keyboard and its not quadband, so no 3g in north america. Suprisingly Orange have this phone already and its priced like a HTC phone, so actually affordable if you like WinMo phones.
Its amazing, things like USB, SD slot, Speakerphone, 3g, full spectrum HSDPA (up to 7.2meg down), Mp3 ringtones, replaceable batteries, etc, etc are just standard now. Shame the Samsung doesn't support Quadband like everyone else but to be honest, I'm unlikely to use 3G heavly when roaming in america, because I don't like big mobile phone bills. The keyboard will be missed a little and I'm not super keen that it has no stylus at all. But these are small issues really. I think I will get a Omnia in the end. I wonder if anyone will port Android over to it?
Sony’s EyePet
I meant to blog
eyepet a while ago when they first showed this. But never got around to it. It got sent around the BBC internal lists for a while and some of the comments said it was everything from fake to amazing. When I first saw it, I had a slight feel of deja'vu. I swear I saw this exact same thing 6 years ago.
The ICA had a event to do with gaming, Sony showed off the eyetoy and some of the more interesting things they were doing. One of those things was a little animal thing which you knock about with your hands and physical objects. It would also do things like balance on small objects, be aware of depth and speed. I can't be the only one to have seen this right? I know we were not able to take pictures or videos but people must have spoke about it. Each group was about 20 people and they had about 4 sessions that day. Obviously it wasn't that smooth or polished as it is now but you can certainly see where eyepet came from. I guess the Playstation2 couldn't handle the processing while the cell processor in the Playstation3 can.