Link Love For February 17 2008
Feb 17th, 2008 by Tariq Bamadhaj
Bored on a Sunday? Well here are some interesting articles which I found around the web.
- We finally catch a demo of the Google Android in action. Well it’s not fully functioning because there was no internet connection but you can still see the potential with the pictures here.
- Do you fancy wireless charging? While it is wireless, you would need some additional accessories to get it working. Check it out here and see if you should invest in it.
- It looks like NVIDIA plans to join the cellphone industry with their APX2500 chip. No word yet on which manufacturer will be using it in their devices but clocking in at 750MHz with the ability to encode and decode 720p high-definition video makes this one of the chips to look out for.
- For those of you who can’t get enough of SonyEricsson’s XPERIA X1, here are some pictures to keep you going until it gets released in late Q2. Andreas Sjöström gives you 3 reasons why this device is going to make a huge impact.
- What do you do when it’s time to retire a device? No matter what your answer is, I doubt it’s as interesting as this one which I found.
- I can’t wait for Opera 9.5 For Pocket PC and I know PJMDS can’t as well. This could possibly be the browser that makes browsing on Windows Mobile bearable again. Find out why in this hands-on. For those from the SkyFire camp, here’s a hands on account of it.
- Didn’t head over to Barcelona recently for the World Mobile Congress (WMC)? Neither did I which is why personal accounts such as this and this and this proved useful to me.
- Still on the topic of the WMC, here and here and here are some consolidated reports (so you don’t have to keep searching for them).
- If reading is not your cup of tea, then this audio summarizing the whole event would be better suited for you.
- And if you like looking at pictures, I present to you: The BOOTH BABES OF WMC 2008!
- Undecided about the Eten Glofiish X800? Well this review might help you decide (not to buy it). It does highlight some valid points but I will leave it up to you to decide.
- It seems that people just don’t know email etiquette these days. That or they are lazy. Nonetheless, are you aware of these 5 mistakes and do you make them when dealing with emails?
- VGA or qVGA? It’s really hard to compare and say which one is more useful in everyday life because not many of us have the means for comparison to begin with. So I thought this video might help you out a bit.
- If you use your phone or PDA to take pictures and movies, you’ll know how bad the quality is. Well, now there’s a website that help you improve on it. While this does not mean you can submit it for consideration in the next Oscar’s it does help if you want to make something memorable clearer.
- If you have given up syncing because of troubles here and there, NuevaSync hopes to change that. It allows you to do it OTA (over-the-air) with services such as Google Calendar. And best of all, no software installation necessary.
- GPS on Windows Mobile is a whole topic on it’s own and it’s really hard to cover the topic in just one post. Unless it’s a really long post like what Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine has done. On the long side, but informative nonetheless.
- The article may not be much but it sure invoked a lot of interesting comments about just how bad Windows Mobile is.
- What’s wrong with Windows Mobile? What if I give you 10 reasons? Would you switch?
- If you are always using your own wallpapers for your device, this screen sizing guide will be really useful. Especially more so if you are keen in developing your own themes.
- Are you an avid gamer on your Pocket PC or mobile phone? Does the joystick make you not be able to execute those killer moves effectively? Then this might just help you.
- For those among us who like our devices big, then this review of the newly improved HTC Advantage might be something you would find interesting.
- And for those of us interested in Pocket PC games, JAMM has this monthly roundup of freeware games that you might want to check out.
- The iPhone may be all the rage right now and even a Windows geek can fall in love with it. But which one is more suitable for business? He gives his take.
- Want pictures of the upcoming Glofiish M810? Here they are.
- Do you use your GPS for anything else besides navigation. How about social networking? Nope you didn’t hear me wrong. This could be the next big thing.
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Allen Taylor
Thanks Allen and welcome to the site. Looking forward to your continued visits.
Do check out the Freeware Arcade over at JAMM. I’m totally addicted to TangledBugs, currently working on level 25. It’s very challenging!
On Opera, there is a beta floating around, probably illegal. Be careful if you install it, because it won’t appear on the list of installed programs! Now it is not so hard to remove the Opera related FILES that are created on your device, but you will also have to manually look for the file associations that are now linked to Opera, such as html etc. You’ll have to look them up and set them to the default browser again, along with restoring the icon. So unless you know what you’re doing, be careful about installing the Opera beta that can be found through certain channels. I’m also interested in SkyFire but I’m not part of the beta team, unfortunately.
As for Android - the interface looks clear, but I hope I don’t have to tap anything on the top bar!
Also, looking at the “Today” screen or how they will call it, I wonder if we can have something like Today screen plugins like PocketBreeze, there doesn’t seem to be a lot space for that.
I loved your suggestion to teach e-mail etiquette at schools! Don’t think it would be easy since there are so many kinds of e-mails you can send, and more and more people simply don’t care if the recipient can read what they wrote.
if someone writes to me like this wihout using capital letters commas and periods and just keeps on typing i often get very temped to give a less nice reply to them and i certainly wont be as helpful as i would be when someone uses nice grammar.
And than some people also misspell words just because they think it’s somehow better.
I don’t want to complain, if people think that it’s nice to misspell words and completely disregard grammar on purpose, that’s of course fine with me. As long as they don’t get upset when I’m not as helpful as I would be with others.
I do use : - ) and lol quite regularly in e-mails/messages to blog contacts, but when it comes to software developers I only do it when I already know the person. So to contacts at SBSH or Ilium I’d use smileys more easily then when sending a support question to Sprite or Phatware, simply because I haven’t had a lot of contact with them.
That’s all for now, time to brush my teeth and pay my grandma a visit.
Whoa you sure love this article eh
I am glad that is the case.
Yeah I heard about the Opera Mobile 9.5 beta as well. I think it’s from the HTC Advantage or something. There will always be such risks with these pirated devices so I would not really recommend one to use it.
I do agree with Android. We do not really have much news about it but hopefully this will change in the coming months. T-Mobile (USA) is planning to release an Android handset in Q4 of 2008 and I wonder who they will be going with.
I think our schools need to evolve. We are still stuck in the past when we are already so far ahead in the future. I can understand proper handwriting, but do we need to drum in penmanship? I would rather they focus on stuff like email etiquette to better prepare kids. And I do agree that how you compose your email depends on your audience. You wouldn’t be sending your mom and dad a formal email now would you?
Hope you had a nice visit with your grandma
Sure! It’s cool to have the news summarized with links leading to the actual articles. I’ve got several news sources so I’ve pretty much read about all of it already, but sometimes it’s good to check back a day later and see how others responded to the news.
The Eten Glofiish M810 design doesn’t make me happy like previous devices, I prefer the V900 because of the screen, it doesn’t have those borders that almost prevent me from pressing the X and using scrollbars with my fingers.
PS: Almost forgot to talk about how much I want Opera mobile 9.5,
I want it so badly that I will buy it as soon as they allow me to
I do agree about the M810 design. I hope that is a prototype and they would improve on the final design. Hopefully something more similar to the V900.
I don’t “get” why so many slide out keyboard smartphones are designed for robotic fingers with the layout so unlike the regular keyboard. After saying that, at least the keyboard layout on the Sony Ericcson Xperia is somewhat better. Even though it really shouldn’t matter that much since we aren’t really typing with two hands, I personally think it’s important to not look like it’s a grid of buttons. But that’s my opinion.