4-core is better than 8-core

Qualcomm bashing MediaTek on MediaTek latest 8-core chip. According to Qualcomm, their 4-core is better than 8-core. Watch the video:



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Ubuntu for Phones

Ubuntu is going into Phones. What is the mean? More and more developers are dumping PC and going into mobile. The Ubuntu is running on Android.

Cut the crap, jump to 1:55 to see the demo.



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Smartphone for Dump User

When I saw the title of this article I thought that it could be some neutral comment. However at the end it just a rant of a dump user which used to smartphone that have to use dump phone because his lost his smartphone.
Therefore ladies and gentlemen, a phone is just phone, dump or smart is actually depend on the IQ of it's user. :P

Article was published on Technology Review:
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/508871/my-dumb-phone-experiment-week-one/

My Dumb Phone Experiment: Week One
It’s not going great, guys.


Earlier this week, I announced my decision to try going back to a “dumb” phone for a month, following the theft of my iPhone. The idea was to try to wean myself off a mobile email addiction, while also reminding myself about the many affordances of the iPhone that I’d come to take for granted.

So far, this week, there’s been a lot more of the latter than of the former. I miss my iPhone far more than I do not miss my iPhone. Much as I’ve moaned about my hatred of a non-physical keyboard, I can tell you what I hate much more: having to write out SMS’s using nothing but number keys. I had thought my return to hunting and pecking might be endearing; in reality, I’ve simply dropped out of text message conversations that I really ought to be carrying on, or bullied people into continuing them over email or Facebook.

I had thought that two of the most-used features of my iPhone–hands-free phone calls with headphones, and the regular use of my alarm–would be mostly replicable on my Alcatel dumb phone. Yes and no. I can plug headphones into my phone for interviews, but the sound quality is notably inferior. And I can set alarms, but the interface is so clunky that I sometimes don’t bother, or, as today, I accidentally set an alarm for 7 PM rather than 7 AM.

“Interface”–the very word makes me nostalgic for my iPhone, whose design was so lovingly crafted, where everything made sense. Now I have to navigate and click my way around a barbaric little menu in search of features that may or may not ever materialize: the ability to set my dumb phone to vibrate, for instance. Could someone help me with that?

Most of all, though, what I miss about my iPhone is the grab-and-go nature of getting from one place to another. In my iPhone days (may they return soon!), I could wait till the last possible moment to dash off to an appointment; the address would be in my email or perhaps in my calendar app, and my maps app plus GPS would send me on my way. Occasionally I’d be irked if I reached my subway stop (which is on my block) before managing to pull up directions. Ah, for the days of such First World problems!

In some ways, I must note, my experiment lacks full integrity. When I first wrote about the idea of going back to a dumb phone (see “Is It Time to Go Back to my Flip Phone?”), the notion was always to do so in conjunction with a 3G-enabled iPad. I don’t own a 3G-enabled iPad, though, merely a WiFi one, and feel a little bit as though I leapt into this experiment without building a sufficient supporting infrastructure to give it a fair shake. (One thing I definitely would have done was to ensure all my iPhone contacts were on my iPad; I recently returned a text from my father asking, “Who is this?”)

But one other thing I’ll say: even if I had created a virtual iPhone within my iPad, I’m not sure I’d always want to lug my iPad around, day in and day out. An iPad, while not too heavy, still weighs about a pound and a half–not negligible if I was otherwise only going to carry a magazine. And an iPad costs considerably more than an iPhone, making me somewhat loath to have it on me at all times (especially given my recent trend of losing things). An iPad isn’t a no-brainer vade mecum, in the same way an iPhone is.

That’s not to say that I haven’t enjoyed some benefits from being iPhone-less. It’s true that “spare change” time–the time waiting in line to order, or waiting for the subway to come–now gets funneled into thinking about projects I’d rather be thinking about than yet another compulsive check of my inbox. There’s undoubtedly something to be said for that. But so far, the brief bliss of moments like these is mostly overshadowed by the dozen other ways I’ve inconvenienced myself. I’m obviously and unequivocally at a net loss.


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Find The Best Smartphone: bias or without?

How to choose the best smartphone? By instinct? By talking to friends and family? By asking the salesman? By reading reviews on the internet? Yes, I did all that, but I still haven't made the decision yet. Until few days ago I stumble (is this an outdated term? :P ), I saw this website that do all the comparisons for us.

FindTheBest.com will do the data-driven comparisons for business and finance services, child care to adoption agencies, bicycles to guns, air tickets to hostels, and various consumers electronics including smartphones. So I give a try on the smartphone department.

I am looking for a mid-range smartphone. Probably around RM 1000 to RM 1500 (~US$313 to US$469). Has to be an Android (iPhone is out the range because the pricing). And ICS upgradable, the best is ICS out of the box. So I nailed down to a few, too bad the website don't have Samsung Galaxy S Advance, could because it is not sold at US. Anyway, Samsung Galaxy S 2 vs a few within the price range that I mentioned just now. And I get this:

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Looks like Samsung Galaxy S 2 has the highest score even though HTC One V and all 3 Sony Xperia are one year newer than Samsung Galaxy S 2.

One thing I noticed while using FindTheBest.com is it said that they are unbiased, data-driven comparisons, however the data are based on reviews from the internet, so it might not always as reliable as we thought. A lot of websites nowadays are being paid by the manufacturers to promote their products. Example iPhone 4 S is 1 point better than Samsung Galaxy S 2 even though so many aspect are worse than Samsung Galaxy S 2.

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HTC One series are in bad score. I wonder why Samsung Galaxy S 3 ended up at lower score.

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At the end of the day, it is still back to us to make up own decisions. Reviews and advices are still for reference only. Good luck to me for finding my next smartphone. :)

Here is the Find The Best smartphone department:
http://smartphones.findthebest.com

And this is the Find The Best main page:
http://www.findthebest.com

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Using WIFI to access files on Smartphone

Wired or bluetooth, that is only option to access the files on your smartphone from your PC or laptop. While transfer speed over bluetooth is super slow compare to wired method, wired method does not sounds cool. Recently I found an apps that allow me to access the files on my smartphone using WIFI. As we know WIFI speed can reach up to a few Mbps (don't be fool by advertisement of 11Mbps or 54Mbps or 300Mbps), file transfer would be as smooth as 7-11's smoothies.

Introducing WIFI Remote Access Basic. Yes, it is free.

All you need to do is download this apps into your smartphone, install it, turn on the WIFI on your smartphone and get the IP number on the apps.

Then on laptop or PC, using IE (6, 7, or 9) [other web browsers might have problem] to open that same IP to access the files on your smartphone!

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There is also a premium version which cost US$7.99 which includes FTP, text message support and remote control of smartphone.

Too bad this apps only available for Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1 and 6.5 only. Not available for WP7/7.5,  Android and iOS yet.

Who says Windows Mobile is obsolete? :P

Opps...... Not to forget the link to the apps:
http://www.julien-manici.com/windows_mobile_wifi_remote_access/
Look for the blue color "Download" button after "Add a comment" on above link.


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Danger of Smartphone

Ah... Smartphone. We are all tied up with it, be it from iPhone to Android, or some like me which still on Windows Mobile.
[I know some of you will yell, WHAT? Windows M*****?] Anyway, yes, I am still using my Windows Mobile. It is will working, what why would I want to change it? But anyway, I started to get to know about Android when I start playing with Android apk on the emulator called BlueStacks. And ever since I bought the Samsung Galaxy W for my wife, I have been the 'after-sales-service' guy for her.

What are the danger of using Smartphone for extensive of time? Read this:

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Motorola Droid 3 teardown

Another smartphone become victim of ifixit! This time is Motorola Droid 3.



If you prefer, you can click on the link below:
Motorola Droid 3 Teardown


Btw, I am playing with the Location feature of blogger, I had set to Antarctica, which is entirely fake :P . Let me know where can you see it. Well, I don't see any anything in preview.

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Nokia N9 - what you need to know!,

Nokia first Meego phone is here! The Nokia N9 is first Nokia meego phone that will be available this year. How will it perform? See the video from engadget after the jump......

Motorola Droid X2 - Everything you need to know

It's Monday again. Monday blue? Here is something to cheer you up. Beside HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy S 2, Motorola Droid X2 is also a dual core smartphone. The body is quite thick, causing it become no.3 if I want to sort these 3 phone according to my preference. Who is my no.1? Click the link on the phone mentioned above to find out. ;) For Motorola fans, see the video after the jump......

HTC Sensation - everything you need to know

HTC finally come out with its flagship smartphone for 2011, which is the HTC Sensation. Packed with a dual core processor, somehow it is not as fast as Samsung Galaxy S 2. See the video review from pocketnow.com after the jump......

Samsung Galaxy S 2 - everything you need to know

A big buzz when Samsung Galaxy S2 out at Korea and now worldwide is crazy about it (except Apple fanboys :P). Here is all sort of stuffs that you need to know about Galaxy S2. It would be my dream phone (for now...) but my stock price haven't hit the price that enough for me to buy one yet. :P
Hit read more for full detail.

Who sells the most handset/handphone?

Who sells the most handset or handphone (can be smartphone or dump phone :P ) from 2001 to 2010?

LG Optimus 3D

LG is showing off their LG Optimus 3D at Mobile World Congress recently. See the video to get feel of it.

Future of touch screen

Touch screen will be everywhere. Take a look at the not-too-far distance future, where everywhere is touch screen. This is fictional video, but this kind of life is coming soon!

Want a Disney's Android Phone?

I heard this phone gonna for Japan market only, but would you want one if you it is available at your region/country?

The best apps for smartphone

Still under development, but it should be the best apps!

Super-Widescreen Acer Android Handset

DroidSans has posted some photos of new Acer Android smartphone. It looks like unusually widescreen! The second photos shows that 21:9 ratio of the widescreen, HD movie supported maybe? I doubt it, because 800MHz processor only! Should be runnng Froyo. I always have problem with Acer, any Acer product I bought would broken right after the warranty expire. :(

Source: http://droidsans.com/leak-acer-android-lineup-including-tablet

Samsung Omnia 7

Samsung never fail to deliver its flagship smartphone that carry "Omnia" name. This video (after the jump) is super long ~13mins, with no sound. Nice! But......

BlackBerry 6

BlackBerry 6 is out today! Major GUI improvement, and support multi-touch. Want to get one?
Great for business user, I think, but not my cup of tea. :)



p/s: see other post with video:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/search/label/video
see other post related to smartphone or ppc or iphone:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/search/label/smartphone
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/search/label/ppc
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/search/label/apple%20iphone

HTC fight back!

Apple sue HTC, now HTC sue Apple.

HTC also came out a new video, telling people that they are the one who do smartphone first.


p/s: see also why Apple is success although iPod/iPhone/iPad are substandard products!
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/05/secret-to-apples-success.html