June 2nd, 2010 | Published in Blog
With all the hoo-hah going on about the Flotilla activists, one can only wonder whether this is an orchestrated litmus test by the Israeli commandos. Think about it. Before starting a global scale war, you definitely wanna know who is on your side and who can you rely on.
April 22nd, 2010 | Published in Blog
Don’t call the next iPhone the iPhone 4G. It isn’t! It’s just wrong!
Here are some predictions gathered from around the web.
April 4th, 2010 | Published in Blog
Update: 9 April 2010
Steve, when introducing iPhone OS 4 said there are now 185,000 apps in the Store, with 4,000 ALREADY out for the iPad. Madness, I tell ya ;)
March 3rd, 2010 | Published in Blog
Update: The state of 4G [Ars Technica]
This is purely speculative. I notice the Digi Marketing guys are testing out the price-points people are willing to pay for a mobile phone. The Blackberry with a plan looks attractive. I went to their exhibition in Mid Valley, and glanced through the spec sheet. Nothing to shout about. The 9700 pales compared to the Gigahertz Snapdragon Android Google phone. Then again, Blackberry is used by President Obama woh, sure must be super secure and super awesome, right? Well, I’ll let you be the judge of that.
March 1st, 2010 | Published in Blog
It is official. It is coming!
via Twitter
w00ts. you asked for it & we listened. DiGi & iPhone = *sweet*. FMI @ www.digi.com.my/iphone 33 minutes ago via mobile web
October 3rd, 2009 | Published in Blog
You know the pinching, pinch out, rotate gestures on the iPhone / Touch … and the Macbook’s two finger swipe, three finger, and dare I say, FOUR finger gestures on the trackpad?
Well, Apple has patented TWO HANDS multitouch technology which describes an apparatus to do things in Sci-Fi movies.
Gotta love the Patent’s department drawings ;)
[source: Mac Rumors]
When software used to interprete the gestures have matured, be exited for the endless possibilities.
For one I can think of, you can actually use the Wii Remote as demonstrated [here - Youtube] to read what you’re gesturing on a wall.
On a related Apple note, the 8GB version has dropped to US$49 with a 2 year plan. Question is, why are we charged RM 2500 here in Malaysia when the American pricepoints are US 199/299 with contract and in UK, you get it free with 40 pounds plan?
August 29th, 2009 | Published in Blog
Apple iPhone 3GS commercial parody
To YW, here’s the forum feature I suggested which got implemented! Wootzah!
And yes, they’re coming out with Dual Screen laptops [link]
- 2 LED backlit display screens
- Windows VISTA (Windows Vista)/ WIN XP PRO (optional)
- Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26-GHz
- 4 GB of RAM (2GB DDR2 SO-DIMM x 2)
- 320GB 7200-rpm HD
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GT with 512MB dedicated memory (or)
- NVIDIA® Quadro FX 1700M Graphics with 512MB dedicated memory
- 9-cell battery
Ok, for tonight’s big clash against Arsenal, I’m predicting a nice whooping!
Man Utd 3 – 1 Arsenal!
(ok, this is wishful thinking, but dreams do come true, sometimes, right?)
August 18th, 2009 | Published in Blog
This will probably hurt me more than, say… seeing my best friend’s testicles being chopped off or having her breasts and ovaries removed due to cancer.
Yes, I will be giving you reasons why you should srsly reconsider skipping the iPhone 3GS.
10. There are so many douchebags using it. The cool factor is just being raped up, down,left, right, centre.
9. Maxis (Malaysia) also wants to rape us with the overpriced (RM 100 – 155 p.m.) plans, on top of the RM 2 – 3k equipment fees and 24 months contract (720 days). By the end of the contract, you’ll be paying RM 4-6 k total for it. Imagine if a newer, faster, better model (or iProduct 1,1) being released in January 2010, and you’re ineligible for an upgrade (until September 2011) cuz you’re contracted. Mmmm…
8. The compass only works for a while before loses its bearing (literally). The demo units in the Maxis store didn’t last long before losing out due to interference.
7. Sans games, the “Tens of Thousands” of applications on the App store is repetitive and replaceable or has a Android equivalent. What that means is beside from games and fart-button apps, 90% of useful, productive apps (That you actually use) has its equivalent on other major mobile platforms.
6. In Malaysia, the iPod touch is 1/2 the price but does almost everything the full blown 3GS does. Rumor has it by September, a newer faster, better, stronger version of the Touch (32/64GB capacities) with Video Recorder will be made available, for the same pricepoints (RM 1.2 / 1.6k no contract!)
5. Wanna play video? You got to play nice with Apple’s formats. And that is mp4 (.mov) strictly. You got a DivX or AVI or RMVB file? You’ll have to waste hours converting to their proprietary format using 3rd party apps or Quicktime Pro.
4. Music playback: Apple claims 24 hours. If you keep browsing the songs selecting songs you like on-the-fly, expect it to last 1/4 of that time!
3. Google Voice / Skype being rejected by Apple. So unless you hack it, voiding your warranty, the best shit on the mobile world will not be “approved by Apple”.
2. Fragile. Can’t use it while hands are wet / dirty (unlike most cheap phones!), drop and its almost dead, 3mp camera? er.. that’s so 2007!
1. Anti-social factor. When going out with friends, you’ll be typing away like a geek, prolly on Facebook or Gtalk. Or playing your Tap Tap Revolution game. You’ll be left in isolation with your “toy”, go through severe depression, and worst of all, not get laid!
I guess we should wait for iProd 1,1 (9to5mac.com, theiphoneblog.com, arstechnica.com) or srsly consider Android phones. I have more faith in that platform now, despite Apple having a huge lead.
July 15th, 2009 | Published in Blog
The Nokias 5800 Express Music was the first popular phone with a Digital Compass (Magnetometer) built in. Basically, on that phone, its sole function is to assist the GPS to know which direction you are heading.
Apple developers went one step further.
This is the map overlay feature, combining camera, GPS and the compass. The App will be available for US$1.80 and one day it will eventually come to Malaysia.
Hmm, anybody have Rm 2000 for an iPhone 3GS from Maxsucks?
July 3rd, 2009 | Published in Blog
I told a few people not to upgrade to iPhone 3.0 [yet]
Here’s confirmation as to why:
Given the hype surrounding Apple’s iPhone, we’re actually surprised that we haven’t seen more holes to plug over the years. In fact, the last major iPhone exploit to take the world by storm happened right around this time two years ago, and now — thanks to OS X security expert Charlie Miller — we’re seeing yet another come to light. Over at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Mr. Miller disclosed a hole that would let attackers “run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator’s network in order to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone’s microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet.” Charlie’s planning to detail the vulnerability in full at the upcoming Black Hat conference, but Apple’s hoping to have it all patched up by the end of this month.
[Via HotHardware]
Nevertheless, the iPhone is a great product. Hope they upgrade the iPod touch, with GPS, video recording and compass. Then it will be a killer MP3 / PDA device!
