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Nexus One – Google Phone

yonglin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:01:38 +0000

Google lauched Nexus One on on January 5, 2010. Singapore, is one of the few countries together with USA, UK and Hong Kong, that Google is making the phone available for delivery to.

Here are some of the phone details.

Pricing & Availability

USD$529 (without contract)
USD$179 (with 2 years contract from T-Mobile USA)

Verizon Wireless in the US and Vodafone in Europe plan to bring in the Nexus One as well during Spring 2010. The Nexus One will ship to three international market at the moment, UK, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Shipping To Singapore
If you are living in Singapore and interested to get the Nexus One, here is the price breakdown for you:

Nexus One phone (without contract): USD$529
AC Adapter (Singapore): USD$19.99
DHL International (Shipping & Handling): USD$28.32
Total: USD$577.31 or SGD$806.10 (USD$1 = SGD$1.3963)
After adding in 7% GST: SGD$862.52

Hardware Specifications

Display: 3.7″ AMOLED 480×800 WVGA display
Thinness: 11.5mm; Weight: 130g
Processor/Speed: Qualcomm Snapdragon 3G QSD8250 chipset, delivering speeds up to 1GHz
Camera: 5 megapixel auto focus with flash and geo tagging
Onboard memory: 512MB Flash, 512MB RAM
Expandable memory: 4GB removable SD Card (expandable to 32GB)
Noise Suppression: Dynamic noise suppression from Audience, Inc.
Ports: 3.5mm stereo headphone jack with four contacts for inline voice and remote control
Battery: Removable 1400 mAh
Personalized laser engraving: Up to 50 characters on the back of the phone
Trackball: Tri-color notification LED, alerts when new emails, chats, text messages arrive

Software Innovation

Google Maps Navigation: offering turn-by-turn driving directions with voice output.
Email: multiple Gmail accounts; universal inbox and Exchange support.
Phone book: aggregate contacts from multiple sources, including Facebook.
Quick Contacts: easily switch between communication and social applications.
Android Market: access to more than 18,000 applications.
Enter text without typing.
Use a voice-enabled keyboard for all text fields: speak a text message, instant message, tweet, Facebook update, or complete an email.
Tell your phone what you want it to do.
Search Google, call contacts, or get driving directions by just speaking into your phone.
Take personalization to the next level.
Dynamic, interactive, live wallpapers react to the touch of a finger.
More widgets and five home screen panels allow for further device customization.
Capture camera-quality pictures and video with your device.
5 megapixel camera includes LED flash, auto focus, zoom, white balance and color effects.
View pictures and Picasa Web Albums in the new 3D Gallery.
Record Hi-Res MPEG4 video, and then upload to YouTube with one click.
Read your voicemail messages.
Get transcribed voicemail with Google Voice integration, without changing your number.

Facebook vanity URL

spic — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:37:03 +0000

Recently, I read an interesting article on techcrunch. It is about the recently launch facebook custom URL that link to your profile.

Eg. www.facebook.com/usernamehere
Well apparently some clever techies did some creative stuff. Their url is www.facebook.com/default.aspx. On the surface, it just seems like a normal facebook pages, however, this link actually pointed to someone profile.

To add on to the humour, facebook is writen in PHP not ASP.NET. (Anyway, I think facebook realize it and remove it)

There is another one that is pretty creative. www.facebook.com/wp-admin. Those who are familar with wordpress will know wp-admin is the login box to login to admin backend. But definately, facebook is not running on wordpress.

So I decided to do some creative stuff too. This is my final result after many failed attempt.

http://www.facebook.com/puter.hackers

So what is your creative vanity url?

PS: You can only set your vanity url once. So once you set to some creative like mine, it will be yours forever and as of now, there is no single way to change it.

Virtualization goes mobile

xhesakh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:39:18 +0000

VMware demoed a touchscreen Nokia N800 featuring its mobile hypervisor at its VMworld Europe 2009 conference in Cannes today, showing Windows CE and Google's Android running at the same time.
Customers can run two operating systems on one phone simultaneously, or move their phone's contacts, apps and other data from handset to handset easily using virtualisation technology regardless of the underlying hardware or the user interface or input method.
The phones with VMware's mobile virtualisation platform will have 2 main functions.

Allow users back up their system and data on a VM, so that they can easily transfer contacts and other information regardless of the operating system if they get a new phone.
Run multiple VM instances on a single phone allowing users have multiple profiles on the same phone, transfer profiles & data sets across handsets.

However the system is still under testing.

Windows 3.1 installed on Nokia N95

xhesakh — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:46:10 +0000

Polish bulletin board, FrazPC received a post from developer & writer Marcin-PRV yesterday night stating that he can successfully run Windows 3.1 simultaneously with Symbian S60 on a Nokia N95.

This feat could not normally be done by the N95's ARM processor, but thanks to an emulator known as DOSBox for Symbian, the ARM chip emulates the x86 architecture...a 486, to be exact, according to Marcin.

Source: Betanews

Zii to be demo-ed on Android in upcoming MWC

spic — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:29:59 +0000

ZiiLABS ZMS Processors Expand Media Acceleration Capabilities on Android Platform for Handheld Devices

Singapore - Feb. 12, 2009 - ZiiLABS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd, today announced that it will demonstrate media acceleration capabilities enabling HD video playback for the Android open platform with its ZiiLABS ZMS-05 media processor and platforms. ZiiLABS will unveil the demonstration at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona (16th-19th February).

More info @ http://www.ziilabs.com/news/releases/pr20090212.asp

nVidia Announces GeForce 3D Vision

spic — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:03:08 +0000

Remember a previous optional update from nVidia that allows any games to be played with stereoscopic vision (3D) with a specialised LCD screen and 3D glasses. That was really cool as it takes RPG-based game into the next level by making the “3D Images” come alive like those 3D movies you see at discovery centre.

The GeForce 3D Vision package comes with powered 3D glasses (no red / blue silliness here, charged via USB) and an IR emitter to keep everything synced between the display and your glasses. Left 4 Dead, WoW: WotLK and several other games are already compatible with more expected to come soon.

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