well if you are into developing for Flash, now there is better and more interesting incentives for you to flex your expertise a bit: Ca$h. The upcoming games portal playyoo.com has just offered a prize fund of $25,000 for Flash Lite games.
They also have setup a a sneak preview currently on offer section on their website to download some of their current cool stuff directly onto your smartphone. I've read that this game "Dawn of the Fly" is rather addictive but I havent tried it myself yet.
Flash Lite is already available on all the major smartphone OSs, but majority of the smartphone models supporting Flash Lite at the moment are running S60 on Symbian.
Ok check this, touch screen is expected to be a prominent feature in most mobile phones by 2011 with upto 200 million units. Well that doesnt work for me unless it comes with tactile feedback (or haptics as they call it). Ever tried writing email or sms with touch screen? or played any games using touch screen? eugggghhh!! thats like making love to a plastic doll! I'm sure lot of you guys know how that feels like right? no feedback no response, no "feel'! sounds like someone you know?
No, if you want touch screen it BETTER come with tactile feedback so that at least you know what you're touching! As far as I know, so far only Symbian S60 has the capability for mobile phones, as demonstrated by Nokia last month. And hopefully we should be able get our hands on some of these feedback babies in the coming spring. Lets see when the rest can catch up.
I know what most of you are thinking now, "if only someone could make plastic dolls with tactile feedback".
lot of people often look for a good comparison of which OS based smartphones are better, even though everyone already knows which OS has the largest market share for a long time to come.
Anyway, this one of the better comparisons of three different phones, all three really good ones and all three having a different OS: Nokia E61i, Treo 750 and HTC S620
Litchfield has given a pretty clear comparison chart and E61i evidently comes out on the top. But much of the credit for E61i's edge over its competitors comes from its Symbian OS and the features that come with it like the best battery life, 3G and Wi-Fi, the best camera, arguably the best applications and plenty of free/bundled add-ons.
So you came here to read about a dream girl or see some pics of her... Hello? dude! wake up! there is no such thing as a dream girl. Dont you know that? remember the following law of nature when considering girls:
Butttttt... I have always believed, felt, practiced and preached that the most beautiful girl in the world, is no match for a beautiful car. Sure you can draw parrallels between girls and cars in your dirty little mind, and compare the pros and cons, but I want to keep my posting at least PG13. You just cant disagree with me on it, cuz I know beautiful girls alright? do you? I photograph them for a living!
And there is no car more beautiful than Lamborghini Countach (arguably of course).
And now Lamborghini has just launched the super exclusive, just 20 cars in the world, super expensive, $1.4 million, ultrapowerul 650-hoursepower supercar Reventón! design inspired by F-22 stealth fighter, the two tonne car goes 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 secs! WOOHOO! an interesting article on it from Popular Science mag... PopSci Test Drive: Lamborghini Reventón. Most notably this dialogue between the writer/test driver and his car expert friend:
Snyder: I'm heading to drive the new Lamborghini for a day soon. You've driven a couple before, right? JB: Yeah, they're pretty easy to drive. Why are you going? Snyder: PopSci called yesterday and needs a review of the new Reventón. JB:Holy ****! You're gonna drive the Reventón?! JB: It's a really powerful car and might not be all that easy to drive. A big mid-engine means it can get loose in turns if you’re hitting them hard, so you need to be careful. Snyder: Well, i've been mastering Opels and Fiats here in Spain all summer. JB: Please don't die. Snyder: I'll probably just roll around in first gear, and then if I get too worried I'll break it and get out JB: No. Speed. But remember, don’t die.
all of a sudden things seem to have started falling in place for developers to pay attention to Symbian. So many little things that add up to a lot, and hard to cover in one posting. But the end results will certainly be exciting.
The numbers alone represent how big a market this is about to become for developers. But the platforms themselves have now become more sophisticated and ripe for developers with tools and supporting framework.
Red Five Labs has just released Net60 (beta 1) for immediate download. Net60 enables managed Windows Mobile applications to run unchanged on S60 devices. So developers can now use C# and Visual Basic .NET in Visual Studio, and use the .NET Compact Framework environment to build applications for Symbian devices.
and to top it all, Symbian has just bought over Beijing Genesis Interactive Technology Co. Ltd. (‘MoGenesis’), lock stock and barrel! It does show some serious development ambitions on part of Symbiam. I have not been able to find yet what this company specificially develop, but its certainly one of the leading developer of smart OS mobile applications for the fastest growing smartphone market. Interestingly, before founding this company, it's CEO Dennis Kung held two senior management positions at Microsoft Corporation where he worked for eleven years.
The time is ripe for developers to take this platform seriously, because Symbian is sure to become one of the most lucrative OS's to develop for in the coming years.
any of you read Wired magazine? well... neither do I. well on occasion. but its probably the best known technology magazine, specially in terms of culture and economics.
Anyway! The good old Wired magazine had a smartphone show down last week. To be frank I would not really have guessed who came on top, with so many models coming out nowadays and its not so easy to pick a "winner". But from the best of the lot, Wired Mag has picked Nokia E61i. most notably for its fast and effiecient Symbian OS, which according to the mag "puts Windows Mobile to shame by loading apps almost instantly". Actually the phone comes on top in terms of internet connectivity, collection of business and media apps, and 11 hours, thats right ELEVEN hours of talk time!... on a smartphone!
There is some interesing stuff to read about the other smarphones too, and why they didnt take the spot from Nokia, including BlackBerry. My favourite quote from all the reviews there would be "All work and no play makes a phone a BlackBerry", haha! you said it Rick!
Interestingly but not surprisingly, the magazine has noted Windows Mobile 6 and its sluggishness, and cumbersomeness wherever used.
well guys a friend of mine is selling some notebooks and an unlocked iphone at below market price. if any of you is interested you can call Wahab at +65 98552210 (singapore) or email him at abdu6839@yahoo.com The items and prices are listed below in Singapore dollars:
- HP 6510B Business Notebook (New) @1650 Market price 1999 - Compaq B1971TU Notebook (New) @1550 Market price 1799 - Sony Fusion PC VGC-LA38G (New) @2250 Market price 2599 - Lenovo G400M (New) @950 Market Price 1099 - Acer Extensa 4620Z (New) @850 Market price 929 - Sony Vaio VGN-C15GP/W (Used but condition like new) @1550 - Apple iPhone 8GB Unlocked @850
ok actually I dont really know what the next big thing would be, but I think ScreenPlay on Symbian phones is just about to bring it to ya. Waite... you gotta read this one!
What made me eternally fall in love with Commodore 64 beyond anything else was its graphics and sound experience long before home computers became main stream. The good old 64 is probably the UGLIEST little computer ever built, but it had the graphics and sound chip made in heaven! thats what made it the biggest selling computer of ALL times.
Yes my fellow romantics, love is all about the experience. Ask Lucy Liu why she keeps coming back to me for more! Well... smartphones have finally matured to a level where they really can go beyond functionality (sorry blackberry lovers) or cool factor (sorry iPhone lovers) and actually provide a real "experience"!
What the hell am I talking about? well it would be hard to say in words, because you've got to experience it yourself. And you will definitely be able to do that in the next couple of months when the upcoming Symbian60 based smartphones with ScreenPlay and FreeWay hit the market shortly. Seriously, I wouldnt buy any phone right now and rather save my money for these new phones to come out. The whole smartphone scene is about to get transformed in the next two quarters for good. The experience that ScreenPlay based smartphone displays will be able to prodive to users just doesnt exist right now. Combine that with much faster richer broad-band like experience of FreeWay, and you've got yourself something really... beautiful!
Guys... I think its time to fall in love again. Nothing will replace my beloved old Commodore 64 in my heart, but I think in the next couple of months I can finally get a smartphone that can really be my companion. And you guys thought I am not romantic??
Well... not that its surprising, but Symbian is expressively not impressed by Google's mobile OS. Yep not surprising, considering Symbian just sold another 20.4 million lincenses in the last quarter alone! But... what IS interesting, at least to me, is the fact that Nokia is in talks with Google to use Android. Sounds like one very cool alliance, specially for open source mobile OS market.
Less than a month ago I had posted about the upcoming, so called "iPod killer", from Google. Which infact is a software and not a device. Well its just had its debut! Yep, Google has finally launched its open source mobile phone OS and Google's CEO Eric Schmidt is really making some big claims about it. Thats great news for smartphone users (and I hope some day for PC users!) and certainly not good news for properietry OSs... well... Windows Mobile. The SDK will be out later this month and phones supporting Android wont be out till late next year. Google had actually bought over Android over two years ago, the interesting thing is, the founder of Android, had also started a company which made its own smartphone device with full email, browsing and messenger capabilities. Hiptop has its quite a few limitations of its own of course. Did you know that Starhub had its own Hiptop device? its not a suprise they discontinued it though. The version pictured below is the T-mobile's Sidekick II.
So you think Google might still come out with its own "iPhone" or Windows Mobile killer device just yet? The smartphone scene is getting more and more interesting.
had an interesting shoot on sunday at Peridot studio with a 5D and some outdoor shots. my fashion designer friend Sulaimi will be doing a label in england, and he wanted to do some shots for couple of his gowns before flying off.
The girls were quite new but very cute. They're going to be great with just a bit of experience. Here's a pic of Zoey, a british girl living here in Singapore. She does look like a doll doesnt she?
Might upoload couple of more pics of her here, so watch this space! oh yea, got to upload another shot of Mischa here too. Remind me guys!
In a nuttshell, in his comparison it does seem like that the iPhone sure is a pretty cool device... but not really for a smartphone user. Its not as useful or even convenient compared to a serious smartphone like the N95 in terms of functionality and interface. I am sure once the SDK is launched in february there could be a lot of cool software available for the iPhone, but that still may not help alot because that is something already quite elementry and should have been available from the start and yet would not around for another 2 quarters. Secondly, without the tactile feedback (or "hetptics" as they are being called), the iPod is really not as user friendly for any serious smartphone user. Cant waite to see what sort of phones Nokia would come out with the new heptic Symbian 60 phones! Windows Mobile phones are not even on the scene yet. Imagine comparing an upgrade to the N95 with touch screen and heptics with the iPhone or any other smartphone. Now THAT would be totally kick ass!
Red Five Labs has just 
