if you've glanced through my blogs you know I love the N95, no other phone comes close to it in features and capabilities (go ahead and argue with me about it) and the only fair comparison would be with the iPhone. while iPhones has its strengths, based on a prototype of iPod with a phone, beautiful design and interface (never expected less from Apple), it is still very underutilised and very limited in available software and utilities and easily beaten by the good old N95 in that. Obviously Apple will be working hard to make up for in the subsequent models and will be learning from its mistakes as the newcomer in the smartphone world.
Well... if you still haven't bought either one of them, then dont! iPod I am sure will mature in those areas in due course of time like all new products. As for N95, the long awaited successor N96 is here and lives up to the expections! its a real media powerhouse of a phone with an endless feature list.
I am sure we'll be getting a lot of buzz around this baby with reviews and comparisons, for now just check out this video here:
5MP high quality camera with Carl Zeis lense, dual flash and really bright video light (check the video clip at the bottom), 30fps VGA video recording with video stablisation, 2.8" screen with the sound through stereo "3D" speakers for gaming and music, built-in digital TV reciever (its actually got a little stand so you can put it down and watch videos or TV, check the video clip above). GPS with assisted GPS support and automatic insertion of capture location (for pictures), 16GB memory (which can be beefed up to 24GB with a microSDHC card and of course, HSPDA (3.5 G) and WiFi... *phant phant* please excuse my while I wipe off my drool!
and obviously its running on the Symbian S60 - OS 9.2 Feature Pack 2.0
you gotta see to believe how bright its video light really is:
Bilal
http://elanist.com/bilal
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Android prototypes
well guys, the first Android prototypes are finally out. no more speculation about their looks.
actually they look pretty plain like most other smartphones, so no surprises there.
actually they look pretty plain like most other smartphones, so no surprises there.
The devices are based on the ARM9 processor, which is actually used on lower-end phones and already it is being touted as a leaner, efficient OS than Windows Mobile (ok thats really no surprise at all, which OS isn't?), but... its framework allows for much easier implementation with a lot less work for developers and manufacturers.
there's a quite a few things to write about now, so watch this space today and tomorrow!
bilal
http://elanist.com/bilal
Monday, February 4, 2008
Why I wouldnt want to live so long
Here's just one good reason why (amongst countless others):
having a look at that, does it still remind you that inner beauty is more important? I suppose it does. Some one please pass me a jar of inner beauty cream.
Bilal
http://elanist.com/bilal
having a look at that, does it still remind you that inner beauty is more important? I suppose it does. Some one please pass me a jar of inner beauty cream.
Bilal
http://elanist.com/bilal
with 3D TV, suddenly all other TVs look so boring
I just had an experience on Friday. Not a life changing experience, but one of those experiences where you never look at something significant, the same way again. In my case it was the TV. I had gone down to our Philips staff shop to check some monitors. Along the way, inadvertently I glanced at the demo TV in the lobby which is always running some boring corporate propaganda crap (sorry corp. comm guys :P ). But this time I literally could not draw my eyes away from it. I could see things "deep" into the TV, and there were objects coming right at me straight out of the TV!
I could not move myself from there for the next 10 mins. Some of my friends had told me how they saw 3D images coming at them after they've had some opium, but I could swear this TV was not running on opium! (anti-narcotics folks if you guys are reading this blog, those friends are not from Singapore, one is german and the other is his american wife and the opium they had was somewhere in Indonesia I believe, at an undisclosed location).
I've seen 3D movies before, with those ancient plastic color glasses. This was totally different. I wore no glasses and whichever angle I looked at it from it was bright and with dramatic depth perception. It looked like any ordinary big flat LCD TV just that everything looked as though its right in front of me, I could just walk into the TV (not advisable) or I could practically reach forward and grab objects or errr... people (ahem!).
I had heard of technology demos of 3D TV based on polarized filters even as far back as 15 years ago. So this did not catch me as much of a shocker, but its just the experience of watching it myself for the first time and its really not an experience to get over easily. Every TV that I looked at after this suddenly looked so boring like there is really something missing. Kinda like when you have to watch TV without sound or without color, the difference is more significant than that. I wish I could post some of the 3D clips here but errm... your monitor does not support stereoscopic viewing does it? Sadly mine doesnt either. Right now these TVs are only available for "Institutional" clients and not quite a consumer product yet (philips.com/3d).
How the thing works is that it's producing 9 different images of each frame (I guess in future this would be much higher number of images as the refresh rates get better), and your brain merges those images to perceive depth i.e. make them look like real life objects. Just like your two eyes are looking at two different images at every moment and your brain merges them both to show things in 3D. Although my brother claims he sees everything in 3D even when he closes one eye. Yea I hope either I can get his 3D eye (in case I lose one of mine), or he gets to have my brain (he's obviously lost his).
I hope I dont have to wait another 15 years to watch Battle Star Galactica in high definition 3D! Woohoo! hmm and if David Hasselhoff is reading this blog I am sure everyone know whats going to be on his mind "Babewatch 3D" coming right at ya! Maybe we should have a poll: "who would you like to watch running in slow motion in a swimsuit in full 3D?"
Bilal
http://elanist.com/bilal
I could not move myself from there for the next 10 mins. Some of my friends had told me how they saw 3D images coming at them after they've had some opium, but I could swear this TV was not running on opium! (anti-narcotics folks if you guys are reading this blog, those friends are not from Singapore, one is german and the other is his american wife and the opium they had was somewhere in Indonesia I believe, at an undisclosed location).
I've seen 3D movies before, with those ancient plastic color glasses. This was totally different. I wore no glasses and whichever angle I looked at it from it was bright and with dramatic depth perception. It looked like any ordinary big flat LCD TV just that everything looked as though its right in front of me, I could just walk into the TV (not advisable) or I could practically reach forward and grab objects or errr... people (ahem!).
I had heard of technology demos of 3D TV based on polarized filters even as far back as 15 years ago. So this did not catch me as much of a shocker, but its just the experience of watching it myself for the first time and its really not an experience to get over easily. Every TV that I looked at after this suddenly looked so boring like there is really something missing. Kinda like when you have to watch TV without sound or without color, the difference is more significant than that. I wish I could post some of the 3D clips here but errm... your monitor does not support stereoscopic viewing does it? Sadly mine doesnt either. Right now these TVs are only available for "Institutional" clients and not quite a consumer product yet (philips.com/3d).How the thing works is that it's producing 9 different images of each frame (I guess in future this would be much higher number of images as the refresh rates get better), and your brain merges those images to perceive depth i.e. make them look like real life objects. Just like your two eyes are looking at two different images at every moment and your brain merges them both to show things in 3D. Although my brother claims he sees everything in 3D even when he closes one eye. Yea I hope either I can get his 3D eye (in case I lose one of mine), or he gets to have my brain (he's obviously lost his).
I hope I dont have to wait another 15 years to watch Battle Star Galactica in high definition 3D! Woohoo! hmm and if David Hasselhoff is reading this blog I am sure everyone know whats going to be on his mind "Babewatch 3D" coming right at ya! Maybe we should have a poll: "who would you like to watch running in slow motion in a swimsuit in full 3D?"
Bilal
http://elanist.com/bilal
iPhone lubbers beware
If you use an iPhone you want to be aware that the first iPhone trojan is has been floating around on the net for couple of weeks in the guise of an update called "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep". Its not a very malicious trojen but it does overwrite some of iPhone's utilities and caution is advised.
Its been suggested that "...the first rule of caution with the iPhone is, if a piece of software doesn't come from Apple, be sure it's from a trusted source."
Bilal
http://elanist.com/bilal
Its been suggested that "...the first rule of caution with the iPhone is, if a piece of software doesn't come from Apple, be sure it's from a trusted source."
Bilal
http://elanist.com/bilal
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