⇒ Ninjas unbox Google's Nexus One

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⇒ late news: Google phone

Google made a phone

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⇒ If you make this, I will buy it

Seunghan Song's phone design

relatedly: if Apple makes something like this, I will buy it (for reasonable scratch)

0.68 kg and .55" thin. The way laptops should be.

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⇒ LG GD910

I'm officially tempted!

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⇒ i ♥ tech

i ♥ watch-phones







video-nec-crvd-display-hands-on
magnetic-detachable-lenses-suddenly-make-cellphone-camera-fun

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⇒ portable fragging

look how far we've come:
Doom via Flash, and now Quake III on your mobile phone:

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⇒ new phone!

comments about the c902 (thus far):
fantastic handset, very slim, sleek and classy design. .
The design also has a

Pros: 1.Shape--such an upgrade from the K750i. I barely feel it in my front pocket of my flat-front trousers. Additionally, ever since the boom of 'sliders' and now 'touch' style phones, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find a really special 'candybar' phone. This model strangely enough still manages to incorporate some features of both 'sliders' and 'touch' phones. I picked the c902 over the g900 or most others
2. Operating system--again, an enormous leap between this and the K750i. They've reorganized everything into slightly more coherent categories. The software plays VERY NICE with Mac OS X 10.3.9, while K750i didn't. Add to that, it's got flight mode and can set multiple profiles (USB mass storage, phone mode, etc.) and it's a winner.
3. Media player--very pleasing to the eye and simple interface which doesn't sacrifice control.
4. Feature rich--alot of functions and capabilities, and keep in mind this isn't a 'smartphone', but it will do more than I'm probably capable of using. For comparison, I probably only used about 70% of the features on my K750i, as compared to 90% on the Samsung E700 and 99% on the Nokia 8310.
5. Processor--fast enough to throwdown 5MP photos in 1s. Powerful enough to run 3D gaming. But of course, I'm greedy--I want more speed, more power! MOAR!
6. Everything in the box--charger, booklet, support CD, USB connector, hand's free, the gang's all here. Straight out of the box, you get everything you need. Only need to spend if you really want to kick it into wireless headset/8GB memory/etc. Did I mention the charger has a pass-thru port so you can plug in more than one thing at a time? How about a standard 3.5mm jack included in the handsfree? Sweet. Oh and the box itself is super sleek--they've really outdone themselves in terms of product design.

Cons: 1. No dedicated 'media' button--K750i could start playing music with a single touch without looking at the device. I gotta go thru 3-4 menus to start music now.
2. No flashlight function (or I haven't figured it out yet). Really? Why remove one of the best/most practical functions of a LED-bearing phone? People tout 'Xenon', but I can't miss it if I've never had it.
3. Dust collecting flaw: the planes where edges meet always and very easily collect a lot of dust. Beats the K750i though--the gaping hole around its 'joystick' let dust run rampant into the unreachable areas of the phone's screen.
4. Numeric buttons are almost too 'tight' though--should've used smaller buttons and given breathing room in-between, like the K810 or perhaps W890i

in-between: 1. The touch interface is a very nice gimmick, but I don't feel I'll be relying on it too much.
2. Battery cover. WTF?!? Why is it so gddmn hard to remove? Sure, the battery won't be falling out, but I can't quickly switch my SIM without using a watchmaker's toolkit!
3. The camera. Being branded a 'Cyber-shot' brings certain expectations, especially on the back of K750i's goodwill. The camera thus far has been both good and bad. The good? FAST. 5MP snaps in 1s. It's about 5-10s faster than K750i's 2MP shooter; more control over settings; faster processing and playback. the bad? photo resolution somewhat blunt--it lacks the sharpness of the K750i I'm accustomed to. I rarely fiddled with K750i's settings to get good-great photos. I guess there's a learning curve to getting good pics with this 5MP shooter (I hope!)

To be realistic, we are talking about a camera phone (I guess the K750i was f#cken exceptional in it's time!), and that the phone is 10.5mm thick, yet houses a 5MP? Crazy!

Keep in mind this is my experience with it THUS FAR (3 days). Maybe my opinion of certain things will change as time goes on.

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⇒ during the week of 17

crazy mobile phone escapades. Why was it so damn hard to transfer ownership and switch from post-paid to pre-paid?

China's '08 Olympics: my early analysis? Set to be the worst, most media-censored, government-dictatorship-run bestest games in history!

pop quiz, hotshot!
http://blogs.amctv.com/future-of-classic/2008/07/ultimate-fan-quiz-jaws.php
http://blogs.amctv.com/future-of-classic/2008/07/jaws-cinemania.php

Apple+Nike's 'Human Race' http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/?locale=en_au

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/22/joystiq-holidaze-explaining-the-ps3-skus/

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⇒ iPhone, mk. II

Apple revised their iPhone line, bringing it to more countries (Aus. finally included!), better battery, faster data transfer, better software and half price of original...

All well and good, BUT, once again, they won't be getting my dollars. The unjustifiably low-spec camera (2MP in 2008? Come on!?!?!?), 130g+ weight and size pretty much exclude it from my phone criteria.

Hey Apple, here's some free market research: make a phone I actually would want to buy! Then I'll buy it. Don't force feed me a phone with features I'll never need.

My phone criteria:

• 3MP + (autofocus mandatory, otherwise, what's the point?)


• video recording function (yep I use this). I mean if it can playback video, then why can't it record video?


• minimum 4GB memory (onboard or expandable, I don't give sh!t)


• music player

now for the options--the phone don't need this, but it'd go a long way towards making me want it:

• use of miniSD format--cuz it's dirt cheap


• USB connector in the box


• 3.5mm headphone jack standard (i.e., not an add-on cost SONY ERICSSON, I'm looking right at you!


• slim design, preferably NOT a slider


• weight < 100g. I'm going to be carrying around in my pants all day. Not having to carry that extra gram-age is important

don't care about fancy touchscreen...

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⇒ samsung e700 help

my bro's fone is dyin...we tried to fix but there was nuthin we could do...i'm sorry, it's time for a new fone...here are some help topics, may you have better luck than we did:

http://forums.mobiledia.com/topic14785.html
http://repair4mobilephone.org/disassembly_samsung.html
http://forums.mobiledia.com/topic23519.html
http://www.mindsuburbia.net/2006/10/09/33/
http://uselessinfo.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/explodesamsE700.htm

mmm...exploded view

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⇒ JAVA phone benchmark

site which details your phone's JAVA performance: jbenchmark.com
here's my phone. Incredibly, I remember our first PC--it was only 66Mhz compared to my phone's 110Mhz!
Free mobile games here. Just set your phone and pick out your soft...simple.

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⇒ cold and wet

jiminny-jollickers! the pic speaks for iteself!

I haven't made much progress project-wise in the last 3 days; I've been too rained-in/sick/exhausted/cold to do anything but for the next 10 days, the word is progress. Web design project and report due in 4 days...3DMP due in 7 days...I can succeed--I believe that I still retain the willpower to refuse to succumb to failure. I lost it for a while but it's slowly coming back to me.

this is the phone--this is the rant: f#cking sony! they always always come out with some proprietary file/memory/storage format which eventually proves:
1. useless and 2. redundant in a few short years. For example 'Memory stick'--that's just their f#cked up way of forcing you to buy other overpriced sony bullsh!t to use with your heavily overpriced sony memory shitstick. What's worse is sony's blatant admittance that their first-party sh!t is overpriced--buying a brand new sony ericsson phone, imagine my shock when in the box was not a sony memory stick, but a sandisk memory stick. Sony's too cheap to even fork out on their own products. Further evidence of sony's cheapness (by that I mean extreme expensiveness) and admittance of redundance and stupidity: their latest camera phones sport yet another memory format-M2. wtf? Didn't betamax, minidisc, memory stick and 'memory-stick-pro-duo-turbo-mad-gear-wtf-title' hammer the message home? Apparently so, cause these new phones also support SD cards. HA!

Ok, I'll give sony props for making sweet cellys.

Industrial strength robo | O2's coccoon. Slick design but 2MP? Come on, that was commonplace 18 months ago! To be with the game, it's gotta be 5MP now.

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⇒ things of dreams

creepy 3D simpsons | more simpsons | possibly my next phone |

hell yeah! starcraft 2! | twirling building design | Vinegar robot? Image below |

looks to me like Abe Sapien and a PS3 fused.

I need to find a way to get these to Australia. They're Converse Double upper Lo-cut in Parchment/Blue that I've searched high and low for. Discontinued and out of stock in Sydney. Far as I can tell | Type foundries | LG make personal products? | could be funny | Kicksfinder on myspace |

VRAW design jobs n cool stuff!

reblog in correct sections:
http://supermodels.nl/forum/Posts.aspx?id=5587
http://www.shadowofthecolossus.com/
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/grindhouse-movies.php?page=8

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