A launcher is kinda like a skin that's been placed on top of operating system and in this case we're talking about android, It's just like what we've seen the likes of HTC and Motorola, they've put a branded interface over their phone line to set themselves apart from the competition, there are mulitple launchers that can be downloaded from the Play store. All these launchers are opitional and you call download and install whenever and if ever when you like.
One of the launchers that i use as my daily launcher is nova launcher, It features great customization to an already very customizable operating system. You can edit how many icons you have on the app draw, edit how big your icons are, change the animation speeds, you can change the way you're scrolling through the different screen, you can give the scrolling a cube effect.
With nova launcher Prime, you have access to many many more features that set itself apart from other launchers like gestures, swiping up from the bottom to simulate a home button press which we all know is the touchpad Webos Gesture, for returning to the home screen, and launching the app launcher etc.
One thing that i will say about Android Ice cream sandwich and i might not remember to say this again but i really don't like the screen real estate that you lose with Android 4.0, you've got an entire screen of ICS awesomeness but then you've got the bottom where the back, home buttons etc live. Now i'll admit it the bottom bar works really well, the bar knows when to dim down to give full concentration on the content being displayed but it's just a shame that the bar at the bottom has come at a price and we lose screen real estate because of it.
Sorry for the late reply but things at college at getting hectic
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
iOS 6 features that should be included
Two of the biggest jailbreaks i'd like to on iOS 6 on the ipad.
Quasar, the ability to have multiple apps open at the sae time in little window, this would be true multitasking instead of the traditional app switcher on iOS. All of the apps will be adjustable to the screen size you want it to be, if you scale the app down enough you'll be able to convert that ipad app into iphone capability. You can turn into full screen mode for the full viewing experience. This has been the die hard jailbreak to have ever since the first ipad came out and it's only recently that they've discovered how useful the tweak is and they've actually brought out the concept and bring it to the cydia store.
I can't remember the name of this tweak but it features multiple logins to the same device so that each person can see their own pictures without having to look at the other owners pictures and the same goes for contacts, imessages and browsing history etc.
2 interface designs that I have in mind would be a windows 7 style logging in where you select the account and type in the password or it will feature the same slide to unlock but each account will require a passcode to unlock and if you want to access the account you'll type in the password.
There was a jailbreak tweak like this for the iphone. Whenever you leave your iphone on a table or around and people asked for your passcode to get it unlocked. well you could tell them the guest password and it would automatically hide your messages, photos and other stuff and it would also protect the apps that you own from being deleted and you could also black list apps from being used like facebook and it would keep the same functionality as it did before.
These are just a few tweaks that i've seen that should be included into iOS 6. I have a couple of my own ideas that I haven't yet seen on the cydia store.
Quasar, the ability to have multiple apps open at the sae time in little window, this would be true multitasking instead of the traditional app switcher on iOS. All of the apps will be adjustable to the screen size you want it to be, if you scale the app down enough you'll be able to convert that ipad app into iphone capability. You can turn into full screen mode for the full viewing experience. This has been the die hard jailbreak to have ever since the first ipad came out and it's only recently that they've discovered how useful the tweak is and they've actually brought out the concept and bring it to the cydia store.
I can't remember the name of this tweak but it features multiple logins to the same device so that each person can see their own pictures without having to look at the other owners pictures and the same goes for contacts, imessages and browsing history etc.
2 interface designs that I have in mind would be a windows 7 style logging in where you select the account and type in the password or it will feature the same slide to unlock but each account will require a passcode to unlock and if you want to access the account you'll type in the password.
There was a jailbreak tweak like this for the iphone. Whenever you leave your iphone on a table or around and people asked for your passcode to get it unlocked. well you could tell them the guest password and it would automatically hide your messages, photos and other stuff and it would also protect the apps that you own from being deleted and you could also black list apps from being used like facebook and it would keep the same functionality as it did before.
These are just a few tweaks that i've seen that should be included into iOS 6. I have a couple of my own ideas that I haven't yet seen on the cydia store.
Monday, 28 May 2012
Lytro cameras
If you are unware the lytro cameras, this camera differs from traditional camera, instead of using mega pixels to show off it's quality, it uses mega rays to capture it's photos. It uses something called light field technology and it collects every light source going into the camera so there's no need to focus and blur out to produce constrast. If you take a picture and you want to change it you can refocus it by using lytro's own camera software.
I'm not quiet sure for the actual dimensions of the device but it's about the size of a remote and from the exterior, it looks like a big lipstick.
The buttons to turn it on, take a picture is place right on the top of the device and in my head, I think is awkwardly place to put a button but after all it's the best place in button, considering the whole device is awkward to hold.
The lytro camera has got a 8x optical zoom and the way you zoom in and out on the device is sliding your finger left to right over the touch senstive area.
It's recharbable via a microUSB and it comes with a wrist strap that can easily hooked through the device. One more accessory that's very surprising that they included into the standard package was a magnetic cover that can be placed over the lens so it doesn't get stratched or damage.
There's a little LCD screen at the front of the camera to review your photos but you can't refocus any material you have, you've got to use lytro's own software to change the focus point of your image.
Lytro camera were shown off about 6 months at a technology conference and I actually forgot about it until technobuffalo's jon rettinger did an unboxing of it the other day.
This could be the new beginning to camera technology and the way we view pictures in the future.
I'm not quiet sure for the actual dimensions of the device but it's about the size of a remote and from the exterior, it looks like a big lipstick.
The buttons to turn it on, take a picture is place right on the top of the device and in my head, I think is awkwardly place to put a button but after all it's the best place in button, considering the whole device is awkward to hold.
The lytro camera has got a 8x optical zoom and the way you zoom in and out on the device is sliding your finger left to right over the touch senstive area.
It's recharbable via a microUSB and it comes with a wrist strap that can easily hooked through the device. One more accessory that's very surprising that they included into the standard package was a magnetic cover that can be placed over the lens so it doesn't get stratched or damage.
There's a little LCD screen at the front of the camera to review your photos but you can't refocus any material you have, you've got to use lytro's own software to change the focus point of your image.
Lytro camera were shown off about 6 months at a technology conference and I actually forgot about it until technobuffalo's jon rettinger did an unboxing of it the other day.
This could be the new beginning to camera technology and the way we view pictures in the future.
Friday, 25 May 2012
HTC sense multi-tasking UI
We've all seen a massive improvement over the multi-tasking UI in stock ICS, the flagship device for google to show off the latest and greatest version of android was the galaxy nexus, built from the ground up to work on that device with curved glass and tapered edges, all loving the way it looks and feels. This was the device that showed off what ICS could bring to the market.
The multitasking UI in ICS is a very simple interface, you press the multitasking button or on other devices, press and hold the home button. You are able to scroll up and down to see your recent apps, the app at the bottom being the one that you most recently visited and the app at the top being your last app that you ran.
HTC has to change all this well bringing the one series to the market. HTC one x which is running nvidia's tegra 3 chip set is not running stock ICS but instead it's running sense 4.0, everything may be fluent and fast and the homescreen interface may have changed a lot since HTC sense running on older generation of smartphones. Before you had the uncustomizable 3 hot keys and the bottom of the screen, now with sense 4.0 you've now 4 icon dock and this dock also works with the lockscreen... Because you've got the ring pull on the lock screen you can drag that ring over an icon from your dock and it will open that app for you.
The main reason I started this blog was to rant about the mutli-tasking UI within sense 4.0, instead of the traditional multitasking in stock ICS, HTC went for a different and change it all together. The multi-tasking UI within sense is similar to webos multi-tasking except they haven't got stackable cards, this works tremendesly well with webos but not when it's with android, the card view in sense has an awful to it.
The sense multi-tasking UI has most of the gestures found in webos, such as swipe up to dismiss the app, you can swipe left and right to see your other recent apps but it hasn't got swipe down gesture that either brings the app into view or like on the touchpad has a slingshot effect.
The likes of HTC and motorola bringing out their own skins to run on top of android to differentiate from the other smartphone that are on the market. This creates an easier decision among the community and they may want a phone that doesn't look like the rest of them.
Just ano
The multitasking UI in ICS is a very simple interface, you press the multitasking button or on other devices, press and hold the home button. You are able to scroll up and down to see your recent apps, the app at the bottom being the one that you most recently visited and the app at the top being your last app that you ran.
HTC has to change all this well bringing the one series to the market. HTC one x which is running nvidia's tegra 3 chip set is not running stock ICS but instead it's running sense 4.0, everything may be fluent and fast and the homescreen interface may have changed a lot since HTC sense running on older generation of smartphones. Before you had the uncustomizable 3 hot keys and the bottom of the screen, now with sense 4.0 you've now 4 icon dock and this dock also works with the lockscreen... Because you've got the ring pull on the lock screen you can drag that ring over an icon from your dock and it will open that app for you.
The main reason I started this blog was to rant about the mutli-tasking UI within sense 4.0, instead of the traditional multitasking in stock ICS, HTC went for a different and change it all together. The multi-tasking UI within sense is similar to webos multi-tasking except they haven't got stackable cards, this works tremendesly well with webos but not when it's with android, the card view in sense has an awful to it.
The sense multi-tasking UI has most of the gestures found in webos, such as swipe up to dismiss the app, you can swipe left and right to see your other recent apps but it hasn't got swipe down gesture that either brings the app into view or like on the touchpad has a slingshot effect.
The likes of HTC and motorola bringing out their own skins to run on top of android to differentiate from the other smartphone that are on the market. This creates an easier decision among the community and they may want a phone that doesn't look like the rest of them.
Just ano
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Blackberry 10 keyboard tweak
One of my blogs a couple of weeks ago was about blackberry10 and it's likeness towards the iphone 4. I was talking about the keyboard and it's functionality from the video, well that same keyboard has been implemented into the cydia and available for Idevices. It's a free tweak from the bigboss repo.
The tweak is called octopus and it allow you to insert words into your active text field by swiping up from a letter. If you type in W, it will bring suggestions, above the H button it will bring up the When or on the A button it will bring up the word What, this tweak is very clever and learns by itself, it remembers what you type so you could write out a full sentence with only typing one letter and the rest of them are swipes. I'm sure this function is featured on BB10.
I've tested this tweak and it seems to hold up to it's name, it works as advertised, there are some apps where this tweak doesn't work like third party apps from the app store, it works very very well with the notes application and the messages app.
The tweak is called octopus and it allow you to insert words into your active text field by swiping up from a letter. If you type in W, it will bring suggestions, above the H button it will bring up the When or on the A button it will bring up the word What, this tweak is very clever and learns by itself, it remembers what you type so you could write out a full sentence with only typing one letter and the rest of them are swipes. I'm sure this function is featured on BB10.
I've tested this tweak and it seems to hold up to it's name, it works as advertised, there are some apps where this tweak doesn't work like third party apps from the app store, it works very very well with the notes application and the messages app.
Weeks have gone by since the arrival of the BB10 video, well it turns out the operating system on the prototype device is a scaled down version of the tablet version, it's not the finalized version of the Blackberry OS but i'm sure they were trying to push out the look and feel of what's to come.
Picture from myjailbreakmovies youtube video
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Deleting apps from the app switcher
Deleting apps in tWhen deleting apps from the app switcher, you're thinking that it saves battery but it actually doesn't. Think of the multitasking bar as a task switcher. When these apps are open they are using the battery life because they are being ran by the CPU but when they are closed but in the app switcher, they have been cached which means they are running but not running on the cpu, they are being kept alive by the ram.
Apple was very clever in the creation of the app switcher. App developers could decide either letting the app run in the background and doing background processes. These apps were set by default to being cached so when you closed them, they weren't running in the background. Take apps like spotify, these were programmed in a way so when you closed the app from view, they'd still continue playing the song it was on.
Cached is saving the state it was at so it could easily be opened at that state when you decided to reopen.
So deleting apps from the task switcher doesn't save battery unless these apps have been specifically programmed to run in the background.
This blog came from the inspiration of a video that I saw about 6 months when this guy demonstrated that apps that were in the app switcher used ram and no cpu power so that the myth of deleting apps to save battery is false.
Apple was very clever in the creation of the app switcher. App developers could decide either letting the app run in the background and doing background processes. These apps were set by default to being cached so when you closed them, they weren't running in the background. Take apps like spotify, these were programmed in a way so when you closed the app from view, they'd still continue playing the song it was on.
Cached is saving the state it was at so it could easily be opened at that state when you decided to reopen.
So deleting apps from the task switcher doesn't save battery unless these apps have been specifically programmed to run in the background.
This blog came from the inspiration of a video that I saw about 6 months when this guy demonstrated that apps that were in the app switcher used ram and no cpu power so that the myth of deleting apps to save battery is false.
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The future (continue)
Going on from a blog that I did about the future and that was about 1 or 2 weeks ago, well these are my continuing thoughts about the future and what the future holds us.
I'm not just talking about a portable device that lives in our pockets, a device that becomes a part of our life, becomes a part of who we are.
Not a device that we become obsessed about as in, it controls the way we live, something that aids in into connecting with people like how Facebook brought the whole world at our desks and able to connect to them easily.
Now you may be thinking I'm talking about google glasses but I'm not, I'm talking about something entirely different. It's gonna have some of the main features of google glasses like speech recognition and a HUD we can see through our eyes but always interactive like what was shown on a programme called neds dis classified school survival guide. But with an easier user interface
I'm not just talking about a portable device that lives in our pockets, a device that becomes a part of our life, becomes a part of who we are.
Not a device that we become obsessed about as in, it controls the way we live, something that aids in into connecting with people like how Facebook brought the whole world at our desks and able to connect to them easily.
Now you may be thinking I'm talking about google glasses but I'm not, I'm talking about something entirely different. It's gonna have some of the main features of google glasses like speech recognition and a HUD we can see through our eyes but always interactive like what was shown on a programme called neds dis classified school survival guide. But with an easier user interface
Monday, 21 May 2012
Sonic 4 episode 2
With the arrival of sonic 4 episode 2, i'd like to say i've stuck with sonic ever since I was a little toddler, not even old enough to speak but old enough to pick up a controller and master the running and jumping of what sonic is. Ever since his genesis/mega drive days in 1991, I was born in 1993 but ever since picking up the controller at the early ages, made me the gamer I am today.
Sonic 4 episode 2 brings all new editions what episode 1 couldn't furfill, it brings an all new animation engine that just quiet engages players in every bit of sonic they can. With the budget from episode 1 being successful they had the money to rework the physics engine and make it back like it's original genesis counterparts.
The graphical engine has also been remastered, enviroments are visually stunning and so much vivid detail has gone into creating this game.
After the last few years sonic hasn't got the best credit ever since he turned 3D, games like sonic 2006, unleashed have received bismul score ratings, sonic fans have really lost fate in the future of sonic. Well it's these fans including myself who have posted suggestions on the sonic team forums, posted ideas and concept of what the future of sonic should be, and what we got in return was something amazing, it may not be the genesis days but it's a start on we call the new sonic franchise.
Our prays have been answered and they've successfully been work around so that the younger generation that aren't aware of the old genesis games are satisified and the older generations of sonic that first played sonic when it was just a lone 16 bit hedgehog are satisfied.
If you have purchased episode 1 on the same platform, you will get additonatal content called episode metal and this allows you to play 3 levels from episode 1 as metal sonic these aren't just the same levels, these have been reworked and customize so it gives a new experience to the user.
One of the biggest features that adds to sonic 4 episode 2 is the addition of miles 'tails' prower and tails does not suck this time, he is actually useful this time around, you can combine tails and sonic together to give a deal spin dash attack and you can also use tails as a turbine so you can quickly maneuver yourself around the water.
Sonic 4 episode 2 came out on PS3, Xbox 360, Windows phone market, iOS, android on may 15.
Sonic 4 episode 2 brings all new editions what episode 1 couldn't furfill, it brings an all new animation engine that just quiet engages players in every bit of sonic they can. With the budget from episode 1 being successful they had the money to rework the physics engine and make it back like it's original genesis counterparts.
The graphical engine has also been remastered, enviroments are visually stunning and so much vivid detail has gone into creating this game.
After the last few years sonic hasn't got the best credit ever since he turned 3D, games like sonic 2006, unleashed have received bismul score ratings, sonic fans have really lost fate in the future of sonic. Well it's these fans including myself who have posted suggestions on the sonic team forums, posted ideas and concept of what the future of sonic should be, and what we got in return was something amazing, it may not be the genesis days but it's a start on we call the new sonic franchise.
Our prays have been answered and they've successfully been work around so that the younger generation that aren't aware of the old genesis games are satisified and the older generations of sonic that first played sonic when it was just a lone 16 bit hedgehog are satisfied.
If you have purchased episode 1 on the same platform, you will get additonatal content called episode metal and this allows you to play 3 levels from episode 1 as metal sonic these aren't just the same levels, these have been reworked and customize so it gives a new experience to the user.
One of the biggest features that adds to sonic 4 episode 2 is the addition of miles 'tails' prower and tails does not suck this time, he is actually useful this time around, you can combine tails and sonic together to give a deal spin dash attack and you can also use tails as a turbine so you can quickly maneuver yourself around the water.
Sonic 4 episode 2 came out on PS3, Xbox 360, Windows phone market, iOS, android on may 15.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Asus padfone
One of the biggest problems I have when i'm using my tablet and phone at the same time, i'm getting texts and phone calls through my phone and i've got to constantly switch between devices. I'd wish there was some way I could mix these together in a universal device, well asus has answered to my problem.
When i'm using the pre 3 and i've connected the pre3 upto the touchpad(when it's on webos) via bluetooth and I can answer phone calls and respond to text messages on the touchpad. But as we all know that bluetooth is a bit of a battery drainer and having them constanstly connected will drain your battery.
First of all the asus padfone is a tablet/phone, it links the tablet world and the phone world together. I'm not sure of the actually specs of the fone but i'm sure that when they brought it out at CES it was a dual core 1.4ghz processor with 1gb of ram powering a 4.3 inch 720p display. The tablet has no specs, I think it's just a touchscreen. For the padfone to work together you've got to open the hatch at the back of the tablet and put the fone in, wait a couple of moments and you've got your phone on a ten inch display and you're reply to messages and other things that a phone can do.
The way you answer phone calls while your phone is in the back of the tablet, you've got a stylus that comes with the padfone that allows you to interact with the touchscreen and it also doubles as a microphone and a little speaker and you can hold this up to your face or used the curved rim to hook it around your ear. The stylus isn't connected via bluetooth, it's connected via NFC which is near field communication.
Asus are taking the tablet market for a ride with the brilliantly clever concept they've got to really bring the tablet market to it's knees. This would solve all my problems between switching between both devices to do specific tasks.
When i'm using the pre 3 and i've connected the pre3 upto the touchpad(when it's on webos) via bluetooth and I can answer phone calls and respond to text messages on the touchpad. But as we all know that bluetooth is a bit of a battery drainer and having them constanstly connected will drain your battery.
First of all the asus padfone is a tablet/phone, it links the tablet world and the phone world together. I'm not sure of the actually specs of the fone but i'm sure that when they brought it out at CES it was a dual core 1.4ghz processor with 1gb of ram powering a 4.3 inch 720p display. The tablet has no specs, I think it's just a touchscreen. For the padfone to work together you've got to open the hatch at the back of the tablet and put the fone in, wait a couple of moments and you've got your phone on a ten inch display and you're reply to messages and other things that a phone can do.
The way you answer phone calls while your phone is in the back of the tablet, you've got a stylus that comes with the padfone that allows you to interact with the touchscreen and it also doubles as a microphone and a little speaker and you can hold this up to your face or used the curved rim to hook it around your ear. The stylus isn't connected via bluetooth, it's connected via NFC which is near field communication.
Asus are taking the tablet market for a ride with the brilliantly clever concept they've got to really bring the tablet market to it's knees. This would solve all my problems between switching between both devices to do specific tasks.
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Android on Webos devices
I've just seen android become available on the HP veer and i've got some mixed thoughts.
I'd love android on my pre 3 but yet again having webos is a way of letting my phone stand out from the crowd.
I've just seen android become available and on fully working device. To put android on your HP device, you have to run through the exact same steps like you did for the touchpad but i'm not getting into that now as this blog is more concentrated on the android on HP devices.
Android isn't fully working on the HP veer, it's a good build and all the apps work except from two, that's the phone app and the messages app... That's right you're not able to send/recieve phone calls or texts so makes the rom that you've put onto the HP veer, is just an iPod. It's a good job you can dual boot the HP devices, which means you can have multiple operating systems running off the same hard drive.
You're probably wondering why i'm only saying the HP veer, well the android version for the pre 3 isn't available to the public, the HP veer and the touchpad use most of the same drivers such as bluetooth and wifi. For it to come available on the pre 3, they'd have to write all the different drivers for it.
I've already switch over to android on the touchpad since it's such a better operating system on a tablet. Webos on the touchpad is pretty good but it lacks apps and that's one of the main problems most people have with webos. The only reason I switched over to android on the touchpad was youtube, watching videos using the webos internet browser was slow and laggy and lacked html5 capabilty.
Webos on the pre 3 is really really good and it doesn't bother me that there's virtually no apps in comparison to the likes of android and IOS. i've got emulators and a few other puzzle games and they are perfect for me.
I'd love android on the pre 3 when it eventually comes out but webos is what gives my phone identity and if I put android on it, it will just be another android phone that nobody cares about. I'd dual boot the phone just like what I did with the touchpad but i'd rather stick with webos for my main operating system.
I'd love android on my pre 3 but yet again having webos is a way of letting my phone stand out from the crowd.
I've just seen android become available and on fully working device. To put android on your HP device, you have to run through the exact same steps like you did for the touchpad but i'm not getting into that now as this blog is more concentrated on the android on HP devices.
Android isn't fully working on the HP veer, it's a good build and all the apps work except from two, that's the phone app and the messages app... That's right you're not able to send/recieve phone calls or texts so makes the rom that you've put onto the HP veer, is just an iPod. It's a good job you can dual boot the HP devices, which means you can have multiple operating systems running off the same hard drive.
You're probably wondering why i'm only saying the HP veer, well the android version for the pre 3 isn't available to the public, the HP veer and the touchpad use most of the same drivers such as bluetooth and wifi. For it to come available on the pre 3, they'd have to write all the different drivers for it.
I've already switch over to android on the touchpad since it's such a better operating system on a tablet. Webos on the touchpad is pretty good but it lacks apps and that's one of the main problems most people have with webos. The only reason I switched over to android on the touchpad was youtube, watching videos using the webos internet browser was slow and laggy and lacked html5 capabilty.
Webos on the pre 3 is really really good and it doesn't bother me that there's virtually no apps in comparison to the likes of android and IOS. i've got emulators and a few other puzzle games and they are perfect for me.
I'd love android on the pre 3 when it eventually comes out but webos is what gives my phone identity and if I put android on it, it will just be another android phone that nobody cares about. I'd dual boot the phone just like what I did with the touchpad but i'd rather stick with webos for my main operating system.
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Avengers assemble review
I've been trying to watch this film for a couple of weeks now, couple of weeks ago I was thinking about going because my friends were going and last week we got to the pictures and it was sold out so instead of wasting money and watching a film for the sake of watching a film decided to go and see it this week and pre booking our tickets so we were guanteened a place.
My first words of avengers assemble OMG, I don't normally go to the pictures to watch the same film twice and i've seen a lot of great films in the pictures but for the avengers is so worth going to see the film again and again until it's out on DVD. I've got some other things to say that I didn't like, loved and hated but with a film like the avengers it was worth it.
The fight scenes were amazing, all of them with amazing special effects. The main fight scene took place in new york city's skyline.
All the film studios, they've all had the right idea, buying every marvel characters likeness so they were able to perfect each characters special effects individually before they brought into a very exciting fun filled polished experience.
I'm a sucker for origin storys, I love the first films of any franchise. The progression of the character coming through developing/gaining their powers.
The characters, a lot of characters in the film were meant to be there, one of the main characters was actually iron man, a lot of the elements and construction and story wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for iron man.
2 characters were actually pointless being there, now you're probably gonna guess which two characters (if you've seen the film/trailer) black widow and the bow and arrow guy. Sure black widow had feline reflexs and attacks but her main attack is a gun! That's it! And the guy, all he had was a bow and arrow and apart from great and godly accuracy, he was pointless too.
The camera work.
Coming from a media student, you tend to look at films in a different perspective, you start analying the camera angles that they've used, like low angle shots to show that they are important characters and it's to make the audience feel small.
All the camera angles were very dramatic that revealed the action in a far but close sense.
The writers for the avengers must work for some other company like big bang theory or how I met your mother. The film was surprisingly funny given the sense that marvel/super hero films aren't really that funny but the avengers assemble was quiet witty and clever with their jokes. Some were obvious jokes that had to be said but some were thrown at your face and we were all having unexpected laughter.
Special effects.
The special effects were amazing, film companies have had time to perfect each character's charactistics to really fine tune every little detail they can push out to on the film.
Overall a film that everyone needs to see even the ones that aren't interested in comic book movies!! There's some bits that need more explaining but since i've not seen thor or the incredible hulk, I can't comment and there are some bits which are amazing but it's easier to explain if you've seen the film.
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
IOS features
When the iphone came out, it revoltuised the way we think of smartphones and phones in general. When apple announced the original iphone (iphone 2G) they were ephasising that it was a phone... A music player... And a network communitcator and they repeated this over and over until steve jobs said 'these aren't different devices' a huge massive applause broke out, steve eventually finished with 'these are all in one device and we call iphone'.
The iphone did surely wow the crowd. Now that we've got the likes of android and other operating systems, IOS feels very stale in the main user experience. (springboard) you've got new intergrations with every big leap.
IOS 2.0 the intergration of the app store.
I'm not actually sure what the new things are in IOS 3.0, when I started with the iphone 3G is was already on 3.0.
IOS 4.0 you've got many new editions to the OS, the biggest one was multi-tasking and of course home screen wallpaper. Folders in IOS 4 cutting from the abilty to have 188 apps on the iphone, with folders you can have 12x16x10 on the iphone.
IOS 5 has a new useful experience for un-intruvise notifications, instead notifications popping up when you're trying to play a game or send an email. The notification now goes to the top of the screen alerting you but not taking any attention on what you're doing.
With all these new editions to the IOS family, they still can't compete with the customization of android.
I really love the live tiles in windows phone 7. The motto for windows 7.5 mango is get in,get out and get back to life. Everything is presented in such a lovely way. Every app on the black backround is displayed in a nice contrast, the status bar as well is hidden until you eventually swipe down from the top to reveal it.
When we're talking about specifications of device, not many people know this. The iphone 2G and the iphone 3G has the exact same specs, the only difference is the ability to surf the internet with 3G.
Next blog will be about what specific features that would really help IOS along with it's new features
The iphone did surely wow the crowd. Now that we've got the likes of android and other operating systems, IOS feels very stale in the main user experience. (springboard) you've got new intergrations with every big leap.
IOS 2.0 the intergration of the app store.
I'm not actually sure what the new things are in IOS 3.0, when I started with the iphone 3G is was already on 3.0.
IOS 4.0 you've got many new editions to the OS, the biggest one was multi-tasking and of course home screen wallpaper. Folders in IOS 4 cutting from the abilty to have 188 apps on the iphone, with folders you can have 12x16x10 on the iphone.
IOS 5 has a new useful experience for un-intruvise notifications, instead notifications popping up when you're trying to play a game or send an email. The notification now goes to the top of the screen alerting you but not taking any attention on what you're doing.
With all these new editions to the IOS family, they still can't compete with the customization of android.
I really love the live tiles in windows phone 7. The motto for windows 7.5 mango is get in,get out and get back to life. Everything is presented in such a lovely way. Every app on the black backround is displayed in a nice contrast, the status bar as well is hidden until you eventually swipe down from the top to reveal it.
When we're talking about specifications of device, not many people know this. The iphone 2G and the iphone 3G has the exact same specs, the only difference is the ability to surf the internet with 3G.
Next blog will be about what specific features that would really help IOS along with it's new features
Monday, 14 May 2012
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs
It's not going to be based upon the walter isaccson's biography. Sony pictures have bought the rights to this book and apprantley it's been made by another film company so it might be based off another book in steve's life
There's been pictures of acton kutcher in demin jeans and a black turtle neck which we all know is steve's clothings.
Aston may be the spitting image of jobs. But as an actor he's wildly in accurate for the role.
Ashton kucther plays more comedy roles such as just married with brittney murphy and playing the role of jack in what's happens in vegas and now he's playing the role of walden in two and a half men. I don't think he's been a film what's serious. He might have been in the butterfly effect, i'm not entirely sure.
The person who might be playing the role of steve wozinak is alan out of two and a half men Jon cryer.
There's no rumors of who's playing ronald wayne. The third person that many people that forget he also co created apple.
When he created apple inc, he wanted to make people in the workplace feel comfortable so instead of everyone wearing suits and looking virtually the same, he created a college style of clothing where anybody could wear what they wanted and work in what ever they felt comfortable.
I write these blogs whilst walking to and from college. Sorry if the news is inaccurate and if some of it doesn't make sense but I try my best.
There's been pictures of acton kutcher in demin jeans and a black turtle neck which we all know is steve's clothings.
Aston may be the spitting image of jobs. But as an actor he's wildly in accurate for the role.
Ashton kucther plays more comedy roles such as just married with brittney murphy and playing the role of jack in what's happens in vegas and now he's playing the role of walden in two and a half men. I don't think he's been a film what's serious. He might have been in the butterfly effect, i'm not entirely sure.
The person who might be playing the role of steve wozinak is alan out of two and a half men Jon cryer.
There's no rumors of who's playing ronald wayne. The third person that many people that forget he also co created apple.
When he created apple inc, he wanted to make people in the workplace feel comfortable so instead of everyone wearing suits and looking virtually the same, he created a college style of clothing where anybody could wear what they wanted and work in what ever they felt comfortable.
I write these blogs whilst walking to and from college. Sorry if the news is inaccurate and if some of it doesn't make sense but I try my best.
Sunday, 13 May 2012
3D glasses
http://www.technobuffalo.com/accessories/cool-concept-peelable-3d-lens-stickers-for-eyeglasses/
when 3D films were becoming mainstream, i actually came up with this idea. when avatar came out and people were confused if the 3D effect would still work for them if they had glasses
when 3D films were becoming mainstream (around about the same time avatar came out) i came up with this idea. with the arivial of 3D films people were confused if the 3D effect would still work for them if they 3D glasses over their glasses.
with my next visit to the pictures and watching the latest and greatest film. i got a spare pair of 3D glasses that i took home from when i watched avatar. Those 3D glasses are just basically slightly different tinted shades that commicate with the footage being shown on screen, so i got those shades that were inside the glasses and taped them to my friends normal glasses. he could still see the 3D effect and he felt way more comfortable when watching the 3D film.
i came up with this idea and somebody in the pictures must have heard me when i was talking about it to my friend, or my friend that i no longer speak to must have stole the idea.
i know it's not the most brilliantist idea but it might make a lot of money for the people that have actually put this in production. but i came up with it first
when 3D films were becoming mainstream, i actually came up with this idea. when avatar came out and people were confused if the 3D effect would still work for them if they had glasses
when 3D films were becoming mainstream (around about the same time avatar came out) i came up with this idea. with the arivial of 3D films people were confused if the 3D effect would still work for them if they 3D glasses over their glasses.
with my next visit to the pictures and watching the latest and greatest film. i got a spare pair of 3D glasses that i took home from when i watched avatar. Those 3D glasses are just basically slightly different tinted shades that commicate with the footage being shown on screen, so i got those shades that were inside the glasses and taped them to my friends normal glasses. he could still see the 3D effect and he felt way more comfortable when watching the 3D film.
i came up with this idea and somebody in the pictures must have heard me when i was talking about it to my friend, or my friend that i no longer speak to must have stole the idea.
i know it's not the most brilliantist idea but it might make a lot of money for the people that have actually put this in production. but i came up with it first
Friday, 11 May 2012
Iphone 3GS
This is the story about how my venture with the iphone suddenly stopped. And don't worry i'm not going to go through a how I met your mother story and tell you every little detail.
I've had a history of downloading tweaks, changing the coding for IOS for years and everytime my iphone would mess up, i'd be able to easily restore to it's factory settings, restore the iphone from back up and i'd be back where I left off.
The history of the iphone came from using the iphone 3G and downloading tweaks that wasn't able to run on the iphone 3G so either it wouldn't be able to respring or boot it out of safe mode.
When I got the iphone 3GS I kept a tight compact iphone and only downloading tweaks and apps that benefitted me and it just didn't make the phone look nice. I even got rid loads of features like multi-tasking and spotlight search because these were mainly the things that drained the battery.
I downloaded a tweak called springtomize that lets you tweak every little nut and crank that was in the iphone. This was very helpful, instead of downloading every tweak individually and having them running the background at it's own pace, you could download a tweak that combined all of these other tweaks together. These tweaks would able to cut out much of the CPU power and the ram and make for a safe and unified experience.
When you're multi-tasking with cydia, when you switch from one app to cydia, there's always a loading stage where you have to wait for the app to load to the state that you left it at. If you change a file name in cydia in the properly list viewer called the UIimageOnexit and you change that to off and whenever you are switching from one app to cydia, it doesn't do the loading process.
For the reason for this, I hated that the messages had a pause when you went in the app so I thought I could replicate what I did for the cydia app for the messages app. It successfully worked and it made every other app using the on screen keyboard load quicker which I was happy with. When I tried to reboot/respring, it wouldn't do it and it would keep doing the apple spinning loading icon. So since that i've been doing the restoration of an iphone with an iphone 3G for years I was kinda of an expert it.
I successfully got the iphone 3GS at 4.3.3. I retrieve thankfully the untethered jailbreak and I went on with my iphone 3GS
It's not the end of the story yet i'll continue the story when there's no news out that really hits me hard.
Thanks for reading :)
I've had a history of downloading tweaks, changing the coding for IOS for years and everytime my iphone would mess up, i'd be able to easily restore to it's factory settings, restore the iphone from back up and i'd be back where I left off.
The history of the iphone came from using the iphone 3G and downloading tweaks that wasn't able to run on the iphone 3G so either it wouldn't be able to respring or boot it out of safe mode.
When I got the iphone 3GS I kept a tight compact iphone and only downloading tweaks and apps that benefitted me and it just didn't make the phone look nice. I even got rid loads of features like multi-tasking and spotlight search because these were mainly the things that drained the battery.
I downloaded a tweak called springtomize that lets you tweak every little nut and crank that was in the iphone. This was very helpful, instead of downloading every tweak individually and having them running the background at it's own pace, you could download a tweak that combined all of these other tweaks together. These tweaks would able to cut out much of the CPU power and the ram and make for a safe and unified experience.
When you're multi-tasking with cydia, when you switch from one app to cydia, there's always a loading stage where you have to wait for the app to load to the state that you left it at. If you change a file name in cydia in the properly list viewer called the UIimageOnexit and you change that to off and whenever you are switching from one app to cydia, it doesn't do the loading process.
For the reason for this, I hated that the messages had a pause when you went in the app so I thought I could replicate what I did for the cydia app for the messages app. It successfully worked and it made every other app using the on screen keyboard load quicker which I was happy with. When I tried to reboot/respring, it wouldn't do it and it would keep doing the apple spinning loading icon. So since that i've been doing the restoration of an iphone with an iphone 3G for years I was kinda of an expert it.
I successfully got the iphone 3GS at 4.3.3. I retrieve thankfully the untethered jailbreak and I went on with my iphone 3GS
It's not the end of the story yet i'll continue the story when there's no news out that really hits me hard.
Thanks for reading :)
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Motion Controls
Continuing from yesterday's blog. I think skyrim and kinect working together is the future of gaming. All these motion controls are amazing not the novelty wears down after a couple of days.
I remember when I first got my nintendo wii, I was so excited for it that I turned down selling it at christmas for about 600 pounds. This is around the time the wii first came out and nintendo couldn't meet the customer's demand and many people to furfill their kids demand, they went on ebay and paid over the odds.
Well when I got the wii, just a few days after christmas after I had a few games of wii sports and completed red steel, I realised that motion controls are just a gimmick and traditional gaming is so much better. Sitting back on a coach in a small room and sitting infront of a gigantic TV in the early hours of the morning - that's what gaming is.
Another game that used voice commands but it wasn't very popular, tom clancy's endwar. Tom clancy's endwar was a RTS (real time stragedy) and you had the option to use voice commands such as delta - move to alpha and all that kind of stuff these commands were used to control your soilders in the heat of the battle. Although a very good concept but lacking in areas like practicality over theory. The concept was never executed well until kinect came out.
Gaming needs to be enjoyed in your small room with a big massive television hunch over on a controller instead of standing in the middle of your living room, flailing your arms around like an idiot and not shouting at your kinect trying to get it to recognize your voice.
Thanks for reading :)
I remember when I first got my nintendo wii, I was so excited for it that I turned down selling it at christmas for about 600 pounds. This is around the time the wii first came out and nintendo couldn't meet the customer's demand and many people to furfill their kids demand, they went on ebay and paid over the odds.
Well when I got the wii, just a few days after christmas after I had a few games of wii sports and completed red steel, I realised that motion controls are just a gimmick and traditional gaming is so much better. Sitting back on a coach in a small room and sitting infront of a gigantic TV in the early hours of the morning - that's what gaming is.
Another game that used voice commands but it wasn't very popular, tom clancy's endwar. Tom clancy's endwar was a RTS (real time stragedy) and you had the option to use voice commands such as delta - move to alpha and all that kind of stuff these commands were used to control your soilders in the heat of the battle. Although a very good concept but lacking in areas like practicality over theory. The concept was never executed well until kinect came out.
Gaming needs to be enjoyed in your small room with a big massive television hunch over on a controller instead of standing in the middle of your living room, flailing your arms around like an idiot and not shouting at your kinect trying to get it to recognize your voice.
Thanks for reading :)
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Skyrim's kinect intergration
First of all, you've got the kinect for the xbox 360 and i'm sure all of you know what one is and what it's capable of. I won't talk about how we got to motion gaming and how it became today because i'm sure most of you will know that the nintendo wii were the first ones to bring it to this generation of market. You've got other nintendo add-ons like the power glove for the NES and many other add-ones for many other nintendo consoles.
I learnt the other day that you can actually do motion capture on the kinect and that's just one of the features i'd love to do if I got a kinect. I'm an animator and instead of working out how to do the movements on 3DS max or motion builder, I could actually pick up a second hand kinect set it up in my room and then load up the motion capture software on my windows motion and start dancing or do any other action that I can think of and that create a biped from the motion tracking cooridanates and have myself a little animated 3D model that took over from start to finish about an hour.
Sony brought out their own motion controls to the ps3 called playstation move. This controller just looks like a wand with a ambient ball on the end. This ambient ball has the power to be tracked by the playstation eye camera, this means that the wand can be tracked in 3 dimensional space.
Skyrim and the kinect intergration. If you have a look at the trailer, the trailer promises so many voice commands for all kinds of different features. Betheseda, the creator of skyrim and the elder scrolls series have said that, most of the main controls we were able to fit on the control pad but you've got the quick selection keys such as sorting your inventory by different types e.g. Value, weight, alphabettically.
One of the other voices commands you've got is quick equip, say if you wanted to quickly equip your sword and shield, you could say that and it would equiped it for you without going into any of the menus.
I think one of the biggest features and it's going to be the most popular voice command will be, you'll be able to do a dragon shout just by speaking in the tongue of a dragon or actually saying the english version of the shout. If you wanted to do fus ro dah, you'd say unrelenting force instead.
Sorry for the late blog as well, I needed to concentrate on this video i'm working on for college. When it's finished it's gonna be put to my channel on youtube with the same name.
I learnt the other day that you can actually do motion capture on the kinect and that's just one of the features i'd love to do if I got a kinect. I'm an animator and instead of working out how to do the movements on 3DS max or motion builder, I could actually pick up a second hand kinect set it up in my room and then load up the motion capture software on my windows motion and start dancing or do any other action that I can think of and that create a biped from the motion tracking cooridanates and have myself a little animated 3D model that took over from start to finish about an hour.
Sony brought out their own motion controls to the ps3 called playstation move. This controller just looks like a wand with a ambient ball on the end. This ambient ball has the power to be tracked by the playstation eye camera, this means that the wand can be tracked in 3 dimensional space.
Skyrim and the kinect intergration. If you have a look at the trailer, the trailer promises so many voice commands for all kinds of different features. Betheseda, the creator of skyrim and the elder scrolls series have said that, most of the main controls we were able to fit on the control pad but you've got the quick selection keys such as sorting your inventory by different types e.g. Value, weight, alphabettically.
One of the other voices commands you've got is quick equip, say if you wanted to quickly equip your sword and shield, you could say that and it would equiped it for you without going into any of the menus.
I think one of the biggest features and it's going to be the most popular voice command will be, you'll be able to do a dragon shout just by speaking in the tongue of a dragon or actually saying the english version of the shout. If you wanted to do fus ro dah, you'd say unrelenting force instead.
Sorry for the late blog as well, I needed to concentrate on this video i'm working on for college. When it's finished it's gonna be put to my channel on youtube with the same name.
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Rumour - Nintendo and Apple
Nintendo haven't had the best running ever since the wii came out, sure the technology was good for the wii but the less so stellar graphics were appulling, they looked like the ps2, now i'm not doubting the ps2 had crap graphics but when you're seeing games played on the ps3 and the xbox 360, it feels like you're going back a generation when you switch over to the wii.
The games for the wii coming out these days have been so stupid and pointless that there's no point in people actually having a wii. Now when the wii first came out with games like red steel and super mario galaxy these were the cutting edge of gaming.
I was talking to my uncle the other day and there's rumours going round that nintendo might actually branch out to apple to try and get some market back for their exclusive content like mario and zelda. Now me and my uncle were going back and forth of why nintendo would and wouldn't do that.
Nintendo wouldn't do this at all, they've built up the company based on exclusive content, the only reason people bought the 3DS was one of two things, they wanted glasses free 3D and the other reason to play their old classics in 3D like the orcaina of time and play super mario 3D land. Nintendo have always produced consoles that based around exclusive content.
Now my uncle was saying, if they were really struggling and close to bankrupcty... Maybe.
If nintendo do switch over, I think they'll lose the company that they've built and remove every hardware engineer within the company and concentrate on software just like what sega did when they started to lose sales in the sega saturn and also the sega genesis addons and go multi-platform with their franchises like sonic the hedgehog and shinobi.
Just think of pokemon as the franchise, I know a lot of people who only bought a DS for pokemon, if people had the opptruinty to download pokemon onto their idevices they would not have the need to buy a nintendo product. If I had pokemon on my ipod, i'd be playing it all the time, leave angry birds and plants vs zombies, i'd be playing pokemon all the time!!
There's emulators for all kind of platforms on cydia but the gameboy advance emulator installs something called sandcastle that's required for the emulator to work but drains the battery an awful lot.
My ending opinion is, nintendo aren't going to breach out to apple unless they are really really struggling and on the verge of becoming bankrupt.
P.s apple don't really need anymore to justify getting shares into nintendo and the sales of ipod touches might rise but not a massive percentage because mostly everybody today either owns an ipod touch or an iphone.
The games for the wii coming out these days have been so stupid and pointless that there's no point in people actually having a wii. Now when the wii first came out with games like red steel and super mario galaxy these were the cutting edge of gaming.
I was talking to my uncle the other day and there's rumours going round that nintendo might actually branch out to apple to try and get some market back for their exclusive content like mario and zelda. Now me and my uncle were going back and forth of why nintendo would and wouldn't do that.
Nintendo wouldn't do this at all, they've built up the company based on exclusive content, the only reason people bought the 3DS was one of two things, they wanted glasses free 3D and the other reason to play their old classics in 3D like the orcaina of time and play super mario 3D land. Nintendo have always produced consoles that based around exclusive content.
Now my uncle was saying, if they were really struggling and close to bankrupcty... Maybe.
If nintendo do switch over, I think they'll lose the company that they've built and remove every hardware engineer within the company and concentrate on software just like what sega did when they started to lose sales in the sega saturn and also the sega genesis addons and go multi-platform with their franchises like sonic the hedgehog and shinobi.
Just think of pokemon as the franchise, I know a lot of people who only bought a DS for pokemon, if people had the opptruinty to download pokemon onto their idevices they would not have the need to buy a nintendo product. If I had pokemon on my ipod, i'd be playing it all the time, leave angry birds and plants vs zombies, i'd be playing pokemon all the time!!
There's emulators for all kind of platforms on cydia but the gameboy advance emulator installs something called sandcastle that's required for the emulator to work but drains the battery an awful lot.
My ending opinion is, nintendo aren't going to breach out to apple unless they are really really struggling and on the verge of becoming bankrupt.
P.s apple don't really need anymore to justify getting shares into nintendo and the sales of ipod touches might rise but not a massive percentage because mostly everybody today either owns an ipod touch or an iphone.
Monday, 7 May 2012
The Future Of Gaming
Are next generation consoles going to come out with subsidized rates. will you have to go on a contract to receive an Xbox 720 or a PS4? Well The new news from microsoft that they are going to start a plan where you'll pay $99 for an xbox 360 but here's the catch, you'll also have to pay for xbox live for two years. Not at the normal rate of £40 a year No! you're going to have to pay $15 a month for two years and thats also including the $99, it will come to $460.
Now that's very sneaky what microsoft are doing, you can pick up a used xbox 360 for about £120 even less if you're looking in the right place and then you can buy two years worth of live for £70-£80, which obviously comes to the total of around £200.
It's the same thing about buying a smartphone, the first time you'll be buying a smartphone, you can roughly get it for free but then there's a catch, you've got to go on a 18 month contract or a 2 year contract at about £20-£45 a month. When i got my iphone 3G all the way back in 2009. Previously it was my uncles phone and he had the phone for about 6 or 7 months, so when i eventually he gave me the iphone i only had to pay the remaining 12 months, which came to around the total of £420.
Anyway when you see you can get the device for free but you have to pay £35 it seems like a pretty good idea but when it comes to the bill at the end of the 18 months, you've payed over £600 which in my eyes is quite a lot of money but you've also got to consider that... you've had the latest and greatest smartphone for 18 months (not really because better phones come out all the time but just go with me) and you've also got bundles with it like having 500 to 1000 texts a month and you've also got 300 to 1200 minutes and then on top of all that, you've got the internet reaching from 1gb or to unlimited. So at the ending bill of £600 is quite of a lot money but you've also got to consider what you got out of it as well.
Now that's very sneaky what microsoft are doing, you can pick up a used xbox 360 for about £120 even less if you're looking in the right place and then you can buy two years worth of live for £70-£80, which obviously comes to the total of around £200.
It's the same thing about buying a smartphone, the first time you'll be buying a smartphone, you can roughly get it for free but then there's a catch, you've got to go on a 18 month contract or a 2 year contract at about £20-£45 a month. When i got my iphone 3G all the way back in 2009. Previously it was my uncles phone and he had the phone for about 6 or 7 months, so when i eventually he gave me the iphone i only had to pay the remaining 12 months, which came to around the total of £420.
Anyway when you see you can get the device for free but you have to pay £35 it seems like a pretty good idea but when it comes to the bill at the end of the 18 months, you've payed over £600 which in my eyes is quite a lot of money but you've also got to consider that... you've had the latest and greatest smartphone for 18 months (not really because better phones come out all the time but just go with me) and you've also got bundles with it like having 500 to 1000 texts a month and you've also got 300 to 1200 minutes and then on top of all that, you've got the internet reaching from 1gb or to unlimited. So at the ending bill of £600 is quite of a lot money but you've also got to consider what you got out of it as well.
Friday, 4 May 2012
The Pebble and the future of devices
More news on the galaxy s3 (the pebble)
The quad core ship set is enqxos and has 4 cores running at 1.4ghz. i'm not sure if there's a companion core that is running at a lower clock speed for background processes just like the companion core on teh tegra 3 chip set.
It's got 1gb of ram and the colours it's going to come in is pearl/pebble blue and marble white.
sorry i was wrong yesterday, it's coming iut in europe at the end of may and it's going to be coming out in june to american audiences.
The smart tray is surprisnly smart technology and looks amazing and it should be amazing if it works as it does in the trailer. say you're reading a website or article at night and you start falling asleep, it will automatically go to sleep for you so it saves battery.
i find it annoyingh when you're trying to read an article or playing a video and it auto-dim's after a while but the pebble, has the smart tray so it wil detect you're still looking at the device and won't dim down the display.
now that' you've got the buttons on the bottom of the device (going from left to right) menu capative button - physical home button - back capative button.
i forget to mention yesterday that it also has expandable storage using microSD card expanding from all the different ranges that microSD holds.
The future (This was written before the samsung galaxy s3 conference)
Now when we think of the future we automatically think of flying cars, self tying shoes, hover boards. I'm taking examples from of course back to the future.
Or you go the zombie route and some virus comes along and starts to rip apart humanity limb from limb before we are all infested brain snatching zombies.
A few funny remarks from Karl pilkington about the future, like we won't wear pants anymore because as recent generations have gone we've started to wear our pants lower and lower and we'll eventually not wear pants at all.
Back onto the flying cars. We'll probably never get flying cars in this lifetime but we will sure as hell try. The same in 1970's, they all thought by the year 2000 we would have all of the above... except from zombies.
At the moment we are living in the post pc age and it's everyone is going to obsessed until the next new thing comes out. I'm not talking about the iPad or the tablet market but something entirely new that takes the age that we live in surprising. Just like how the iPod revolutised the music market.
Thanks for reading :)
The quad core ship set is enqxos and has 4 cores running at 1.4ghz. i'm not sure if there's a companion core that is running at a lower clock speed for background processes just like the companion core on teh tegra 3 chip set.
It's got 1gb of ram and the colours it's going to come in is pearl/pebble blue and marble white.
sorry i was wrong yesterday, it's coming iut in europe at the end of may and it's going to be coming out in june to american audiences.
The smart tray is surprisnly smart technology and looks amazing and it should be amazing if it works as it does in the trailer. say you're reading a website or article at night and you start falling asleep, it will automatically go to sleep for you so it saves battery.
i find it annoyingh when you're trying to read an article or playing a video and it auto-dim's after a while but the pebble, has the smart tray so it wil detect you're still looking at the device and won't dim down the display.
now that' you've got the buttons on the bottom of the device (going from left to right) menu capative button - physical home button - back capative button.
i forget to mention yesterday that it also has expandable storage using microSD card expanding from all the different ranges that microSD holds.
The future (This was written before the samsung galaxy s3 conference)
Now when we think of the future we automatically think of flying cars, self tying shoes, hover boards. I'm taking examples from of course back to the future.
Or you go the zombie route and some virus comes along and starts to rip apart humanity limb from limb before we are all infested brain snatching zombies.
A few funny remarks from Karl pilkington about the future, like we won't wear pants anymore because as recent generations have gone we've started to wear our pants lower and lower and we'll eventually not wear pants at all.
Back onto the flying cars. We'll probably never get flying cars in this lifetime but we will sure as hell try. The same in 1970's, they all thought by the year 2000 we would have all of the above... except from zombies.
At the moment we are living in the post pc age and it's everyone is going to obsessed until the next new thing comes out. I'm not talking about the iPad or the tablet market but something entirely new that takes the age that we live in surprising. Just like how the iPod revolutised the music market.
Thanks for reading :)
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Samsung galaxy s3 (The Pebble)
Today i'm going to be talking about the galaxy s3, the conference hasjust finished. Samsung are really looking forward to eventually launching thisphone and seeing the success of it rise just like the galaxy i9000 which sadlyisn't getting an upgrade to ice cream sandwich.
Samsung are saying it s going to be extraordianry, an experience thatyou'll fall in love with and never forget. The galaxy s3 will reinvent thesmartphone market. Samsung are also saying that it's the best new class ofsmartphone in the world.
The galaxy s 3 will feature a 4.8 inch super amoled display to supportwide viewing angles. Featuring an 8 megapixel back facing camera capable ofshooting 1080p video and you've also got a front facing camera that also doesHD video, it may not be 1080p, it will be 720p video recording. That'sbrilliant for a front facing camera. Normally they are either 2.0 megapixel andnormally a vga video recording.
Samsung didn't mention how much ram it is but the cpu inside isquad-core, samsung didn't say it was nvidia tegra 3 chip set but i'm prettysure it's capable of running high class games just like the tegra 3 cpu. The pebbleis what I like to call the galaxy s3 also supports 4G LTE. Now I know whatyou're thinking how battery life is going to be powering quad core and 4.8super amoled display. Well no worries the battery is a 2100mah. So battery lifeisn't an issue.
The design of the phone: samsung say they've been inspired by nature byusing elements like water, wind, leaves and pebbles. It's effortlessly smartand intuitevily simple. It's only a very thin 8.6mm and 133grams. The designand the curvature of the phone was based on a pebble, The smooth and slim design ofa pebble.
when you touch the screen it feels like water as you can glide your fingers easily over the screen.
It's not a smartphone anymore, it's now called a human phone and theysay it links life and technology together. It's the most anticipated phone fromsamsung and it's going to be the biggest launch ever from samsung. Samsung areeven going round to major cites like new york and london and promote and launchthe phone in each country.
The galaxy s3 has a physial home button and two touch sensetivebuttons, probably going to be the back button and the multi-tasking button.
Now let's talk about the big features that have really surprised thelot of us. Samsung are naming this new technology 'smart tray'. Say you'regetting a phone call and you over at your phone and it will know hoe far youare away from you phone so it eill either activate the speaker or using the inphone speaker. If you're browsing the web, you don't even have to look at thescreen as the screen will track your eyes and it will detect if you want toread on or not. Auto sleep if you take your eyes away from the device. It’s also got siri like functionality but with way morestuff than siri like you can say to your phone ‘hi galaxy’ or hi buddy and itwill respond to you and you can ask it a question, you can open applicationslike facebook just by saying ‘hey buddy open facebook’. The phone is verysimple to use but it might take people ages to work out all the nuts and cracksin it to know all the commands all the gestures and everything else. If you’retexting a person and you want to phone this person, you don’t need to touchyour display, all you need to do while in the message thread is raise the phoneto your ear and it will start ringing that person.
It’s got something called social tag, when you take a photo it willdetect your friends and put them in a folder with your friends name and if youupload them on facebook they will automatically be tagged.
The way the phone handles multitasking is an amazing. It’s not the basicice cream sandwich multi-tasking or the webos or webos the HTC sense 4.0multitasking. It views every application in a window form. There was a newjailbreak tweak the other day called quasar for the ipad from cydia and the wayit handles multi-tasking is mind blowing… it might not be mind blowing for awindows machine or a Mac but it sure is hell mind blowing for a tablet.
The phone is going to be preloaded with ice cream sandwich obviously: Pfor Europe the phone is going to be released June for other countries I’m notreally sure, I’ve missed it. I could easily check but these are the notes that I’vegot from the events and I don’t want to read anybody else at first so I can putmy own thoughts and opinions on it.
The Tagline for the pebble is designed for humans. Created to be touched and experienceby humans. Samsung are saying it’s a celebration for mankind and this is whathappens when nature and technology come together.
Once again Samsung has redesigned of what we call a Smartphone.
Now I didn’t really believe that when it on the live feed but listing all thefeatures and reading through my notes, I do think they have actually redesignedthe phone.
if i talked about all the features, this blog would be about 5 pages long so that tells you something... Samsung have really gone far out to bring the best device to the market
Now I didn’t really believe that when it on the live feed but listing all thefeatures and reading through my notes, I do think they have actually redesignedthe phone.
if i talked about all the features, this blog would be about 5 pages long so that tells you something... Samsung have really gone far out to bring the best device to the market
sorry if some of it didn’t make any sense but you can kinda get thefeatures that the pebble has got. Thanksfor reading J
Camera Phones
I'm sure you lot read technology dedicated websites so I won't repeat most of the same news.
Nokia are bringing out a new phone with a 41 megapixel camera, that's capable of shooting 38 megapixel image and 1080p video. One problem I have with this that the screen resolution isn't that big to support these wide strikingly detailed pictures. Of course you can zoom in on the pictures and have a look at the great pixel density that is the picture with the 41 mega pixel camera.
You've got cybershot phones from sony ericsson who are now called sony... Just sony. Back on to cyber shot phones, they started off the trend that camera phones began to change the way we think of phones and the way we won't need to bring out a camera when we've already got a good enough cameras.
Thinking about all the camera phones that have come out in the last few years are actually replacing camera made by kodak and jessops as people are becoming more lazy and only bringing one because after the smartphone revolution came on, you've got our smartphones that can and have replace or need to bring out function dedicated devices.
This is why the ps vita failed, because it came as the smartphone revolution was taking hold. People didn't want to walk around with a ps vita in their pockets because they already had a gaming system with them. Iphone, Ipod, android phone.
PSP was a brilliant platform because when it came out, phones were still at that stage of gaining more and more use along the community and technology wasn't that good to import the PSP technology into a phone. So if you want a gaming device, you either brought out a psp or have small mini games on your sony ericsson phone or the nokia N-Gage.
It's a real shame for kodak or whoever got bankrupt, the same people sued apple for some patents over the camera functionality. It is a real shame that kodak are now losing business after so many years of a strong business stretching to eighteen hundreds.
Thanks for reading
Nokia are bringing out a new phone with a 41 megapixel camera, that's capable of shooting 38 megapixel image and 1080p video. One problem I have with this that the screen resolution isn't that big to support these wide strikingly detailed pictures. Of course you can zoom in on the pictures and have a look at the great pixel density that is the picture with the 41 mega pixel camera.
You've got cybershot phones from sony ericsson who are now called sony... Just sony. Back on to cyber shot phones, they started off the trend that camera phones began to change the way we think of phones and the way we won't need to bring out a camera when we've already got a good enough cameras.
Thinking about all the camera phones that have come out in the last few years are actually replacing camera made by kodak and jessops as people are becoming more lazy and only bringing one because after the smartphone revolution came on, you've got our smartphones that can and have replace or need to bring out function dedicated devices.
This is why the ps vita failed, because it came as the smartphone revolution was taking hold. People didn't want to walk around with a ps vita in their pockets because they already had a gaming system with them. Iphone, Ipod, android phone.
PSP was a brilliant platform because when it came out, phones were still at that stage of gaining more and more use along the community and technology wasn't that good to import the PSP technology into a phone. So if you want a gaming device, you either brought out a psp or have small mini games on your sony ericsson phone or the nokia N-Gage.
It's a real shame for kodak or whoever got bankrupt, the same people sued apple for some patents over the camera functionality. It is a real shame that kodak are now losing business after so many years of a strong business stretching to eighteen hundreds.
Thanks for reading
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Blackberry 10
Sorry I was gonna talk about the future of devices today but i've just seen the new bb10 trailer. The blackberry os10.
First of all just to get it out of the way. The phone looks exactly like the iPhone apart from the home button. It's got the same tapered ages we've known and loved about the iPhone 4's build quality.
The way that a phone call comes in and you have to swipe down to accept or swipe up to decline looks quite nice but my question is... Will it run that smoothly as it did in the trailer?
I like the white on black status bar. Now to me it looks like an e-ink screen. The status bar looks so crisp and detailed that it could actually be e-ink. It would be a shame if it was e-ink as you'd be annoyed watching a film on the phone and that status bar would either black out giving you lost screen relate or you'd get the time bar there. That's just speculation.
Now moving over to the keyboard. In the trailer the way the corrective text comes into play here, is that if you're typing a word such as (playstation) you'd start typing out play and with the next letter being s, you'd be able to tap and swipe up on the letter s and it would be inserted to whatever you are typing on. If you're typing a commonly used sentence or a sentence that you commonly write, it would automatically give you the next word so you can swipe up and it would be inserted.
I'm not really a blackberry fan as I really don't like the interface that blackberry have and the scroll keys are annoying at times. Blackberry have had a hard run this past year but if they can bring bb10 to market and make a success, start earning money again, i'd be happy for them.
We've yet to see the rest of bb10. All we've seen now is the email application, phone calls work, typing and streaming wireless content to a TV
First of all just to get it out of the way. The phone looks exactly like the iPhone apart from the home button. It's got the same tapered ages we've known and loved about the iPhone 4's build quality.
The way that a phone call comes in and you have to swipe down to accept or swipe up to decline looks quite nice but my question is... Will it run that smoothly as it did in the trailer?
I like the white on black status bar. Now to me it looks like an e-ink screen. The status bar looks so crisp and detailed that it could actually be e-ink. It would be a shame if it was e-ink as you'd be annoyed watching a film on the phone and that status bar would either black out giving you lost screen relate or you'd get the time bar there. That's just speculation.
Now moving over to the keyboard. In the trailer the way the corrective text comes into play here, is that if you're typing a word such as (playstation) you'd start typing out play and with the next letter being s, you'd be able to tap and swipe up on the letter s and it would be inserted to whatever you are typing on. If you're typing a commonly used sentence or a sentence that you commonly write, it would automatically give you the next word so you can swipe up and it would be inserted.
I'm not really a blackberry fan as I really don't like the interface that blackberry have and the scroll keys are annoying at times. Blackberry have had a hard run this past year but if they can bring bb10 to market and make a success, start earning money again, i'd be happy for them.
We've yet to see the rest of bb10. All we've seen now is the email application, phone calls work, typing and streaming wireless content to a TV
User interface life
Now I love webos, the pre 3 is a great phone and the only thing lacking in webos apps. I know I've done a blog on webos but here's another thing is basically the web surfing user experience.
I've recently fixed my iPhone 3GS from software faults but I'll talk about that on another blog. I'm using the web browser and the twitter app and Facebook app and basically most of the gaming applications and i've got to say the experience is way better. If webos had better apps with a better user experience. I'd love it to bits.
When my 3GS got destroyed, I had to move over to the iPhone 3G and first of all instead of saying everything that's wrong with it, I'll say what's right with it... Motherboard and that's it. Even the battery is messed up, when I got the iPhone 3GS (thinking i'd never get rid of the iPhone 3G) I kept the iPhone 3G as a iPod and was constantly plugged in which destroyed the battery and from then on the battery only lasted about 4 hours on standby.
This is where the hatred towards apple products came from but I've been using the 3GS for the past 2 days and if it ever got unlocked to work with my sim, I'd use it as my daily driver again. Loads of apps, great and simple user experience, jailbroken so I can customise it to how I like. One other point is that I'll always be getting updates to apps and IOS compared to the dead webos platform. Thanks for reading
I've recently fixed my iPhone 3GS from software faults but I'll talk about that on another blog. I'm using the web browser and the twitter app and Facebook app and basically most of the gaming applications and i've got to say the experience is way better. If webos had better apps with a better user experience. I'd love it to bits.
When my 3GS got destroyed, I had to move over to the iPhone 3G and first of all instead of saying everything that's wrong with it, I'll say what's right with it... Motherboard and that's it. Even the battery is messed up, when I got the iPhone 3GS (thinking i'd never get rid of the iPhone 3G) I kept the iPhone 3G as a iPod and was constantly plugged in which destroyed the battery and from then on the battery only lasted about 4 hours on standby.
This is where the hatred towards apple products came from but I've been using the 3GS for the past 2 days and if it ever got unlocked to work with my sim, I'd use it as my daily driver again. Loads of apps, great and simple user experience, jailbroken so I can customise it to how I like. One other point is that I'll always be getting updates to apps and IOS compared to the dead webos platform. Thanks for reading
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