Category: gadgets

Reading Time: < 1 minute By now all the people who are into gadgets should have heard about this iPhone Gizmodo gate: this is apple’s next iPhone . I don’t know about the fate of this Apple engineer, as Gizmodo did not say a word about him/her (Why Apple Couldn’t Get the Lost iPhone Back). I hope he/she won’t get

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April 20, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes I sold my few shares of Palm Friday morning shortly after opening. Palm (Nasdaq:PALM) share dropped 29% on Friday after horrific earning outlook (marketWatch). Palm is increasingly likely to say “bye bye” to its loyal customers in a year or two. Quote sobelmedia: ====== I’m never going to forget my very first Palm Pilot in

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March 20, 2010

Reading Time: 4 minutes 1. Come up with products that is consistent (not sometimes work, sometimes don’t, see this old post from PreCentral guys). 2. Also come up with some smart ads (with Sprint and Verizon), something like this one from German carrier O2. O2 has about 11% market share in Germany per Yahoo Answers.

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February 26, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute It appears to me iPhone TV ads are more effective than Palm TV ads. First iPhone ads There’s an app for that

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February 10, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Got opportunity to play with Palm Pre for couple minutes in the weekend. Sprint kiosk at Chesterfield Mall has the real Pre (instead of the faked phones at many other places). I was very impressed by the screen, both the (multi) touch and the display. Surfed the web: amazon, ESPN etc. Zooming in and out

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February 8, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw the Palm Pre Plus ads by Verizon at PreCentral. I installed the GMail on my Nokia 5800. I could not remember why it did not work last year when I bought it first. The software on my Nokia 5800 is the same, but the GMail client may have changed. The user interface is kind

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February 2, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute There are already a lot of talks about iPad now that Steve Jobs showed off his latest toy. The name is funky because “pad” has a lot of meaning, and there are people already making fun of that, such as this video at Youtube. But seriously, boy, this is cutting edge stuff in terms of

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January 27, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Forget today’s Google China news for a minute. We are at very interesting times in terms of technology, from apps, cloud (web based) computing (online data backup, for one), to net book, smart phone, e-readers, smart book and tablet. The past week’s CES showed us the explosion of a lot of hardwares I mentioned above

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January 13, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Official link here: www.google.com/phone Walter Mossberg (AllthingsD, WSJ) Review “Google’s Nexus One Is Bold New Face in Super-Smartphones“, quote: I’ve been testing the Nexus One for a couple of weeks and I like it a lot. It’s the best Android phone so far, in my view, and the first I could consider carrying as my

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January 5, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute I was looking for an iPhone radio stream (particularly wma format because it seems middle kingdom likes this Microsoft audio format), and I found this FStream at iTune store to be good. After I set up the following: 北京人民广播电台首都生活 (Beijing Radio) mms://alive.bjradio.com.cn/AM603 format: wma rate: 64 k/sec

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July 17, 2009
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