I’m after getting my first android phone, its the vodafone smart or its a huawei 858 in real money. So why did I buy it, well it’s €60 so it’s cheap as chips. So I wouldn’t be an issue if I decided to drop it on a sink or worse. So far it works it dose a job, I’m even using it to write this post. So is android able to run on this phone, well it can stall the odd time so it isn’t the greatest. but it works and the applications work. The GPS works, I’ve had issues with the blue-tooth. (more…)
Archive for August, 2011
My First Android Phone
Friday, August 26th, 2011HP getting out of the Tablet game
Saturday, August 20th, 2011Looks like HP dipped their to in the water and didn’t like what they saw, going up against Apple and Android (Google) is not a good starting point even if you did buy Palm. It’s a pitty it would have been good for the industry. It’s a bit like OS2 an old operating system on the PC. It tried and failed, it seems the smart phone business is all to similar to the PC business 30 years ago. We’re going to have two main players, One dominant and one not so dominant, and the one will the open architecture will win, Android has the open architecture, so my money is on this at the moment, but I think the patent wars that are stating could put a stop to Androids development.
Standard 3D Glasses
Tuesday, August 9th, 20113D glasses are now to be standardised, well the main players have got together to create a standard for 3D glasses, The “Full HD Glasses Initiative” which should lay down a standard for consumer active shutter glasses to communicate over Blue-tooth or IR. So we should be able to in a few months walk in to a shop and buy what glasses that will work with our new TV’s, Looks like it will be 2012 before they are out.
“August 8, 2011- Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation and X6D Limited (XPAND 3D) today announced their intent to collaborate on the development of a new technology standard for consumer 3D active glasses, under the name, “Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative.””
Make everything wifi
Friday, August 5th, 2011So you got a printer connected to a laptop, but you need the laptop to be free, well the people in IOGEAR thought of you. This device for about $100 makes printers web cams and anything usb, “wireless”, it will still have to be attached to the device, But its a hell of a lot cheaper then going out and buying a wireless printer. More info fron IOGEAR here