So that's the holidays over. My last school holidays. What did I do? I got a new phone. I wrote and published an Android app. I had several ideas for hardware that I have no way to act upon. Studied a bit. Went out for dinner with friends. And tomorrow, school. Two weeks, then exams. Eight more weeks, then more exams. Then, university applications, freelance work, real life. My eighteenth birthday. University. Then what? It's all happening so fast. The final year of school is designed to str
On Thursday night, I ordered the HTC Legend, and it shipped yesterday (Friday). So I'll get it by (hopefully before) Friday! I can't wait, the postage said 3-5 business days from ship date, which puts it Wed-Fri, but I'm not sure if the weekend would knock a day off. I hope so, because I want it by Tuesday, so I can get some apps, and try to customise it, and, hopefully, make a LED flashlight app (Because the Legend has an LED camera flash), which is something I want, but nobody seems to have ma
Not just any old language, no. A computer language. Java. I'm learning Java so that I can make apps for Android, because it looks like fun. Also, apparently if you get more than 5000 downloads on an app Google sends you a Nexus One, which would save me money.
Hello World worked, and it was slightly more complex than in QuickBasic, which I can also write.
Hello World in QuickBasic: PRINT "Hello World!"
Hello World in Android/Java: package com.example.helloandroid;
import android.app.Act
I really can't wait for tomorrow morning, because Dr. Who comes out! It looks fantastic, from all the clips I've seen, and I hope it is
Anyway, I'm really split over which phone to get. It's a rather difficult decision, because it's almost $600 overall I'm paying for it (and that's just straight off). I've managed to narrow it down to two phones, both by the same company: The HTC Desire and HTC Legend.
They are easily the two best Android phones on the market (in my opinion, I mean, spec-wi
I went to the shopping centre to get a gift for Mother's Day, then I had a look around for a bit.
First I went to T[life], a mobile phone vendor, to fiddle with the Desire dummy (it's very nice, a good size and looks better in person. I'm almost regretting getting the Legend...). That was quick, just enter, hold it, leave.
Then I went to the ABC Shop, to see if they had the 11th Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver. Found they only had 10 and under stuff, most of it DVDs. Left.
Finally, I went to
The new iPhone has a 'Retina Display'
Basically that means it's pixels are so small they cannot be distinguished by the human eye. It has a dpi (dots per inch) of 326.
By Apple's (and other's) calculations, the lower limit for a retina display is around 300dpi. Thus it was beaten to it by Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and LG. The XPeria X1 and Toshiba Porteage both had a dpi of 311. The LG-LU1400 had one of 336. All three are circa 2008. But that doesn't matter, really. It's not like iPhone was e
So there is now a rumoured spec list for the follow-up to the Samsumg i9000, the Galaxy S, called the Galaxy S2, the i9200. Here's the rumoured spec sheet: 4.3” 1280×720px Super AMOLED 2 display2GHz CPU, 1GB RAM/4GB ROM32GB of built-in flash memory, +32GB microSD card slot8 megapixel camera with FullHD video recordingA-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n3.5 mm headset jackAccelerometer, gyroscope, proximity and ambient light sensors
That's right. A 2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 720p HD SCREEN!
ARM announced the other day that they are developing a new processor - A smartphone processor that is quad-core. Each of those cores runs at 2.5GHz.
That's fast enough with one core! It's 2.5GHz dedicated to a single application, which will make it blazingly fast! Multitasking will be incredibly smooth, with a core for the task and three spares for background tasks. 2.5GHz alone is almost triple the average today (around 900 probably). Putting this in perspective, that's almost as good as an
I've found two so far.
Chromercise - First I thought it was a new Chrome Short, but it was pretty obviously April Fools. Quite funny. I'm not in the US so I couldn't try getting the finger bands, unfortunately.
Gmail Motion - Frikkin' hilarious. Especially the words the motions produce. Top stuff.
Anyone see anything else?
Rav
They're discussing the 3DS in the DS topic. Did they discuss the DS in the GBA topic, too?
Why don't people realise that the 3DS is not a new DS, it's a next-gen handheld?
I got some hands-on time for the 3DS today.
IT IS AMAZING.
AMAZING.
Also, some info from my conversation with the staff guy at the event:
- He told me to expect an 8th-Gen Nintendo home console at E3 2012
- He also said that 2012 will be a "big year in gaming" (emphasised on Nintendo)
- The 3DS has a 200MHz GPU (I think it was GPU) underclocked at 133MHz
- It's also got a (I think he said "low power", maybe dual-core) CPU, which is for MULTITASKING (YAY!)
- 64MB of RAM
- Browser
Let's start off the year with some trolling, shall we?
If I timed this right, as I'm sure I have, this will be the first blog entry posted from 2011 on BZPower, assuming no premier members live in NZ or Japan and also plan to do this.
Since I live in Australia, I have the opportunity to post this entry during 2011 while the rest of the world is still in 2010. When I posted this, it was between 5 and 8 AM in America, and around 1PM in Britain. But here, it was 2011.
I don't actually hav
And possibly my last entry in a year with two 0's in it, how exciting!
Well, I had better make it of some substance. I'm not going to do a recap, or anything like that, no, no. I'm going to make this good.
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2010 was fun, but 2011 will be better. There's a novel idea.
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If anything, I think 2011 will be one higher than 2010.
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Predictions: Death and taxes, and possibly other things as well.
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I'm going to be the first person on BZP to post a blog entry from
You're probably all familiar with the PlayStation Phone - A Sony Ericsson phone with built-in PSP functionality:
It's a cool concept - it runs Android 2.3, Gingerbread, with full slide-out DualShock-style controls, and a PlayStation app, which I assume will include a games library à la the PSP Go.
I read an article the other day (yesterday, actually) which was complaining that the PSPhone ought to not be running Android, but instead, should be running Sony's own proprietary OS, because i
Anybody who gets the reference (probably no-one) gets 10 points
Clue: It was either this or "... Series!"
I also tried "Changing everything. Again" But I didn't like that.
Still working on sidebars. Any ideas? Also, feedback for the current one? Anyone? No? =(
In other news I played with the Nokia N8 the other day. It sucks.
Rav
I watched V for Vendetta last night. Thrilling. Absolutely brilliant. I'd probably place it in the top ten, if not five. The entire thing was just fantastic, especially the ending. If you haven't seen it, get on that, it's worth it.
Business week continues, and I, for some reason, seem to be the ideas man in my group. I came up with the logo, name, and slogan of our company, and quite possibly the advert too. Being the most creative is a new experience for me. Hm.
As an aside, I'm working
