₦airaland Forum

naijafan:
Just waiting to see if this touchscreen implementation contains tactile feedback. No word on that yet.

i think its going to be forcefeedback haptic tech, the sort that vibrates when you tap on the screen. Blackberry has patented its SureType tech, which anyway was flakked.

meanwhile anyone seen that Simpsons episode making fun of Apple (Mapple in Springfield), the fanboys and steve jobs (Steve Mobs)?

absolutely hilarious, being an Apple person it stung a little but on the whole they really nailed it. unfortunately YouTube pulled it but it should still be there somewhere, like on hulu.com.

meanwhile, N95 may now seem like crap, but its one of the best phones Nokia ever made.

engrhamid:
As far as i'm concerned, a phone is two years old is meaningless to me. So far it has all i need, forget that story. If i'm opportuned to sell my n70me n get enough, the phone i'm buying next is n95

masochist

dragnet:
I think I'd agree wit naijafan,

the manufacturers may have not targeted their latest models at 'killing the iphone', they're just being theirselves & trying to give their fans a feel of what the other brands have. .

If they were to kill the iphone, its as simple as laying bare each & every quality the iphone has & increasing their's a step further

Ah, except it isnt THAT easy.

remember theres a little thing called copyright and patent. iphone is covered by around 300 Apple patents. except nokia has some legal magic wand or tons of cash to settle suits and pay royalty, reverse engineering is a big no-no.

also, it doesnt make sense laying off making a flagship device and instead concentrating on mainstream gadgets  in the face of dwindling market share. the iphone is making waves because its a high end device, meanwhile consumers loyal to other brands would want something with similar balance of function and awesomeness.

so, everybody is going off their heads churning out touch-based phones thinking that touch UI technology is primarily what makes the iphone what it is.

i can bet you the iphone is every manufacturer's dream invention: mass following bordering on cult, excess brand loyalty bordering on acute fanboyism (i mean, check out me and texazz ), huge sales, popularity, awards, accolades, and of course the inevitable smugness of the inventor (notice steve jobs' new-found swagger)

so, if there is a need for a high end phone, then theres need to compete on almost equal or better footing with iphone: software.

problem is, most manufacturers do not have the competence to build a new powerful OS similar to or better than iphone OS from scratch.

Symbian, which evolved from EPOC has miles to go; Blackbery OS is on the same wavelength as Symbian, the Linux variants are just like their PC counterparts (focus-less) etc.

the only one with a real chance of knocking iphone OS off the high throne is actually Microsoift with its long experience of crafting OS and Win Mobile but then again Microsoft has never really had a recent history of being innovative, has it? instaed of totally overhauling WinMo, it left the task to the likes of HTC and Sony-ericsson to figure out how to make the OS less complicated and more appealing. from WinMo 5 to winmo 6.1, little has changed. Microsoft even hardly uses WinMo forits mobile products, opting instead for the dreaded Win CE (else the Zune would have benn happily running on a custom WinMo).


Google's Android has the potential but now its all left to the community (with no cohesive goal structure, just like PC distros).

so it takes experience and lots of money to fashion a good OS from scratch, and doubtless Nokia has money to fund R and D into perhaps a supersymbian but it has to start from square One (or two), which is light years behind Apple with decades of experience coding some of the best OS's there ever were.

and while Nokia is sweating away working out a fresh OS ( with the attendant stages of bugs, debugs, Alphas, betas, gammas, release candidates, etc) Apple and Android have meanwhile gone farther ahead, leading to a perpetual game of catch-up.



and that is why i strongly feel nokia should go with Android, or Maemo. afterall, Motorola is going the Android route, effectively ditchng Symbian and WinMo.

lets just be honest and say these aging OS (Symbian, WinMo) ought to either be retired, or totally overhauled.

pc guru:
In commerce there's what we call master brand.the product that dominates a particular segment of the market so much that when you think of the segment the product is the first to come to mind.after that all others are ME TOO products.the iphone has replaced the word touchscreen.as much as i don't like the iphone.its a ground breaking technology thus setting a standard for any phone to be called touchscreen.just for the record this phone here is crap.

its actually an N96 conjoined with nokia 5800 and E90. seems my prediction of a convergent device is well on course. Nokia still insists its specs that sell a phone even though the lesson in japan proved them wrong. but still its one good looking mother (though me doubt they'll keep that glamorous pearl color)

meanwhile Nokia is still trying to sell phones to the iphone-and-blackberry-crazed United States. PC GURU, americans dont care much for Nokia; most of Nokia sales and market domination is in europe and the middle east. the best selling phone in the US was the Motorola Razr V3, but recently it got bumbed off the top by Iphone.

these guys, Nokia included, should just lay off specs for a while and concentrate on making a killer software to shup up Apple once and for all. all they do is tweak the interface and pile up loads of same stuff other manufacturers are hawking (DVB-H, HSDPA, Multimeg cameras, bluetooth 2.1, etc etc).

the only thing that can give the Iphone some sweat is probably the new Nokia 97, set to ship for over $600 (excluding taxes) in 2009.

its specs (though I'm not much for specs) are:

1. 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (that's a 16:9 aspect ratio) touchscreen display with tactile feedback. the iphnoe screen is 320 x 480.

2. physical QWERTY keyboard

3. HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios

4. A-GPS

5. 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion (for up to 48GB total capacity)

6. battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video

7.  5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass and "DVD quality" video capture at 30fps

8. S60 5th Edition


now thats some powerhouse, though it remains to be seen how the touchscreen interface will fare given the disappointing stuff on the Balckberry Storm and the G1. from what i can see of the screenie below, the interface STILL needs a plectrum/stylus, so that rules out multitouch.


and they better do soemthing about their certification program, graphics hardware  and apps SDK.

arsenal4va:
anyone on the 2.2 yet ??


thx

i downloaded 2.2 for both iphones unfortunately the pwnage tool (which is .dmg) refuses to install on the Mac, and though i dont need pwnage for iphone 3G (just quickpwn to jailbreak) but i heard 2.2 disables SIMfreer because of a baseband update. pwnage tool has a new baseband retainer but like i said, it isnt installing.

arsenal4va:
ps: i need an iphone movie convertor without the watermark logo ,

any suggestions ??

get Handbrake here http://handbrake.fr/

storm in a teacup

we burned it after watching

i was bored , had lotsa credits in my phone so after a brief "should i, shouldnt i" moment i went for it.


i lost over six thousand in 2days.  i never really hoped to win one million but i wanted to see whether money really goes down the drain and you know what? it does.

i was kind of hoping there was some kind of compensation for losing as much as six thousand (maybe a few free minutes of airtime, or free text messages, anything to soften the blow).

NOTHING!

not even a "tough luck, Bud. better luck next time".

No.

all i got was more annyoing texts telling me to sink more money without telling me what happened to my previous "contribution".

its sickening that the network is so callous to the point of capitalizing on the harsh economic situation to swindle poor, desperate Nigerians.

o ye bloggers, get to work.

talktofemi:
I need ya help!!!!!!!!!!1 I recently flash my acer laptop BIOS but it doesnt complete and since that time the system power ON but nothing display on the screen that is the system does not post . CAN anyone assist about the repair because i learnt the computer has to be flash again Or SENT back to acer for the repair

POST=Power On Self Test.

that kicks in from the BIOS, so absence implies problem with BIOS. most often its just electrostatic electricity buildup from some connections earthing. check nothing is touching what its not supposed to touch.

for the hell of it, go to the adrress bar, empty it of any entries, then type about:mozilla

you shall see an entry about Mammon from the Book of Mozilla, chapter 11.

your laptop is what the marines call FUBAR: Fuct Up Beyond Any Recovery.

attempting to reflash will lead to SNAFU: Situation Normal, All Fuct Up.

i dont know your BOS settings but if you are absolutely certain you reconnected everything back the way it was and havent broken any IDE pins or the IDE ribbon then go to your BIOS, select the hardware tab and if the BIOS reports IDE devices as NONE then press F3 to have the ROM search automatically for your IDE devices (im assuming its IDE and not SATA but its the same thing).

this method however depends on your Bios (AMIBIOS to be exact) so it may not work for you. if the BIOS doesnt see your drives and the F3 option is not applicable to your BIOS version then reopen the case and reset the BIOS either by removing the CMOS battery for a few minutes before replacing, or bridging the BIOS jumper on the mobo by swapping the pinbridge from one pair to the next and back again.

if this doesnt work, make sure the slave/master jumpers on the drives havent been tampered with and all pins and cables are intact.

you mean XP made to look something like this?

african2:
Thanks alot Ex Inferis. Your suggestion worked perfectly for me. Thanks once more

you are most welcome.

Zaminu:
i need sme to help me on how i can update my vista base score

base score is a combination of many factors in relation to how properly equipped your system is in running vista. the factors include RAM, CPU, and graphics card. if you are running on a desktop machine simply upgrade the mentioned components for better ones. for example if your board supports it, get a faster RAM module(sometimes the speed of memory matters more than the quantity) at least something in the region of 800mhz (or 600mhz minimum).

you can find good Nvidia or ATI graphics chipsets/GPUs for the PCI or AGP slot.

CPU doesnt really matter much but multicores are a good idea.

if you are on a laptop or cant afford the upgrade components then turn of Vista Aero or downgrade to Vista basic.

OnoEdosio:
[b][/b] Windows media player stopped working.

info not clear enough, either reinstall windows (upgrading nedia player doesnt always work; the previous one must be in working order) or try alternatives such as itunes, winamp, Jet Audio, songbird, kantaris, or media monkey. most of these have better codecs than WMP.

fiance4lov:
please i try to drive the sound on my laptop loaded with vista but iit's not working and i don't have the CD Recovery and i was unable to get it on toshiba site. kindly help me out.

try to find out the sort of sound device in your laptop, or better yet give us the model so we can search for you.

@Djcn

i should solve this problem as a "problem solver"? what on earth makes you think i consider YOU or your rants as a problem? sir, im more amused than confused, im taking all this in good stride because lately ive been feeling the blues, looking for someone or something to cheer me up.

im only sorry it had to be at the expense of your ego.

therefore, i totally apologize for calling you names (if i did) but i do not and will not apologize for my opinion of you, especially in light of this unnecessary thread.

im convinced you are a genuis, someday you will find the cure for AIDS and perhaps colonize Mars with cute little fluffy Djcns from the bounty in your loins.

but here is some advice: never take forum insults personally, never insult people for not liking what you like, and never let your emotions show or you stand the risk of exposing your less-endearing side.

cheers, and this is my last word in this little game of yours, ive better things to do than massage my ego.

@infobaba

thank you for that worthy advice.

@flyuche
go to the thread titled "windows vista tweaks, ", read his post in the second to the last page, then read everyone else's after that. Thats where it all started with him insulting someone who just simply said vista was crap. Even bigbrovar gave him an earful for his shameful conduct. Only after reading those posts would you understand his rants here. No worries sha, im not to fight, im only responding because he dedicated an entire thread to me.

olaremint:
@ poster and all, hi guys, my bros just sent me a DELL D531,with vista basic,i installed avast anti virus,it later said something was wrong with one driver,i tried to install my starcomms dial up through a friend that has been doing it for people in my neighbourhood, no way( i currently browse with my starcomms on my p3, infact to shut down became a problem.at the beginnig,it said windows could not recognise the starcooms disc,me am tired of VISTA,any body to help please.

there is an involving workaround towards installing dial up modems in vista because most of these CDMA modems have drivers that are not fully vista-compatible; mostly the setup stalls when allocating com ports for the modem. i do know how to set up Starcomms 1x using their desktop phone but not for the handhelds and other networks.

your options are to reinstall vista from a recovery, set up xp on a separate partition, or use a virtual machine like parallels to run xp from within vista.

namzo:
Hey guys! I use vista home basic & i noticed that the snipping tool is absent. Is there any way this can be installed. I've tried my best but i only got alternative apps. I want the exact type that comes with vista. Is the search fruitless

yes, only third party alternatives which sometimes offer better features. but you can always upgrade to vista home premium if you absolutely must have the snipping tool.

african2:
I seem to have problem with my network connection on vista. The network icon shows local nad internet connection to be ok. But it's only my home page that opens. No other website opens. Is there any setting I need to effect for me to open any website of my choice? I will really appreciate u guys solutions to this problem. Thank you

your homepage maybe reloading from cache; vista has issues when it detects multiple networks. go to network and sharing center, at the top of your internet connection select Customize, set the network as PUBLIC NETWORK. now choose your LAN and customize it as PRIVATE NETWORK. hopefully this should resolve your issues.

puzo:
How can I download adobe flash player on my phone?

go here:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=DXLUJ

oi vesc. Seems our little war is going to have to go into cryostasis. I've mightily pissed off some self-servicer in the computer section and now he wants my blood. Can't fight a two-front war, can I?

Twilight, who's seen it?


Ps: can't somebody rein in Jason statham? Transporter 3!? Seriously, I ask you!

hmm. I even merit an entire new topic.

It would have been more appropriate to post your rejoinder exactly where I made my comments, djcn, so as fellow nairalanders could see for themselves where and how you made a fool of yourself thus provoking my own post which you refer to.

in any case I'm in no mood for war of words, all I say is be a man and walk the walk regarding your claims, you owe us that much except if you are another Philip emegwali.

I'm committed to helping nairalanders solve their technical problems within my modest means unlike you who loves shoving it down our throats how much of a hotshot genius you are without lifting a finger to assist anyone.

Sir, I look DOWN to see insects, but I'm not going to sink low to see eye to eye with them so I shall regard your post as just the buzzing of a tiny insect and renounce it with all the contempt it deserves.

You have a pleasant evening, if you can.

hancock:
FIRMWARE 2.2 is out. . . . waiting for a JB

JB tools are out; Pwnage and Quickpwn. check out dev team's blog.

i just bought one just the other day from someone looking to offload because of being broke, im selling for a profit to some nokia-obsessed sucker.

frankly, i dont see that much difference from other E series devices; the keyboard especially is terrible.

but its beautiful to look at sha.

boomtowner:
@Ex inferis

Please help me with applications and games fro my iphone

<sigh>

bros, if you can just flick a few pages back to the beginning im sure you can find all the necessary steps. if anything confuses you after going through the posts then ask for help here.

naijafan:
I hate the fact that I have to contribute to this pointless thread but I need to correct an opinion of ex-inferis.

The fact that someone thinks Nokia is ditching Symbian for another operating system is out of this world. Nokia only recently bought up 100% stake in the Symbian group and is actively working on the OS the same way Microsoft is working on Windows Mobile to bring it up to par in the 'touch' scene. Granted, the pace was set by Apple.

Why start customizing another platform to work for you when you only recently bought up another platform which you can turn into anything you want it to be?? Food for thought.

im either misquoted or perhaps i didnt make my point clear enough: what i meant was, Nokia is ditching Symbian as the base for its upcoming flagship devices, which presumably will contend as "iphone killers". nokia has too much at stake in symbian to completely ditch it, but what its goiung to do is leverage a linux variant to power its next gen convergence device (its already tested the waters with N800/N810). symbian will continue gracing E series and N series devices.

its going to take this route partly as a result of my next answer to your opinion below.

naijafan:
By the way, when you say Symbian isnt robust and powerful enough for next-gen smartphones, what exactly are you talking about? I'll take that as a slip.

no slip here. most OS/platforms must also take developers into consideration and by extension the ocde base and development tools must be robust and stable. however, symbian isnt robust because:

1. no cross-platform compatibility: Symbian is essentially a kernel on top of which run the UI platform. the problem is, Symbian MOAP, UIQ and S60 are not cross-compatible with each other. in order to run code from one platform on to another one must decompile and recompile. THAT ISNT ROBUSTNESS.

2. even within the popular S60 platform apps on the 3rd edition of S60 as well as Symbian OS 9.x are not binary compatible with older S60/Symbian apps, requiring extensive porting of code. meanwhile even though they run on slightly different firmware iphone, iphone 3G and ipod touch apps are cross-compatible.

3. Symbian which was designed from code from the 1990s, is not powerful enough to be a real challenger to iphone OS X. sure, symbian can run touchscreen devices (as seen in the 5800 XpressMusic) but it cannot in its present guise efficietly run the kind of interface on the iphone with multitouch. reason: Symbian uses a crippled version of C++ with Multithreading removed and no support for strings. it uses Active objects instead and something called leaves. now im no hotshot developer but im familiar with C, C++, C# and Xcode, and my opinion is running an interface like multitiouch, which is GPU/CPU intensive, requires serious threading and not active objects; doing it otherwise will result in serious lags and freezes as the CPU devotes copius amounts of cycles to process active object requests.

similar thing occured with the Blackberry Storm. according to reviewers the storm runs on blackberry os 4.7 (a rehash of 4.6 on the Bold). the problem, Blackberry OS was never designed for the kind of interface on the Storm, so RIM modified the code, essentially tacking touch capabilities to the OS. so, it lags. the Storm has some compelling hardware specs, so its not about CPU or hardware acceleration etc; its about the quality of code.

back to Symbian. like i said earlier developers can make or break a platform ( just like in the console wars). while iphone OS app developers have the very easy Xcode/Objective C (which i use for one or two projects) and the wonderful interface builder, Symbian devs are bogged down with Visual Studio 2003 (not even 2005!). anyone here in nairaland can tell you working with VS2003 is a biatch.

also on the theme of devs, consider the challenge of creating apps under symbian signed; you work with VS2003 with outdated code (C++ for symbian, except if you decide to go with Carbide, which still is not on par with iphone's SDK), then you apply for Verisign's Symbian Signed certificate which is expensive,a and load up your app somewhere up in the cloud and hope users can find your app to buy. in a nutshell, the difficulty of coding symbian apps, the expense and hassle of Symbian Signed's program, Symbian's tough vetting process ("why do you need this or that API, why do you want that function call, explain what you intend to do with access to user space data" etc etc) all add up to the overhead of devving apps and negates the entry of freeware devs and enthusiasts.

so in many fields symbian isnt robust. since Nokia lacks the competence to craft a worthy OS on its own from scratch (remember they didnt invent Symbian; it came from PSION's EPOC) it stands to reason they have to leverage a customized variant of Linux (like i said they have tried Maemo on their Internet Tablets and it works) on a new convergent device (ie a merging of N series and E series) to target the entertainment/business iphone demography.

so like i said before, Symbian isnt robust and powerful enough to compete with Iphone OS X.

naijafan:
Disclaimer: I own an iPhone. 8GB, 2.0.1, Winpwned.

Disclaimer: i own iphone 1st gen, iphone 3G,Nokia E71,Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, Nokia N800, Nokia N95, XDA 2i and HP Ipaq rx 1950 (both WinMo 5)

anytime.

40k? for a computer engineering graduate with electrical/electronics background?


thats crass exploitation

mon1881:
plzzzzzzzzzzzzz how do i transfer file to my itouch.
am not a computer guru so jeje with ur terminologies.thx

same way we've been saying all these posts. stop being lazy and start from page 1.

its like Muza finds this iphone/rock photo comparison so amusing he can't help spamming nairaland with it. he puts it everywhere he can find the New Topic button and cackles like he just made the discovery of the century.

me, i smell a jackass.


what i find remarkable is the claim that all iphone buyesr have been conned; right, like we didnt see the specs sheet before we bought the phone. apple never claimed the iphone sends mms, or that it had a video recorder, or an expansion card, or bluetooth obex etc. so if the company made no false claims and the specs were given in macworld in january 2007 a good six months before the iphone came out and the same specs are still in the apple website, i fail to see how we all were deceived.

and if we bought into the iphone craze because of some fantastic Apple hype, don't you think we'd discover the fraud from experiences with the iphone 1st gen and give the 3G a wide berth?

so why is the 3G flying off the shelves?

I'm guessing the iphone sells like hot cake simply because its cool, and the buyers like cool stuff. Blackberyy phones have all the "features" you highlight, Muza, but the funny thing is the iphone has unseated  Blackberry to be the number 2 smartphone.

and the rest of the industry is still playing catchup with new touchscreen devices being churned out everyday. still, none comes close, not even the Blackberry Storm (Storm in a teacup after all).

the market position of the iphone, the popularity of it, the endless clones and the mass movement by developers towards the iphone application platform should give you an inkling of where WinMo stands in the grand scheme of things.

latest rumor? Nokia is probably ditching symbian to go for linux (perhaps abdroid) because Symbian just isnt robust and powerful enough for the next gen smartphones , a benchmark set by apple.

frankly, i have seen few iphone owners dissatisfied with the dievice. a few misgivings, sure. but not outright condemnation and a demand for refund. and so far most careers are losing their customers to networks that carry the iphone.

food for thought, eh?
that says a lot about the desirability of these features, doesnt it?

ipod touch, you mean. check out the iphone thread in the PHONES scetion

UNLEASHED:
@ Ex inferis
   Thanks a lot, I use XP home edition, I tried what you asked me to do and up to the point of "policies" I opened it's sub under it, I saw nonEnum, Ratings, system. I couldn't find explorer, that sucks!
Any remedy? Thanks a lot pal for helping a bro

oops! I'm soryy, ive seen my error. i gave a wrong path. replace HKEY-LOCAL-Machine with HKEYCurrentUser. the path now becomes; HKEYCurrentUser>software>microsoft>windows>currentversion>policies>explorer

i don't use windows as my primary OS, so i hope you understand the omission.

meanwhile allow me to properly explain something i posted above.:

i said:

Ex Inferis:
note a few facts: disabling autorun and then doubleclicking the drive icon in My Computer to open the drive automatically runsthe viral autorun.inf script, which installs the virus and defeats the purpose of everything i laid out above.

best and safest way to access your flash? right click and choose Explore, orbetter yet use the Address bar dropdown to navigate to your flash media.

the reason for this is rooted in the autorun code (a sample i gave above) which tells your computer to execute whatever program is defined in the code (eg PROGRAM.EXE).

again, this is the usual format:

[autorun]
OPEN=PROGRAM.EXE
shell\open=??(&O)
shell\open\Command=PROGRAM.EXE
shell\open\Default=1
shell\explore=??(&X)
shell\explore\Command=PROGRAM.EXE


(the question marks are actually 5, but when i type more than 3 php formats it as  )

PROGRAM.EXE is most often EXPLORER.EXE, a sort of virus that affects the shell.

now if you get infected, ie the virus runs and installs, clicking on the drive icon turns up a dialog asking you what you want to use to open the drive. rightclicking opens a menu with the normal OPEN command replaced by ??(&O) (again, its five question marks), and EXPLORE replaced by ??(&X)

this is visble in the sample code above. selecting any of these corrupted shell operations executes the virus again.

that is why i recommend using the windows address bar at the top to open the flash/external drive.


i feel compelled to write this rather lenghty post because its a common occurence; people unknowingly infect and reinfect their systems and spend lots of time and money on antivirus apps, updating and reformating.

cheers.