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have decided to place a few Canola screenies running on Maemo on Nokia's N800/810 Touchscreen device.

will put screens from my device when i get home.

makes you wonder why they dont use the OS that runs such beautiful desktop-like apps on phones proposed to kill the iphone.

you have to see this app to believ it: cool animation and transition effects.

[quote author=tope_teadr link=topic=179911.msg2941557#msg2941557 date=1223991866]I agree with u. . . . . . I think it's time nokia went 4 something new. .

And what do you think will happen if nokia and apple should join hands to mk a phone. .[/quote]an almost inconceivable proposal. whats the benefit? Nokia has nothing on the patent table to tempt Apple (though Apple has multitouch), and such a symbiosis will be a marketing nightmare. remember SonyEricsson? still losing tons of money despite the cool music hardware and cybershots and symbian UIQ etc and the brand.

its a marriage that is soon to unravel, like the painful Daimler-Chrysler divorce.  

if there was such a horrible merger, whose OS will the new phones use?

both companies have strong global brand heritage and need no brand restrategizing because it has no benefits in the long run for either company. Its companies losing their segments that shuffle to merge in other to occupy another segment, like Motorola ought to do. besides think of the styling: both companies have distinctive styling easily recognizble like mercedes and BMW. merging will kill that distinctiveness.

not so for others: an LG can look like a Samsung.

hey, maybe LG and Samsung are the ones that ought to enter a partnership (god knows samsung needs a few tricks: I'm still waiting for a software update for the F480 i bought, which now keeps my bro busy, and the Instinct on Sprint's network is a dud).


meanwhile on the need to ditch Symbian and go Linux check out the pix below. APL and  Android, all variances of Linux.

Linux, being open and Android being both free and open, will eventually steal the thunder from iphone.

check out Canola2 here (i installed it last night on the N800; its almost like Vista's media center)

check out the Android Simulator here:  http://tmobile.modeaondemand.com/htc/g1/

[quote author=tope_teadr link=topic=179911.msg2941201#msg2941201 date=1223987964]I'm not an iphone fan, but I have to say u can't compare the iphone to 5800. The iphone has more to it than u can think 'bout. .
But guys N82 won the best Imaging phone. . . don't forget 'bout that. . And I was ashamed because the iphone didn't . . I'm 'bout 2 check the reason that came 'bout. .[/quote]quite right.

but very few people actually use their phones to take photos, and megapixels don't always mean better picture quality (its the lens that count and thats why i commend nokia for going with carl zeiss/ tesslar optics). most people already have cams with higher pixel counts in these days of highdef photography and big HD screens. my 5610 XpressMusic has a 3.2mp camera but its rubbish next to my iphones 2mp.

i think the Nokia N85 will set a new standard for phone cameras (and hopefully shut Sonyericsson's CyberShot the hell up). i also think the 5800 will sell in droves especially in europe and the middleeast (and to a lesser extent, africa) because the price is just right. however i think its time nokia starts thinking of a convergent point for its E series and N series to create an Uber Phone. they should also ditch Symbian and embrace one of the many linux variants out there especially as Linux shares the same root with OS X, and Maemo on Nokia's N800/N810 internet tablets is a  full featured and very capable OS that is a joy to use. its browser, a Mini Mozilla firefox, beats Safari hands down and Maemo has an APT installer and lots of free software that are almost as powerful as desktop variants. (google CANOLA 2 and see what i mean).

i don't know why they still insist on using the dated Symbian on newer highend phones. Symbian will never beat OS X, and if nokia wants to make an iphone killer then i believe Maemo is the way to go.

oh, and they also need to do something about gaming; Ngage isnt working.

@zaibatsu

very true! innnovation is not the exclusive preserve of one manufacturer, entirely agree. so exactly what is innovative about the 5800?

I'm getting that phone, don't get me wrong, but only for the Comes With Music and cheapo price tag. beyond that its just another symbian XpressMusic with a touchscreen.

Symbian is the biggest community you say and i agree-for now. The success of the Apple AppStore and Androids Application Center and BLackberry's App Shop will soon put an end to that reign.


There is absolutely nothing about the 5800 to generate the kind of buzz and buying spree that both iphones achieved and Symbian will never match OS X for raw power, ease of use, security and stability.

the iphone, besides being a great music/videos/photos/internet/phone device, is also a fabulous gaming device on a par with Sony's PSP. meanwhile Ngage is still a bit rubbishy.

yesterday for the first time i installed Crash, X Plane 9 and CroMag rally on both iphones and I'm simply blown away by the graphics which are almost beyond what my PSP can do.

i don't know why people insist on thinking the 5800 is an iphone killer (there is no such phone currently available; maybe down the horizon especially with the Storm) when Nokia itself does not say so. The iphone has evolved from a media device to an enterprise device, therefore if nokia wishes to compete on almost equal terms it must leverage its E-Series line of products which is business oriented (nokia did not even deem the 5800 as worthy of the coveted N-Series bloodline).

sadly your precious 5800 (which I'm craving) does not integrate native support for enterprise, and infact even the E-Series business devices, though some of then incorporate Blackberry Connect to sync with BES servers alongside Microsoft Exchange support, still run the underpowered Symbian OS. in thsese days of Linux Embedded, Android, Win Mobile 6, Iphone OS X and maemo Symbian just doesnt cut it anymore.

and don't forget the advantage of Iphones Appstore.

so in the following counts, the 5800 doesnt come close to being an iphone killer:

1. OS power

2. Enterprise support

3. Gaming

4. Applications (5800 will not be binary compatible with existing Symbian apps).

5. GPS Location services and awareness in apps (made possible by Iphone Core Location API)

6. Browser/Internet capability


I'm not blinded by fanboyism contrary to your remark; I'm just kepping it real. ive been following the 5800 revolution since it was codenamed the Tube, and ive never been blown away by all i saw (HSDPA etc are standard fare on most phones these days) therefore my commitment to buying it is primarily because of its music capabilities and the Comes With Music drive.

the iphone is not perfect, but its a more advanced business and media device.

@flyuche

dont bother, he has closed his mind to all points.

unfortunately Time Capsule does not support Upnp as of now and it doesnt support streaming service, and i cant think of any way to set it up except as an itunes media center with Bonjour running on client PCs.

thats the next best thing; itunes media streams.

maybe a ReadyNAS would be a better replacement because it offers all sorts of network services including Bonjour. its also a Upnp device.

maybe Apple will update the TC line since they are going through some major hardare turnnrounds.

@ gbekumoyan


goodpoint

@samir

ni ma kaina ina kachaniyan sayar ta ne. garin ya yi zafi. ka fara tari tun yanzu.

@Infoseye

an affordable system that will serve students, business environments and other core computing users. pity you had to remove linux, its great.

below is another reason buy Acer. Behold the AX3200.

spex:

1. AMD Phenom X3 8450 triple-core processor

2. 4GB RAM

3. 640GB hard drive

4.  NVIDIA's GeForce 8200 (the only achilles heel; its integrated GPU)

5.  P244W 24-inch 1080p LCD display 1920 x 1080 (1080p full HD resolution, yay!!)

6. Blu-ray drive (double Yay!!)



all for an affordable $1,080.



@gbekumoyan

your point is poorly conceived. people buy computers because of 1, price/performance ratio and 2, budget.

its illogical to base purchasing needs on aftersales support as the only compelling criterion. besides, how many people in naija are willing to cart their machines to expensive support systems when roadside technicians will do just fine? unlike desktops lappys have few changeable parts and the use of a power brick ensures power surges harm mostly only the power pack. common problems are screen, powerbrick, HD and memory. you hardly come across a fried lappy board.

all the above problems are easily fixable by Boda Bayo across the street.

Tezzazpete has brought to my notice that my earlier statement that you cant go from 1.1.x to 2.1 without 2.0 on ipod touch is errorneous.

i read it elsewhere and was just playing safe when i updated.

sorry for the inconvenience, if any.

thanks, Tezz.

you asked a lot of questions, but second reading made them out as rhetorics. like i said, sure philip made an achievement and yes supercomputing is a big deal to certain fields of endeavour, but the internet you and i use to constantly argue about arcane things has precious little to do with emegwali.

thats the point of us dissenters. no one is begrudging the silly little man his recognition for what he did, but dude lets not make mountains out of molehills, how many scientists have gaudy websites emblazoned with snippets and articles and references glorifying a decades-old achivement? pjilip is being too loud about his feat, and some poor folks are buying into the fiction.

you keep insisting BBC, Time and whoever cant be wrong; the scientific community asserts philip's work is not what its made out to be, and you know what? i tend to believe the scientific community.

however, you hold on to your point of view which is completely muddled-i mean, i cant decide what side of the fence you are on, on one hand you say he didnt invent the internet and supercomputing has little to do with the net, on the other you seem to say otherwise.

also, i find your remark that the whites blackmail the blacks as a tad naive. on what grounds? in the colonial times when empire-building was in fashion and slavery wasnt a disease i'll say YES. now, not so much. Africa isnt that much a strategic big deal in the grand scheme of things economically and politically. we are more like a burden on the whiteman's shoulders (although their past misdeeds can account for most of that fact).

i digress. i totally agree philip was memorable for what he did, but lets keep it focused on what he did rather than on what he didnt.

as for the game, its on hold currently. im suffering from feature creep and its becoming bloated and unwieldy. its currently running at a rubbish 14.7 frames per second beacuse of the textures which have to be scaled down. also the lightmaps are making nonsense of my puny graphics card. im having issues too with fpi scripting, thinking of going Dark basic. will finish a two-level playable demo and link you pending on when i get a gaming rig. hunt in the games thread for some screenshots (far back as 3 or four months ago).

cheers.

first, the gordon bell award is the nobel prize of supercomputing, but not of overall computing which is the turing award. using your argument emegwali is a genuis in supercomputing, which is a subset of computing, but that does not invariably mean he invented the internet as claimed by the man himself and his ass kissers.

the internet is not all about supercomputing; various interconnected nodes form the backbone of the net while supercomputing these days plays a more significant role in weather modelling, biochemistry, complex simulations, intelligence analysis etc. its interesting the fastest supercomputer is in use by the NSA.

emegwali made his mark by only APPLYING supercomputing to attain high gflops in an APPLICATION.

what does that have to do with the internet? parallel processing existed long before philip, and the highest demonstrable gflops outside applications was not achieved by him anyway. in anycase he shared his feat with others and the noisse about his achievement was because he is black and only few expected it from a nigerian.

you yourself said the world wide web is an integral part of the internet. well, shouldnt berners-lee as its founder be celebrated, as its financier al gore?

kindly tell us one, just one, celebrated british or american scientist the world knows as a fraud but who continues being celebrated by his people.

while mulling that, keep in mind that noone denies him the credit of achieving jigh gflops in application, he was a genuis at that.

but that feat does not translate into being the internet's father.

speaking of clinton's exuberance and your statement aides pre-check speeches for technical and factual accuracy, where were you when george w. bush made the famous gaffe that 'Nigeria is an important CONTINENT'!!

or are you telling us his aides dont know the difference between countty and continent, or nigeria and africa?

in summary, philip emegwali is an egomaniac who clouds the issue rather than let the facts speak for themselves. he is a one-time genuis, but a fraud nonetheless.

if he's such a genuis how come he hasnt invented something else or improved the net or supercomputing ever since? why does he not feature in scientific journals or publish research and theories?

by the way its false that the USPO doesnt reveal patents until when granted; the moment you file your application and its received as pending after review it shows up in the database for all to see.

this ensures avoidance of duplicate filings.

enough false information here.

first, sisx is for new symbian phones running Symbian OS 9.x/series 60 3rd edition platform, while sis is for the older symbian OS and s60 interface.

its false to say that sisx is only for series 80 and 90.

second, someone said ngage is a type of game; false. ngage was a specific series 60 handset that was discontinued; the ngage concept now evolved to a software platform known as Ngage 2.0. it serves only as a portal to the online world of nagage gaming and nothing more. the ability to play ngage games is dependent on the phone hardware, and most Symbian v2 and v3 can run ngage games.

decompile, mod, recompile, port

sojioguns:
I have only one problem with Vista, IT DOES NOT WORK. MICROSOFT SPENT TIME AND MONEY ON MAKING FANCY SIDEBAR AND TRANSITIONS FOR A SOFTWARE THAT ASKS YOU MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ACTUALLY SOLVES PROBLEMS.

shhhh! dont let Djcn hear you.

@Tezz

remember our conversation re: Android last night? well, it says over at Engadget that Tmobile has sold all 1.5 million G1s (pix below).

ON PRE-ORDER!!!

Apple, gird your loins, trouble this way comes.

either revamp the entire iphone concept as you are doing with the MacBook or lose ground to these freebie guys.

heres my list of things to be in the proposed iphone 3.0:

1. Clipboard (ie copy-paste)

2. front-facing isight-style camera

3. disk mode

4. tethering

5. video recorder

6. expanded video codecs

7. mms

8. SMS forwarding

9. 5mp camera (at least)

10. memory card expansion slot

11. Flash support

12. Fix mobielMe and tune Push service.

13. provide core APIs in the SDK  so app devs can properly harness the device

14. File explorer

15. bluetooth

16. wireless N

17. maybe a SiRFstar3 GPS receiver (better for turn-based nav in urban locations)

18. powerVR grafx

well, thats my wish list anyway.

ps: the N800 has fatally crashed. battery ran down last night while browsing, plugged in the charger and it went into this crazy reboot cycle. i checked online and found that its a fatal though very common bug, its on the NV memory so no reflashing possible.

I'm done for.

screw you Nokia.

@Betty605

there was no disrespect in your post (there was some cheek though!), its just that im galled by naijans' obsession with yankee. our music videos are being outsourced, now our cottage film industry is being exported too. soon naija will be one vast, empty wasteland while the populations straddles europe-asia-america.

the characters in naija home videos are fond of speaking what they consider American accent, the plot always involves someone going/coming from abroad etc etc.

why bother calling them NIGERIAN Movies then?

its disreputable. its betraying our patriotism and pride in our heritage. its bullcrap.

Okereke's Through the Glass can work in a naija setting, setting off to shoot it in te US is meaningless, just a PR campaign to garner the sort of glowing accolades similar to tis topic's title ("Stepanie Okekeke Directs Movie in Hollywood"! gasp, gush, wow, ooohh, ahhhh etc etc)

big deal. lots of homegrown American directors in minor league with far better talents and resources than okereke are yet to make primetime.

she doesnt stand a chance, her effort is a drop in a vast ocean.

tundecraig:
While there was mass hysteria concerning Y2K, rememeber there was also mass preparation. The vast majority of people with computers were prepared and corrected what needed to be done.
The chaos was largely prevented, because every sensitive agency ( traffic lights, the military, power supply, etc) had made all the neccessry changes long before Jan 1 2000.If they had not, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN CHAOS, and many machines would have ceased to work or worked in the wrong way.

While Dr Emeagwali may not be the greatest computer scientist of our time, he is certainly an eminent scientist who has made achievements that are worthy of note.

Please also note that while the IQ of a genius starts at 160, Dr Emeagwali's IQ is 190. Bill Gates has an IQ score of 160.
The link below is my source for this.
( http://www.kids-iq-tests.com/famous-people.html)

As far as I know, that article by Time was and is correct.

your ignorance is beyond salvage. i threw a gauntlet at you that challenges you to come up with ANY material that asserts philip's role in inventing the inernet besides his website and that Time article and you are yet to provide that crucial info. and you still cling to that false notion that Time was right and philip invented saupercomputing and the internet. funny, no computing journal made that claim.

and he didnt win the computing equivalent of the Nobel prize (the Turing award). that says a lot about his accomplishment.

give credit where its due; lets give emegwali credit for utilizing parallel computing to model oil reservoirs, which hadnt been done before, but lets not give him credit for inventing the internet because he didnt. the machines he use were invened by others, the internet he used to network his parallel processors was also in existence when he performed his feat.

period.

and since when did IQ mean anyting beyond a quantity analysis of intelligence? IQ dioesnt mean genuis in inventions and innovations? it simply weighs intellectual potential. otherwise Jolene Blaylock or Chris Langan with an IQ of 200 will have invened quantum computing or a cure for AIDS or a longer lasting lightbulb or something.

Marilyn vos Savant had a high IQ, Gary Kasparov (the chess genuis) has an IQ of 190 (but he isnt smart enough to keep himself from jail, apparently) but they invented nothing.

as for the Y2K bug, it seems you yourself bought into the hogwash. what preparations were made? people using winows 98 still use windows 98 and their machines didnt end up in fiery millennial holocaust. it was all a ruse to sell windows 2000 which bill gates told us that if we didnt buy we'd get stuck in planes, elevators etc.

those who didnt buy it are still here. what chaos are you talking about?

my guy, open your eyes, Time was not written by the scientific community nor by philips' peers, and nowhere in the history of the internet is his name worthy of mention beyond APPLYING the internet, as it was then, in SUPERCOMPUTING APPLICATION. nothing more.

how do you explain his claim of having over 50 patents when the US patent office has no single entry by philip emegwali? (ou can check for yourself here : www.uspto.gov)



but if you maintain that seemingly unshakeable insistence that philip derserves credit for the internet, then god help you.

sorry for going off topic

have updated to OS2008 on the n800, its radical!. im using my MTN 3G and broadband wifi to roam on this thing and so far-SWEET!! its browser beats the iphone's hands down. plus its got tons of free apps.

ps:N800 is not a phone, its a MID (Mobile Internet Device)

pix

Betty605:
Not trying to be disrespectful but, excuse me?, Hollywood is an industry, it is a movie industry, just like Nollywood,
thats why i put hollywood, (its a movie industry). DUH!. Besides, i don't think the movie has PREMIERED yet.

Hollywood is a pseudonym for the American movie industry because thats the location the magic began, but that wasnt even my point even though your rebuttal serves to clarify things for me.

and Hollywood is not just an industry, its a whole town in northwest LA. where is Nollywood, incidentally?

However let me amend my earlier point.


see, most movies are not even shot in Hollywood. either they go on location where its cheap, or they go to a sound stage to shoot. the term 'hollywood" in the context you mean seems to suggest Okereke's work is a movie produced by a major Hollywood studio, and its not. its an independent flick with very mundane plot and absoluitely no credible reason for needing to be shot in America. its probably shot in western LA seeing the surrounding (but I'm not sure), but that doesnt qualify it as a hollywood movie.

a blockbuster by a major hollywood studio shot in Dearborn or Baton Rouge or Saskatchewan or wherever-backwater-production-deems-fit  IS a hollywood movie without necessarily being shot in Hollywood.

LOTR was filmed for the most part in New Zealand and the post production facilities (WETA) are there too, but because NEw Line is a Hollywood studio, LOTR IS a hollywood flick, not a New Zealand flick.

i wonder why some peole insist on calling the garbage that comes out of Nollywood "Movies". they most certainly do not merit that tag. "home videos" is more like it, and that automatically disqualifies them from the Internet MOVIES Database. sure, some straight-to-DVD conent feature on IMDB but the fact is they have better production values than the nonsense our industry unleashes upon the hapless.

whoever said some bad Hollywood movies are worse than some naija movies is a liar or is confused.

the worst hollywood flick is light years ahead of the best naija movie IMHO.

tundecraig:
That article was written over a year ago. At what point do we expect a correction from Time Magazine to its article on Dr Emeagwali? Its certainly not in the new edition that came out today Friday October 10th.

you either missed my point or my point missed you.

Time makes errors, same as everyone else, and they dont always make corrections. and stories come from sources sometimes removed from the normal reporting bureaus. whoever wrote that article is among the Joe Kleins and tyrangiels and jeff koinanges of this sordid little world.

just because Time said it doesnt mean its so. remember december 1999 and the supposed Millennium Bug that was supposed to wipe out all computer data and Mankind as well and which Bill gates put to good use to sell Win2K? how did time report it? AS A DOOMSDAY SCENARIO, THATS HOW!!

and guess what, we are still here.

And sometime in 1996 or thereabouts there was a grossly exaggerated article on the late Sani Abacha, and the info from that article came from a lot of disgruntled nigerians with axes to grind.

seeing my point? the article on philip in question took a lot of "material" from Emegwali himself and didnt do serious fact checks else Time wont be so ignorant of the standing of the Turin award in the scientific/computing community, or the small role philip played in utilizing parallel computing in applications which has nothing to do with the invention of the internet. check any online, archival resource as well as Darpa/Arpanet history and see if Emegwali's name featured there.

nigerian Bill gates indeed.

@Tezz

I'm torn between an Android device, a Storm, or the Nokia 5800 (i already have Nokia 5610 XpressMusic and it rocks music and 3G-wise althouth its UMTS only, no HSDPA.). iphone 3G is somehow a little underwhelming and frankly we in Naija neednt bother, the point of using GPS-assisted location services is defeated by lack of Naija POIs in apps as i said earlier, and since its using A-GPS you need to be online to use Gmaps for location.

meanwhile Bigbrovar, whereever you are, i got N800 (layaway, 100 pounds). a bit hefty but fun, open source, runs Maemo, and unlike the iphone supports Flash 9. nice browser too. busy looking for apps and updating to OS2008 later.


laters

recknass:
@hancock-got myself an ipod touch and need to upgrade the firmware currently on 1.1.3 kindly run me through it, thanks

ipod update is pretty straight forward, though the software updates arent free, that means GO TORRENT. you cant move from 1.1.x to 2.1 without going through 2.0 first, so grab the 2.0 firmware for free here:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4293957/iPod_Touch_2.0_software_(From_the_store)

and 2.1 here:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4391205/iPod_touch_2.1.0_software_(from_store)

i just updated my niece's yesterday. just go to itunes after connecting the ipod, hold SHIFT and click UPDATE (not restore), select the 2.0 firmware and go from there.

repeat the same step above for the 2.1 firmware.

then use Quickpwn to pwn it and install Cydia if you so wish.


More 3G screenies.

beat you to it!!!


this sucks.

its not that different from the 1st gen. The killer app is GPS but Google Maps has almost zero POIs for naija, so besides Geotagging there really isnt much you can do with thius that you cant with the prior model.

im not a fan of browsing on mobile devices, and its a headche tethering this. not really worth thge price and hassle.

Im moving up to Blacberry Storm once i can get my hands on it.

this really sucks.

shotster50:
Thanks for your comment smart ass.

dumb ass. got proper shot down, serves you right for being such a snot-nosed noob.

2.0? come november the world is moving to 2.2 (post 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1)

wake up.

d'uh.

tundecraig:
Time Magazine is regarded as the world's number 1 news magazine. This is a link to an article they wrote on him.Are we then to believe that Time didnt do its home work properly or they are lying?

Note the 2nd to last paragraph where it says:

"The discovery earned him the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers' Gordon Bell Prize in 1989, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, and he was later hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet. "

http://www.time.com/time/2007/blackhistmth/bios/04.html

obviously you don't read Time magazine, else a cursory glance on the Letters section of almost each issue will point out corrections and addendums to you. Time is prone to inaccuracies such as the one of March 27, 2008 article “The Clean Energy Scam" replete with inaccuracies regarding global food shortage. or how about Josh Tyrangiel's May 2002 article on Iraq and Saddam in which the author plainly claims Iraq's nuclear rogram "is in full swing" despite the IAEA and intelligence experts saying otherwiose. in the end the experts and IAEA were vindicated as it turned out Iraq had neither a bomb nor a nuke program. clearly this is worse than inaccuracy; this is plain falsehood (may we ask Josh Tyrangiel where he got his info?) and Time didnt even put out an apology. He was even rewarded by the  dubious  Stengel.

and then theres that infamous and misstatements-riddled Joe Klein article of  Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007 which earned Klein and Time itself outright condemnation within and without the journalism industry.

so don't take everthing you read as gospel, particularly since most of Time's claims regarding Phillip came from his egomania-radiating website.

infact, the nobel-equivalent of computing awards is the Turin Award and not the George-whatever with a palty $1000 tag that Phillip won. if he had won the Turing award then perhaps he will have a righteous claim to fame.

@poster

modify your comments; it WAS NOT SHOT IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, but it is premired in LA california. so you can't really say she directed a "movie in hollywood". more like she directed a movie in the US.

got stranded where i am, hope to be in by thursday (going to miss obama/mccain debate tonigt, yikes!).

have not really watched movies, just reruns and archive stuff (resaw Starwars 4). also saw Dirge of Cerberus but being nothing more than a montage of memorable scenes in FFVII I'm reserving my comments on that one. cooped up indoors with the dreaded flu. (achoo!) hoping you catch some bug 

this morning resaw Aladdin. classic.

my pixie is none other than Tinkerbell.

those hips.

simply divine.

hoping to wach Appaloosa (it crashed) and Eagle eye tonight if I'm still alive.


Blindness also bombed.

laters.

UDP then.

meanwhile seems everyone wants a slice of Apple's iMac pie. see pic of HP TouchSmart PC below. its an All In One (AIO)

tezz

howzat the n95?

two friends of mine got the iphone 3G (both 16gigs, one black the other white, all cost over 400 pounds with serious negotiations at the store in london before they were sold without contract). i tried the GPS thingy wit Gmaps to drop a pin on my location but seems the GPS receiver has trouble indoors. i tip my proverbial hat to the nokia N82 for the sensitivity of its GPS receiver. it works deep inside my house and im sure that thing will work 50 feet inside a bunker.

nonetheless the phone is sexy but not that much a far cry from the 1st gen iphone, and the plastic back gives me the creeps, that thing looks near about ready to crack.

like i said before, i dont feel overwhelmingly persuaded by what i see to fork out that much money. when the price comes down, im game.