Archive for October, 2010

I don’t get it

Published by
James
at 3:50 UTC Oct 29, 2010 in Computing, Gadgets and Thoughts. 0 Comments

Is it just me?

What’s all the hype about touch screen phone UI, specifically swipe paging anyway? A cellphone is not a book and it is not like anyone’s swipe paging UI does the paper seam flipping animation along with the finger movement gesture following. If swiping animation were considered “a cool thing” to have, what’s so cool about it when everyone does the same, at least for capacitive touch screen phones which comes in a dime a dozen these days?!

I can see that even when the Nokia N8 front page swiping UI actually does so in a much faster paging rate than iOS4 does, and that the N8 actually has a virtual button on the screen bottom which does flawless paging in an instant, the virtual button does take up screen real estate. Yet why would blindly following the iOS or Android way be any cool or even be competitive as everyone seems to be dreaming about. Following others is not “cool”. “Cool” is when you have a better way than everyone else!

Oh yes, there is a better way that I can think of alright; you bet!

After using an iPod Touch 4 for a mere 2 weeks and an Nokia N8 a little over a week, which I will have a full report for them later, I wish there would be a much simpler, faster, and surer paging for all touch OSs’ UI. Just off the top of my head there is a way.

If swiping, like all other iOS gesturing functions, has no on-screen indicators, instructions, menus, or commands anyway, why not just have the screen divided into two imaginary half areas, one left one right (or top and bottom halves if you like)? Simply press the left half portion of the screen to flip backward and press the right half portion of the screen to flip forward! That would work just as easily for either hand. Simple, quick, functional, FAST, and SURE! You can animate to hell after the pressing for those eye candy junkies and kill off all the gesture thumbtitis buffs after that, I don’t care. Just make all commands swift!

No, the iOS is not swift either. There, I said it.

Nokia N8 – The Commuter

Published by
James
at 14:59 UTC Oct 27, 2010 in Entertainment, Gadgets and YouTube. 0 Comments

A short film shot entirely with a Nokia N8.

Gizmodo has no Mojo…

Published by
James
at 8:21 UTC Oct 20, 2010 in Comedies and Gadgets. 0 Comments

Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah….

This proves I was correct with my presumption that bloggers like Gizmodo wrote what they wrote because they had never used a Symbian phone ever since the Nokia E60/E61/E61i or the Nokia 6120. That’s why all they could ever say is that Symbian is old but nothing substantial at all to support their views.

It’s funny how they have become an iFanboy right after they were caught knowingly buying a stolen prototype iPhone. Right after the police raided their blogger’s home they have lost their mojo.

Other people had chosen not to read Gizmodo long time ago. To do so would have been no difference in shortsightedness as Gizmodo themselves. So yeah, call me old fashion but I still have a Gizmodo RSS subscription. I don’t follow their tweets though because I prefer to read lines of words at a time rather than a hundred or so characters.

Although I couldn’t afford an iPhone and Android phone at the same time to make proper comparisons myself, I have bought a iPod Touch 4 to experience the latest iOS4 10 days ago and will try to find some way to experience the Android OS somehow before I jump into any conclusion to publish my own reviews.

And oh, yeah in the mean time, I have just placed an order for a Nokia N8 2 days ago. Yeah, that’s right, that’s 8 days after I had played with the iPod Touch 4 inside out.

My Phrase of the Day

Published by
James
at 17:16 UTC Oct 14, 2010 in Arts&Crafts, Thoughts and misc. 0 Comments

Is there an app for breathing?
Is there an app for closing your fingers in order to grab something with your hand?
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“You don’t need an app for that!” – by James Mok, 14th Oct, 2010

Alright, so don’t consider it a smartphone

Published by
James
at 17:40 UTC Oct 4, 2010 in Arts&Crafts and Gadgets. 0 Comments

cause the Nokia N8 is actually a smartcamera.

P.S. – Just a reminder, cause the N8 would make this fact easily be forgotten from looking at those sample photos, the Canon 550D is an 18MegaPixel DSLR camera. Nikon should join venture with Nokia and replace the CZ with their Nano Coated Nikkor and called it the Nikon 3N phone camera.

Phone Reviewing Blogs

Published by
James
at 11:18 UTC Oct 2, 2010 in Gadgets and LoadACrap. 0 Comments

American tech blogs CNET, Engadget, and Gizmodo are either morons or the new Nokia N8 is simply too good they had to deliberately temper with their comparison tests and results and then blame the non American cellphone.

I kept saying, if you must cheat, don’t let anyone catches you. Yet in this case, the whole world caught them and reflected that in their readers’ comment areas. So much for being tech blog giants.

It proves one point though, a phone is only as smart or dumb as the person using it. Quit wasting good gadget on morons’ hands, should have sent them to those customers who had ordered and waiting for one instead.