Category: General

Xbox fans, some really good news for you guys!

Here is the list of new features for your XBox:

• Play from hard drive. Copy your games from the game disc and play directly from the hard drive.  Not only will the drive not spin, but load times are quicker, as well. Of course, you will still need the disc in the tray to prove you own the game.
• Access Xbox LIVE Marketplace on the Web. Browse and purchase Marketplace content whenever you want from Xbox.com and it downloads automatically to your console.  Purchase that new map, television episode, the latest Xbox LIVE Arcade game or set up a movie to watch when you get home from work.
• Dashboard built into the new Xbox Guide. For everyone who loves the blades interface, it’s not going away; they are now built directly in to the new Xbox guide. Every feature and option is available right from the guide.  You can even access your full games library at all times.  No matter where you are (in dash or in game), immediately call up your games played list and directly launch a game.
• LIVE Party system. Create a party of up to eight friends, and stay with them from one game to another, or watch a Netflix movie together, or share a slideshow of your personal photos.  It works with all Xbox 360 titles, not just upcoming games.  LIVE Party allows up to eight people to chat in the dashboard, so you can meet up before playing.
• Xbox LIVE Primetime. This whole new category of games is going to give you more reasons to get online with your friends.  Games will support everything you’d expect, like Achievements and leader boards, but many of these games will include real prizes. You can invite your friends, and even set a reminder for an upcoming show.  Each game is broadcast simultaneously, so everyone is answering the same questions.  Many events will have a live host, calling the shots as they happen.
• Avatars. Your online identity started as a Gamertag – it then grew into a personalized Gamercard. Now, it has evolved even further into avatars.  You can express your style, check out new outfits and share this with the community.  Avatars will also be integrated into Xbox LIVE Arcade games, LIVE Party, as well as retail games.
• New display support. Because you asked for it, we are adding 16X10 over VGA or HDMI, and support for 1440×900 or 1680×1050.

Well, the greatly anticipated Opera 9.5(beta) has got delayed. But, not for long. Just 48h :)

Our engineering team worked through the weekend to fix the bugs. Even though our release is a beta, we’d rather spend the extra time to fix them, thus giving you a better experience. The fixes are almost complete now, but we need two more days to run the build through our quality assurance testing. The new launch date is now set for the 17th.

Yes, using wakoopa, the Firefox came out to be the most used application. Well, I guess this case would be similar for everybody else. These are my stats from the past one week.

I do most of my work online. From Google Docs, Gmail, Google reader, Pageflakes, lite web designing, CMS, I mean everything I do with the help of Firefox. Thank you mozilla!

Edward of msmobiles.com mentions not 5, but 12 reasons that windows mobile phones are better than the iPhone 3G.

Here are the reasons:

1. 3rd party applications in iPhone 3G cannot run in background: only one application can run at any given time in iPhone 3G so no background running of applications possible! In Windows Mobile phone several (many) applications can run at the same time so it is possible for example to simultaneously run in Windows Mobile: a) downloading a 50 MB MP3 file with a podcast, b) IM chatting with somebody including native Skype client for windows Mobile or native Live Messenger from Microsoft, c) edit Office documents, d) browse Internet, e) make a phone call, etc.
2. iPhone 3G has resolution of only 480×320 what is 2 times less than VGA (640×480) and W-VGA (wide VGA = 800×480) used in several Windows Mobile phones, what practically means: you can read more text on the display at once and everything is sharper
3. camera in iPhone 3G is inferior to camera in many Windows Mobile phones: it has only 2 megapixels compared to 3 to 5 megapixels in Windows Mobile phones and it does not have auto-focus – also present in many Windows Mobile phones
4. one cannot record videos with built-in camera of iPhone 3G, what is possible up to resolution of 640×480 pixels and 30 FPS (frames per second) in Windows Mobile phones
5. iPhone 3G supports HSDPA of maximal speed only 3.6 MB/second, while some Windows Mobile phones (including HTC Touch Diamond) suppport HSDPA of speed 7.2 MB/second
6. iPhone 3G does not have exchangeable battery that all Windows Mobile phones have, but only built-in battery so if you run out of battery you cannot replace it to prolong battery life – as it is possible with Windows Mobile phones
7. original (i.e. from Microsoft) Office Mobile is built-in in each Windows Mobile phone and allows not only for viewing but also for editing of Office documents, so there is no need ot buy 3rd party software for it
8. there is much more 3rd party applications (programs) for Windows Mobile: over 20,000 compared to 500 for iPhone 3G
9. to make applications for Windows Mobile one needs either PC computer or Mac but to make applications for iPhone 3G one needs to buy a Mac computer – if you don’t have Mac computer then you cannot develop applications for iPhone 3G
10. most Windows Mobile phones come without SIM lock so they can be used at any operator in given country and with SIM cards from abroad (important when traveling and you want to use local prepaid SIM card to avoid International roaming fees) while iPhone 3G has SIM lock and can work with only this operator at which it has been purchased
11. iPhone 3G has capacitive touch-screen meaning that it must be used with fingers and that it cannot be used with stylus or fingernails (what women like)
12. iPhone 3G has no physical keyboard or keypad, so users have no choice but to use virtual keyboards on the display while Windows Mobile offers phones in various form-factors, including such that have both touch-screen and a physical QWERTY keyboard

I don’t know if he is really right. Why? Here are my reasons:

• not all windows mobile have nice cameras. Not even the phones with 3MP cameras can take better pictures than 2y old SE K750
• he stresses multi-tasking heavily, but I need not stress how stable the windows mobile is in handling multiple applications. A windows mobile device will most likely crash with running all those applications concurrently :!:
• I’ve not heard any women complaining that she is unable to use the iPhone.
• Infact, it is windows mobile that is trying to mimic iPhone these days
• Third applications have just started to come up. Windows mobile is 8y old already. Obviously, windows mobile will have more applications than iPhone.
• iPhone already has started enjoying better enterprise support. It now supports MS exchange, Oracle, 3G broadband etc
• People have achived phenomenal speeds with the onscreen keyboard of the iPhone. So, this proves that if the softkeyboard is properly designed, there is no need for hardware keyboard.
• Regarding resolution, iPhone makes full use of it’s 320 x 480 display. In case of WM, it merely does the pixel doubling. Very less applications actually make full use of 480 x 640 VGA resolution. Continue reading “Windows mobile better than iPhone 3G?”

Sprint is now offering a Treo 800w for $249. The Palm Treo 800w is one of the most highly anticipated phones of 2008. The core is the presense of wifi. Now, you guys will say that wifi is not a big deal. Well, folks this the first Palm smartphone having a inbuilt wifi module.

The device looks darn perfect. The keyboard looks sweet and on top of that, it is powered by windows mobile!

So, what are you waiting for? Go to the sprint website and get yourself one!