Saturday, November 7, 2009

Samsung OMNIA II


Gear of Fantasies
'Expect The Unexpected'
nelson_wmy@hotmail.com





Ultra Brilliant AMOLED Display
• Advanced 3.7” AMOLED display provides unmatched luminescence and vivid eye catching colors
• WVGA resolution lets you view the web, photos, videos and more with crystal-clarity
• Premium display enables viewing even in direct sunlight



Touch-optimized User Interface
• Finger friendly UI with larger icons and simple layout delivers an optimal user experience
• Innovative Cube UI and 3D interfaces make navigation convenient, intuitive and fun
• Advanced R touch delivers fast and accurate touch response



Advanced 5MP Camera
• 5MP camera with dual power LED lets you take stunning photos,using smile, panorama, action and mosaic shots
• Capture and enjoy all life's joys with DVD-like(480p) Video Recording/Playback
• Advanced video editing tools take your clips to the next level



Optimal Internet Experience
• HSDPA 7.2Mbps and HSUPA 5.76Mbps provide the highest network speed available
• Wi-Fi access lets users stay connected at Internet hotspots for far-reaching connectivity
• Tab browsing supports efficient, effortless multitasking and browsing
• One finger zoom lets users conveniently zoom in and out while holding the phone with just one hand



Powerful Multimedia Support
• Multi-codec support frees users from the hassle of converting files
• 1500mAh replaceable battery provides long-lasting battery life, for extended multimedia use
• Generous memory up to 48GB lets users store more of their favorite content for on-the-go access



Complete Mobile Office• View and edit documents with Microsoft Office
• Push email and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync provide seamless, around the clock updated email
• Expand and customize your user experience with 3rd party applications
• Enjoy upgraded experience with WM 6.5 update available at home



Samsung OMNIA II Specifications

Network

HSDPA 7.2Mbps & HSUPA 5.76Mbps,
EDGE, GPRS, UMTS Dual Band

Connectivity

Bluetooth v2.0, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi

Weight

117g

OS

Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
(Updateable to Windows Mobile 6.5 for free)

Processor

800MHz Processor

Display

3.7" WVGA Full Touch AMOLED Screen
(No more old conventional TFT LCD Screen)

UI

3D UI, Media Gate 3D

Browser

Opera Browser v9.5

Camera

5 Megapixel CMOS, Auto-Focus, Dual Power LED Flash,
Face Detection, Smile shot, Panaroma shot, Action shot,
Mosaic shot, DVD-like (480p) Video Recording

Video

DivX, XviD, H.263, H.264, WMV, MPEG4,
Real Video Recording: SD (480p) 30fps
Video Editing: Trim video, Audio dubbing, Live dubbing,
Add subtitle, Image capture

Audio

MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, RA, FM Radio with RDS

GPS

A-GPS/ GPS

Applications

Microsoft Office Suite document view & edit, Push Email,
Samsung Mobile Widget, Web 2.0 CLients, Find Music Services (Midomi),
QIK, Communities, RSS Reader, Podcast, Smart Reader (Business
Card Recognition), Messenger, Digital Frame, Smart Search,
Windows Media Player, Touch Calendar, DLNA

Memory

Internal Memory: 8GB/16GB
External Memory: micro SD up to 32GB
ROM 512 MB, RAM 256MB

Battery

1500 mAH Li-ion
Talktime: Up to 10 hours
Standby time: Up to 430 hours

13 Reasons Why the IPhone Sucks


Gear of Fantasies
'Expect The Unexpected'
nelson_wmy@hotmail.com



1) No Copy/Paste functionality

That’s right, you can’t even copy and paste on the iPhone. I think there’s an application that tries to add copy and paste by adding a button to the input system for the iPhone but apparently it doesn’t work in Safari, the iPhones web browser.

2) Poor 3G speeds

According to AppleInsider, Apple has been sued four times in two weeks over iPhone 3G speeds

The latest pair of suits, identical in almost every way save for the names of plaintiffs, join two from last week.

Florida residents Onel Gonzalez and Ron J. Brayteson filed a 24-page complaint in the Southern District of Florida on behalf of themselves and all members of the class in their state, demanding statutory, compensatory, and punitive damages plus interest. They also seek a ruling deeming Apple and AT&T’s practices ruled unlawful, an injunction preventing them from “continuing to disseminate false and misleading advertising,” and pay restitution for any ill-gotten gains.

Meanwhile, New Jersey resident Timothy Ritchie filed a 23-page complaint in the District of New Jersey for himself and all similarly situated members of his state, making the same demands as Gonzalez and Brayteson. Ritchie claims to have purchased his iPhone 3G in September 2008, while Gonzalez bought one in June 2008, and Brayteson in August.

Both suits use many of the same allegations made in the class-action lawsuit filed by four Texans last week, right down to the same phrasing. They, too, cite the conclusions of Swedish engineering weekly Ny Teknik that some phones aren’t sensitive enough to 3G signals and boost their own signal to compensate, creating the network conflict.

Successive and independent evaluations contradict this theory, however, concluding that the iPhone 3G does not suffer from hardware issues but rather congested and inadequate wireless networks.

The filings spend several pages reprinting comments from blog posts and messageboards, including one customer who posted on Wired, “I have a brand new [iPhone 3G], and my home is inside an AT&T 3G coverage map (suburban area) and I NEVER get 3G reception. The iPhone flickers “3G” for a second or two and then it’s all Edge all the way.”

The latest complaints also allege hairline cracks in the iPhone’s casing around the camera, near the volume rocker, and in other areas. Ritchie, Gonzalez and Brayteson all accuse Apple and AT&T of knowingly marketing the inherently flawed iPhone 3G devices without disclosing the 3G speed problems and hairline cracks that form.

The two sets of plaintiffs also posture their claims by referencing a August 2008 ruling in the United Kingdom that required Apple to stop advertising the iPhone’s ability to access “all parts of the internet” as proof of the 3G woes. The UK regulator did not take 3G speeds into account, but rather the lack of Java and Flash support.

However, a second iPhone 3G ad was indeed banned late last year by the agency on grounds that it “it exaggerated the speed of the iPhone 3G.”

3) Requires iTunes to sync with PC

If you already own a Mac, this probably isn’t a huge deal. But as for PC users, you probably don’t use iTunes considering there are so many better alternatives: Windows Media Player, Winamp, or Songbird. However, if you don’t completely despise iTunes, then I guess this section doesn’t pertain to you. However, you should know that one of Apple’s latest iTunes automatic updates decided to install MobileMe on your PC. Never heard of it? Well that’s because Apple didn’t tell you it was going to install it. No where during the update, or even a fresh installation, does it mention anything about installing MobileMe. I hope you enjoy it.

4) Third party applications?

While you may think the AppStore as an amazing supply of applications, keep in mind that Apple screens every application that makes it to the AppStore. Many many applications have been banned by Apple because they don’t approve of the app. I don’t have time to go into great detail about every single application, but a simple Google search should yield the results you’re looking for. Keep in mind that if Apple doesn’t like an application, you will never see it on your iPhone. (well, you could jail break it but that’s a completely different story).

5) No Multi-Tasking functionality

If you don’t even know what this means then I suppose this has no impact on you whatsoever. However, if you’re a avid multitasker, read on. I suppose saying that the iPhone can’t multitask isn’t 100% true. You CAN listen to music via your music library and do other things at the same time. However, it appears that the music is the only thing apple managed to figure out how to get to run in the background. If you have/get an iPhone, chances are you use Pandora. While listening to Pandora, don’t really plan on doing anything else. This includes (but is not limited to) surfing the web, sending a text, instant messaging, taking a picture, or adding a contact.

If you’re saying “so what, I don’t want to do two things at once” then keep in mind that if you plan to use any instant messaging application on your iPhone (AIM/Yahoo!/MSN/Gtalk/Whatever) then as soon as you press the home key to go to the dashboard, you are signed out of chat. So not only can you not receive IM’s unless you are using the IM application (and in turn, not doing ANYTHING else) then you will not get an IM. I suppose if you had your account set to mobile mode, resulting in your receiving a text message whenever someone messages you when you’re logged out, then you could receive IM’s when not using the application. However, don’t plan on reading the text message unless you completely stop and lose whatever you’re doing in your currently active application.

6) Want to send an MMS message?

Well, you can’t. Apparently the iPhone completely lacks the ability to send or receive an MMS message. So basically, you can’t send or receive any pictures, music, videos, or text MMS messages. Just took a picture of your buddy getting tea-bagged at a party? Hold off on sending it to you friends because, well, you can’t. There is a work around for this. If the person you want to send this to has at&t, you can sending an email to xxxyyyzzzz@mms.att.com and attaching the picture. Keep in mind the iPhone only allows you to attach one file (you can only attach images, so one image) at a time. I think every carrier has this functionality but I use at&t, so it’s the only address I know. If someone sends you an MMS message on your iPhone, you will receive a text message that directs you to viewmymessages.com (it’s not a link, so you have to type it in manually in safari) It also contains a message ID and a password. I hope you have a good memory, because you’re going to have to remember the message id and password to view your message at viewmymessages.com since there’s no copy/paste.

7) Apple gets 30% of developers sales

This doesn’t effect an iPhone user at all, but if you plan on making an application to put up in the AppStore, you not only have to pay $99 (even if you’re putting your application up for free) to be able to post your app to the app store, but you also have to give Apple 30% of your earnings. Well, you don’t have to actually give Apple 30% of your earnings because they just take it, so you don’t really have much of a choice there.

8) Applications can’t interact with your music library

Don’t bother looking for an application that does anything with your music library, because they can’t exist. Apple completely locks out developers from the music library. So you can’t play, or even get the names of songs on the users iPhone. I’m not sure why Apple did this but hey, they demand to see the source code for your application before it’s published to the store. Chances are you agree that you let apple use your source code for whatever they want, so if you make an application, something so amazing, something that’s never been done before and drastically changes the way people use their iPhone, then it’s completely possible that Apple will pull your application down, and use your source code and modify it to their needs to integrate into the next iPhone update.

9) Quick, 5 seconds to save!

When you click the home key, (shouldn’t be hard to find, there’s like 4 buttons on the iPhone) Apple gives your application 5 seconds to completly save whatever it was working on. After 5 seconds, the system kernel kills the process, resulting in you losing anything you were working on in that app. I hope you didn’t install too many applications on your iPhone to slow it down, because whatever you were working on has 5 seconds to save once you leave the application.

10) Safari, well, sucks

Not only have I managed to crash Safari an excessive number of times while fiddling around at the Apple Store, but there’s another thing that really bothers me about Safari. Aparentally, Safari on the iPhone, will stop your request if a web page forwards it more than 2 times. If you have an iPhone, try it out. I tried to go to speedtest.net which brings you to the mobile version of speed test which then forwards you to the apple store, but by then, it’s too late. Apple has decided this website has tossed you around far too much, and stops the request for the webpage, making it impossible to reach that website.

11) No Over-The-Air updates

Unlike the Blackberry or the Android, Apple lacks the ability to provide its users with over-the-air updates for their phone. The reason behind this is, well, you can’t really get an over-the-air update when the update is 250MB. Every iPhone update is ~250MB in size. When Apple fixes a small bug or security issue with the iPhone, they package the entire operating system and send it out to the users. It seems they haven’t figured out how to only update files that have been changed.

There are countless reasons why the iPhone sucks and this has been just a few of them. If you plan to get a new phone, then I highly suggest you go for a different brand.

12) Jailbreak your iPhone, go to Jail.

This just in! If you decide to jailbreak your iPhone now, you can go to jail and face a $2,500 fine.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has petitioned the Library of Congress to officially protect phone owners who bypass software restrictions on their phones—aka “jailbreaking.” Apple has just filed an objection, arguing that doing so would infringe on their copyright. If Apple gets its way,

[it] would have the right to claim statutory damages of up to $2,500 “per act of circumvention.” People who jailbreak phones, might even be subject to criminal penalties of as long as five years, if they circumvented copyright for a financial gain.

The big question, of course, is who really owns your damned phone? Apple says that bypassing their software restrictions messes with the “chain of trust” they’ve set up and screws up their “ecosystem.” The EFF counters that if you apply Apple’s argument to another industry, it falls apart:

One need only transpose Apple’s arguments to the world of automobiles to recognize their absurdity. Sure, GM might tell us that, for our own safety, all servicing should be done by an authorized GM dealer using only genuine GM parts. Toyota might say that swapping your engine could reduce the reliability of your car. And Mazda could say that those who throw a supercharger on their Miatas frequently exceed the legal speed limit.

On a more serious note, they point out:

But the courts have long recognized that copying software while reverse engineering is a fair use when done for purposes of fostering interoperability with independently created software, a body of law that Apple conveniently fails to mention.The EFF has set up a “Free Your Phone” website where you can follow the case as it moves before the Library of Congress: www.freeyourphone.org.

source: The Consumerist

13) No removable battery

You mean we can't take along a spare battery? WTF? You have to send your phone to Apple when the battery dies and risk getting your phone lost, stolen, or damaged in transit.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Waste of Time Caused By Wrong Decission


Gear of Fantasies
'Expect The Unexpected'
nelson_wmy@hotmail.com

Since last year, some of my college friends had been applying for UCAS because they had planned to study in UK. UK, in my first perception, EXPENSIVE. Until around March 2009, which is also known as 'Scholarship Month', I came across many students applying for scholarships and also overseas university entrance. At first, my friends asked me whether I had applied for any universities or scholarships, my answer was 'Nope, why?'. Thinking back on what I have answered, I realized on how foolish I was at that time. My friends advised me to apply for any universities first, and with the offer letters, I will be eligible to apply for any scholarships, and stand a chance to get a scholarship to study overseas.

I neglected my friends' advises, and foolishly missed the good opportunities to apply for scholarships. Until one day, my chemistry lecturer asked me whether I got any offer from any universities. Of course, my answer was 'No'. She asked me why didn't I applied for any universities. Actually at that moment, I still hadn't make up my mind to pick which course to further on. She advised me to make up my mind quickly before it was too late because with my results, I had the opportunity to get a scholarship to study overseas. Because of my chemistry lecturer, only then I made up my mind to further on chemical engineering.

From that day onwards, I had applied for University of Queensland, University of Adelaide and Nanyang Technological University. I had also applied for Shell Scholarship, but had been rejected by them. After being rejected by Shell, I had not applied for any other scholarships, and I am regret today for that. I had missed the great opportunities.

Around June 2009, I had completed my 'A' Level and IELTS examinations. My mum wanted me to enrol into Monash University Sunway Campus, but I ignored her because the intake was July 2009, which left behind just 3 weeks of holidays after a whole 1 month of stressful examinations. Furthermore, some of my friends said that Monash University Sunway Campus is relatively small compared to other private universities. I came across with my friends about University of Nottingham and decided to check out on it. It seems to be a good university except the location is a bit rural. So, I told my mum that I had decided to study in University of Nottingham. From this moment onwards, I had made a wrong decision.

August is known as the second 'Scholarship Month' of the year because many scholarships will be made available this month. I didn't even bother to take a glance on them because I had made up my mind to study in University of Nottingham. Furthermore, after giving up NTU's offer because the course was not my first choice of study, I was pretty sure that my future lies in University of Nottingham.

However, things didn't turn out as expected. Although University of Nottingham covers a big area in Semenyih, which gives an illusion of its grandeur size, its quality of teaching really sucks. From the first day of induction, the Head Counselor told us that the average marks in University of Nottingham is only around 60%, and thus advised us not to stress out too much. I was shocked hearing that, and so I had searched the net to confirm her statement. From the Times Higher Education, University of Nottingham ranking falls from 70 in year 2007 to 91 in year 2009. Just by comparing the ranking in technology/engineering, University of Nottingham ranks 125 in the world. Furthermore, from the 4 days experience in University of Nottingham, I realised that the students there was not as good as what the outside world think they were. I was afraid that I will regret in the future, so I withdrew from the university and ended up, wasted some money on the administration fees.

That day I withdrew from the university, I applied to ANU, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, UNSW and Monash University Clayton campus via IDP. Till today, I got all the offers from the universities I had applied except ANU. I applied for Sime Darby Undergraduate Scholarship via online application but I didn't expect anything from them because I didn't think twice and paid attention to the questions and essays given.

Ever since I withdrew from Nottingham, I worked with my dad in his company. On 9th of October, while I was helping my dad to complete the operation manual which needed to be handed to his client, I noticed my e-mail inbox had an unread message and the message was from Sime Darby. I was selected to attend the Scholarship Assessment on 15th of October. On the day of the event, I was surprised that there was only 20 of us in the Sime Darby Business School, which means I was 1 of the total of 20 people selected. 20 people was relatively a small amount compare to thousands of applicants. The first section was group discussion. We were divided into 4 groups of 5 people, each group will be chosen at a time to carry out the discussion on random topics in a room of one interviewer. The purpose of the group discussion was to assess our communication skills and knowledge. My group was selected to be the first group and our topic was on green companies. After the group discussion, out of the 5 people in a group, only 3 will be selected for the second section and the other 2 will be eliminated. I was fortunate enough to be selected for the second section.

The second section is the online assessment to test on our ability in terms of numerical, verbal and personality. We were given free lunch and the 3 hours assessment started right after the we had done with our lunch. After the assessment, we were told that if we were selected from the second section, we will be notified in two weeks time from that day onwards for an interview with the manager.

Until today, I got no news from them, which means I was rejected. Well, for at least, I gained some experience on that assessment. I had tried to applied for JPA scholarship but was rejected because I must be a JPA scholar during my 'A' Level before I am eligible for an undergraduate JPA scholarship. I knew that without a scholarship, I will not have a chance to further my study overseas no matter how well my results is or how many offers I got from the prestigious universities I had applied for.

I regret for doing nothing when the opportunities were available. I should have applied for UCAS and all the scholarships available, not choosing what to applied. I had made a wrong decision to study in University of Nottingham before even doing further research on the university's reputation and quality. I regret for ignoring my mum when I should have started my undergraduate in Monash University during the July intake. I wasted nearly 8 months of time when I should have started early and ends early.

I really envy people who had the opportunity to study overseas even their results are not up to the minimum requirement of the university entrance. All of the minimum requirements can be overcome by just one thing, MONEY. I had made up my mind to study in local and later on earn the money required for me to further my master degree in overseas. Money is very important and it makes a big factor to decides on your future, whether to study local or overseas.