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New Asus N10J A2 Just arrived :)
March 2, 2009 · Comments
The father of netbooks and considered to be the pioneer of cheap netbooks, ASUS, has just launched….(another) powerful nertbook that has a mid end hardware specs and considered to be the most powerful netbook on the market right now.
It is actually a full netbook but it is compressed like a netbook similar to ASUS N10JC that has the same design and built but varies on the size.
It certainly again raised the bar of the performance of the netbook performance., though it is more pricey than most other netbooks, you could easily procure other regular, more powerful notebook for the same price if you want to compromise its lightness and portability.
The Asus N10J A2 has almost everything going to it but does it justify the 37K ++ pesos value??
What would be the Specs??
Here it is:
- Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
- Weight: 3.4 pounds
- Processor: Intel Atom N270 clocked at 1.6 GHz, 512 KB cache
- RAM: 2 GB DDR2 RAM
- Hard Drive: 320 GB SATA HDD, 5400 RPM
- Display: 10.2 inch LCD display, 1024 x 600 pixels
- Graphics Card: Intel GMA 950 with 64 MB VRAM / Nvidia 9300 M GS with 256 MB VRAM
- Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- Operating System: MS Windows Vista Business
- Ports: 3 USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet, HDMI, Headphone, Microphone, VGA out, 8 in 1 card reader, Expresscard slot
- Price: Php 37,000 *roughly*
Android and iPhone gets 1st MMO
October 16, 2008 · Comments
MMOs for Mobile Phones
It’s been years since the first announcement about an MMO for Mobile Phones – Nokia’s HinterWars: The Aterian Invasion. It’s defined as:
the revolutinoary dual-platform Symbian Mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Game (3MOG) that allows gamers to play simultaneously with tens of thousands of others using either their Nokia Series 60 and Nokia N-Series gamedeck or their PC.
(as copied from the official site)
Well, MMOs for Mobile Phones are getting closer and closer to reality.
But first, we have to check out how the journey continued after Nokia’s HinterWars. The next step (or maybe backstep) was the availability of Mobile Applications that allows a player to check his character and his friend’s statistics.
For example, the EVE Tracker by Saggy Software, that keeps you updated on your pilots.
The features available are:
- Pilot pager – track your pilots; includes attributes, race, gender, bloodline, and more
- Currently training skill
- Pilot skills
- Skills database – search the skills database and plan the future of your pilot
There is also Rudip’s Warcraft Characters, that tracks your World of Warcraft characters anywhere and everywhere.
It features:
- Checking all your characters
- A summary of your character, similar to what’s seen on WoWArmory
- Ability to see all the items you are wearing
- See the ‘tooltip’ of the items
- Track your reputation stats
- Worldwide support for WoW-US, WoW-EU, WoW-KR, WoW-CN, and WoW-TW
These two applications are available for Apple’s iPhone only, but we can see how the MMO world slowly invades our mobile phones. A short stage but with a wide effect and opened plenty of possibilities for the players and the companies alike. Today, welcome the new kid on the block, a Mobile MMO by PerBlue entitled Parallel Kingdom: Age of Exploration.
As the name suggests, this Mobile MMO is set on a parallel world much like Earth. In fact, this world is on top of our world! Or if you’ve seen the movie – “The Spiderwick Chronicles” (or read the book), there is another world right here on our own planet that we can only see by some ‘means’.
This is what Parallel Kingdom is, and that ‘means’ is the iPhone and Android-based phones. By using GPS (Global Positioning System) combining it with the virtual world, a player will be able to explore this parallel world as s/he travels around the real-world (products that use GPS are called geo-aware).
Get to fight monsters in this virtual world, collect gold in this world, and even have a duel with another player (you two must be near each other in-real-world). The virtual world itself shows a Google Map of where you are in the real-world, imagine your phone as the window to another world giving you a visual of what our naked eyes can not see.
Parallel Kingdom is set to launch on October 31, and will use the same game network regardless if you are an Android user and your friend is an iPhone user. The game will be free initially, and we can hope that they release a 3D graphics version that will make use of iPhone’s and Android’s GFX capabilities.
And that is only just the beginning. Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team have been conducting polls for the past few months about Mobile Phones and Mobile Games, which led fans to believe that the company is considering developing a mobile version of WoW. Philippine online gaming companies are into Mobile Games development already, some are already providing Mobile services link to a player’s account. The possibilities are endless and the future of gaming and mobile phones are merging.
I can’t wait as our lives gets more mobile than ever, bringing online and social entertainment together and wherever we go. I just hope that they do not separate the game worlds between mobile, console, and PC (it’s possible). For now, I’ll wait for Motorola’s first Android Phone, then I’ll join the world of Parallel Kingdom.
Originally posted at: Technology Playground™.
Filed under Cellphones, Gadgets, Gaming, Mobile, Software · Tags: Android, EVE, gameshogun, iPhone, Kingdom, mmorpg, Mobile, nokia, Parallel, warcraftNokia 5800 Announced
October 6, 2008 · Comments
Remember Nokia 5800? The cellphone which was also dubbed as Nokia tube and was also called Xpressmedia instead of Xpressmusic. Nokia had just announced this new phone, anyway I will give you the specifications.
TFT touchscreen, 16M colors
360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Handwriting recognition
microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, 8GB included
81 MB internal memory
128 MB SDRAM memory
ARM 11 369 MHz CPU
HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
Black, Red, Blue
3.15 mega pixels with Carl Zeiss optics, Flash & autofocus
Video (VGA at 30FPS)flash
secondary videocall camera
Built-in GPS receiver
A-GPS support
Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch
Stereo FM radio with RDS
TV out
As you can see, that is a touchscreen phone. What do you think?, can it be the iPhone and iPod touch killer?
JAM online
Nokia E90 Communicator Review
September 17, 2008 · Comments
[Photo courtesy of airgap]
If you were able to track the posts I have made in this blog, you might be wondering why I have a gadget review all of a sudden. Well, I just tried requesting for a trial from WOMWorld just like what Kuya did to review the Nokia E71. In my case, I requested for a Nokia E90 Communicator that shall be returned to WOMWorld after having the opportunity to test it out for a span of 2 weeks. Isn’t that cool? It’s hot! :)
Filed under Cellphones, Gadgets, Mobile · Tags: e90, Gadgets, nokia, reviewEasy English PSL: A Must Have Learning Gadget
September 14, 2008 · Comments
Getting bored with the usual textbooks? Ever imagine your book with sounds and fully colored pictures? With the revolutionary educational toy, Easy English PSL, you’ll be learning English and have fun both at the same time.
Easy English Palm-Size Learner (EE PSL) is an MP4 player that is preloaded with fully illustrated voice-narrated chip containing classic English literature, vocabulary words, garden of verses and other information that will help a child with his grammar, intonation and pronunciation.
It specifically contains 104 Aesop’s fables, 20 A Child’s Garden of Verses, 37 Teaching Manners, 154 Mother Goose rhymes and a thousand vocabulary words. All contents were studied thoroughly by the experts of American Institutes for Learning.
With this learning device, you don’t need to buy volumes of books for you to be able to learn English. It’s also very handy that you can listen to it anytime, anywhere. It’s also a great way to attract children to give time to study instead of just spending time with the console. With a very helpful gadget like this, no doubt that the future generation will be able to master the English language fluently.
Last Friday, A-Z Marketing and Reverie Communication and Connections formally launched the said product and it’s now available to the public. You can buy now EE PSL in it’s introductory price of 7,999. If you are interested, you may contact Reverie Communications and Connections, Incorporated at 735-5132 and 723-1242 or A-Z Marketing, Incorporated at 747-9250.
Filed under Computers, Electronics, Gadgets, Handhelds, Multimedia, Peripherals, Uncategorized · Tags: a-z, easy english, education, english, Gadget, learner, learning, MP4, picture, portable, reverie, soundGlobe iPhone 3G Countdown Launch Party!
August 22, 2008 · Comments
Are you wondering what happened last night at the Globe iPhone 3G Countdown Launch Party?
Try to the watch the archived (live) streaming of the event at Qik and Bambuser! The Qik stream was captured through a Nokia E71 while the Bambuser stream was created through my Sony Ericsson P990i.
Capturing photos was somewhat hard for my SE P990i’s had a weird reaction adjusting to the lights and all so I just thought that it would be much better to stream the event live. The connection I had used was one of the 5 free WiFi access points that Globe provided during the event at Ayala Tower One.
So how about you? Are you planning to get an iPhone too or do you have one already? :)
Filed under Cellphones, Events, Gadgets, Mobile, News, Telecom · Tags: globe, iPhone, launchGrander Human Technology But Natively Restricted
August 20, 2008 · Comments
We all have these unique and weird personal taste of our favorite breakfast meal, lunch express food, our own sober taste of meal that is. Some of us prefer spicy delicacies, others carve for juicy and sweet ones. Most of us hunger for our own personal taste at a mouthful level when it comes to personal food taste.
I was in in my elementary school, at 6th grade hearing the news that a failing satellite is currently falling and could probably fall into our area. I was so alarmed and confused then, thinking how could a man-made high-tech space wagon successfully launched away from earth’s gravitational force and ejected itself into earth’s atmosphere and suddenly failed to carefully hover down to earth’s human soil? And so, I skipped out that school day and immediately went back home without telling my teacher back then.
Simply speaking, technology had brought us far from humans have ever imagined. We have touched down our very own satellite which we called moon, we have explored planet Mars and we have even gone farther than Pluto and discovered more planets besides from the named 9 planets of our own solar system. Human technology had jumped us ahead of our time and decades, in a grander scale that is.
Yes, technology had done this, did that, been there, covered that, and um dit dat dot com. Plaks! What about our very own and little-minding personal grunchy taste like our favorite breakfast meals or lunch foods. When could our current technology bring our hunger to a higher level of satisfaction and convenience, than of eating and having a taste of our favorite food?
Filed under Electronics, Gadgets, Peripherals, Robotics · Tags: robotMediaSmart Server
August 4, 2008 · Comments
Information overload is upon us. That means we need more storage. Fortunately, digital storage has become cheaper by the day. A terabyte is not so uncommon anymore. With multimedia rapidly becoming digitized, the demand for more space is rising. I deal with storage daily, may it be work related or personal. I have a habit of preserving every single byte of data that comes across my way, therefore I also have a habit of looking for new ways to preserve my data as well as conserve on cost. Read more »»
Filed under Gadgets · Tags: backup, drive, information, mediasmart, network, secure, Storage8 Megapixel Samsung INNOV8
July 26, 2008 · Comments
Samsung officially announced the Samsung i8510 INNOV8 today.
Here are some cool specifications:
•2.8 inches 16.7 million color QVGA TFT
•HSDPA (7.2 Mbps OMG!)
•Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
•Symbian OS v9.3, Series 60 rel. 3.2
•8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, image stabiliser, video(VGA@30fps, QVGA@120fps), flash; secondary videocall camera
•Built-in GPS receiver
•A-GPS function
•Camera images geo-tagging
•Smart reader, auto-panorama shot, smile shot, blink shot
•DivX/H.263/H.264/WMV/MP4 player
•Video editing
•MP3/eAAC+/WMA/AMR/RealAudio player
•3.5 mm audio output jack
•Java MIDP 2.0
•FM radio with RDS
•Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
•Optical Mouse
Samsung INNOV8 is stored with a huge memory – 8GB and 16GB plus a expandable microSD slot up to 8 gb. It has also a GPS and WI-FI. Its Camera is 8 Megapixel auto focus with a eye popping frame rates at 30FPS@VGA and 120FPS@QVGA. All I can say is this is MONSTER SMARTPHONE.
Filed under Cameras, Cellphones, Gadgets · Tags: INNOV8, SamsungWearable eye-controlled gadgets in tests
June 30, 2008 · 4 Comments
Ever get tired of wasting more time looking for your TV remote or tired of standing up just to get the remote just to turn up the volume? Well, this is for you.
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo is testing a gadget where you can turn up the volume of a portable music player by just rolling your eyes and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD player.
Although it is still unknown when or will it be out in the market. But if ever it gets in the market, I bet it will sell like hot-cakes specially to those who is lazy to stand up.. :D
In a demonstration Tuesday, researcher Hiroyuki Manabe wore a giant headset covered with wires to show how computer graphic lines in a monitor connected to the headset darted wildly whenever his eyes moved.
He turned up the volume on a digital music player by rolling his eyes, and he jerked his eyes twice to the right to fast forward.
Via [CNN Tech]
Filed under Gadgets, Wireless · Tags: Gadget, tech, Wireless