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Re: The Canadian Milestone Won’t Be Seeing Froyo This Year

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:37:01 -0000

Mexico and Latin america won't get Froyo on the Milestone...

Re: Motorola Droid X Gets a Custom ROM

Florian Rohrweck — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:31:56 -0000

Hey, come on... Show me Cyanogenmod running and I will accept that this is a REAL custom rom with a unofficial kernel! Bet this is just another ROM-Mod...
Edit: They say everything is compiled from scratch... hasn't the droidx the same locked bootloader like the motorola milestone? (signed kernel needed etc?)
EDIT: OF COURSE it is just a mod. Why this is so important? Because when Motorola stops supporting the phone there is no possibility to port gingerbread or later versions to phones with their god damn locked bootloader. It is still a dead end!

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:11:24 -0000

Knowledge fail. OF COURSE Google will release an x86 friendly Android version. Yeah, if you'd pay a little attention, you might have noticed that GOOGLE TV runs on an ATOM (yeah, that "might" be x86). Intel itself is working on an x86 port of Froyo and it will be released soon.
EDIT: Yes it will be open source too.

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:28:15 -0000

http://apcmag.com/intel-preps-android-froyo-x86-for-netbooks-and-slates.htm
http://www.google.com/tv/
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers#p/c/B09682344C2F233B/9/xYXSOaC1xv8
Want more? ^^

Edit - More:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers#p/c/B09682344C2F233B/1/YLwRGQ1okx8
http://techlogg.com/2010/05/intels-atom-ce4100-the-brains-behind-google-tv/493
I thought everyone knew that already ^^

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:09:57 -0000

Word!
Well, we'll just have to wait... I think the time Gingerbread will be released we will see more products that might be considered as perfect ;)
Now a lot of cheapo-companies try... they will fail and the rest that succeeds will improver their products in the second gen :)

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:14:39 -0000

1st gen devices are always f*cking expensive or total crap... We'll wait for the second gen :) They will be awesome!
Survival of the fittest ftw!

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:21:04 -0000

Hey, if i can use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse and there's a decent docking station, why not? :)
Yeah, but it is def. a touch device fail ^^ Dual boot option is great for that... reminds me of the HTC shift somehow...

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:44:24 -0000

Well, that doesn't really mean a thing... you can update the launcher on 1.6 with ADW... then you'll have the drawer button and the two custom shortcuts :) A lot of companies don't use the stock launcher of 1.6 anymore

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:45:10 -0000

I will ;)
More likely than iOS going Open Source

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:45:57 -0000

uhm... bluetooth mouse and keyboard?

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:03:45 -0000

Agree!
They already anounced a 2nd gen of the Galaxy Tab with honeycomb :) I guess I will wait until then
7 inch is really neat... doesn't consume so much space on the working desk and is highly portable yet very useable...

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:31:10 -0000

Same thing happened to smartphones running windows mobile 6.5, remember?
But the market will regulate itself, It will take some time, but it will happen.
In a year, there will be some Android Tablet manufacturers that are known for their quality... sure there will be a lot of cheap-crap-tabs, but well... they will have the same market position like the china-mobiles nowadays

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:49:37 -0000

*sigh*
Who talks about a replacement?
Btw. there are small foldable bluetooth keyboards out there.
And why win7? Well, if I'm on the go and a customer calls me, it is more likely that I've a smaller device with me. And believe me, there are times in your life where you wish your smartphone would run windows 7 too. Powerusers like me DEFINETELY LOVE such a dual boot option. Def. a plus in case of emergency, and I've lots of them when no notebook is around. I like travelling light.
Maybe you see everything from a slightly different angle. If the hardware would be better, I'd order the tablet today.
Edit: Yes I've got a Mac and a Macbook and a iPod touch too.

Re: ViewSonic 10-inch dual boot ViewPad preview

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:58:41 -0000

Well... Apple: Billions of dollars for development and research, already established contracts with hardware manufacturers
Smaller Newcomers: ??????
What do you expect? Seriously? Everyone has to start somewhere and they don't have the resources apple has.
It is a little narrow sighted to bitch around about "iPad being so great"
The ipad is just a product resulting from iPhone development. So add a few years and think about it.. It is not really 1st gen using the iPhone os, same Processor and overall hardware of the iPhone.

Re: Google Being Sued Over Issues with Nexus One

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:54:48 -0000

How about suing Motorola for the fucking Milestone fiasco? o.O
I've got a Milestone and I'd love to punch this whiny bastard "Nathan Nabors" directly in the face. They still get new roms and updates for the N1!! (the latest one was released TODAY) What are they complaining about??
We have to fight to get some shitty bugfixes and Froyo will arrive end of the year for the Milestone! (Latin America propably won't see it anyway)
We even can't use custom roms with an unofficial kernel (NO, ROM MODS USE STOCK-KERNELS, NO CUSTOM KERNEL POSSIBLE)
Fuck this pisses me off!

Re: Google Sued Over Nexus One 3G Connectivity Problems, Misleading Claims

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:32:31 -0000

I'll trade my Motorola Milestone for a N1 anytime. Someone interested?
Stop complaining if you never had a Failstone. You don't know what real phone issues are.

Re: Apple sucks at Photoshop too

Florian Rohrweck — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:54:25 -0000

I bet their awesome engineers used Photoshop for the antenna design of the iPhone 4. #design over function

Re: Keepin it real fake: N-KIA E68 shows more innovation that Nokia (video)

Florian Rohrweck — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:29:21 -0000

Wow, this isn't even totally stupid o.O I'm surprised
Only thing is: the whole display eats battery, even when the slider is closed...
it'd be cool to separate the display... one smaller one in the window will become a touch sensitive display just for navigation/tab browsing and another, bigger, formerly hidden display next to it powers on when the slider is opened...

Re: Keepin it real fake: N-KIA E68 shows more innovation that Nokia (video)

Florian Rohrweck — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:49:58 -0000

OLED would require a company that uses quality displays... china mobiles are unlikely to get expensive displays
but in theory, you are perfectly right :) that would be a good solution!

Re: share

Florian Rohrweck — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:42:32 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Love & Desperation. The Motorola Milestone Story. Enjoy.

Re: Keepin it real fake: N-KIA E68 shows more innovation that Nokia (video)

Florian Rohrweck — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:47:29 -0000

THX, you are right :) hmmm.. I gotta look up more vids of this phone, maybe I find one where I can see better what's actually happening

Re: iPod nano code hints at possible video playback

Florian Rohrweck — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:38:26 -0000

We call that "code corpses" from recycled code.
Or: "Hey, we are so awesome, here is a TOTALLY NEW feature we developed just for you!" (which was already there and we just flicked a switch)

Re: iPod nano code hints at possible video playback

Florian Rohrweck — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:40:17 -0000

LOL :D

Re: Google Walking Navigation beta and Street View now available for Android

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:01:30 -0000

Install marketenabler, fake tmobile us, remove old streetview via adb, or maps if it fails (maybe you've got a custom rom) install the crap, done
Works fine for me on my htc magic running cyanogenmod6 final in Austria.

Re: Google Walking Navigation beta and Street View now available for Android

Florian Rohrweck — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:07:26 -0000

Some day my friend... some day....