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Re: The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

Charbax — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:13:11 -0000

Archos 5 Internet Tablet is the best hardware with Android at the moment.

Archos displays 800x480 medium density on a much larger 2x larger screen. You get the full width of all websites with no zooming in needed.

Any app, including twidroid look much better on Archos much larger screen simply because you get 2x more information on the screen. And the Archos is not too big to fit in a pocket, it's smaller than most wallets and passports.

Archos costs $249 with no contracts needed, just WiFi or 3G through bluetooth tethering.

Archos supports USB or Bluetooth mouse and keyboard input for Android, also when outputting Android in 720p to a HDTV using HDMI. I can easilly type this comment using my Archos and a full sized pocketable foldable bluetooth keyboard, while nobody not even geeks care to type such long blog comments using any touch screen (resistive or capacitative) or any droid-like tiny thumb keyboards. Those thumb keyboards are only good for short sms or twitter type messages while standing.

iphone, droid, palm do NOT support Youtube HD 1280x720 2mbit/s playback. (what are you talking about??) Archos supports real Youtube HD support on a HDTV through HDMI output see http://archosfans.com/2009/11/03/archos-5-inter...

multitouch is a useless gimmick but can easily be added to Android (probably some sort of US-only legal matter because Apple wants to own IP to be the only one to use multitouch or something, but Google shouldn't have to respect that completely idiotic claim (apple never invented anything)).

droid is just one of 50+ Android phones coming out in the next few weeks. It doesn't matter that Verizon wants to sell this overpriced phone (which costs $150 to manufacture) with a $2839 to $3799 contract same ridiculous total cost of ownership for the iphone.

Re: PrintBrush Looks Like Magic, Makes Printing Not Suck

Charbax — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:50:39 -0000

I filmed this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B93qx7CXxw

Re: 85,000 reasons why Apple’s iPhone isn’t going to be disrupted

Charbax — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:06:56 -0000

Those 30 or so "important" apps are available on Android as well, or if they are important enough can easily be made available.

Re: 85,000 reasons why Apple’s iPhone isn’t going to be disrupted

Charbax — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:38:43 -0000

1. Android phones will be sold for $100 UNLOCKED. How come? Well that's simply cause 25 manufacturers are making Android phones, and in fact it only costs $100 to manufacture one of these 3.5" smartphones.

2. You will never see real VOIP apps on the iphone cause Apple and AT&T and other iphone carriers around the world are corrupt and they hate VOIP. The carriers feel VOIP is their worse enemy. You won't even see fake VOIP apps like Google Voice on the iphone.

Android will have real SIP, Skype and other real VOIP apps. Which means that with a $100 Android phone, no need to EVER pay for voice and sms.

3. Android does multi-tasking which matters. You want your phone to ring on incoming VOIP calls you want it to do sounds on incoming IM, RSS, and any other pings and updates from any other number of really useful apps. The iphone does none of that cause it's just not made right.

Finally, Sales of Android phones is accelerating. Iphone sales are definitely slowing.

Next year iphone sales will be nill and Android will dominate.

Re: 85,000 reasons why Apple’s iPhone isn’t going to be disrupted

Charbax — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:50:55 -0000

IF they are not iFart apps, most apps are worthless copies of other apps. I can get an automatic system to make an iphone app for $5 on certain websites, a useless app that basically lists some random blogs RSS feed or something worthless like that. That should not count as an app, because in fact this app produces thousands of copy apps which are all basically one app.

Re: Google Reader's Magic Finds Personalized Highlights In Feeds

Charbax — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:36:45 -0000

This is finally a good reason to Like items on Google Reader.

If there is a good way to get recommendations from all feeds of the whole web in real-time, based on topics of Interest or keywords, then this will be a good replacement for the web.

I posted for them to do this since 2007: http://groups.google.com/group/google-reader-fe... and http://www.getsfn.com/google_reader/topics/feed... This could be very significant and turn Google Reader into the place everyone will read the web + realtime web.

Hopefully this will lead to the decentralization of freedom of speech, so everyone with a good idea, everyone with a good story, will automatically filter to the top of everyones Magic read/see/watch/listen lists.

Deending on how good the algorithm is, if they integrate with Youtube and Picasaweb, if they offer granularity in the ways that Magic list is generated, this could be the big revolution.

Re: Google Reader Adds Magic to Your Feeds

Charbax — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:19:53 -0000

Finally Google does what I asked them to do since 2007: http://groups.google.com/group/google-reader-fe... and http://www.getsfn.com/google_reader/topics/feed... This could be very significant and turn Google Reader into the place everyone will read the web + realtime web.

Hopefully this will lead to the decentralization of freedom of speech, so everyone with a good idea, everyone with a good story, will automatically filter to the top of everyones Magic read/see/watch/listen lists.

Deending on how good the algorithm is, if they integrate with Youtube and Picasaweb, if they offer granularity in the ways that Magic list is generated, this could be the big revolution.

Re: Unboxing the Asus O!Play Media Player – Video

Charbax — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:46:15 -0000

I wonder if it supports H264 1080p High Profile, all bitrates, MKV container, any USB hard drive formatting including NTFS, I wonder if it plays anything from the web, including perhaps provide a web browser and Youtube HD streaming support, BitTorrent downloading to external hard drive and RSS video podcast support, I wonder if the USB works for USB keyboard for text input as well.

Re: DMP Edubook: Another shot at the mythical $100 netbook

Charbax — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:51:37 -0000

I filmed this at Computex here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7aPQpLEgU

Nicholas Negroponte makes the $100 Laptop a possibility.

If 6 million units had been ordered, the $100 price point would have been reached already. By switching from AMD Geode to VIA, OLPC XO-1.5 may reach the $100 price point sooner, though millions more orders are required for that to happen.

OLPC XO-2 due next year will definitely be priced below $100 since it uses the ARM processor which consumes much lower power thus costs much less to manufacture.

And Intel netbooks are not $150, that' only when some retailers are dumping old stocks of it and selling them at a loss.

Re: Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors

Charbax — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:53:22 -0000

Gmail is email. Easy thing to do.

Wave is a new platform for the revolution for all the things on the Internet.

Re: Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

Charbax — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:20:32 -0000

This blog post can be a public wave for example, by copying a simply Javascript code in the HTML source code or installing a Google Wave wordpress plugin.

Now imagine having that wave in your wave client simply showing up to the top of your "list of blog posts that you follow" (also can be filtered by which type of blogs), click on an updated wave and it jumps you directly to the new content.

I predict that Wave Clients will soon be the RSS/comment reader of choice, and the blog publisher of choice for most people. Want to post a new entry on your blog? Simply create a new wave, then monitor all comments inside of it, done deal. If you want, you can let your blog visitors or your wave feed subscribers see while you are editing a new blog entry in real-time and they can even comment and chat with you while you are writing it to actually help you write better blog posts. And then also everyone can see your changes in real-time and play them back.

That wiki collaboration function of wave does not have to be everywhere. Comments are edited by commenters, while the blog post can be written by one or several bloggers according to the creator of that blog post. And obviously you need to login to your blog using a remote Wordpress login process.

Re: Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

Charbax — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:25:22 -0000

I think you are majorly mistaken on your review of Wave:

1. When anyone updates a Wave that you are participating in, it does pop to the top of the page.

2. Wave will make everyone 10 times more productive than Email, Facebook, Twitter and Frienfeed. Basically it's going to be one place to monitor updates and response to all your online activities.

3. The killer app in Wave are the public Waves. Basically this is much better than Disqus and Friendfeed to keep track of all your online activities. Basically it makes all your online activities much more relevant by them not just disappearing in the web, but you storing, monitoring, updating, creating all your online activities through waves.

Try it again..

Re: Xtra Ordinary software turns an OLPC XO Laptop into a standard notebook

Charbax — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:10:15 -0000

Lots of free alternatives to this.

Re: Archos 5 Internet Tablet Review - Archos 5 Internet Tablet Review

Charbax — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:24:55 -0000

http://update.archos.com/7/archos5/changes_firm... says firmware Version 1.0.20 adds: "Browser: video playback is supported on Youtube mobile website", so I would think the Youtube videos on this page would playback fine in full screen.

See m comment further down, Archos has supported Flash 9 on the last two generations, though with Android Archos is kind of forced to wait for Opera, Firefox and the real full Google Chrome browser to be added to Android and with Flash support. For now, Google doesn't even support Flash on Chrome for X86 Linux based systems. But this should all change in the next couple or three months now with Android 1.6 (which was released less than a week ago) and Android Native SDK (which was released less than 3 months ago).

Re: Archos 5 Internet Tablet Review - Archos 5 Internet Tablet Review

Charbax — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:37:18 -0000

- You can install any Android app by simply downloading it to the device and double clicking on the .apk file. Alternative app libraries should become available simply by downloading and installing those as apps. The full Google Applications Marketplace should also become available as soon as the industry updates to Android 1.6 in the next few weeks.
- Archos did support Flash 9 in their own Archos OS, but since Google' webkit browser does not support Flash yet in Android, Archos has to wait a bit. But it shouldn't be long before full Chrome, Firefox and Opera will be available in Android now that 1.6 and Native SDK are out. And Adobe has announce Flash 10 for Android for within a few months.
- I think you can "undo" the mobile mode of the browser to only load full webpages for those websites that detect mobile browsers to load mobile versions of them. If you can't Archos should be able to fix that browser user agent ID thing.
- The GPS software is just Archos partnering with GPS technology provider to provide a kick-ass high resolution 3D GPS application for Android, but you can run any other Android application for GPS and location based services.
- For email I expect you can find the Gmail .apk or Google will make a full Gmail app for it in 800x480 resolution then you'd have the best and full email experience with exchange or whatever you need.
- About that capacitative business, I haven't seen any device in the world with 800x480 4.8" capacitative touchscreens. I just don't think it exists.

Re: Foursquare: will it be bigger than Twitter?

Charbax — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:26:18 -0000

I think you can turn off Google Latitude in one click when you don't want it to monitor where you are. You can also set rights in Latitude so only groups of people know where you are at certain times. Family can know at a certain time, friends at another time and colleagues at another time.

Re: Archos 10s to hit the streets in October

Charbax — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:57:25 -0000

Sony comes with a similar thin and lite netbook in the Sony Vaio X series for 2000 dollars.

Re: ARCHOS 9PCtablet Making the Hands-On Rounds

Charbax — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:22:57 -0000

Resistive works just fine. Capacitative on 8.9" just does not exist. You need to calibrate resistive screens maybe the engadget reviewer did not try to calibrate it before using it.

Re: Foxconn working on ARM-based smartbooks

Charbax — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:20:55 -0000

On the off chance that Intel start making ARM processors again, yeah right. Those would have to run Linux or Windows 7 for ARM as well anyways.

Re: How It Works: The Continually Declining Cost of Unlimited Data Backup

Charbax — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:24:11 -0000

It sounds awesome. If someone could make a system that actually turns off unused hard drives, the power costs would thus be cut 99% as well. Since it probably costs a lot of money to have all these hard drives running all the time..

Basically it should be like this, if I want 1TB of online cloud backup storage, it should cost me only following:

Renting of 2 TB drives (so if one fails there is a copy somewhere else on the cloud)

Paying only of used bandwidth to upload/download to my drives.

Paying only of used power as the drives should only turn on when I need to access them. When I am done accessing them, they should switch off completely using absolutely no power.

This way, I may have 1TB of my personal files backed up on the cloud, for only about $60 per year (consider the hard drives have about a 3 year usage cycle, could be significantly longer though in this case, so 1TB could cost $40 or $30 per year considering that the hard drives that are mostly switched off should work for 5 years or 6 years) + $0.01 per GB of bandwidth used + $0.001 per hour that the hard drive needs to be powered (only while I need to transfer to/from it).

Then the next step would be to automatically determine which files are rarely accessed thus can be stored on cheaply powered mostly switched off hard drives, while files that are often accessed can be hosted on running and faster access hard drives. Also, if many people have the same divx/mp3 files on their personal backup storage, the system should automatically detect that and only host 1 copy of those popular files for everyone to access, thus saving a lot of the costs for storage and power as well.

Re: New Sony Rechargeable Battery Has 4X The Lifespan Of Current Lithium Ion Batteries

Charbax — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:57:04 -0000

It's probably too expensive to use in normal consumer electronics products. Notice how Sony avoids talking about price.

Re: YouTube: Our Business is Just Fine, Thank You

Charbax — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:29:11 -0000

That number is the amount of Youtube videos that I have watched while being logged in. All my uploaded videos are being viewed millions of times each year.

Re: TechCrunch: Arrington’s Showing His Ignorance.

Charbax — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:27:37 -0000

Arrington is right, the iphone truely sucks. And any apple fanboy that hasn't realized yet that it's an overpriced piece of junk need to wake up. Android FTW.

Re: Always Innovating Touch Book now shipping

Charbax — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:27:31 -0000

Ubuntu for ARM processors is not perfect yet. you can probably install Ubuntu on the Touchbook if you want.

Re: Want Google Wave Now? PyGoWave’s the Next Best Thing

Charbax — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:16:14 -0000

I want to test this too, please add me to your group I registered this username: Charbax

Looking forward to testing PyGo wave with you.