Disqus - Latest Comments for Steve Paine

Re: Kevin Gets a USB HSDPA Modem

Steve Paine — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:47:39 -0000

I'm tempted to take the Q1B apart now to check out the HSDPA modem. Especially as I want it in the Everun!

Decisions decisions.

Steve

Re: Total Cost for Kohjinsha SH6 If I Ordered Today

Steve Paine — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:22:48 -0000

This sounds a litle expensive but remember its an import. There is a localised vesion apearing in the uk now and if this makes it through to the u.s. retail channels i think you will see some cheaper prices.

Re: Amtek T770 Vendor Sighting

Steve Paine — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:03:11 -0000

T770 is a solid slate device. really not bad at all. Price could be cheaper I think though.

Steve.

Re: Mr Jones’ UMPC Concept

Steve Paine — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:20:33 -0000

Akihabara are playing catch-up?
The Design is from Crispin Jones.

http://www.umpcportal.com/journal/2006/11/desig...

Steve.

Re: Kohjinsha SH6 hard drive upgraded to 250GB

Steve Paine — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:12:47 -0000

Even more of a digital photographers dream PC now!
S.

Re: Michael Connick actually likes Vista!

Steve Paine — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:54:36 -0000

Vista does, indeed, work well with 2GB RAM on an SH6. Quite amazing really.

However, XP Tablet runs faster and would probably allow you to get the same productivity out of a 1GB machine. It largely depends on your tablet requirements. As i'm someoone that doesn't use handwriting, there aren't many features in Vista that really make much difference to me.

The key thing is, get the 2GB upgrade when you buy an SH6 and then you have the choice of OS.

Steve

Re: New icon on my iPhone

Steve Paine — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:15:33 -0000

I'm with you there on the iTunes purchasing thought. I did actually buy a couple of tracks recently but i'm back to buying the real CD thing now. Can't beat a bit of plastic in your hand / CDROM-ripper!

Steve.

Re: Kohjinsha SH6 & Vye Mini-v S37 side-by-side comparison

Steve Paine — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:44:38 -0000

I'm waiting to hear back from Vye on this. At the moment it looks like I have a duff or sub-optimal (great expression!) prototype.
Watch this (or my!) space.
S.

Re: Broadcom VideoCore III multimedia processor

Steve Paine — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:34:28 -0000

What we need is a combo PCI-express mini card with this, hsdpa and GPS all on board!

Steve.

Re: Portable EVDO WiFi LAN Photos

Steve Paine — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:47:22 -0000

Looks pretty fruity to me!!!

Re: Stormtrooper is mine

Steve Paine — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:40:17 -0000

Congratulations!

Strange to hear about the light touch though.

Do the missing keys (e.g. tab) annoy you?

Steve

Re: Chippy’s UMPC miniblog.: Portable 15-hour car/desktop PC

Steve Paine — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:08:55 -0000

Hey Rod.
Thanks for the link!

Your link above to your mounting solution is broken tho!

Steve.

Re: No love for UMPC inkers

Steve Paine — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:24:21 -0000

The Asus R70 is something inkers should be watching out for at CeBIT but i'd put money on it have a soft touch screen.

Steve.

Re: N810 get a $90 price cut

Steve Paine — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:25:11 -0000

Agree with you there Rodfather.

My theory is that they're trying to stimulate the development community. They rely totally on it and if those developers stroll of to iPhone or MID land, they will end up having to pay a lot more for development.

Having used the M528 and seen some of the dev work going on in and around the Atom ecosystem, Nokia should indeed think carefully about what OS they persue for the N810.

Steve.

Re: What’s with all the give-a-way’s?

Steve Paine — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:02:00 -0000

This is a load of old bollocks

(does that word work in the u.s.)

Steve

Re: What’s with all the give-a-way’s?

Steve Paine — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:07:50 -0000

20 comments to go.....

(are multiple comments allowed?!!)

S.

Re: Video Demo: Nokia N95 Original’s Firmware 21.0.001 Built-in Youtube Flash Support

Steve Paine — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:00:44 -0000

It's hardly playing! Its more like an occasional screen shot of the YouTube video. Or is it just a bad YouTube vid? Good technical advance for S60 though. Put that on a Cortex core and we could be seeing impressive results.

Isn't it funny though how one of the most inefficient codec implementations in use today has become a benchmark. Content is still king!

Steve / Chippy.

Re: Help test my Nokia mobile web server

Steve Paine — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:14:56 -0000

Offline :-(

Steve.

Re: What Device Are You Using?

Steve Paine — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:23:49 -0000

Nokia (not in the poll?) feature phone and complementary UMPC for the best internet experience. (WHy are tablet PC's and UMPCs listed as phones/pdas?)

Chippy.

Re: Steve’s First impressions about the OQO Model e2 1.6Ghz

Steve Paine — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:39:08 -0000

Frank.

You have a very bad habit of highlighting only bad things about UMPCs! You should be a journalist ;-)

Steve.

Re: When will I get this kind of convergence?

Steve Paine — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:24:40 -0000

If you want 3G, you're going to have to pay for it. Its very expensive for the modems.

The HTC Advantage and Nokia E90 are your closest matches. E90 has AGPS now. Not VGA but wide-screen (800px)

Steve.

Re: Introducing Origami

Steve Paine — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:18:40 -0000

Robert.

You said you want to use this as an in-car GPS device? I see form factor problems. Only American cars have dashboards big enough for it!! ;-)

Regards
Steve.

Re: Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review)

Steve Paine — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:06:32 -0000

I don't like the Kindle. But I don't like this video either. Stopped at 3:15 becuase you're being an arsehole Robert.

'The designer should be fired' 'Obviously didnt hold it'

Ok its a crap device but comments like that don't help.

Totally over-played for the camera and for attention.

Steve.

Re: Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks

Steve Paine — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:00:42 -0000

The mobile web doesnt have to suck, the problem is that you can't do it on a phone yet.
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/news/article....

PC-based devices are on their way. I use an Everun as a mobile web device (I do a LOT of mobile web and therefore its worth me taking a seperate device) but thats nothing compared to the size that we could see in 2008.

Check out this demonstrator:
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/news/article....

and this size comparison:
http://www.umpcportal.com/gallery/v/var/Image7....

Once someone has written some decent software, decent mobile web will be with us and we won't have to bother about optimised web pages any more.

Steve
UMPCPortal

Re: The Cell Phone Is The New Computer

Steve Paine — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:37:49 -0000

I heard this a few years ago in Germany too. Its an important point and could be the reason that prices for data are kept high. To reduce demand.

Currently, early adopters are having a nice time surfing on 3G networks but that could change quickly if the number of users rises.

Steve.

Re: The Mobile Web and the ‘mdot’ solution

Steve Paine — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:28:31 -0000

@simon.

ok, its true that some of these devices still have some issues but they are far removed from the 2" experience. The argument remains, there are many mobile internet devices (and there will be many more) that present the web in its intended format.

Zteve