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Re: Who is Michael Hell?

xmichaelsfx — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:08:49 -0000

thank you so much rita, it means a lot! :)

Re: Who is Michael Hell?

khouryrt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:38:23 -0000

Michael Hell is a good friend, a down to earth guy when it comes to tech and many other things, and a blogger i can't wait to follow :)
Congrats on the new site, Michael!

Re: Telechargez le Theme Officiel de la Symbian Foundation

khouryrt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:41:06 -0000

En fait il y a quelqu'un qui l'a essayé sur un N78 (S60 v3, fp2) et ca marche aussi nickel. Voici les screenshots qu'il a mises: http://moby.to/u966od – http://moby.to/ejq55z

Re: News en bref du jour

khouryrt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:18:07 -0000

Pssst, Bassim, il s'appelle Jon le gars de Tehkseven, et pas Paul ;) Paul avait reposté la news sur d'autres sites, mais c'est Jon qui a fait la vidéo :D

Re: Nokia Messaging, The End Of My/Your Woes?

twitter-19126437 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:44:09 -0000

Yes, we are.

Re: Nokia Messaging, The End Of My/Your Woes?

khouryrt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:50:31 -0000

As I said, the new clients built-in the 5730XM, 6720 Classic, and E55 are miles better than the E75's and N86's.

Re: Nokia Messaging, The End Of My/Your Woes?

khouryrt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:49:43 -0000

As I said above, as far as I understand it, the paid service will be for push notifications. NM will still remain free otherwise.

Re: Nokia Messaging, The End Of My/Your Woes?

khouryrt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:48:44 -0000

I'm on Bouygues Telecom's Neo.2 ;)

Re: Nokia Messaging, The End Of My/Your Woes?

khouryrt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:48:21 -0000

The S60 5th edition client asks for the Access Point even before beginning the setup, which is a huge step forward. I understand your frustration, for now, the only way you can have it select WiFi, is to go into Offline Mode before starting the NM setup, open the browser and trigger a WiFi connection, then start setting up NM while in offline. Should work.

Re: Nokia Messaging, The End Of My/Your Woes?

khouryrt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:46:29 -0000

Oh that must be crazy for you. I hope someone from NM is reading this.

Re: Nokia Messaging, The End Of My/Your Woes?

khouryrt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:45:44 -0000

As far as I understand, even though you can tinker the setting to save messages for more than 3 days, the option isn't yet good to go, so it'll only save messages 3 days old no matter what you set it to. This is about to change, as they have improved the memory handling issues. Imagine if you were able to let it save more than 3 days, your internal memory would be bleeding like crazy now ;)
And as far as the free trial goes, also as far as I understand, it will still be free, only the push the service will be paid if I'm not mistaken.

Re: Nokia X6 Picture Gallery And Video Preview

khouryrt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:42:19 -0000

Well the homescreen is different, but still efficient, and there's the 5MP camera and the 32GB of memory for those who didn't like the 5800XM.

Re: Nokia X6 Picture Gallery And Video Preview

khouryrt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:41:40 -0000

No, there wasn't a plastic film over the screen, as far as i remember.

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Software Overview

khouryrt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:29:22 -0000

Ouh, nice, thanks :D I'd love a piece of that cake, and maybe to get to blow the candles ;)

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

khouryrt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:29:36 -0000

Well, on my prototype unit, it froze like hell every 2 seconds, and I had to take the pictures manually. I had already said that this is probably an old software version ;) But thanks for pointing out that the final version doesn't have this issue.

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

khouryrt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:35:27 -0000

Yeah, obviously whenever u want to add a shortcut to anything, u can either add an application or a bookmark, so SE didn't change that feature, but I feel like they should have because it doesn't look appropriate on that tab for newcoming users.

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

khouryrt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:32:51 -0000

Good point about the brand loyalty, and I can relate to that. In Lebanon, a lot of people are loyal to Nokia, but others are either loyal to "anything but Nokia" or to a specific brand. The Satio may as well be the next logical step for all die-hard SE fans, and it wouldn't disappoint them, as there are a lot of similiraties in terms of hardware with the regular SE design, as well as some very enticing features like the cam and the media.

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

khouryrt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:03:45 -0000

The Panorama mode wasn't very functional on this prototype, so I didn't really show it here. I do have a short video though of it, but I'm pretty sure the final software will have the bugs figured out. If I do post that video online at some point, I'll come back here and give you a link ;)

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

khouryrt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:01:52 -0000

I knew someone would ask this as I didn't really explain the issue in the article ;) Predictive text was present on the Satio (only in T9, not in fullscreen qwerty), and my issue with repetitive taps was with both scenarios that you explained.
ie, if it T9 was on, and I'd want to write "on" or "no", or "cab" or any of those words that require the same key being pressed repeatedly, or even taping * to cycle through the different predictive possibilities, the Satio would have a problem dealing with that.
And, if T9 was off, which I do sometimes because I write arabic in latin letters (and you can only imagine that predictive T9 doesn't understand a word of what I'm saying), the issue would become even more important and unbearable.
The thing is though, that it seemed that at the end of my one-week trial, the screen's responsiveness kind of improved. It's a *very* subjective feeling, but many things "seemed" to improve throughout my trial. I don't know how. Like, when I first got it, it would hang and freeze frequently (proto software), but after a week, it could go on for a full day without any freezes.

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

khouryrt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:55:18 -0000

Heh, I love your enthusiasm in that comment. As I said, I use bluetooth headsets so the lack of a proper 3.5mm plug isn't *THAT* much of an issue for me. If you like the Satio, you should consider this as a possible solution to your problem ;)

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

teknolog — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:55:58 -0000

Well, another way would be to record the sound on a different device and then mix them together. I would understand if that's too much trouble. Good work with the videos, I can live with the noise. Very happy to see the Satio turning out well!

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

khouryrt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:49:38 -0000

Well, I tried fixed initial focus but it loses focus quickly on my Kodak V1273. And this is as much as I can currently afford in terms of video recording, which is a huge step from recording videos with normal focus on my N82.
If you're really pissed by the autofocus sound, you're welcome to invest in a decent camcorder for me. I wouldn't mind ;)

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

khouryrt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:46:22 -0000

Spot on!

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Software & Interface Videos Walkthroughs

khouryrt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:46:00 -0000

Well, SE added kinetic scrolling to their parts of the UI, so I assume that if they want to add kinetic to the browser and through all the UI, it wouldn't be a coding issue for them ;) would be interesting to see if it makes it to the final production software, or in a firmware update of such.
As well as for the music jack, I usually use bluetooth headset, so this will never be a HUGE deal for me. I understand though that it can be for others.

Re: Sony Ericsson Satio Review – Hardware & Design

tjmonkey15 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:19:18 -0000

That's good to hear about the scratching, whether it's glass or not.