Friday, September 30, 2011

Mortal Kombat 3 legacy rebirth official "movie" trailer 2011 - YouTube

Mortal Kombat 3 legacy rebirth official "movie" trailer 2011 - YouTube: "

Been a fan of movies based on comic book characters, game characters and those derived from TV shows.

Though the 1st Mortal Combat movie was "exciting" it was more of cartoonish rather than serious to take ones. This trailer looks promising.

Monday, September 26, 2011

My New BlackBerry Playbook

 
At last I got my BlackBerry Playbook last saturday and was so excited to use it, and "bridge" it with my BlackBerry Bold 9780.

I've been using a Motorola Xoom for a while now and I have no complaints about it even up to now. I love the size of the screen of the Motorola Xoom. Whenever I'm out, I have with me, the Motorola Xoom, the LG Optimus One where a SUN Cellular Postpaid line is hooked up to, and this is what I use to connect the Xoom to the internet using Android's Mobile Router feature or the wireless tethering function. And of course, my trusty messenger, the BlackBerry Bold 9780 which is using a Globe Postpaid SIM with BlackBerry Internet Service. 

I'm not saying that I am not getting enough from what I'm paying Globe Telecoms with my unlimited data of BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), but with the BlackBerry Playbook, I mean, I can still do more. 

I love the Playbook for it's simplicity, this is what RIM is known for, they know how an "exclusive class" should look like. And one look at the Playbook will tell you right away of it's snooty-ness genre.
It's so plain and elegant that there are very few things that will break the continuous lines of the device. Ports at the bottom are the microHDMI, microUSB (which can be used for charging) and the propriatory port which is used with a dock. 
At the top there's the 3.5mm headphone jack (i would want it at the bottom just in case I use it with a car mount and no wires will be dangling all over the dashboard), the 4 flushed buttons (3 media buttons - volume up and down + the play/pause) and the power/standby button. And at the opposite side of the heasphone jack is the tiny hole for the microphone. 
On the sides of the screen are two speakers (stereo I think).
The screen is awesome, although small compared to the Motorola Xoom, but your eyes won't get strained while looking at it. One might think that the bezel is too think for the device, well, that's because those are touch-sensitive areas where "gestures" to control the device originates.
Originally there are 4 tabs for the applications: All, Favorites, Media and Games, but another tab is added, the BlackBerry Bridge tab, when the device is "paired" with a BlackBerry phone (OS5, OS6 and OS7 supported).
I'm very impressed at how almost immediate the notifications are. After hearing the alert from the phone, I check the Playbook and there it is, either the upper left corner is glowing (when you're on another application) or the notification icon appears. A bit of a warning though, Bridge will only give you alerts for BBM and emails messages, SMS and other application alerts doesn't happen on the Playbook.

The virtual keyboard is fun to use, but coming from the Motorola Xoom, I found it minuscule at first, but decided to do thumb-typing instead and everything now is a breeze.
One disappointment is the "selective" roll out of BlackBerry apps (the ones developed by RIM). It doesn't have the Podcasts and BlackBerry News app and I cannot download it from the App Store since it's not available in my region (PHILIPPINES).

Although some other disappointments are the lack of a native Twitter app (the one included is just a shortcut to the Twitter website), though a native Facebook app is included. Then there's the lack of instant messaging or video calling apps like Skype or GTalk. Not everyone has a BlackBerry Playbook to use the VideoCalling app. I have yet to test the AIM A/V app, hopefully it'll be my stopgap app until decent apps (if ever they come) are developed.
The Playbook is one multi-tasker if I might say, I opened up 5 tasks and still it works.

Here are pictures of my very new toy, a 16GB BlackBerry Playbook.

As you can see, the Xoom is humongous compared to the Playbook or the Playbook is minuscule compared to the Xoom.

Friday, September 23, 2011

SUN still tops Blackberry Plans in the Philippines



I'm a fairly young Blackberry user, having joined the Blackberry foray for just a couple of years.
My 1st Blackberry was a Curve 9520 their very 1st consumer oriented handheld and was reasonably priced. Before only the enterprise can afford a Blackberry. But with the market trends shifting, it was a good decision from RIM to "expand" their targets and include the pop consumers this time. And I guess they made the rgith choice not ignoring consumer demands.
I got the curve as a Globe prepaid kit, since I just want to try it out. It came with a free 1 month Blackberry Internet Service (BIS). And it that one month, I was hooked! Hooked I tell you! After that 1 month, I requested that the BIS on my plan be activated and from that day on, I've been using a Blackberry.
Problem is, it's a bit expensive. Then, it was P1200/month for the BIS alone, that's on top of my Monthly Service Fee (MSF). Then after a couple of months (I think) Globe brought it down to P999 a month and stayed in that area for years. Then just a couple of months ago, Globe brought that price to P599/month. Pretty aggressive marketing mind you.
Here in the Philippines, there are 3 networks that offer Blackberry Plans...Globe Telecom, Smart Communications and Sun Cellular. Everything was pretty the same until mid of this year when Sun offered the BEST Blackberry plan to date. One only has to pay, P999 a month, and that's it! P999 for the BIS, for unlimited intranetwork calls & texts, unlimited mobile internet. Unlike Globe's P599 a month but still doesn't include the charges for calls and SMS. Smart I s better than Globe's offering since it offers consumable plans, but still doesn't beat Sun's offering.
The only thing that's holding be on to Globe's network is my number, since number portability has not been applied here yet, and the coverage since Sun's coverage is still relatively concentrated within the Metropolis. Hopefully, the merger between Sun Cellular and Smart Communications push thru to help Sun get a ride on Smart's nationwide coverage.
sent using Gmail on a Motorola Xoom

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Watch a Water Fountain Animate in Real Life


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I am always fascinated with fountains, especially those "dancing" ones. But this fountains in Osaka, Japan is just amazing! It can control the water spray to make graphics like flower patterns, musical notes and even fonts.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Blogger app

Posting this using the Blogger android app. I don't know why i didn't do it before, the Market place didn't allow me to install this in any of my devices, kept on getting the "this device is incompatible with all of your devices" prompt. Then it dawned to me that I can install apps on my phone some other way, thus here it is.

Thursday, September 08, 2011

LG Optimus One P500 Gingerbread Update

I read online a couple of weeks ago that the Gingerbread update for the LG Optimus one will be rolling out soon. I decided to try out my luck tonight as I hook my Optimus One to my PC. Sure enough a roughly 117MB update was available. I didn't expect it to be Gingerbread though as not much chatter can be seen online. And after the update, I saw that the firmware version went down from V20G to V20D...so I rebooted the phone and to my surprise there were visual changes!

The notification bar is now black and the icons are green (i know i know, lots of Android phones had this even before Gingerbread, but hey...i said, it's new on the Optimus One) plus a location icon which was not included in the quick buttons in the notification bar buttons.

And pretty much Samsung's settings page, it's now colored (as compared to the previous' bland bi-tone layout). As for the apps, well, the notification app (the one that tells you if there's a new firmware) has disappeared while a download app has popped-out.

So far, those are the changes i've seen. Now, my LG Optimus One is now running Android 2.3.3

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Samsung announces Galaxy Tab 7.7 with Android 3.2 and a Super AMOLED Plus display | Android Central

Galaxy Tab 77
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I am so into tablets nowadays...and then Samsung came out with this...OMG!!! It's a portable Honeycomb! Although I don't know how I'll react on it on a 7.7inch screen but I'm excited about the portability...I mean, the 7 inch market is really there...that's the right size!

Difficult Browsing using Chrome

I've been having difficulty browsing Google sites the past days. Then I restarted the router today...wham! Now I'm getting speedy refreshes and Google sites can now be access with ease.

The was supposed to be a "routine" troubleshoot. Yeah I know, but the stubborness in me was overwhelming logic as I didn't want to "disturb" my "downloads". :)
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld