Sometimes you stumble across a video thats jaw dropping. Well this artist makes you do that. The guy made a portrait of an older man with a beard on his iPad with the “Brushes” app.
The total portrait took 3 hours to complete and was streamed live to the audience on 21 June, where you could chat live with Kassan.
He made a quick motion video and published this on YouTube. Go watch this awesomeness!
Finally news from HTC releasing there HTC Hero 2.1 update. Its the second part of the update where your phone is realy updated to Android 2.1 (first update was a preparation software update). For availability you can check your device (Settings > About > Updates). With this update you will lose all content on your device so backup before you dive into the world of android 2.1.
It took a while before this update was available, they delayed this update a few times: February, March, April, May… But finally the update can take place.
If you don’t see any updates try to change your system clock a few hours ahead of time.
Sometimes you stumble across some awesome device, Well the Microsoft Courier is such a device that makes you scream! Recently they released a new mock up video of the device, internal specifications are not yet available. The device contains two screens which can be flipped together just like a book. The device will run on the same OS as the Zune which we believe is Microsoft CE 6.0. The interface will be pen based, with build in handwriting recognition, so you can draw and write on screen. Not much too tell about this device, and the cost of the thing. But from what I heard it will be released in Q3/Q4.
First of all I want to congratulate two dear friends of mine, they gave birth to a little baby girl with the name Isa.
Now to the point, the revealing of the new mobile operating flagship Windows Phone Series 7. With this new version they want too step away from there old and non touch friendly mobile operating system and introduce a new and friendlier interface to work with. This version is based on the Windows CE 6 kernel, like they used on the Zune HD. The first handsets that will running this operating system will be available this summer.
The interface is a completely renewed with the intention for more finger friendliness. It looks like pages from a newspaper where you can swipe through, my personal opinion is that it looks a bit messy at start, and you can lose focus on where you are. But maybe it just takes time to get used too.
We all know that the Nexus One seems to be a great phone to have. Great speed and much of the wanna-haves are on board. The only downside of that phone is that its missing the multi-touch interface. To focus on a part on the website in the browser application you needed to press the zoom button or double tap on an area. But this has was not as nice when you could do it with 2 fingers pinching in and out, this flaw has recently been picked up by the development team.
This team has released a new software update where they introducing the multi-touch (pinch and zoom) interface to the phone. In this release they also added Google Goggles. So guys and galls… While you probably thought this phone couldn’t get any better… well think again, and start zooming!
With all the speculations about this newly announced device, will it carry the name iSlate? Wrong! Apple did some very creative thinking about this! They called there new product the iPad! The device looks beautiful in all its simplicity. This device will be the new flagship to read e-books, watching movies and surfing the internet. No keyboard is required its all touch sensitive.
The German Mozilla community http://www.camp-firefox.de reported that we could make use of Firefox on the Android powered phones in February. This will be a beta version of Firefox and will be called “Fennec” as codename. This community has a “working” copy installed on a Android powered phone. I quoted working, simply because browsing was still impossible.
We still don’t know the real truth about this story, but it seems legit. Mozilla had a Labs Night Meeting where the Vice President of Mozilla, Jay Sullivan, will speak about there mobile strategy, and there will be demos about new versions of Firefox for the mobile phone.
There is no real liftoff of high quality games on the Android platform. There are a few nice titles out there but there is still a lot to discover. To change this Google has announced that they will be giving Nexus One phones away too those people that will come to the Game Developers Conference in San Fransisco.
Finally the news is out, google made it official. The Nexus One created by HTC is launched and you can buy it from google. A shame is US only for now but soon we are able to buy it worldwide. You can access the shop at http://www.google.com/phone
Funny to see that on the android event they places a huge size version of this phone.
It’s CNC milled to the exact specs of the phones original CAD model multiplied 12 times it’s original size. 46″ LED display screen with HDMI connection to a MAC mini running Windows. 1080 x 1920 HD video played back on Obscura’s proprietary video playback software. It does not have touch-screen capabilities at this time.
For the price of 530 dollar thats a nice phone too get!
As we have noticed google want to buy Yelp, a big business directory with reviews and information about companies world wide. Techcrunch has reported a 80% chance of this buy. The information Yelp contains could greatly improve Google Maps and the information provided by this application. It would be great to see the restaurant on the map with some nice reviews about that particular restaurant.
We don’t have information about when this transaction is going to take place, but we will see soon enough. I’m very interesting how this will turn out.