Category: gadget | 小工具 | 가제트 | ガジェット
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Nokia N9
Hong Kong-based independent mobile industry analyst Tomi Ahonen is one of the most prominent critics of Nokia. One of the points that Ahonen makes is that the Nokia N9 (based on the MeeGo operating system; parts of which has now been incorporated into Samsung’s mobile operating system Tizen) is more attractive than the equivalent Nokia…
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Sony Vaio PCG C1 series: Throwback gadget
I’m an unusual choice to write about the Sony Vaio PCG C1. I’ve only had PC envy with a couple of devices during my twenty something years at a Mac user: The IBM ThinkPad 701 series with its butterfly keyboard The Sony Vaio PCG C1 series of notebooks In common with the 701, the Sony…
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Throwback gadget: IBM ThinkPad 701
Before we think about the IBM ThinkPad 701, I wanted to flag that I’ve been a Mac user for almost all of my computer-owning adult life. But there have only been a couple of devices that have ever given me PC-envy. The first one was the IBM ThinkPad 701, my friend at college Jouni whom…
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Android differentiation
I decided to write on my story onAndroid differentiation after careful consideration. On one hand I didn’t want the companies involved to suffer because one executive had a loud mouth. On the other hand it raised interesting questions about the state of the Android eco-system. So I decided at the time to thinly veil the…
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Slow social + more news
Slow social Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a Social App Is a Very Bad Thing – AllThingsD – slow social approach is based on the idea that it’s not just about numbers, its about community social norms and ethos which take time to develop within a group. Fake pioneered building slow social type communities at…
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I like: Sony MDR-A10 headphones
Looked back to the Sony Discman and Sony MDR-A10 headphones when looking to solve personal music in the gym. I have been using my iPod down the gym and found my present headphones inadequate for my needs. I was looking for a set of headphones that were gym friendly, that didn’t completely seal me off…
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Samsung brand challenge
One of the things that I had been thinking about for a while was the way the smartphone handset market; the Android eco-system had the value hollowed out of the business for the manufacturers including the Samsung brand. In some ways this process seemed to mirror what happened in the PC market through the 1990s…
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CES 2012 trends
Early January means CES 2012 in the tech calendar as the media gives its full attention to the consumer electronics sector. With some 2,600 exhibitors there was a lot of news coming out of the event. But I was more interested in some of the more macro trends that you could see from the coverage…
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I like: Samsung Galaxy Y DUOS
I currently have two mobile phones, an iPhone 3GS for all that stuff that smart phones do and texting. My second phone is a Samsung B5702 DUOS phone that does my voice calls. My Samsung B5702 DUOS is a predecessor of the new Sony Galaxy Y DUOS. Its a great feature phone with a week…