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As with anything new coming from Google, there has been a lot of expectation regarding the new Google “operating system” for PCs based on the Chrome browser. Truth is that, as the mobile-devices-oriented Android, ChromeOS can be hardly called an Operating system but rather a Linux distribution. ChromeOS’s concept is simple; remove absolutely everything from [...]
Google Chrome OS, is it really innovative? Presto, SplashTop, even Moblin and gOS Cloud
The Nokia e71 is one of the best phones on the market. In the 2008 it was announced for the best phone. It’s good features are small and robust shape, querty keyboard, powerfull battery and nice look. So let’s see some detailed features… Outlook & typing It’s nice and slim. Dimensions are perfect to hold [...]
Prior to talking about the software, let us note a rather philosophical observation here. With G1, there is a (important, imho) paradigm shift when compared to (most) mobile/smart/whatever phones you used before. Up to G1, mobiles were pretty much self-contained devices: the phone was where your data was stored. At best, the makers let you [...]
Finally, both of you readers, I’ve managed to steal a moment or two to proceed with this little hands-on experience report. The phone was powered on for the first time, and the network unlock code was entered, so here we go … The Look Well, let’s face it, G1 is plain ugly. Butt ugly. A [...]
These days – mostly in order to facilitate some cool three-d-geo-development for mobile devices – a fine specimen of a G1 phone has found its way into our little X-Kolkhoz. A strange beast it seems at a first glance, and what else is there to expect, since – according to what it says on the [...]