I guess they need to find a faster typist. I can type the entire sentence on my phone with one just hand (I have the N-Gage), without predictive entry, in almost exactly one minute. I'm sure I can go faster if I used a phone with a regular keypad.
Depending on where in the world you are, the price tag could be the cause of this phone becoming a best seller. Many Asian countries have no contracts and phones are always bought at full price so people try to show off their wealth by getting the most expensive phone.
A recent best seller is the Nokia 7280 that's just a plain Series 40 phone (with no keypad) but sells for the same price as the 6680, their top-line 3G phone.
Reading e-books have been quite common in China and Japan for a long time. Unlike languages that have to be spelled out, Chinese characters take up much less space and don't have to be word wrapped or hyphenated. Having a small display isn't a problem at all.
The main page says it's Centrino, and the pricing page says it comes with Linpus Linux BE. The notebook itself has a Centrino sticker but no Windows sticker.
The pricing is cheaper than other parts of the world since it doesn't come with Windows.
Indeed, my company produces copper wire (for transformers, power supplies, etc.) and raw material prices were just crazy the past year. It's strange that prices of end products haven't gone through the roof yet.
The article refers to xbitlabs which refers to Sin Chew Daily, which isn't even a Taiwanese newspaper. I searched Taiwanese sites and the most recent AMD related bust only found 60,000 pcs of remarked chips, not a million as reported.
Sorry, but Phuket got hit pretty bad. Right now (11 PM local time) the TV is showing the damage from Phuket, and people are calling in to the TV station reporting names of the deceased.
A while ago I bought a PDA and it was shipped by Airborne Express. I never received it and the mail order place sent me another one by UPS. A few months later after the snow thawed I found the missing PDA on the driveway. It was buried under the snow all that time.
MMC and SD have different pinouts and thicknesses, plus SD cards have a write-protect switch. SD devices can read MMC but not vice versa. If your device only supports MMC, then it won't do SD.
MMC and SD cards are not always compatible with all devices. You need to actually test the card in your device before buying the card or find a detailed compatibility list that lists the card compatibility by serial number. I have two phones that use MMC cards, one phone that uses SD cards, and a Pocket PC that uses SD cards, and due to compatibility problems, each one of those devices has its own memory card. The two SD cards are even the same brand, but are made by different manufacturers.
So much for using a single memory card across multiple devices.
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Strangely enough, I had a similar conversation just yesterday. We have some really old industrial computers at work that still run DOS and can't be upgraded because they're running specialized software. We need to get the data into our servers quickly so we were installing D-Link cards into them, and one of the guys remarked, "Shouldn't we be using 3Com cards since these computers are like 10 years old?"
These are only slightly smaller than 2.5" portable drives, and hold much less. I've been using a portable 2.5" USB 2.0 drive with a much larger capacity for almost two years, and it's USB port powered as well.
I'm in Thailand and the N-Gage are sold out almost everywhere. In Thailand, phones are not subsidized to the carriers, so N-Gage selling at 9,600 Baht (approx. US$240) with three games included is an incredibly good deal.
N-Gage is not introduced in China, and it seems that it could be a huge hit there too, as the interest for the N-Gage is high in China, plus phones in China are expensive too.
In most Asian languages, if you're talking about a list of items, it's always followed by an enclosure term, which when translated come out as "etc.", or "and so on".
Wi-Fi may be similarly priced to GSM calls, but GSM over Wi-Fi makes sense if you're roaming, especially international roaming. Around here we have all these phones that regularly go overseas, and international roaming costs US$2-3/minute, whether making or receiving calls.
In fact, we've been looking at Skype running on Pocket PC to reduce phone costs...
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Yahoo is only in China because they bought 3721, makers of the most successful ad/spyware ever, installed on every single Chinese computer.
Maybe Google can buy baidu.
I guess they need to find a faster typist. I can type the entire sentence on my phone with one just hand (I have the N-Gage), without predictive entry, in almost exactly one minute. I'm sure I can go faster if I used a phone with a regular keypad.
Depending on where in the world you are, the price tag could be the cause of this phone becoming a best seller. Many Asian countries have no contracts and phones are always bought at full price so people try to show off their wealth by getting the most expensive phone.
A recent best seller is the Nokia 7280 that's just a plain Series 40 phone (with no keypad) but sells for the same price as the 6680, their top-line 3G phone.
Reading e-books have been quite common in China and Japan for a long time. Unlike languages that have to be spelled out, Chinese characters take up much less space and don't have to be word wrapped or hyphenated. Having a small display isn't a problem at all.
... but if you don't get the cough quite right, you could end up with a Durian machine.
It does work with GPRS, or better yet, EDGE. The Series 60 version only works with Series 60 2.0 though.
The Acer models in question are at http://www.acer.co.th/product/travelmate/4000/inde x.htm
The main page says it's Centrino, and the pricing page says it comes with Linpus Linux BE. The notebook itself has a Centrino sticker but no Windows sticker.
The pricing is cheaper than other parts of the world since it doesn't come with Windows.
Is the ban regional? I'm in Thailand and my Acer Centrino notebook comes with Linux pre-installed.
Really? Most people I know forwards every mail they get to everyone else. Gmail makes it very hard to forward mail.
Indeed, my company produces copper wire (for transformers, power supplies, etc.) and raw material prices were just crazy the past year. It's strange that prices of end products haven't gone through the roof yet.
The article refers to xbitlabs which refers to Sin Chew Daily, which isn't even a Taiwanese newspaper. I searched Taiwanese sites and the most recent AMD related bust only found 60,000 pcs of remarked chips, not a million as reported.
Sorry, but Phuket got hit pretty bad. Right now (11 PM local time) the TV is showing the damage from Phuket, and people are calling in to the TV station reporting names of the deceased.
In Thailand, it just depends on the ISP, I looked at the list of the nearly 20,000 blocked sites and I can go to quite a few of them.
(A lot of the list is redundant, since the list shows individual hosts when in fact the entire domain is blocked.)
In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of hot grits imagines only old Koreans.
I've had no problems accessing /. from our offices in Shanghai...
A while ago I bought a PDA and it was shipped by Airborne Express. I never received it and the mail order place sent me another one by UPS. A few months later after the snow thawed I found the missing PDA on the driveway. It was buried under the snow all that time.
Actually, it's called Digital Rebel only in the US. It's Kiss Digital in Japan, and 300D everywhere else.
BenQ was split off from Acer, but they're completely different companies. The Acer group also includes AOpen, Apacer, etc.
BenQ was trying to take over Acer a few months ago...
MMC and SD have different pinouts and thicknesses, plus SD cards have a write-protect switch. SD devices can read MMC but not vice versa. If your device only supports MMC, then it won't do SD.
MMC and SD cards are not always compatible with all devices. You need to actually test the card in your device before buying the card or find a detailed compatibility list that lists the card compatibility by serial number. I have two phones that use MMC cards, one phone that uses SD cards, and a Pocket PC that uses SD cards, and due to compatibility problems, each one of those devices has its own memory card. The two SD cards are even the same brand, but are made by different manufacturers.
So much for using a single memory card across multiple devices.
Strangely enough, I had a similar conversation just yesterday. We have some really old industrial computers at work that still run DOS and can't be upgraded because they're running specialized software. We need to get the data into our servers quickly so we were installing D-Link cards into them, and one of the guys remarked, "Shouldn't we be using 3Com cards since these computers are like 10 years old?"
These are only slightly smaller than 2.5" portable drives, and hold much less. I've been using a portable 2.5" USB 2.0 drive with a much larger capacity for almost two years, and it's USB port powered as well.
I'm in Thailand and the N-Gage are sold out almost everywhere. In Thailand, phones are not subsidized to the carriers, so N-Gage selling at 9,600 Baht (approx. US$240) with three games included is an incredibly good deal.
N-Gage is not introduced in China, and it seems that it could be a huge hit there too, as the interest for the N-Gage is high in China, plus phones in China are expensive too.
Or maybe us Asians don't know what tacos are...
In most Asian languages, if you're talking about a list of items, it's always followed by an enclosure term, which when translated come out as "etc.", or "and so on".
Wi-Fi may be similarly priced to GSM calls, but GSM over Wi-Fi makes sense if you're roaming, especially international roaming. Around here we have all these phones that regularly go overseas, and international roaming costs US$2-3/minute, whether making or receiving calls.
In fact, we've been looking at Skype running on Pocket PC to reduce phone costs...