Comment: Great (Score 1) 456
Great, now instead of paying attention in class, we'll have a generation of young students who are experts at playing Angry Birds.
SPAM: Windows 95 Emulated On Android | Technorotic
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technorotic writes "The power of smartphone is increasing day by day. Everyday we hear something new about the smartphone."
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Comment: Re:iAds (Score 1) 1184
The reason to choose 960x640 resolution is purely technical: to overcome their bad 3-year old decision to stick to a single resolution for application development. Quadrupling pixels is the only working solution for all the legacy apps out there.
It wasn't a bad decision. Having a fixed resolution means that apps can be designed to a pixel perfect degree. And given that 3 years later, they have been able to up the resolution in a way that means all those apps remain pixel perfect means that fixing the resolution in the first place wasn't a technological dead end.
For a desktop windowing OS, variable resolution combined with resolution independence is a good thing. Apps run in windows that can be of any size, and the generous screen space allows plenty of flexibility for apps to rearrange themselves to suit. For a screen as small as a smartphone that just doesn't work. Designers have to design very carefully to fit the app UI on the screen in a good way.
Meanwhile, Android phones have been resolution independent since v1.5 (somewhere around 2008).
Comment: Re:iAds (Score 1) 1184
I find this one the most interesting feature.
iAds [blogcdn.com]
What would be interesting is Adblock Plus for the iPhone.
Article 3.3.4.1 of the Apple iPhone SDK prevents any software "that disables certain functionality of the core Apple API, including AdBlockers..."
Samsung Behold II not Android Getting 2.x->
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boloj writes "In a video released to youtube on November 7, 2009, Samsung promises Behold II owners that they will get upgraded to Android 2.x when it arrived. These same users are still sitting at 1.6. They have waited patiently as updates rolled out hoping they would be next. Well it turns out their patience may be in vain after all."
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Comment: Android already stole the thunder.. (Score 5, Insightful) 484
I know I'll get modded down for this, but here goes...
Almost everything that Jobs will announce has already been revealed. Like the OP states, Apple fanboi's will likely hoop and hollar over anything Job's announces; however, its going to be hard for the average techie to get excited about some of the new "features" of the iphone, such as pseudo-multitasking, when the competitors such as Android and WebOS have had almost all of these features since day one.
Now with the recent release of Froyo (Android 2.2) at Google I/O, and the significant improvements brought with the upgrade, even pro-Apple sites such as Gizmodo feel that Android has Leapfrogged iPhone.
Comment: Re:Adobe has invoked the anger of Father Steve (Score 1) 497
They must be banished from the compound and no believer may ever speak with them again.
Father Steve, you have spoken your wish. We shall obey..
EA Launches Ultima-Based Browser Game 106
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from the my-face-has-gone-numb dept.
On Monday Electronic Arts launched Lord of Ultima, a free-to-play, browser-based strategy game that's based on the Ultima universe. Quoting VG247: "Set in the new world of Caledonia, players start the game as conquerors raising an empire, and then move from developing a village to evolving it into a highly customized capital. Players can be peaceful merchants by trading resources over land or sea and using diplomacy, or become feared conquerors using armies of knights and mages to crush their enemies one by one in maniacal glee."
PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361
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darthvader100 writes "Gizmodo has run an article with some predictions on what future space battles will be like. The author brings up several theories on propulsion (and orbits), weapons (explosives, kinetic and laser), and design. Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical, like the one in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie."
Printable Batteries Should Arrive Next Year 92
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from the return-to-the-goodness-of-aa dept.
FullBandwidth writes "Paper-thin batteries that can be printed onto greeting cards or other flexible substrates have been demonstrated at Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems in Germany. The batteries have a relatively short life span, as the anode and cathode materials dissipate over time. However, they contain no hazardous materials."