“Welcome to the real world.” With these words
Blaupunkt launch their latest commercial for their new Travel Pilot 700 navigational system. Featuring a built-in camera, this device will film what is ahead of the vehicle and then superimpose the navigational display on top of that! Other features include:
- Traffic sign detection
- DVB-T television when standing still
- Voice control
- Web and email through integrated Wireless LAN
- Hands-free phone calls and music via Bluetooth
- Speed camera warnings
- TMC traffic rerouting
- PC sync for route planning and POI download
My Garmin device from 2006 suddenly begins to feel old.
If I have to complain at something though, it’s just that my view of the “real world” might be a bit different than Blaupunkt’s. In my world cities have cars in them, and how the superimposed navigational display will look above a dozen or so vehicles will be interesting to watch. It looks good when the cities are empty though!
Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile is the easiest way to upload, view, and share your photos online from your phone. All you need is a supported Windows Mobile phone and your Photoshop.com account ID.
From
adobe.com
No, this is not Adobe Photoshop for Windows Mobile devices. It’s just a photo uploader. But still… I cannot help to get excited every time I see large companies roll out software for “my” favorite mobile platform.
The Adobe photo uploader
is available for Windows Mobile standard devices as a public beta and looks pretty nice. If you have one of the supported devices please give it a go and let me know how it worked out.
Today I’m happy to share early details of Android Market—an open content distribution system that will help end users find, purchase, download and install various types of content on their Android-powered devices. The concept is simple: leverage Google’s expertise in infrastructure, search and relevance to connect users with content created by developers like you.
From
android-developers.blogspot.com
The Google Android mobile platform is nearing release, and today
Google posted details about their upcoming version of the Apple AppStore: Android Market.
According to
androidauthority.com the “Initial Android based devices will run a beta version of the Android Market that will only support free apps and will not provide full analytic data to developers. Support for paid application downloads, version management, and multiple device profiles will be added later.”
So, while it seems like Google has quite a long way to go before matching the simplicity of buying applications through the Apple AppStore on the iPhone, at least they have a start. Now where is the Microsoft appstore for my Windows Mobile devices?
Now this is the good stuff. New features include Projects, an outstanding text completion feature (automatic, explicitly invoked with a keyboard shortcut, or both), and, at long last, the ability to edit text directly in search results and disk browser windows
From
daringfireball.net
BBEdit, the famous text editor for Mac computers, has now reached version 9. Some very nice features in there, so if you are a BBEdit user you most surely would like to upgrade.
Having access to all three of these devices it struck me that I haven’t really stumbled across a decent comparison of cameras between the three. Personally I wear all three of them daily since they are good at different things, but if you are not crazy dedicated enough to always carry three devices you might find this article useful if you need a device with a good camera.
All photos are published at my flickr account, at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanneblad/
To summarize:
- The HTC Diamond was decent outdoors, but worst of all three indoors
- The iPhone 3G: Fuzzy and lo-res. All the time.
- The Nokia N82: Nice indoor pictures. Outdoor pictures are occasionally fuzzy in the bottom left part of the image and still no match for even the cheapest point-and-shoot cameras. But a clear winner in this little comparison.
To compare the images, I took three pictures with each camera on every target. I then picked the one that was the sharpest / had best color reproduction to prevent one camera from showing bad pictures due to an unlucky shot. All settings were at default values, the only change I did was to enable macro mode on the N82 when shooting at 30 cm from the plant.
The best way to view the comparison is probably through the
Flickr fullscreen slideshow mode, or you can view and click the thumbnails below.
Ok on with the show!
Continue reading ‘Camera Battle: Touch Diamond vs iPhone 3G vs N82′
A stylus for the iPhone?
Yes, they do exist. And with the recent launch of mobile paint programs like
FlipBook and
Scribble they might even be useful. If you feel the need for a stylus you might want to check out
this review of the two styluses “iPhone Japanese Touch Pen Stylus” and “Pogo iPhone Stylus.”
The web site Engadget
did an analysis of its mobile web traffic, and concluded that the iPhone together with the iPod Touch together were responsible for 96% of the total mobile traffic to the site. The data was collected between January 1 2008 and August 20 2008.
You can find the report at BusinessWeek.com
The Nikon D90 is out, and it looks marvelous
The same 12-megapixel sensor as the D300, HDTV video recording at 1280×720@24fps, JPEG burst shots at 4.5 FPS and ISO up to 6400. If you have no clue what I’m rambling on here, you might still want to checkout the
official launch page at Nikon. If you are planning to buy one DSLR this year, this one should be high on your list!
Password protected iPhones can be unlocked without a password
Embarrassing news for Apple. It appears that even if your iPhone is locked with a passcode, it turns out that it can be broken just by doing the following actions:
- Slide the bar to enable emergency phone calls
- Double click the home button to begin to explore parts of the device
Myself I have changed the default action of the home button double click to the iPod player so I am not affected by this. But how this security flaw made it through into the final product baffles me.
So typical for the Mac community… A new version of
Adium is released, and the major feature you read about is the new Contact Inspector or the Facebook chat.
For me, the great news about
Adium 1.3 is the new MSN Messenger support through the new library called “MSN-Pecan.” Finally you have support for custom mood messages over the MSN protocol!
If you like me have been using MSN Messenger for the MSN mood messages, now is the time to stop and move to
Adium!
