Posted by amawanqa
Custom Harley, taken with the
P1i:
Posted by amawanqa
@ Kyle:
Did you see that Robbie Maddison set a new world record for longest motorcycle jump (with a Honda CR500 motocross machine) in Oz recently? 351 feet (106.9 metres)!
http://www.motorcyclenews.com[....]reaksworldrecord/?&R=EPI-99508
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Posted by Kryptik
I wonder what kind of elevation that launch ramp had... Had to be a pretty steep angle, i guess. 100+ metres is an awesome distance!!
Posted by amawanqa
Ya, there's a few pics of his exploit in that link; the landing ramp's quite a height too.
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Posted by HOBBS
Oh my God Wangs.
Just checked the pic and its insane.
That guy has BALLS dude.
Posted by Rhino8
On 2008-04-01 12:50:18, kyle_274 wrote:
17 more days untill i can upgrade, i hope the n81 price goes down by then, i doubt it though, i might just get an mtn contract just for the phone. lol hows everyones week been so far?
Well thats nice... i can upgrade in 10 days...
Oh hell, i said 10 days again....
I meant to say 1 year and 10 days...
Pffttt that suxxx
Posted by JC08
Check out the new Opera Mini 4.1 Beta at their site, its quicker with a few new features!
Posted by kyle_274
wat? no. thats madness. that dude has balls. CRAZY! his legs ankles must be destroyed. congrats 2 him. takes alot of skill 2 do that. freestylers r the most crazyest ppl ever
Posted by TeenInvader
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this new opera 4 is the best thing that ever happened to my w800
Posted by Kryptik
Which improvements does the new Opera Mini have?
Posted by JC08
@ kryptik, its faster, easier adress input almost like on pc, find in page what you want, save of pages for offline viewing and a few I cant remember from the top of my hand...
Posted by Rhino8
Cool, i need to check it out.. i am not happy with opera mini 4, so maybe 4.1 will gimme better service
Posted by Kryptik
i agree with Rhino. I've been using the modded version of Mini, but it's slow at times, whereas Mini 4 gave me better speeds, although it didn't have quite as many features.
Posted by Siosal
I have to say i tried Opera Mini 4 once and never again.
Posted by amawanqa
Hmm, methinks I'll still give the new version a try.
Have you guys seen the cricket score?
(sorry Siosal 
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Posted by GUCCI.011
The new Opera Mini 4.1 is good but still has some 4.0 bugs which i hate so im back to using Opera Mini3.1.2 and Safari.
Posted by Rhino8
Guesws im stuck with 3 untill i get better reviews from the guys who know (you lot) on 4
Posted by HOBBS
OK thanks to Tranced I have all the software to begin the hacking process.....but the UIQBlogs instructions (step by step) is a little hard to understand.Or maybe Im just blonde and very afraid to say the least.Keep one eye on the UIQ Hack thread in the UIQ Device section.Its hotting up.A bit hard to understand because this is all just theory for me at the moment but Im sure once I dig in to the practical it will all start making sense.
Posted by HOBBS
From uiqblog.
THE STORM IS COMING......P5
This is what USEB and UIQblog´s Michell Bak posted:
People! The storm is coming, and we’ve just beat Sony Ericsson at announcing it. We’re of course talking about the mysterious, super high-end smart phone, often referred to as ‘Paris’.
We’ve gotten our hands on the official product video of Paris, and even though we won’t be able to show you the video at this point in time (wait two weeks!), we can show you a few screen shots from the video with the most crucial parts blurred out a bit.
Paris will feature a full keyboard in known P1-style - below the screen, that is! Why? Well, Paris is a slider! It looks drop-dead-gorgeous and is set to slay, yes SLAY, other competitors on the market. It runs UIQ 3.3, and well, have a look at the picture. That pretty much says it all.
Paris will be announced before the end of May, and will be available in shops as early September! We haven’t got a price tag on this baby as of yet, but we’ll definitely be trying to sniff it up!
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Posted by amawanqa
Let's hope 'Paris' pulls out all the stops; no juicy bits omitted here n' there.
My mom's beloved Nokia 6131 was nicked in one of the PostNet offices in EL this morning. She only put it down on the counter to pay for something and it disappeared so fast that she didn't even see who took it.
Got friends from EL coming over next month, so I'll ask them to take a new phone back for her.
The 6131 is scarce nowadays. She loves the large keypad n' screen and she's so familiar with Nokia's interface that I'll get her another product from The Dark Side.
Not sure what to get her yet; maybe a 6300 (keypad buttons aren't as big, though...) 3110 Classic (big buttons but smaller screen...) or a 7373, 6500 Slide or something similar. Or look around for another new 6131 perhaps.
Posted by brix25
Back on Opera 4, personally I find it quite stable except for very few bugs like RSS feeds occasionally disappearing. But despite this its hardly crashed while I've used it.
@wanqa: How does one keep track of all those Nokia phone models? Seriously I've stopped noticing anything from Nokia except the E and N- series.
Didn't manage to watch the cricket but its been ridiculous reading online reports...from a featherbed to a wicket seaming all over...with Indian batsmen seemingly intimidated into playing shots by Steyn and Ntini.
Posted by GUCCI.011
Kyle I realy hope you get the N81 bro because Ngage Live FULL VERSION JUST CAME OUT FOR: N81
N81 8GB
N82
N95 and
N95-8GB WOOHOO!
The games are large. I downloaded Asphalt 3 3D Street Rules (12mb) , System Rush (11.7mb) AND Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep (28mb) those are just Trials, im waiting for cracks, i give it two weeks and one of them will be cracked
Crash Bandicoot, Fifa07 and 08, The ONE (looks like Tekken) and a lot of other games on the way.
Posted by brix25
www.jointhesong.com
Posted by Kryptik
I hope that the bliksem who nabbed your mom's phone ends up as Mugabe's bumboy, Wanqa. Looks like Bob's not having a really good year either. Shame
These scheduled power outages really lead to some interesting moments, i must say... Earlier this evening, about 10min after the power she go bye-bye, just as it was growing dark, i was en route to my in-laws. At the traffic lights i did the same thing everybody else was doing, i.e. stop, treat the intersection as a 4way stop, then proceed with caution. Suddenly my Spider Sense started tingling... something was afoot... gingerly i crept into the intersection... only to see a bus come hurtling at the speed of light straight at me!
Okay, it wasn't exactly coming straight AT me, it shot past the front bumper with a metre to spare, probably going at 60km/h. It was priceless to see the driver's face when he realized that the lights were out! The dude slammed on the brakes, and came to a screeching rubber-shredding smoking halt, jumped out of the bus and waved his arms hither and thither, trying to apologize for his myopia. I pulled up behind him, got out and told him it was ok, no harm intended, but it was a good 5minutes before he stopped shaking and had calmed down sufficiently to proceed with his journey. Close encounters of the vehicular kind, lol
Posted by HOBBS
Kryptik
60kmph,a metre to spare.
A Bus
And you sound so Kewl about it.
You would have been an ol Krushed Kryptik.
Its a Bus
Ive started using Opera PC Browser over Explorer and Firefox.
Very nice.
Im also going to give 4.1 Mini a bash.
Back on default font,so no troubles with it.
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Posted by Rhino8
Hobbs, i have used opera web browser for probably 5 years and recently switched to Firefox... it just feels faster than opera doez
Posted by kyle_274
@gucci, i want that phone so badly. i even dream about it. lol, i just cnt come up with the cash. and i doubt my parents will let me get the topup 315, ill try my best 2 get it. i hope vodacom gets a really gud special 4 it. if it gets free on topup 275 then my parents might let me get it. just gotta wait and c
Posted by Siosal
I have to commend Kryptik for his story telling skills. I was on the edge of my keyboard throughout that read.
I myself have little need for spidersenses though as, being Batman after hours, I have honed my senses to the point of instantly knowing when and where trouble will occur. Allowing me to avoid any such accidents.
As I stare out the window at my batmobile, I wonder what I would have said to the bus driver...
Being aggitated over the imaginary death of my folks at an early age I would probably have told him to wake up. But hey.. at least he stopped and apologized. More than can be said for some other drivers.
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Opera PC is not free right?
Anyway I just don't see any browser beating FireFox 2 anytime soon for me...
Posted by HOBBS
Oh Kryptik One is a cool ol' Cat.Ive seen a bus that was hardly moving ram a car (drivers side) and put it this way,David had to be extracted using the jaws of life.Just glad you ok Kryps and the fact that he stopped the bus and apologised is enough to let the incident pass by with out a baseball bat skull-crushing extravaganza.
Posted by Kryptik
LOL Sio, it's tough being a superhero, bro. So many missions, so little time...
Hobbs, speaking of the jaws of life, i don't know whether you ever saw that clip of some firefighting crew demonstrating how the jaws were used. They started slicing some car to bits, only to discover a few minutes later that it was not, in fact, the demo car they were supposed to be using, but some private citizen's vehicle
Posted by HOBBS
Thats hilarious Kryps.
Let me guess.
A training session by fire fighters in Bloemfontein right? lol @ Rhino
Eish!
What car was it?
Thats just plain dumb
Brix,hows the preperations going for the Phillipines?
Got my phone opened sesame.Going to send a Russian a collection of Windows XP icons I fancy to replace the default ones with and ask him to do the whole MBM Tools thing with them and then tell me where to put the god damn things and how.Quite fancy the idea of changing the web icon with the Internet Explorer icon.Will look cool.The Power DVD icon will replace my Media Player icon.Going to be so much fun.
Posted by brix25
@HOBBS: Preparations are okay, I suppose. Need to be in Bangkok on April 26 at the Asia Institute of Technology for a 3 week prep course.
Nokia SA quietly launched few products on Thursday. Apart from the Prism I don't have much detail.
Posted by HOBBS
GUCCI Wouldnt you love one of these
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Posted by amawanqa
Yeah, particularly as it features The Dark Side's (
) imperial galactic fleet (on the screenshots) pursuing those rebel starships, LOL.
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Posted by amawanqa
P1i pics:
Never seen a trailer on a scooter before:
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Posted by amawanqa
We've had a much colder Spring so far, compared to the very warm conditions this time last year.
P1i pics:
Camo on cold canines, complete with fluffy lining on their hoodies,LOL:
Sigh, I miss SA beaches.
Notice the enormous swells at one of Southend-On-Sea's beaches, LOL:
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Posted by GUCCI.011
Hobbs
Lol,looks great!! Not bad at all! But will it have an OS?
Wanqa
Great pics boet, sheesh i can see that big swell
Posted by amawanqa
@ Gucci:
LOL, yeah I think I've made bigger waves in the bath than what the North Sea did around there on that day, LOL.
Posted by amawanqa
P1i pics:
The weather seems to be even more confused than last year. So much for being Spring...
This is what we woke up to this morning:
Posted by amawanqa
Another
P1i pic, taken on one of the tube trains:
Uncle Bob was on the front page of virtually all the hard news/broadsheet/non-tabloid newspapers on Thursday:
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Posted by gola
lol, the closest thing i've ever seen to snow is sleet
the w960i costs R4990 at mtn or R320/pm with contract.Vodacom is still behind and seems like i'll be getting it with mtn. But look at what i just saw in this month's T3 magazine
Posted by amawanqa
@ gola:
LOL, a delightfully intellectual synopsis of the UIQ3 touchscreen input there...not. LOL.
I have no such complaints with the P1i's touchscreen input, and I doubt it would be different with the W960i.
Fair enough, the old
scrollwheel allowed for greater functionality than the newer 3-way one, but ergonomics can be down to personal preferences too, and that last line just manifested the writer's obvious bias, LOL.
I'm not saying that the UI is perfect, as we know, each one has their strengths and weaknesses.
Best thing is to try and get to fiddle with a live one at MTN to see if it works for you, and take it from there.
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Posted by gola
lol wanqs
the best that the mtn i went to could do was let me play around with a dummy, didn't see the point of it...it's pretty small though.
Posted by amawanqa
Somewhat fuzzy
P1i pic of Mrs Amawanqa on the tube train:
Another pic from the Southend Shakedown, this time of a Yamaha 1200cc V-Max, with custom spray job:
Cue one of the lines from Monty Python's Meaning of Life:
"Darling, it's a Mr Death at the door; something to do with the reaping. Shall I let him in?" LOL:
Posted by GUCCI.011
"and is generally kak"
He must have been testing a Vodafone branded W960. When i tried the W960 i found its Touchscreen response to be faster than the P1, and its UI in general was faster than my old N80, their CPUs are running at same clockspeed.
Gola
Yah rather get it on MTN, atleast there will be no branding, your W960 will be stable, and you will be able to update its FW with proper generic FW, Vodafone SA take for ever to get new FW,after having a Voda branded W900 im sure you don't want the same for your 1st Smartphone bro.
Posted by amawanqa
Another
P1i pic:
Posted by amawanqa
Yet another
P1i pic:
The local bike-mounted fuzz were also at the bike event, doing P.R. stuff etc:
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Posted by JC08
What I get out of that article is that the guy tried to navigate around the w960 same as he does with iPhone, which already shows his daftness....
Posted by kyle_274
@gucci, wont we be able 2 remove the brandin. and put normal firmware on the n81