Posted by amawanqa
Another
P1i pic taken here today:
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Gola
Your bro is freakin lucky! Bad batt life does seem to be a big N900 issue. Sounds like you having fun with it though ,lol, how does it feel in hand though? Not too heavy?
Posted by Tsepz_GP
On 2010-03-13 14:13:05, amawanqa wrote:
yeah, congrats on the promotion, rhino.
Cue Uncle Ben's line from the first Spiderman movie, "With great power, comes great responsibility..."
Eish, don't we know it.
@ Gucci:
Have you seen this rumoured Nokia C6?:
http://www.gsmarena.com/touch[....]qwerty_keyboard_-news-1508.php
Lol,eish, but NOKIA are just raping the 5800 design and hardware now
Posted by amawanqa
Wow, check out 'Unreal' on the Palm Pre
:
http://www.gsmarena.com/unrea[....]l_engine_3_games-news-1507.php
Posted by gola
GUCCI
It's alright in the hand, not cumbersome, but a bit weighty...
just saw the Snoop Music video, loving the beats, cool B Boying aswell. But, don't you think it's weird that there are only children in his music video
I smell something fishy 
"We should all join as one and help malice fight" Paranoi maybe...[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2010-03-14 16:57 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Gola
Some sweet N900 pics there,thanx for the info.
LMAO! Woah, i didnt realy notice that, i do find the album name weird, 'Malice in Wonderland', think he's been coaching his son's football team for a bit too long hey
Posted by amawanqa
Vivaz on sale here:
Posted by gola
GUCCI
Hehe, and there was a movie by that name too, "malice in wonderland"
I think the Vivaz is calling you back home to Sony in EricssonLand
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Who's this GUCCI character you all speak of? He sounds like a legend
Posted by amawanqa
@ Tsepz:
LOL! You seem strangely familiar...
Oh, and that Gucci character's after-afterparty posting is even more legendary...
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Eish,Wanqs, you got me speechless with that last part
lol!
Feels good to be no longer GUCCI, was so sick of that name, you guys should've told me how wack it was when i 1st got here
Tsepz/Tseps has actualy got more meaning as my friends call me that.
Posted by gola
lol, sup Tsepz/s
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Lol,nada,im standaard
Posted by amawanqa
Taken from The Register:
'Mobile apps to earn $17bn by 2012
As Android crowds the iPhone
The market for mobile apps - be they for smartphones, less-capable "feature phones," or carry-alongs such as Apple's iPad - will swell to $17.5bn by 2012.
Or so says a study commissioned by a company with a vested interest in that growth, Getjar, the self-described "world's largest cross platform app store," with just under 850 million apps downloaded to date.
The world's largest single-platform app store is, of course, Apple's. Downloads from the iTunes Apps Store topped three billion at the beginning of this year, after hitting two billion last September and reaching one billion in April, a mere nine months after it was launched.
The impetus for the study was a simple one. "We wanted to find out the real value of the industry because we felt certain segments like the iPhone were being over-hyped and so-called feature phones were being under-hyped," Getjar founder and CEO Ilja Laurs report the BBC.
Those feature phones are central to Laurs' argument that downloads will surge from 7 billion in 2009 to 50 billion in 2012. "It is almost as if these phones don't exist," he told the BBC. "We know smartphones are an extremely important phenomenon, but in terms of consumer mindshare and revenue share, feature phones represent 90 per cent of the global market compared to 10 per cent for smartphones and data cards."
Laurs didn't immediately respond to our request for clarification as to what he meant by "data cards," but the 90 per cent figure remains compelling. That said, an inspection of Getjar's offerings show that the vast majority of apps for feature phones are either free or ad-supported.
Smartphone apps are where the profits lie. And a recent report by Canalys projects that 65.1 million smartphones will be sold in North America alone in 2010 - an increase of 38 percent from 2009's 47.2 million.
And those profitable smartphone apps will increasingly come from Google's Android Marketplace. Canalys projects that although RIM will remain the smartphone market leader in 2010, with growth of 20.5 per cent, and that Apple will remain in second place although enjoying a higher growth rate of 27.1 per cent, projected Android phone sales of 12.3 million phones will close in on Apple's 13.8 million, benefitting from a 169.2 per cent growth when compared with 2009's sales.
Of course, projections are merely educated guesses. And when projecting total mobile application sales figures, Apple's iPad is the wild card in the deck.
Feature phones may account for a high number of app downloads, but it's the app stores that serve BlackBerries, iPhones, iPads, Android phones - and, yes, also phones that run Palm's webOS, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, or Symbian OS - that would suck up the bulk of that projected $17.5bn in 2012.'
Posted by amawanqa
In 2 weeks' time I'll be in SA for 2 weeks!!!
Can't waaaiiit!
One night in Mondeor, south Jozi, weekend in Kroonstad at a bike rally, then off to East London for a few days, then Plettenberg Bay for 4 days and back to EL for the remaining days before I fly back. A busy time of visiting friends and family, but it's gonna be soooo damn good.
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2010-03-17 21:21 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Thats great news Wanqs! Sounds like its going to be one sweet holiday!
,just gona have to bare with all the roadworks here and there. Took us an hour and a half to get from uni in sandton to fourways,taking as many shortcuts as possible Main Road, Witkoppen and Wiliam Nicol are roads you dont want to find yourself on in the mornings and late afternoon, even on saturdays when its Wiliam Nicol.
Dups!
You may want to take that BB9700 back out the box: http://www.gsmarena.com/black[....]_blackberry_apps-news-1520.php RIM are one a roll, i can just see many Nokia E72 users thinking they should've got the BB now.
Posted by amawanqa
Ya boet, I'm counting the sleeps..
Taken from the register today (this'll have mario salivating, LOL):
'First WiMAX phone to debut next week?
Sprint to punt HTC Supersonic
The first WiMAX-capable smartphone is said to be slated for introduction next week by Sprint Nextel.
The phone will be the widely rumored HTC Supersonic, according to a report in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal citing the ever-loquacious "people familiar with the matter".
The introductory honors will be borne by Sprint Nextel chief executive Dan Hesse at next week's CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, Nevada, perhaps in a presentation during the The Path to 4G all-day session on Tuesday. Hesse is also expected to pump the Supersonic during his keynote presentation on Wednesday.
As The Reg has repeatedly reported, the race to 4G between WiMAX and LTE continues to accelerate. WiMAX may have a head start - Sprint partner Clearwire is busily building out its WiMAX network, with the goal of covering 120 million potential customers by the end of this year - but LTE is rapidly gaining support from such mobile-service heavyweights as AT&T, Verizon, Orange, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, and others.
Sprint is betting heavily on Clearwire. Witness not only its $7.4bn stake in a $14.5bn Clearwire joint venture in May of 2008, but also the additional $1.18bn it pumped into the company last November.
It can be argued that the introduction of the HTC Supersonic now - it had originally been rumored to appear later this year - is an effort to entice customers hungry for high-speed mobile broadband to sign long-term contracts before the LTE tsumani swamps the market late this year and into 2011.
If so, the Supersonic appears to be a good phone upon which to bet the farm - at least if leaked details turn out to be correct. The smartphone is reported to have a 4.3-inch 480x800 display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor running the HTC Sense UI on top of Android 2.1, and to be equipped with such now-standard smartphone niceties as a touch interface, compass, accelerometer, Bluetooth, five-megapixel camera, and GPS.
We'll find out more next week - that is, if those "people familiar with the matter" prove to be correct.'
Posted by amawanqa
Have a good weekend, y'all.
Posted by amawanqa
Windows Mobile 7 video...looks pretty keeewl:
http://www.gsmarena.com/new_w[....]nt_one_right_now-news-1525.php
Posted by amawanqa
Hmmm, WinMo 7 still has a way to go, it seems:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/20/windows_phone_7_design/
Posted by gola
One last pic of the N900, this time next to the Satio with it's cracked screen..
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Satio definetly wins when it comes to looks hey,sweet pic bro!
is your bro enjoying the N900?
Posted by gola
GUCCI
Thanks bro, well he isn't complaining, so I guess all is still good. It's only the battery...
I've finally mustered the courage to try and debrand the Satio, so I'm busy doing that now. I remember you said I had to register with Se-nse first, why is that?
edit-okay, I just found out why
But I keep getting this "[#10171] You do not have permission to view this attachment" when I try to download the custom pack...
[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2010-03-22 16:20 ]
Posted by amawanqa
32Gig micro-SD's by Sandisk on the way:
http://www.gsmarena.com/sandi[....]cards_next_month-news-1531.php
Posted by Tsepz_GP
On 2010-03-22 16:04:54, gola wrote:
GUCCI
Thanks bro, well he isn't complaining, so I guess all is still good. It's only the battery...
I've finally mustered the courage to try and debrand the Satio, so I'm busy doing that now. I remember you said I had to register with Se-nse first, why is that?
edit-okay, I just found out why
But I keep getting this "[#10171] You do not have permission to view this attachment" when I try to download the custom pack...
[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2010-03-22 16:20 ]
Ah crap,that sucks... Have you tried logging out, clearing your cache then logging back in and then trying to download it?
Posted by gola
Tseps
Just tried doing that bro, hasn't changed anything...
Ima try registering again...
And it worked
Thanks again Tseps
No more Vodafone OS, not that there was much to start off with...
I should be able to run normal Nokia symbian apps right?
I just realised that I've been calling you by ya previous name, lol.
[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2010-03-22 21:44 ]
Posted by gola
Tsepz
My trackid works now, thanks to the advice you gave me a while back.
Thanks
Posted by amawanqa
Nokia 5230 smartphone now down to under £80 (approx R900) on PAYG:
http://www.carphonewarehouse.[....]/mobile-phones/NOKIA-5230/PPAY
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2010-03-22 22:36 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Gola
Glad you managed to do it bro! If you want Nokia apps you need to hack your Satio. This is now simple,all you do is head over to WhyReply and request signed HelloOX, by giving them your phone's manufacturer, model name, IMEI and firmware version. Here's the thread: http://www.whyreply.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1522 you'll have to register at WhyReply,or if you want il do it for you, you can just pm me your imei and fw version, it will take just over a day to get the signed HelloOX and your certificate.
Haha! Its all good,i kept trying to log in as GUCCI earlier
was like WTF is wrong with this site
Posted by gola
On 2010-03-22 23:44:47, Tsepz_GP wrote:
Haha! Its all good,i kept trying to log in as GUCCI earlier
was like WTF is wrong with this site
lmao, yip, it's going to take a while...
Thanks bro, I saw ya polo post, it was easy so I did it. But thanks...
Dude, talking about Polo, have you seen the new Polos, sweet right. But was it really necessary for them to come out with the VW Vivo as well, it looks like the old ones... Unless there's something I'm missing here.
[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2010-03-23 08:52 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
No problem bro, its better to do it yourself so you know next time anyway.
Ye i like the new Polos to, they look so much better than their wacky looking Asian competitors lol. Oh ye, the Vivo is meant to replace the Citi Golf, the most expensive Vivo is around R145K, also dont see the point hey, they should've just made smaller engines for the new Polo,but maybe they do differ quite a bit in terms of interior and extra options. I cant wait to see how the new Polo GTI is going to look though.
Posted by gola
Oh ye, no more Citi Golfs. whoa, that's pretty affordable.
Well it's awesome, saw a video of a white GTi drifting on snow, looks awesome. But I'm looking more forward to Audi's S1
Also Youtubed some videos recorded by the Vivaz, I have to admit, the quality is fantastic...
[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2010-03-23 14:05 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
looks awesome, wonder when those are landing in SA.
Ye looking forward to seeing the Audi S1 on the road,any word on the price?
Havent even looked at any Vivaz reviews bro, think i should start YouTubing for some reviews on it. NOKIA seem to be upto something, N8 and E7 were apparently being discussed on Twitter.
Posted by amawanqa
Samsung's Android 2.1 on the way:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/[....]24/samsung_android_2_galaxy_s/
Posted by gola
Tsepz
The S1 should be around the same as a mid range A3, well that's what I think atleast.
Ye, proper N8-- should be surfacing any moment now, the specs should be exciting.
Got my certificate and key from opda.com, whyreply hasn't replied yet. But the problem is that helloo2 doesn't work on my current R2AK006 firmware, so I'd have to downgrade to R1CA037, so I'm fruitlessly trying to do that.
I won't be surprised if I end up bricking my phone... lol
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Ye was at WhyReply earlier, looking at that thread, nobody has got their cert in the last 2pages,realy odd
heads are gona roll i tell ya il make sure of it okay maybe not...
Glad you managed to get it. You can sign apps bro, instead of risking bricking your phone. I finaly formatted my 5800 last week, and so lost the hack, cant rehack cause just like R2AK006 on your Satio, V40 on 5800 cant be hacked, so im using FreeSigner: http://wap.z51.biz/wapz51v3/dl.aspx?file_id=29573 ,you just load in your CERT and KEY in settings, then select any unsigned app you want to install, Sign it,then you install the signed app. The signed app is always the one with sisx at the end. By the when you install FreeSigner you will get a 'Expired Cert' error so set your phone's date back like to 2009, then install,then set it back. Ridiculous i know,welcome to the darkside of s60 lol.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Some random 5800 pics:
The new Nissan GTR seems to be gainig popularity here, ive seen like 3 or 4 in the past month, heres one we saw at Monte a while ago, yep its facing a Golf GTI R32:
A mates bmw 1series, it must be the most standard looking car, so people are shocked when they see the "boot":
Another F430:
And Cadillac seem to be bringing more of their range to SA, AFAIK this is the top of the line CTS, right hand drive and all:
Posted by amawanqa
Nice pics, T-GP.
Did you hear about this oke crashing a Pagani Zonda in Scotland?:
http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/2503[....]-supercar-crash-insurer-0.html
Posted by gola
Ah man, I love the GTR
Great pics bro...
Lol, I'm loving the darkside but so far it's not treating me well, I guess this makes you the yoda
.
I get this error when I try to sign an app:
wanqs
I'd choose a Bugatti over a Zonda any day, provided that I'm dreaming...
[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2010-03-25 22:49 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Was on my way to sandton today using my mums car, spotted another Nissan GTR (same colour as the one i posted pics of) going the same way as me on Main RD, MY WORD does that thing accelerate. Tried to keep up,but the moment the car in front of it turned,the dude in the GTR put pedal to the 'metal' and all i could do was watch it quickly disappear into the distance, nothing dramatic, its engine is quiet, ive never seen a car move so quickly in such a short space of time so quietly g
. It will make mince meat of a Merc C63 AMG im sure,which just roars,without realy moving that quick.
My dream car is OFFICIALY a Nissan GTR, BMW can keep their overpriced M3. . . . . .im gona regret saying that sooner or later i just know it.
Wanqs
LOL! Eish, and he was just test driving it
i realy think people should be sent off to Advanced driving courses before buying such powerful cars,and if i remember correctly the Pagani Zonda doesnt even have Traction Control, its a coffin with a 7litre V12 engine.
Gola
Lol,ye i'd take a Bugatti any day, or that gorgeous Ferrari Italia.
Did you load your cert and key in: Sign Cert and Sign Key correctly?
Posted by Dups!
Wow, I go away and come back to find GUCCI having become Tsepz_GP.
Anyway, I think the Nissan GTR is a ruthless machine but I will stick with the next M5 cause I want the complete package which I feel the GTR lacks.
Comfort is most important to me followed by superb handling and then power.
I see the GTR as raw power and less finesse and handling. I honestly doubt that it will handle bends and corners like a Bimmer. It (GTR) will likely kick the next M5's butt in the power stakes but as an overall driver's car it just won't match it.
If I were to choose a GTR match I would go for the Porsche 911 turboS which has it all and more.
Posted by brix25
Just popping in to greet everyone...been away for way too long. My phone packed up, memory card wouldn't be read...took it off to Vodacare and they took more than a month too "fix" it...barely a few days after it was back to it's old tricks again...thankfully I had backeed up all my data onto a flash...Now the phone reads the card intermittently- I couldn't be arsed to take it back to Vodacare after the crap service I received, or should I be storming through to their Canal Walk branch and demand an X6
Posted by amawanqa
On 2010-03-27 16:19:06, brix25 wrote:
...or should I be storming through to their Canal Walk branch and demand an X6
I wanna go to the local Beemer dealer and demand a X6...methinks Tsepz'll be a short distance behind. LOL.
Good to se you in these parts again, brixster.
Posted by amawanqa
sepia P1i pic taken today:
A very appropriate surname for this particular business
:
Posted by gola
Wanqs, lol, the sepia efffect is just as appropriate...
Tsepz
Ye bro, I did, but it's cool, I'll wait till Hello0X2 can hack this firmware...
When it comes to Ferrari, the California and 599 do it for me
Brix
Nice to see you around these parts
Do it!
[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2010-03-28 19:07 ]
Posted by amawanqa
LOL gola, yeah those 'brown hues' ...
More
P1i sepia n' solarize pics:
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2010-03-28 19:11 ]
Posted by amawanqa
Another
P1i pic taken today:
Posted by amawanqa
P1i B&W pic:
Posted by amawanqa
@ gola:
Great
Satio pic, boet! :
http://www.esato.com/phonephotos/viewphotos.php?pid=26153
Posted by brix25
Thanks for the warm welcoming guys.
I still have 24 hrs in my day, I still work for about 10, along with two hours I spend commuting...that leaves me with enough time surf my social networks, read books, and get some sleep.