Posted by Hobbs
Ive installed
2010 World Cup (nice app for the World Cup.Keeps you up to date on everything thats going on.)
Advanced Task Killer (you gotta have this to kill background applications that drain your battery)
ASTRO File Manager
BBCNews (Like the ol' BBC)
Easy Tether & PDANet (to browse on my PC)
MXIT
Note Everything (nice simple note taking app)
Operamini 5
Dolphin Browser
(Skyfire still in BETA so I'll wait for a final version)
Speedtest
Tweetcaster (awesome Twitter client)
WIKI Mobile (to make me book-smart lol)
Going slow on the apps installation.Dont wanna clog this phone with JUNK!
Regarding the web browsing.Its fantastic.I quite like the + - ZOOM buttons better than the multi touch pinch/zoom.Also you can zoom quite a bit out till the text is quite small and still easily read.I dont even have to change to landscape much because everything fits on the screen just fine in portrait.
I use the default.Ive tried Operamini5,Ive tried the Dolphin Browser (gets a high rating in Market) and the default still kicks ass.
I use Operamini 5 when Im in a GPRS coverage area and I need the compression and speed.
Posted by Hobbs
My Homescreen,nice and simple.2 Time widgets,a dialer,phonebook,messaging,email,a newly created folder called Web with all my web apps in and Mediascape for all my music,video's and pics.
[ This Message was edited by: Hobbs on 2010-06-10 20:01 ]
Posted by Hobbs
Not a bad concert.
Posted by amawanqa
Ya, I've been watching it here too.
@ gola:
Eish, I wish I was there to watch a match, but that ain't happening. I only go on leave a month after the world cup.
Good luck, Bafana Bafana.
Hey Hobbster, nice homescreen, boet. Me likes. BTW, yeah I've also downloaded most of Depeche Mode's iconic songs from MP3fiesta. As for The Cure, well I really dig their late '80's and early '90's stuff. Most days a song of theirs passes my ears in one of my folders playing on the PC while I'm working. Disintegration. Still my fave Cure album. I was doing a display in the main hall late this afternoon. I put on a compilation CD on the hall's PA system, and cranked up Plainsong while I worked. Dreamy, magical stuff, very effective after a very hectic day.
Posted by Hobbs
Wangs
Downloaded Disintegration today.Listening to it now in bed.
Could possibly be one of my favourites too.Toss up with
Staring At The Sea.
Perfect album to go sleep to.
Posted by Hobbs
Hope you guys have a fantastic day and enjoy the soccer.
GOOD LUCK BAFANA Kick some Mexicana ass.
Posted by gola
The B.E.Ps suck, lol, but generally a good concert and opening concert...
Tsepz
Been writing exams, btw, congrats on the results.
Well I won't be going to any of the stadiums, hopefully some of the fanfests. I need my own car!
The Satio's been good,havent messed around with it ever since i tried to hack it.
Wanqs
No worries, just as long as you got them backed up...but the atmosphere is awesome!
Posted by Hobbs
Tzepz
If you want more homescreens to put Widgets ect on (X10 only has three) you can download and install Helix.It gives you up to seven.
After clicking Menu key you now have the option of Helix,Default or Timescape.
If you choose Helix,Double tap the screen and your homescreens pop up for easy access.(Dont have to sideway swipe)
Also they say it prolongs the battery life over the Sony Ericsson default homescreen (no-one knows why,it just does),so thats another reason to install.
The Pink theme doesnt mean anything.I like girls lol
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Posted by Hobbs
So close
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Posted by amawanqa
Ja nee, we were just 12 minutes away from victory there..
Posted by Hobbs
Both France and Uruguay are looking pretty good.Bafana
are going to have to raise their game against these guys.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
St Stithians was awesome! The vibe there was just epic, felt like we were at the stadium lol, great to see so much support for Bafana. The traffic was mad, took me just over an hour to get from fourways to a friend's place in douglasdale, a trip that usualy takes around 15mins, madness. Wiliam Nicol and Main RD were just impossible, anyway took a pic or two of how it was at Saints and will post later. Bafana played pretty well,but ye they have to step their game up, Mexico put them in a lot of uncomfortable positions.....that realy doesnt sound right
Gola
Haha,cool man, fingers crossed for you bro! Thanx man,just gota get the exam results now. Haha,i hear you there bro, depending on friends for lifts can be quite an issue.
You heard the track Roger That by Young Money? Wooh, Nicki kills it!
Hobbs
Thanx a lot,im going to bookmark this page for all that.
sounds realy good.
Posted by amawanqa
So 1-0 to England so far.
P1i pic taken (in less than ideal lighting..) yesterday, on the way into central London:
Don't think this number plate will be to popular in SA, LOL:
Posted by amawanqa
Gee, what a howler by Robert Green. Poor guy.
Posted by Hobbs
Ja Wangs.You gotta feel for those English
boys.That goal keeper needs a whipping.
Posted by brix25
It's been a week since I've bought the BB and have to say its one of the best decisions I've ever made when buying a phone. In terms of productivity, sending emails- nothing comes close. My only difficulty is getting accustomed to the qwerty keyboard, very difficult considering my big large fingers. The other beef is the fact that one still can't get any paid apps in BB's AppWorld...the free ones aren't that good.
Posted by Hobbs
The Germans are running rampent.
Posted by amawanqa
Ya, sheer dominance against the Socceroos.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Australia got a right spanking
4-0? Sies,what are they doing here? 
Was at the Montecasino fanfest on sat nite for Eng vs. USA. The place was filled with americans,quite a lot of argentinians and obviously english peeps, went The Cobblestone bar aftwerward,ive never seen so many european/american foreigners in Jhb, had some trying to sing Shosholoza drunk as they were
chilled with some argentinian dudes who were telling us some crazy stories, only i can say is they know how to have a bloody good time the vibe in SA is just great right now.
Brix
Glad you're enjoying it,which BB did you get?
Posted by JK
Hey SA Mobile discussion!!!
Long time!
How awesome is this World Cup? Im loving it
Havent played with any of the new
phones for a while now, using a BB 9700...
Posted by Hobbs
Brix
Glad you enjoying your BB.
Posted by gola
All
haha, everyone is complaining about the soccer ball, jabulani, and the vuvuzelas. I think it's pretty cool but pointless blowing it for the whole 90mis...
Btw, the bmw x1 looks horrible
The audi a1, which is now available in Europe, on the other hand
Tsepz
Thanks...ya,nice track there. Just heard something new today, 'i made it' by kevin rudolph,weezy,birdman and jay sean. Awesome track.
Posted by Hobbs
You gotta feel for Italy and Paraguay.20minutes ago it was hailing here in Sea Point,5 min away from the stadium.Brrrrr!
Posted by amawanqa
New Nokia X5-01 and yet another dumbed-down X6:
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia[....]lus_nokia_x6_8gb-news-1734.php
Posted by JK
On 2010-06-14 19:21:22, gola wrote:
Thanks...ya,nice track there. Just heard something new today, 'i made it' by kevin rudolph,weezy,birdman and jay sean. Awesome track.
Ye my favourite song atm...
Posted by Tsepz_GP
I got suite tickets to see Brazil vs. Côte d'Ivoire on sunday
so i guess i can say "i was there" when i tell my grankids lol, looking forward to it.
Gola
Haha,ye thats a cool track, so young money now have jay sean. Im loving Usher's tracks, im tempted to actualy buy his album, Lil' Freak by him and Nicki Minaj is one track i cant stop listenin to
Posted by Dups!
You lucky fool, Tsepz!!
Well, I'm watching the matches on tv. Hopefully, Bafana Bafana wins tonight's game cause we can't afford anything less than a victory this time around.
If they play like the second half against Mexico then I'm certain of victory.
Thus far only Germany looks dangerous and absolutely fluid even though their opponents were mediocre as far as I am concerned.
I was also pleasantly surprised by the 'old' Italians, they look pretty good.
Brazil were a disaster!
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Ya ,hopefuly Bafana kill it tonite
Eish, Brazil disappointed me, i think Argentina are another team to keep an eye out for even though they werent playing their best the other day,i can see them in the finals, along with Germany.
Dam Spain
so many wasted opportunities. Is it just me or were they just wasting time every time they got in the box? Either that or just taking crap shots.
Hobbs
Im now getting seriously impatient! Im going to upgrade 7days earlier, the 12th is the day i go back to uni lol, i cant wait until then
Hows the X10 so far? Have you noticed an increased in battery life at all?
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Posted by Hobbs
GUCCI
The X10 is a fantastic phone.I cant fault it.Some of these
review bloggers talk out of their asses sometimes I think.
Theres nothing wrong with the X10's battery life if you
sensible.Just follow certain rules and you ok.
Speedwise you'll be quite impressed and once 2.1 or 2.2
comes along it should be quite an improvement to what's
already quite a nippy unit.
Tried out LAYARS today in Long Street and it awesome.
Lots of Layars .Its quite cool.Point your camera and all
these colour dots decend from the top
of your screen with information on things to do.buildings.restuarants
Real Estate deals like rentals ect
It even picks up Tweeters which is quite alot of fun since you
can reply.Still playing around with it so Im sure it goes much deeper.
Cant wait till you hopefully join me with Android.Its going
to be so much fun since you are always ahead of the pack with
the latest and greatest lol
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Posted by Tsepz_GP
Thanx for that Hobbsta! That LAYARS app sounds freakin' awesome! Will be great to see what improvements SE make in the Eclaire 2.1 update, realy looking forward to it.
Posted by amawanqa
Eish, what a goal by Uruguay...
Posted by amawanqa
3-0. Eina.
Posted by Hobbs
Goooooo ENGLAND! lol
Posted by amawanqa
LOL Hobbster.
Posted by Dups!
Go Ghana, Ivory Coast and Germany!!
Disgraceful performance by the national team! They deserved to lose! What happened to the Mexico game spirit. Where did that determination, grit and passion go to?!!!
Pathetic!!
Only the Boks are the real team here in SA. The Proteas and Bafana suck!
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Did you guys see that? Uruguay were playing soccer,not quite sure what we were doing, and that ref, he's a dead man walking.
Go Argentina!
Posted by Hobbs
DUPS
Sometimes we forget Bafana are ranked in the 80's and the teams
we are playing are all top 20 sides.So in reality it was always going to
be near impossibe.
There was no harm in dreaming though.
It felt good.
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Posted by Dups!
On the contrary Hobbs, I never forget where Bafana are in the rankings but I want to lose a match knowing that we gave it our best shot. What happened yesterday was disgusting to say the least. There was ni sense of urgency and no passion whatsoever, it was like watching a team that was just brought together for the tournament in the last 7 days. There was no fire there, the boys were running around like headless chickens. Passing to the opponents and constantly losing ball was the order of the evening.
If they played like that against Mexico then it would've been better cause we would be accommodating of yesterday's performance but they played above themselves against the Mexicans which suggested that they are capable when they decide to put their minds to it.
Uruguay were good but we made them even better with our schoolboy football.
Now is the time to prepare the future Bafana by bringing in the under 20s like Erasmus, Jali, Serero, Claasens, Makhubela, etc.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Spot on Dups. It was just shocking to say the least, it makes me wonder what happened in the days between yesterdays game and the mexico game
ah well, hope they will be ready for france.
Posted by Hobbs
DUPS
Everything you say is right.I was swearing at the television all through the match and even at one point was considering switching off the tv.
Side side side,forward,side side side,back,forward to halfway line,back back back to goalkeeper,goalkeeper kicks up field,lose position.
over and over again.
Pienaar gets ball,Pienaar dribbles,Pienaar falls over lol
Horrible soccer indeed.
But the World Cup goes on and I aint going to let it dampen my spirit.
Argentina just demolished the Koreans.They also looking good next to the Germans.
I cant wait for the England match tomorrow.Lets hope they take it up a notch and entertain.
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Posted by Dups!
It ain't funny but I started laughing when I read your post where it reads 'side to side...'
That is exactly what we did with no direction at all. Steven Pienaar falls all over the show while Modise doesn't know what the ball is for when it's on your feet.
I am still looking forward to the rest of the tournament without Bafana. Should be interesting seeing that Argentina are also firing on all cylinders. One match I'm also looking forward to is Spain vs Chile, this could be goodbye Spain.
Posted by Hobbs
Well it looks likes its goodbye Nigeria.Well done Greece.Africa
aint doing to well up to now on African soil.Its a damn pity.
Posted by se_dude
Hope cameroon does well.Spain and the barca cools must be chewing each others asses right now.
Posted by Dups!
@se_dude
Forget about Cameroon, to me they are already out of the competition. They are just not the Roger Milla Cameroon anymore, they are a bunch of footballers who are still trying to play the game with no direction or intention to be great.
I think the only African teams that look the part at this tournament are Ghana and Ivory Coast.
Spain always does exactly what they did yesterday, they completely break down when they need to lift their game. I wouldn't be surprised if Chile beats them.
Posted by Hobbs
I like the X10's phonebook and how it looks after you've added an image to a contact
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Posted by Dups!
That looks very nice! Tempting me to get the X10 but I will wait a bit. I am actually considering trying out the 5'' screens, am actually interested in the upcoming Moto something with a 4.4'' screen.
I hope those aren't real contact numbers, Hobbs?
Posted by Hobbs
No Dups.Made up contact with cuzzies pic.
Posted by Hobbs
FRANCE toppled by the Mexicans.Wow!
Posted by Hobbs
Trying out the Mediascape Video on the X10.Its Fantastic.
I use XILISOFT VIDEO CONVERTER ULTIMATE to convert my movies,music videos ect.
I made the Video Size 854x480 (X10's screensize),set Video Quality to Highest,Audio quality to High and set channel to Stereo.The results are perfect.(love this software.Very user friendly and does a splendid job)
I took a 648mb music video in the AVI format (its massive because its HD) and after converting it to MPEG-4 with those above settings I got a file of the size of 65,2mb.Not bad.
The screen on this phone is so clear and crisp and when those extra colours are activated with the firmware update its going to be even more vibrant.
WUNDERBAR!
Posted by sahil786
@hobbs. . . . . .wats up man? Can u plz gv me da link to download dat video converter?