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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Creating er... art with the P1i's cam settings:
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amawanqa
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New HTC Android and WinMo devices spotted:
http://www.gsmarena.com/shots[....]d_htc_click_leak-news-1083.php
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Tsepz_GP
Joined: Dec 27, 2006
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From: Johannesburg, South Africa
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NOKIA have announced their own Netbook. The NOKIA Booklet3G: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia[....]let_erhh_netbook-news-1084.php
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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For people who wish to serve The Big Red Machine Network (not for me, thanks...):
Taken from The register:
'Vodafone's Ovi-killer leaks
The world's biggest global mobile network appears to be planning to put the skids under Nokia, Google and Apple's plans for mobile software. According to videos leaked to TechCrunch UK last week, Vodafone is planning a comprehensive services offering called "Vodafone People". Apple might not be too worried, but Nokia and Google should be.
VP promises to federate social network messaging, as well as stalwart offerings such as backups, sync, maps and app downloads. It will support both PCs and Macs, which Nokia's perspiring services leviathan, Ovi, hasn't been able to manage.
Judging by the promo videos, VPeople will bring together messaging including SMS, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and IM services, into a contact-centric UI. Since many people, particularly the older set, now use Facebook as their messaging service (it's the new Hotmail, really), and Twitter has superseded IM for some niches, this makes sense. Palm and 3 are also trying to federate messaging, so the users doesn't have to fiddle unnecessarily.
Vodafone is the largest global carrier; China Mobile has more subscribers, but only operates in two countries. Voda also has a 45 per cent stake in Verizon, which is driving pell-mell towards LTE. So there's a potential in settings standards. The clincher is really the price.
Google and Nokia will be content to continue shipping their own offerings on their own platforms - but really they want the operators to use their own respective services where they can.
Google has the best mobile Maps client, a popular email and calendar, and a decent photo sharing service. Nokia has a first rate professional Maps business that underperforms on mobile, and not much else.
Recently I advised Nokia to stop trying to be a mini-Yahoo!, and to give up on the social networking bits of Ovi. No one is interested in these services, and which are better done by Flickr, Picasa or Facebook - and a few key areas such as messaging, maps and music need attention much more urgently. For example, Nokia's flagship phone this summer shipped with a seven-year-old email client that can't read HTML. Ovi doesn't make Nokia phones more attractive - and may make them less competitive.
For Google it's possibly even more threatening, because they're not making any hardware revenue. (Nokia still makes handsets people like, even if they're running Flickr and Facebook, not Ovi.) Vodafone subscribers staring at the People app may not be staring at Google ads while they do, and Google won't be making anything from transactional revenue.'
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Kryptik
Joined: Jun 24, 2005
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From: Port Elizabeth, S.Africa
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Thank goodness that Monday is only 24 hours long....
I see that MobileCrunch has mentioned an S.E. announcement next week, but nobody there seems to be quite certain about the content of the announcement.
http://bit.ly/1VFhm1
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Dups!
Joined: Sep 24, 2006
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@Kryptik
SEMC blog reports that the Vulcan or X2 will be unveiled.
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gola
Joined: Jul 17, 2007
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From: South Africa
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...mh, didin't see that one coming.
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Tsepz_GP
Joined: Dec 27, 2006
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From: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Lol, Gola, ye, for some Nokia s60 users its not that suprising, esp.since i frequently visit Symbian Freak, going by all these investments Nokia have been making: signing with Intel, Microsoft, running Symbian on a netbook, making internet tablets, apparently in talks with Qualcomm etc. . .they were just totaly gunning to make a netbook, i cant believe how correct Eldar was in that N900 review, he must have a VERY good relationship with them.
Dups
I hear SE may also have a netbook in the works  that might also be whats being announced.
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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@ Kyle:
A very rushed and crappy pic taken from a distance from the TV. The Enduro Africa was featured and it was great to see them focussing on the Eastern Cape so much, including 'The Hole In The Wall' (or iziKhaleni by the Xhosa locals, ie. Place of Thunder) by Coffee Bay :
 P1i pic: 
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2009-08-24 20:27 ] He who laughs last... thinks slowest.
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amawanqa
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The Prime Peruvian Poster on esato has now posted an "official" pic of the N900 (no, not the first pic in the thread link below, LOL):
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=188695
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2009-08-24 22:09 ] He who laughs last... thinks slowest.
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amawanqa
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"How do your weapons work?" An unmistakable, thick SA accent catches my attention as it plays on the TV a few moments ago. Yup, District 9 is now being advertised on the box here too.
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Dups!
Joined: Sep 24, 2006
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@GUCCI
From what I read about SE's netbook it seems it is still a way off, maybe next year. Unless SE intends surprising us which I doubt considering their laid back nature.
It's 03h21 and I just can't sleep! Lately I'm having trouble sleeping. For the past week and a half I wake up at around 2 or just after 3 and can't sleep after that no matter how early I have slept. I'm not the sort of person who takes or would even consider sleeping tablets. I'm just afraid this is going to take its toll on me if it goes on for longer.
I hate this!
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brix25
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From: Cape Town, South Africa
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I'm very suprised the Booklet is not running Maemo. The announcement wasn't unexpected just didn't think that Nokia would stick with M$. But I should add that XP SP3 is pretty rock-solid.
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Rhino8
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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From: South Africa (Bloemfontein)
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My only question (in between drool sessions) is what it will cost... It doesnt help they have something thats unaffordable...
ARSENAL : Samsung Galaxy SII
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amawanqa
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Another dumbed-down 5800 offshoot announced by The Dark Side today, this time the 5230. Lose the 3.2mp cam and wi-fi and get 3G, GPS and a fixed-focus 2mp cam instead  :
http://www.gsmarena.com/full_[....]_and_gps_onboard-news-1087.php
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