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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Experimenting with the  P1i's cam settings again, this time in Stratford in east London, where the 2012 Olympics will take place:
He who laughs last... thinks slowest.
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Looks like the cheaper (16GB) version of the Nokia X6 is going to be cheaper than initially anticipated:
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia[....]ble_for_preorder-news-1429.php
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amawanqa
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Taken from The Register:
'Nokia's free Ovi Maps scores a download every second
Finnish firm continues 2010 mojo reclaimation
Nokia is on a roll after its stagnant 2009, with strong quarterly results and rising smartphone share. Now it says its recent decision to make its Ovi Maps navigation service entirely free, in an aggressive shot at Google, has already been fully justified, with downloads hitting over 1.4m in just a couple of weeks.
"We're averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day," crowed Anssi Vanjoki, executive VP in charge of the critical web services strategy, adding that downloads crossed the one million mark within a week of the launch date of January 21.
This might not generate the direct financial return Nokia shareholders may have wanted when the firm paid a huge $8.1bn for the Navteq mapping firm, but it endorses the strategy of leveraging Nokia's huge cellphone base to build massive support for its web services, which should then drive revenues such as advertising, as well as increased phone uptake.
Vanjoki enlarged on this. "Within a matter of days there is an installed base of more than one million active users all potentially hungry for new and innovative location aware apps. For the operators too, there is a growing opportunity to sell more data plans and a complete navigation package to existing and new customers."
As of January 31, the top five countries downloading the new free version of Ovi Maps were China, Italy, UK, Germany and Spain, said the company. The top five most popular devices installing the download were the 5800 XpressMusic, the N97 Mini and full-grown N97 smartphones, the 5230 (the world's cheapest Symbian handset) and the E72 enterprise device.
The new version of Ovi Maps enables users to store entire maps and location data on their handset for free via the mobile network, Wi-Fi or sideloaded from a PC, so they do not have to be connected to the internet for basic navigation services. Ovi Maps covers more than 180 countries and includes turn-by-turn navigation for drivers and pedestrians across 74 countries, in 46 languages. It also bundles free travel guides from Lonely Planet and Michelin.'
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Hobbs
Joined: Oct 07, 2006
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From: Cape Town,South Africa
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We killed India in 4 days.Wow! Congrats Proteas.
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Yeah, what an awesome performance by Steyn, Amla and Kallis.
P1i pic taken the other day:
Invictus movie whole-page newspaper ad here:
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amawanqa
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Taken from The Register:
'Touchscreens take lead in smartphone biz
Bumper year for finger-friendly phones
The world's smartphone makers shipped more touchscreen models in Q4 2009 than at any time in the past - and more touchphones than devices with buttons.
During the quarter, 55 per cent of all smartphones shipped had touchscreens. That's just under 30m touchscreen handsets altogether, market watcher Canalys said today.
Touchscreen shipments were up 138 per cent year on year, compared to overall smartphone shipment growth of 41 per cent.
Q4 accounted for almost 40 per cent of the touchscreen smartphones shipped during 2009, a year that notched up total shipments of 75.9m, the researcher said. Some 166.27m smartphones shipped in 2009.
Canalys spoke to 4,000 consumers late in 2009 and found that 60 per cent of them wanted a touchscreen interface on their next phone. While some existing touchphone users said they will switch back to a different interface, Canalys said it expects the overall shift toward touchscreens to continue during 2010.
It said it expects 166m touchscreen smartphones to ship this year.
It comes as no surprise that Apple topped the chart of touchphone vendors, shipping 25.10m smartphones in 2009, just ahead of Nokia's 22.36m. HTC managed 7.73m and Samsung 4.84m. Everyone else, together, racked up shipments totalling 15.82m units.
From a marketshare perspective, they divide up this way: Apple 33.1 per cent, Nokia 29.5 per cent, HTC 10.2 per cent, Samsung 6.4 per cent and everyone else 20.9 per cent.
Not a good result for RIM, but then its touchscreen BlackBerrys aren't as widely seen as the Qwerty models. But a look at the OS figures shows its position to be strong, for now. Symbian was in 47.2 per cent of the smartphones shipped in 2009, followed by BlackBerry (20.8 per cent), iPhone (15.1 per cent), Windows Mobile (8.8 per cent), Android (4.7 per cent) and others (3.4 per cent).
Symbian and Windows Mobile were down year on year, while BlackBerry, iPhone and Android all increased their share of the smartphone OS market.'
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gola
Joined: Jul 17, 2007
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From: South Africa
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GUCCI
Have a listen to Weezy's remix of Sweet dreams ft Nicki Minaj & Beyoncé...
Kick A$$ track bro, I think Nicki even kills Weezy lol.
"Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do!"
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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More Acer smartphones on the way:
http://www.gsmarena.com/two_n[....]e__e110_and_p300-news-1438.php
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Tsepz_GP
Joined: Dec 27, 2006
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From: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Gola thanx bra, will download it later tonight, i need some new tracks 
Wanqs,some great pics there, dig the 1st one of the back of that superbike 
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Hobbs
Joined: Oct 07, 2006
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From: Cape Town,South Africa
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About bloody time
http://www.gsmarena.com/opera[....]shown_at_the_mwc-news-1439.php
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jmash
Joined: Jan 18, 2006
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From: Nelspruit,South Africa
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Ayoba to everyone.hope all's good there folks.Greetings from Nelspruit. |
Tsepz_GP
Joined: Dec 27, 2006
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From: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Dam it Hobbs,i was just on the way to deliver the good news lol OperaMini is going to be sweet on the iPhone im sure, it has become my main browser after UCWeb just disappointed me. The UC team realy needs to optimize it properly for touch.
Jmash
Good to see you around  , the iPhone3G still treating you well?
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jmash
Joined: Jan 18, 2006
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From: Nelspruit,South Africa
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@Gucci,yeah bro,still gud and loving it.I had to have the screen replaced after I cracked it and it left a hole in my pocket,but hey this baby rocks. |
Tsepz_GP
Joined: Dec 27, 2006
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From: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Thats great Jmash, eish sucks about the screen, atleast its sorted. Thats the only reason i prefer a Resistive screen lol, otherwise at times i wish my phone had the same type of screen as an iPhone.
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Hobbs
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@JMASH How Big a hole are we talking? And how the hell can you crack it bro.You gotta be a bit more careful.
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