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iPhone 4S Maxis Register Your Interest Page

derekchan84 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:39:06 +0000

Looks like the iPhone 4S is coming really soon (16th December 2011 hopefully). Maxis have already put up their iPhone 4S Register Your Interest page.

Hopefully we will see the other telcos release more details soon.

Time to save your money! It’s almost here

Try Windows Phone on your iOS or Android Device

derekchan84 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:52:08 +0000

Always wanted to try how the Windows Phone metro interface works but had no chance? If you own an iPhone or any Android devices, here is your chance! Just access this link to try it out. Pretty impressive HTML 5 app there for you to test out Metro.

Windows Phone Voice Recognition Feature for SMS [Video]

derekchan84 — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:06:19 +0000

Earlier this week, my colleague notified me about this feature available on the Windows Phone. As curious as usual, I have decided to try it out on my Samsung Omnia 7 which is already ‘Mango’ed and I was left pretty impressed. Below is a simple video of how this feature works:

Currently, the voice recognition feature is available only for SMS and searches. I really wish that this feature could be integrated into more applications, like Siri on the iPhone 4S.

iPhone 4S Malaysia Release on 16th December 2011

derekchan84 — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:18:15 +0000

According to MalaysianWireless.com, the iPhone 4S will be released in Malaysia through all major telcos (Maxis, DiGi and Celcom) on the 16th of December. They have also have the unofficial price list for all variants of the phone:

iPhone 4S 16GB- RM2190
iPhone 4S 32GB- RM2590
iPhone 4S 64GB- RM2890/RM2990

Time to start saving for that new Apple device before it lands next month!

Nokia Windows Phone Announced!

derekchan84 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:27:13 +0000

On Thursday, 26th of October 2011, Nokia have finally announced their long awaited Windows Phone device. Previously codenamed ‘Sea Ray’, the Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 is here to challenge the big boys like Apple and Samsung in the mobile market. Below are the specs and details of the 2 announced phones:

Some of the interesting tidbits added by Nokia into their Windows Phones includes a turn-by-turn map application called Nokia Drive, an ESPN Hub and a music app which does music mixes.

Pricing and release date in Malaysia is still unknown.

Mongo Database User Group in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

derekchan84 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:16:00 +0000

Hey devs! I was just made aware that there is a Mongo DB user group in KL, Malaysia.

Below is a brief description of the MongoDB database:

MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. Written in C++, MongoDB features:

Document-oriented storage »JSON-style documents with dynamic schemas offer simplicity and power.
Full Index Support »Index on any attribute, just like you’re used to.
Replication & High Availability »Mirror across LANs and WANs for scale and peace of mind.
Auto-Sharding »Scale horizontally without compromising functionality.
Querying »Rich, document-based queries.
Fast In-Place Updates »Atomic modifiers for contention-free performance.
Map/Reduce »Flexible aggregation and data processing.
GridFS »Store files of any size without complicating your stack.
Commercial Support »Enterprise class support, training, and consulting available.

Added the Mongo User Group Page on the Links section. Do go in if you are interested to explore this database technology!

iPhone 4S Announced! Malaysia Release Date December 2011!

derekchan84 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:40:28 +0000

The latest iPhone have been announced yesterday at Apple’s HQ at Cupertino.

Some of the interesting specs and features are:

A 64GB Model for the very first time
An improved 8 Megapixel camera
New A5 processor which runs up to 7x faster than the previous gen iPhone
Voice recognition from Seri

The iPhone 4S will also come loaded with the latest iOS 5 which has features such as notifications and iMessage which is a service similar to Blackberry’s famous BBM service.

The iPhone 4S will be released in the United States, Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany and Japan on the 14th of October 2011. Expect it to arrive in Malaysia in December 2011.

Windows 8 Developer Build Released! Direct Links Available!

derekchan84 — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:52:58 +0000

What are you waiting for? Download it from the Developer Center right now before Microsoft’s servers takes too much beating.

Preview coming up right after my own download!

Direct links:

Silverlight 5 RC Released

derekchan84 — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:10:01 +0000

Microsoft have silently released the release candidate version of Silverlight 5 last week. Grab the latest RC from here.

If you would like to have better understanding of all the newly released Silverlight 5 features, I would highly recommend the following links for now:

Pete Brown’s Blog
Silverlight 5 for Line of Business Applications – Jeremy Likness (Youtube video)

Have fun!

HTC Announces HTC Radar & HTC Titan

derekchan84 — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:51:51 +0000

New WP7 Mango phones from HTC, named Radar and Titan have been announced! Expect it to reach the US by the late September 2011 and Malaysia…? Maybe somewhere around October 2011? Anyway, the specs for these phones are pretty impressive.

The awesome Titan, wields a 4.7-inch SLCD display, a 8MP back camera and 1.3MP front-facing snapper. It also boasts a 1.5Ghz processor, 512MB of RAM and 16GB of flash storage. HTC Radar, which is the lower-end release has a 3.8 inch LED screen and 1Ghz of processing power. Coming together with the Radar is also 8GB of storage space and a 5MP back camera.

Anyway, I do hope that HTC will improve their camera performance and quality this time around because their previously released WP7 devices such as HD7 and Mozart was so bad in the camera department that I ended up getting Samsung’s Omnia 7 instead.

For more information regarding these 2 devices, head over to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mini site for Radar and Titan and have a detailed hands-on with Engadget here.

*Image courtesy of Engadget