WELCOME TO NOKIA WORLD 09: PART ONE

What do you think? Nokia is coming out with possibly the greatest idea they ever have - that is to make a notebook PC form of their product. This mark the first time Nokia will produces a laptop in their profoundable history in mobile phone history. But bear in mind, Nokia is no Sony, whom the latter has most experiences and expertise to invent such PC, but it was Nokia whom first tried it out.

Fresh from Stuggart, Germany was the Nokia World 2009 convention which was held on September 2 ago. What was more shimmering for them than to showcase their latest range of products that we can expect anytime soon during the last quarter of the year.

Booklet 3G Netbook

This is what I mean by the PC form of a mobile phone. Powered by Atom processor and 10.1-inch display, integrated 3G wireless and a hot-swappable SIM card. It looks to be running Windows 7, has integrated A-GPS with a copy of Ovi Maps, HDMI output, a rated 12 hour battery life, and the usual Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, all in a 2cm (.78 inch), 2.7lb aluminum body that's understated, sophisticated, and should make most Nokia fans very happy.

N97 Mini

This is the smaller version of their summer 'not-so-hit' smart phone, N97. During my last post about smart phones, it seems that N97 has lost in most and important aspects to Apple's iPhone 3GS and HTC Magic. It still packs 8GB of storage, a 3.2-inch touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard into its 14.2mm thin frame. It's also the first Nokia device to sport Lifecasting with Ovi - a new partnership with the world's largest social network, Facebook. Up to 12 days standby time are on offer and up to 28 hours music playback (in offline mode). The 5-megapixel camera comes with dual LED flash and video light, along with a Carl Zeiss Tessar lens.

Nokia N900

Nokia is searching for a redemption following minor failure of N97. If you are so keen in getting N97, I suggest you to wait for this, N900. It has a 3.5 inch touch-screen, powered by a 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 with a massive 1GB memory and 32GB internal storage. Of course, it is fueled with integrated GPS, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and personalized QWERTY keyboard that fits into your hand. Nokia N900 comes with a pre-loaded Ovi Maps and RSS Reader if you are into blogging. Looks like this will beat the hell of N97.

There is more to come on Nokia World '09. Second part, we will look at more new Nokia products! With them, see you!! For more info and as well the resources of this post are obtained from NOKIAN900 and ConversationsNokia.

THE HOTTEST SMARTPHONES OF SUMMER

Which smart-phones would you want to buy? Unless you are residing in the United States or some Western countries, you may not see some of these smart-phones in the market yet. PC World review, compare and contrast the hottest smart-phones of the Summer of 2009. (Original article, click here)

The four hot smart-phones are:

Apple iPhone 3G s

Nokia N97

Palm Pre
and
T-Mobile myTouch 3G;
each with a large touch displays, slim, pocketable designs and updated operating systems.

Let's see how PC World compares and contrast each, shall we? A symbol of (♥) indicates reviewer's favourite and winner on each category (sometimes, there is a tie)

CATEGORY 1: GENERAL APPEARANCE

iPhone - "Retains the same elegant design as the 3G model - the only difference is that the text on the 3G S’s backing is silver rather than gray" (♥)
Pre - "Glossy (albeit easily smudged) back cover and its curved ergonomic shape, but its construction feels a little cheap"
N97 - "Has a matte backing and a sturdy body, but it's a bit bulky due to its slide-out QWERTY keyboard"
myTouch - "Has a pronounced curve at the bottom, which makes for a comfortable thumb grip" (♥)

CATEGORY 2: WHAT RUNS IT?

iPhone - "ARM Cortex A8 microprocessor running at 600MHz with 256MB of RAM" (♥)
Pre - "TI processor running at 600MHz with 256MB of RAM"
N97 - "ARM 11 processor running at 434MHz with 128MB of RAM"
myTouch - "900/2100MHz processor with 288MB of RAM" (♥)

CATEGORY 3: THE WAY I TYPE

HARDWARE KEYBOARD

N97 - "The horizontal keyboard is superior, though it isn’t perfect. The edge of the display is too close to the top row of keys, and you can't adjust the display's angle or make it lie flat" (♥)
Pre - "The vertical slide-out QWERTY keyboard disappoints: slightly recessed, and the bezel lip on the sides and bottom often interferes with typing"

TOUCH TYPE

iPhone - "The portrait-oriented keyboard is slightly bigger, shows you the key you pressed and makes typing easier" (♥)
myTouch - "Got used to the software keyboard fairly quickly but it was a bit too tightly packed"

CATEGORY 4: THE HOME SCREENS

iPhone - "Has a more traditional smartphone home screen, with icons for the various applications in a grid" (♥)
Pre - "A Quick Launch bar runs along the bottom of the screen, giving you fast access to frequently used functions" (♥)
N97 - "has widgets that update your personal Internet feeds in real time on your home screen so that you don't have to open another app to access them"
myTouch - "While the N97’s live-feed widgets are useful, I like the overall look and customization abilities of the myTouch 3G" (♥)

CATEGORY 5: MULTITASKING

CARD VIEW (Palm Pre) vs PUSH NOTIFICATIONS (Apple iPhone 3G S)

Pre - "Pre’s deck-of-cards visualization makes multitasking simple and engaging" (♥)
iPhone - "While push notifications are a step in the right direction, it just isn’t the same as true multitasking, and therefore the Pre comes out on top"

NOTIFICATIONS (N97) vs NOTIFICATIONS (T-Mobile myTouch 3G)

N97 - "Doesn’t have a notification system (though some of your info, such as your Facebook account, does get updated in real time via the home screen’s live-feed widgets)"
myTouch - "Notifications pop up along the top of the myTouch’s display, alerting you to a new IM, e-mail, app update or the like. To view all of your notifications, you simply tap and pull down the notifications menu" (♥)

CATEGORY 6: MY CALENDAR APPS of iPhone vs myTouch

iPhone - "While it doesn’t receive a huge makeover in OS 3.0, it does get some more flexibility in terms of which calendars you can use" (♥)
myTouch - "Natively supports Google Calendar (obviously) and allows you to set up reminders that will pop up on your status bar via the notification system." (♥)

CATEGORY 7: GPS AND DIGITAL COMPASS of iPhone vs N97

iPhone - "The iPhone compass’s elegant interface -- and its integration into Google Maps on the iPhone 3G S" (♥)
N97 - "The N97’s compass is a tiny blip in the corner of the Nokia Maps application (which is actually very well-done)"

Here is the result of the review by PC World:

Apple iPhone 3G S (♥)(♥)(♥)(♥)(♥)(♥)
Palm Pre (♥)(♥)
Nokia N97 (♥)
T-Mobile myTouch 3G(♥)(♥)(♥)(♥)(♥)

After hearing the simple verdict by Ginny Mies of PC World, it is profound that iPhone 3G S and T-Mobile myTouch 3G may be the next phones to look for.

New technology applied in these smart-phones but what say you? Do you agree with PC World?

NOKIA NUFFNANG SILENT HALLOWEEN ROCKS

How many N's (like Ah Liang said) were there in this tag word "NOKIA NUFFNANG"? Three? Four? Come on, you should know it by now! Anyway people, I am here to present to you my little diary here; no dirty secret just a simple diary to browse through, readers!

(EARLY OCTOBER...)

Dear Diary,

Nokia, Nuffnang and Universal Music will certainly 'always' be best remembered by all; especially those who will going to the event upon invitation after writing how they transform into some vampire and how will Nokia silence the Halloween, for bringing in such an unique event into the town this Halloween. It's a deja-vu that I am seeing. Never been done before in the history of the blogger's world - a silent party in conjunction of the notorious Halloween Day! Wow, I am expecting a lot of people will be going there. So probably I need to thing of what I should write now. How can I not miss the chances to see Kenny Sia in a monkey suit or Robb in ballerina shoe or maybe The Boss itself as a nerdy Bill Gates?

Love,
GreenTea

(A WEEK BEFORE THE PARTY...)

Dear Diary,

I'm so glad that The Undertaker himself sent me an e-mail, iniviting me to the event of the year. Luckily I am jumping up and down, happily receiving the news but I didn't injured myself!! But, Borneo Baruk Club (BBC) - where on earth is it? Oh, at least there is a map on the site. Judging by the map, I always thought that it is somewhere near KLCC, but it turned out to be not exactly. I wonder why the map didn't included Pavillion because I eventually found out that BBC is nearer to Pavillion than KLCC!! As mentioned in the ad, the theme was Celebrity Halloween.

So, how am i going to go there as? Monkey? Bard Pitt? Or V for Vendetta? But those costume was like super frenzy expensive especially V! Considering a tight budget and clocks ticking inching closer to the event, I decided just to as The Joker, but a little different rendition for the character been a dentist version, while the costume and make-up were D.I.Y, probably cheap from some night market.

Love,
GreenTea

(AT THE PARTY...)

Dear Diary,

So I went there quite early, relatively just a little bit over 6pm but there was a handful of people there. Considering my refusal to go there in make-up, fear of causing some traffic jam or accidents on the road because people wondering why some psycho Joker was on the loose, I devoted much of my time from 6 to 7 just to do my make up. Luckily there are some nice peoples trying to help and to mess me up, for God sake...Anyway, met this gruesome couple - Jason and her exorcised girl, Sara! Too bad I have no picture of Sara!

Then I saw a lot of people during the party...some I can recognize from the Nuffnang Innitie chatbox, some famous celebrities and some faces that I can't recognize not even a bit. Anyway, since I don't have camera or fancy phone gadget (**cough** Nokia and Nuffnang, you know what to do, don't you guys), I have no choice but to wait for a bulk of photos from Facebook where people did tagged me. Do enjoy these pictures cause they were the nice people of Nuffnang that I met that day. I don't have to explain much since picture worths a thousand words!

Tysern, SC, J and me were talking about dead swan that Bjork used to wear to some Halloween party as well

Some hot chicks and me.....The Jokerina@Jolene besides me was scary as well. Also there were this Japanese Princess, Velma Dinkley and MJ in female version (I guess)

G in murderer style, Anne Marie in some lady vampire and me.....

Dirty dancing.........needless to say it was with who!!

Wrapping mummy session by your expert, The Joker!!

Another wrapping mummy session by your expert, The Joker!! This time you know who was that been wrapped and the pitchfork was not at the right place. GUESS WHO??

This poor girl, Jane poked my balloon...so it's revenge time to poke the ballon she is hiding

Ballon war at BBC, never seen once since years ago. I thought it supposed to be tied on the leg and I heard the Satan been stampeded!!

Special video by WenPink, the more dirty dancing been exposed. Catch the phrases that are going to be heard in the next 42 seconds of the video. I think Falcon had one too.

In real life, Halloween may have been celebrated on 31 October, but the event of 1 November at Borneo Baruk Club...*phew* was really a kick one and rocking my seat, where I'm sure everyone had their great time there. I'm looking forward for few things now by Nuffnang for the upcoming events with the correspond sponsors.

So Dear Nuffnang,
I'm looking forward for more events especially.....

Christmas' Party

New Year's Eve Party
and last but not least

....N96... a phone that allowed me to share our music, map, video, image, game and of course the blog.

"The Web. Now Made by Hand. Say Hello to the New Nokia N96 Multimedia Computer."

Love,
GreenTea