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iPhone or HTC Touch Pro? 23 September 2008 at 5:56 pm by Per-Otto Lekare

The HTC Touch Pro has just been released to rave reviews, and has also been dubbed an “iPhone-killer”. I generally both like and dislike Windows Mobile more than OSX, so I guess it will have to be tested before I give a verdict. Seems the speed troubles that bogged down other WM-based phones have been fixed here. Navigation seems to be smooth and it seems to work pretty well. Besides, you are allowed to install whatever software you want on it, not something Apple has “approved”, which makes it worth it just because of that.

HTC Touch Pro


+ Most wanted cellphone ever? By Per-Otto Lekare 19 July 2007 at 4:30 pm and have No Comments

HTC P4550 (Kaiser) 

No… not talking about the Iphone… I believe the Iphone - albeit its’ cool GUI - sucks. No 3G, no flash for the camera, so-so resolution, etc. No, the phone I’m talking about is the cryptically named P4550 from HTC. This is the mother of all mobile phones. Don’t believe me? It has everything the Iphone doesn’t (except for the camera flash?):

  • Slide out keyboard - who wants to jot sms messages on a screen that - if you just happened to eat junk food - just gets greasy?
  • 3G
  • 3MP camera
  • Built in GPS

It looks to be quite cool when it’s released by the end of this month. Pricewise it will be way cheaper than the Iphone - around 800 bucks WITHOUT any contract. So you can expect to find it for a couple of hundred with a contract included.

+ High tech on not so high tech By Per-Otto Lekare 08 February 2007 at 12:02 pm and have No Comments

Matrix on a TI-84

Somebody had the idea to use a monochrome screen from a calculator (TI-84) to show video… the results? Interesting might be the word… read about it [here]

You can see on this picture, the quality we’re speaking of… btw, the image on the screen is from the movie Matrix.

+ With this, RoadRunner would be dead… By Per-Otto Lekare 08 October 2006 at 12:14 am and have No Comments

At MIT the minds never stop thinking… with this contraption, Wile E. Coyote would’ve probably snacked on RoadRunner after 1 attempt…


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