Mobile – James Lin's Blog

Modem file for Samsumg Galaxy S II in New Zealand

James Lin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:56:33 +0000

I f you are a fan of custom smartphone ROMs you would probably have battery draining problem. It could be due to your modem file is not suitable in your country and service providers. I am with 2degrees in New Zealand and have tested the following modem files: KI3 (battery drain) KL1 (battery drain) KPA… Read More »

Steve Jobs Resigns, what does that mean to iPhone 5?

James Lin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:46:04 +0000

I think the iPhone 5 is going to be epic, because it’s the only way to make the next CEO as awesome as Steve Jobs. Mark my words!

Google owns Motorola, what does it mean to everyone?

James Lin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:28:50 +0000

By now we all know that Google has acquired Motorola Mobility, so you must wonder what will happen ?

Google

Google now has full control on how the phones should be designed and manufactured to slimline the software+hardware integration. So the Android experience will get better in a faster pace, sooner than you would’ve thought.

HTC

Since Motorola most likely going to produce better Android phones (you don’t think so?), who is going to buy the HTC Android phones? The only option for HTC to survive is to focus on Windows phones, which leads to Nokia I am going to talk about

Nokia

So if HTC is going to focus on Windows phone, then Nokia will face a very competitive competitor, given HTC has been producing Windows phones since Jesus was born. I haven’t really played with Windows phone yet, so I am not going to comment on that, but I am sure I won’t be getting a Windows phone in a while.

Microsoft

So, Apple & Google now have their phone factories, Microsoft seems to be a bit disadvantaged, so guess what, Microsoft will most likely to get its own too… hmmm Nokia or HTC or RIM?

Apple

Well, Apple certainly has a stronger enemy now, both in technological war and patent war.

Consumers

No doubt, we will get better Android experience, on new Motorola smartphones, just like the iPhone, and any competition will always benefits the consumers.

Android, lowest openness rating

James Lin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:11:27 +0000

iPhone 5 has quad core and iPhone 4s has dual core?

James Lin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:11:27 +0000

After seeing the this news: ASUS’ next gen Eee Pad Transformer to pack NVIDIA’s quad-core Kal-El, launch this October?

I am pretty certain that in order for iPhone to stay at the technological edge, the iPhone 5 should has a quad core CPU and iPhone 4s has a dual core CPU.

The question is when they will be released.

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WPhanboys

James Lin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:31:10 +0000

Last night I was reading an engagdet article around Windows Phone WP7 and I saw a lot of WP7 fanboys defending the 2 years old hardware… Anyway, I came up with the word “WPhanboys”.

Why am I ditching my HTC Hero for iPhone 5??

James Lin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:32:47 +0000

Cos Android sucked, on my HTC Hero. Well, actually both of them sucked.

1. Android opened up the possibility for suckers like HTC to screw with it, yes, fragmentation
2. HTC releases new phones like Nokia did, and failed to look after existing customers, big time!
3. It’s freaking slow! Keyboard lags, message app lags, everything lags.
4. No, custom ROMs cannot revive the forgotten HERO! (been there done that, running custom ROM now)
5. You might say my Hero is old, but my colleague’s Galaxy is having the lag problem too, guess what, he’s moving back to iPhone 5 when it gets released.
6. One of my colleague has an iPhone 3G with latest possible update(not the most recent one), runs smoother than my god damn HERO.

Finally, and yes, I do own an iOS device, and I am not biased. My $0.02, get an iPhone for now, wait till Google sorted its own shit out with the phone manufacturers.

Android VS iOS

James Lin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:44:27 +0000

iOS: designed to make you enjoy your device while your device is in expected life span.
Android: designed to make you feel angry everytime you get left out for new updates.

Word Lens, Real Time Language Translation

James Lin — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:46:35 +0000

Thanks for Shawn Hamman who found this video, simply awesome!!!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs

Now we need the voice version of it… :p

Nexus S is official, with Android 2.3 Gingerbread

James Lin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:27:26 +0000

Seems Google has ditched HTC and alliance with Samsung.

For more details about:

Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Nexus S