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Drool bucket at the ready, Engadget Mobile spot the BlackBerry 9000 in the wild

Engadget Mobile spot the BlackBerry 9000 in the wild and it looks like a lovely device, droll buckets at the ready. Take a look at the pictures.

My Treo is my assistance & entertainer

I wouldn't guessed before that washing my car in this rainy months like yesterday on local car washer shop, could held me waiting for more than 2,5 hours! Although I should've glad, because that would mean those car washer guys (too bad not females like those in the picture, LOL) were doing a thorough job with my car. As I was sitting on the waiting room, I pulled out my trusty Treo and start sending text messages to my friends. I made two appointments & a date, which I immediately jotted down the time & place in WinMob's built-in Calendar.

In between of waiting and sending SMS, I tried the aforementioned Bejeweled 2 which looks amazing on Treo's 240x240 squarish screen; thanks to Astraware latest update. Indeed it is a game that can easily create an addiction to play it every time. Next game was Robo, which was a recommendation from Lindsey Dyson who posted before at PA. I like it too because it's kinda exercise to my aging brain, but I got stuck at the Ruin level (lame am I?); Lindsey can you give a hint on how to solve that Ruin level? :-)

Before I knew it, hours passed by and one of the car washer guy told me that they've finished with my car. I'm glad I always bring my Treo with me, you'll never know when the time you needed a personal assistance & entertainer at once is.

(blogged with my Treo 750v)

End of the weekend rumors part 2: 3G iPhone certainty

When an analyst from a high profile Gartner research firm spoken about 3G iPhone, Ken Dulaney his name is, surely everybody will believe him right? iPO has been able to interviewed Dulaney, where he mentioned that he heard from his Asian inner circles about the possibilty of Apple's second round order for more 10 million iPhone to become the 3G iPhone most rumored these days. He also speculated (warning: it's only a speculation) that this 10 million 3G iPhone will be using OLED display, to enhance the battery life that drained from the 3G chipset. Dulaney add another reason why Apple will definetely release the 3G iPhone version this year, it's because the European sales of iPhone doesn't look good; and Apple need to boost up the sales with the handset that match European's 3G/UMTS available networks. Read on iPO news here.

A more certain news came from PC World article here, the Dow Jones Newswires reported that Hon Hai Precision Industry is in talks with Apple to make the next generation (3G) iPhone. Now everything have piled up into one big juicy rumors, all we need is just another news to burn it all up. Hopely something good will come up on the CTIA event...

(blogged with my Treo 750v)

iPhone firmware 2.0 is unlocked!

It has not even reached three days since the iPhone SDK kit beta 2 been released, and it hasn't yet 24 hours of iPhone latest official firmware 1.2.0 update; but right now Gizmodo have reported that iPhone firmware 2.0 is successfully unlocked by iPhone Dev Team. It's a great news for those who own jail-broken iPhone all over the world, but a sad (horryfying if you may called it) news for Apple engineers. Especially when the iPhone Dev Team have said: "Apple will not really be able to patch it this time." Take a look of the screenshots from Gizmodo here.

And update from Gizmodo; iPhone Dev Team have also planning to release the iPhone Pwnage tool at Sunday April 30th, this Pwnage tool can be use to unlocked any iPhone to the latest firmware 2.0 update. Take a look at the promising video here.

(blogged with my Treo 750v)

Video ads in Google & Yahoo search results

It's finally here, after some long debates whether advertising should step up to the next level into video or stay as text & pics only; the new video ads is showed now everytime you hit the search engine of Google and Yahoo! Elinor Mills (NewsBlog) has tried both, and it seems Yahoo is more pushing their video ads to users to watch than Google.

In Google search result, it only showed the hot link named "watch commercial" and if clicked it'll play only 2x2 inches window that can be paused & hidden anytime.

While in Yahoo search result, the hot link named "play video" and will be played on 5x5 inches window but the whole web page is grayed; so you have to deal with the video ads window first before continue working with the Yahoo search result page.

I've tried these on my Pocket IE, but it doesn't showed any video ads hot links mentioned. Perhaps the video ads is for desktop web browser for now, or perhaps it'll come later on each countries region. Anyone who've tried this and work, please post a review. Spread the knowledge I'd say. Read on Mills' blog here for further indepth review.

(blogged with my Treo 750v)

End of the weekend rumors part 1: Gphone (not again!)

Well, it's the end of the month and the end of another slow weekend on exciting (and unconfirmed) rumors, let's start slowly with the most tighted-lip rumor on Google's Android mobile phone. I'm affraid there haven't been any new informations regarding the HTC's "Dream" Android mobile phone, but perhaps something will turn up from the CTIA congress; we'll never know. Because after all of those buzz Google have made about the "white spaces spectrum", the news itself has caused a lot of speculations that the Android phone could be coming out as close as this summer. In the meantime, please enjoy (again!) another real-shot of Google Phone ~a.k.a. Gphone~ prototype handset; courtesy of OneMoreThing blog here.

(blogged with my Treo 750v)

AvantGo and In These Times

[From Adam Albright, Kennett Square, PA] Hey there, Sammy! Love the site -- this is a great place to get news about the best ways to use my Treo, and I'm very grateful for it. One of my favorite pieces of software is AvantGo, a free service that updates my favorite websites on my Treo, all with just a sync. Today, before lunch, a quick sync put columns from "In These Times" onto my phone so I had something to read until my lunch date arrived. Thanks again for such a great site!

25% discount off all Sci-Fi ebooks at eReader

[From eReader] Just got words from eReader that they are offering 25% discount off all Science Fiction Books this weekend additionally you can also get their 10% discount off ebooks. Punch in this week's Promo Code ERM325 to receive a 10% discount off any eligible book that you purchase. Offer good through April 1, 2008 on all books. This discount cannot be used with any other special offers. eReader after the jump.

Centro & Surgery

[From Simon Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan UK] Hi Sammy I've just had surgery on my knee so am laid up temporarily. During my period of recuperation my Centro is proving ideal for me keeping in touch with friends and the world at large though email, SMS, my RSS feeds via Quicknews and access to the web. I can take my Centro with me as I hobble around the house on my crutches so I'm always connected. I've also got my outpatients appiontment in my calendar so I don't forget it! Great site. Keep it going

Miss my T|T2

I used to use my Tungsten T2 to record important meetings and discussion. Voice recordings were transfered to my PC, and then arhieved in the server. I liked it because nobody would be aware that the meeting was being recorded. I would just put it on the meeting table in its hard case, and with 1Gb card I was never short of space.That was until the batery started to loose its power and I messed it up when opening the PCB just for fun.

Since then I have changed to TX, and bought a sony ericsson k750i. Instead of WAV, sony ericsson is using a less popular AMR format for its recording. And unlike T|T2, it will be very obvious if I put it on a table to do recordings. Hence I have stopped making one. Now every time I'm in a meeting, I long to my slick T|T2....

_sent through Palm TX_

Retracing my first steps

Yesterday I started my PalmAddicts blogging carreer with the left foot. I posted without noticing that the registered name was the one next to mine in the list. To set the record strait, I am Norberto Treviño from Monterrey, México and not Nicolas Cañadas (sorry Nick) from Australia. My apologies for that.

Now, to more relevant (to this blog) things. The image to the left comes strait from my Tréo 680 launcher with the current color scheme. The idea is to try to share with you not only thoughts but also images related to the thoughts. The obvious thing is that it is in Spanish, my mother tongue. The next thing that it convays is that I am trying 2Cool4U as a means of being able to look up for contacts by company name, which the native app does not do. Now, with this two apps I can look for contacts by company name or by personal name. In a later post I will share with you somthing better for this same purpose.

The second thing I can share with you is that I use Avantgo to read on the go different news services plus the PA RSS feed. I usually sync my Tréo several times during the day while at the office, so I have the latest posts available for when the time comes (I am a Palm addict, you know). By the way, I do not recall ever reading here anything related to Avantgo. That wovld b{ a shame. It has given me good service since I started with my m515.

Well, I will keep the rest for latter. Enjoy your weekend.

Palm snatched another Apple's executive

What is it about Apple that everybody wanted to have, it's not just Apple products but even Palm has been luring Apple's executives to work with them. After Jon Rubinstein became Chairman of Palm, he's been recruiting few of his colleagues at Cupertino, CA. Including Mike Bell, a 16 years veteran at Mac Hardware Division, and now he's the Palm SVP of product development. Now the latest recruitment was Lynn Fox, she still works as a PR but this time she work for Palm not Apple anymore. After these several harsh yet quietly recruitments, I'm sure Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) will find a sarcastic ~but in funny way~ payback with Apple's usual comical ads that we love. Sources are from ValleyWag via PalmInfoCenter.

(blogged with my Treo 750v)

AT&T Black GSM Centro is now available

PalmInfoCenter is reporting that the Palm Centro GSM in obsidian black color is now available in AT&T corporate store, it's the Palm OS smartphone. PalmInfoCenter also remind us that Palm has released an extended Centro battery, but with a white replacement battery door. No further infos whether Palm is going to release the obsidian black replacement battery door or not, so if you're interested in the Palm's extended Centro battery but more prefer the obsidian black color; you might want to think about it again. Read on PalmInfoCenter news here.

(blogged with my Treo 750v)

Following on ScummVM

Following on Neil S. Patrick's post on ScummVM, I decided to do a bit of research. In addition to being a lazy gamer, I am also an oldskool gamer. I of course like to play new games, with new graphics, as long as the VGA cards of my two laptops permit. I, however, do have a soft spot on old DOS games. I still play DOS games until today, right from the oldest DOS games I have ever played, Digger and Frogger, to newer ones like Ravenloft: Stone Prophet and Druid: Daemons of the Mind. Just like Neil, I, too, like DOS adventure games like King's Quest series, Police Quest series, Quest for Glory series, Space Quest series, etc. Gosh, I feel old...

Anyway, in the past, that is more than two years ago before I had this O2 Xda IIi PDA Phone, I actually had tried ScummVM on my laptop. I liked it that time, but I prefer (and still do prefer until this day) using DOSBox and/or VDMSound instead to play DOS games. Well, VDMSound project is no longer active, so my main DOS emulator is DOSBox now. Of course under Linux I have one more option, which is DOSEMU, but since it is not really intended for gaming, I still prefer DOSBox over it. Of course if you stretch it further you can go on and on about virtualization such as setting VMWare or InnoTek VirtualBox to setup DOS environment, or even go as far as actually buying old machine and install DOS on it. But what if you want to play DOS games on PDA?

(Pocket) Scumm mentioned by Neil is of course very interesting. I will definitely try it later on my PDA (as well as upgrade the PC version since I have not touched it for more than two years now), but I am interested to see if DOSBox has a Pocket PC version. I did a bit of googling, and found this Pocket DOSBox. I see that the DOSBox version used is a bit old (the current DOSBox version is 0.72), and the webpage is almost 3 years old, but anyway I have downloaded the file and will try it. I will let you know the outcome later (maybe tomorrow or on Monday, since I rather have a tight schedule these days), but in the meantime of course you can try it yourself if you are interested.

Note: In addition, I found PocketDOS, but that one is not free, so I think I'll try the Pocket DOSBox first.

(To be continued)

Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with any companies or websites I mentioned above.

Palm - The next age of Mobility begins

[From Bryan Dockett] Sammy, Check out Palm company info page. There is a interesting video called “The next age of Mobility begins” Pretty nice; very key note like. Here’s the link:

http://www.palm.com/us/company/corporate/