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Android 2.1 OS upgrade for HTC Magic, Only At Rogers

HTC Magic Android 2.1 OS upgrade for HTC Magic, Only At Rogers

HTC Magic users with Rogers (one of telco in Canada) might be the luckiest HTC Magic user ever. That’s simply because their smartphone will receive official Android 2.1 OS upgrade, most likely by end of August. That’s confirmed by forumer Rogersmary in Androidforum which is one of the the Canadian’s company PR team. The whole process to get the upgrade seems quite complicated. Rogers has to go back and forth to HTC for the OS development and testing, and it still required approval from Google, the Android godfather. Nevertheless, it is still way better than the rest of regular HTC Magic users on the rest of the world who still running on Android 1.6.

source : androidforums

Admin 26 August 2010 gadget & hardware , , , , , , , No Comments

Apple’s Magic Trackpad Dismantled by iFixit

Apples Magic Trackpad Dismantled by iFixit

Don’t be fooled by the slim and simplicity of the device if you think it is to easy to dismantled. That’s what I thought when I see the process of dismantling Magic Trackpad by… who else if not iFixit. It’s looks quite complicated, but they make it easy. Take your time to view the process in sideshow below, don’t try this at home..

iFixit – Magic Trackpad Disassembly from iFixit on Vimeo.

Via iFixit

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My View On Apple’s Latest ‘Magic’, Magic Trackpad

4837056999 c2e56c4c46 My View On Apples Latest Magic, Magic Trackpad

One of the new device introduced  by Apple is Magic Trackpad. Yes, it is trackpad for iMac, a similar multitouch trackpad found on Macbooks Pro. I know that you’ll puzzled how in the earth that Apple will come out with this device, when there is already device called… mouse. I’m not Mac users (although I do own iPod and iPhone) but I do to know there is Magic Mouse, mouse with multitouch capability, am I right? So how Apple is going to position Magic Trackpad on their product line along with Magic mouse? Or either one must die?

With beautifully designed apps and devices Apple had in their store, it is now wonder that Apple has gained huge followers over the time. A loyal and hard core followers… Apple is cult and Steve Jobs is the cult leader.. haha, just kidding. The fact is, you know how Apple has won the heart of it’s customer, and you can guess that, these people will no hesitation to spend few hundred buck to try this ‘magical’ device out. Did you?

iMac sales is phenomenal since the last few years. The price has gone down significantly on this part of this world, thanks to better currency conversion. It is no longer expensive stuff unlike 2-3 years ago whereby it is now more affordable to students and professional, plus the cool factor it had. These millions users as observed by Apple (my theory), probably bored with Magic Mouse, they want something more magical stuff. Something similar to Macbook Pro’s trackpad, and so born this device as what can you see today.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but Apple can turn this around. To perfectly fit the Magic Trackpad’s magical touch, the beautifully worded sentence is required as well, so here is what Magic Trackpad could do.

“Every iMac comes with Apple’s innovative Magic Mouse and customers can also order the new Magic Trackpad as an option. The Magic Trackpad brings the intuitive Multi-Touch gestures of Mac notebook trackpads to the desktop. With its glass surface, the wireless Magic Trackpad enables users to scroll smoothly up and down a page with inertial scrolling, pinch to zoom in and out, rotate an image with their fingertips and swipe three fingers to flip through a collection of web pages or photos. The Magic Trackpad can be configured to support single button or two button commands and supports tap-to-click as well as a physical click.”

So here is what I thought, and this is purely my opinion. Magic Trackpad is just beautiful accessory, not necessity for iMac, but you never now until you start using it. Remember iPhone..

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Unboxing HTC Magic


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It is rainy day when I arrived at IT Hypermall the day after Christmas. About an hour later, I came out RM1.5k poorer, thanks to HTC Magic. The long dreamed Android smartphone finally in my pocket, ready to rock!

HTC Magic position itself between HTC Hero, the HTC’s Android based smartphone flagship model and HTC Tattoo, the slightly low end model running on Android 1.6. Compared to Windows Mobile smartphone, it is relatively an easy task choosing Android smartphone of your choice due to limited model we have currently in Malaysian market.

There are 17 Android based smartphone models available worldwide if I’m not mistaken, but I’m quite surprised to see only Android smartphones from HTC currently in sale (at the outlet). Well, since I already set HTC Magic as my first Android smartphone, the rest of the model doesn’t really matter now..

HTC Magic has been in the market for about 6 months, so I left the review part to this post, which covers almost everything. You know, GSMArena is always over delivered on it’s review, which why I trust them whenever I’m going to shop for new smartphone.

On my end, I’m more into the inner side of the smartphone such as the interesting apps, function and feature of the smartphone which you should start to see in the next few days, hopefully.

There are couple of things that almost end me up with Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone.  But luckily I’m sticking to my target. Before you decide to buy HTC Magic or any Android phone and using it in the country outside of the US, please be aware of following drawback. If you live in the US, that’s not going to be the big deal, as it’s there by default.

- No Android Market. By default, Android smartphone sold in South East Asean countries (such as Malaysia, Vietnam) doesn’t have it. It remind be of Blackberry App World that I have to install using the workaround. Imagine iPhone without its App Store, unimaginable?? Gone all the excitement in iPhone!!

You won’t be able to fully utilized to phone to its extent. Although there is workaround to install it (by flashing the ROM), but hey, not everyone has the skills  to do that.

- No GPS Software – HTC Magic is equipped with GPS but without GPS software and MAPS by default. Garmin?? Don’t ever dream of it. Jump to Windows Mobile smart phone which has the GPS app and maps pre-installed if you really wanted it.

But the  good news is, Papago X5 and maps (for Malaysia) had just been released recently. It is not free though and I’m not sure if it is good enough.

Seriously, it really need more effort to enjoy Android smartphone in this part of the world, just like other Android users in the US or other developed countries who enjoy the phone without risking their ‘life’.  There are workarounds available on the net, but it may void the warranty and in the worst case may turns it to brick.

But because my ultimate goal of having Andoid phone is for blogging purpose, just like how I use other smartphones run on Symbian, iPhone OS and Blackberry OS, and not for just daily usage, it is thousands times more worth than the amount that I have to part away and the time I have spent to get it works the way I want.

Anyway, here are some photos of the phone that I snap the day after I ‘kaw-kaw’ testing it. Gorgeous right!

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