Samsung HM7000 Review
Posted: March 1, 2012 Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: Android, Bluetooth Headset, HM7000, Samsung 1 Comment »It has been almost two months since I got my HM7000 as my Christmas/Birthday gift. I have not used many bluetooth headphones compare to number of phones I have owned. I considered BlueAnt Q2 and Jawbone ERA but I chose HM7000 based on Gizmodo’s Review. After about two months of use, these are things I love and dislike.
Love
- Charging / Carrying case
- Long battery life
- Quick charging time
- Absolutely high quality
- People I talk tells me my voice is clear than before
Dislike
- I want in-between rubber ear-pieces
- Charging / Carrying case feels cheap and flimsy
- Samsung’s freesync app force closes every single time
I would recommend this headset to any one and everyone and if FreeSync works well then it would be absolutely the best bluetooth you can get for your android. Especially with $59.99 price-tag, I cannot see any other reason not to get this.
Windows and crapwares
Posted: March 1, 2012 Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: bloatware, computer, hp laptop, Mac, OS X, PC, Windows 1 Comment »Yesterday, my uncle stopped by at my house and dropped off a brand new HP laptop. It was a stylish looking and looked great with Windows 7 home premium. I congratulated him with a new laptop and asked him how it is. First thing he told me was, it is not working smooth and he does not want to deal with all these icons and programs opening up in the beginning.
There is one thing I absolutely do not like about windows. Windows updates that come up almost daily is so unnecessary. It bogs down the system so much and often forces me to reboot. Coming from a Mac system where I barely restart, maybe once in two weeks, to reboot in a day or two forcefully is not a good experience. I have been using OS X as my main operating system for a long time but I use windows system daily with my netbook and three other computers at my home with clean copy of windows 7. I love the windows 7 experience and its cleanliness. However, this experience over HP did not make me so happy about the windows.
I remember the days of bloatware loaded to the brand new computer that I purchased and had to spend few hours to uninstall all and update the windows. All PC manufactures working their best to catch up to Apple. Many debates that it is the windows vs os x. To me it comes down to how smooth the computer runs. I can deal with either Windows 7 or OS X. I prefer OS X due to it’s simplicity and effectiveness. What if Windows rolls out updates in scheduled time in each week rather than so frequently? How about all manufactures remove craptwares and focus on smooth and speedy user experience? How about PC manufactures to downsize its model offerings and focus on fewer models?
As Windows 8 consumer preview released yesterday and all the raves around it gives me a second thought to returning to PC as a main operating system. This short encounter of HP laptop ruined my happy day-dream completely. As long as PC manufactures continually release their lines of computers with crapwares, there is absolutely no chance for Microsoft and PC manufactures to catch up to Apple.
CES Show and manufactures’ problem
Posted: January 10, 2012 Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: CES, innovation Leave a comment »Source: The ‘CES curse?’
I do not have any issue with the CES show. It is a trade show. It is given that there will be c crap load of junks. It is like finding a gold at a closed gold mine that are open for a tourists. There are always few great stuff announced at the CES show. What is the point of the article? The point of the article to me was “Apple is not here, therefore the show lost its original purpose.” What a joke. The author wrote some examples of recent failure of the big announcements that were failed and wrapped that as a curse.
Let’s look into what really happened.
WebOS was absolutely stunning. It is still stunning despite of many improvements it needs.What happened to WebOS? It took way too long from the innovation to actual products. One thing I admire apple so much is they do not announce any of their products till close to the final version. It takes only few months from the announcements to actual release. Palm took forever to release Pre. When it came to the HP? An awful long time to release newer version of phone and tablet. When products announced, it was a huge reap forward. However, When actual products were released, it took awful long time that Apple already exceeded what new innovation HP came up with.
Netbook was a great idea in concept. In reality? What a joke. Qualities were poor and performance was even worse. Stripped down version of windows should been must yet all manufactures sold them with full of crap-wares that slow down even poor performance computers. However, is it a failure? No. Companies made so much profit out of these junks. Asus never had this much presence in the market until the success of the netbooks. I do not have exact sales figure in the states yet counting couple hundred million units since 2009 as a failure would be a poor judgement.
With such fast paced innovation and developments of new technology, it is harder for CES to be successful. Manufactures cannot wait to announce it’s newly developed products at CES before it becomes outdated nor announce new products too loose consumers interest near the time of releases. It is better move for the manufactures to hold its own press release conference rather than using CES as the place to be.
My recommendation to CES is hold an event every 6 months with smaller scale. This way CES can save money and many manufactures can utilize the show better to introduce right products at the right time.
HP TouchPad craziness and its lesson to all tablet makers.
Posted: August 31, 2011 Filed under: Gadgets 2 Comments »Since the announcement of HP TouchPad fire sale, there has been many surprise changes. Now discontinued model became the number two best selling tablet period (500,000 units) yet far behind of Apple’s iPad (27 millions). HP lost over millions of dollar and now trying to sell entire PC division. HP is now saying it will continue TouchPad production till the end of October. Last but not least, many online retailers got slammed with bad reviews with bad handling over TouchPad.
Out of all these craziness, tablet makers have to take a note of one thing.
Yes, I grabbed a touchpad for $150 (32gb) and actually gave my iPad to my sister. To me webOS is much superior platform that failed to optimized. I’d purchase decent tablets like this for $250-$299. I believe that will be the sweet spot for mass to jump in for a tablet. For $500? I still don’t see any tablets out there that works as good as iPad. So my answer is I will get iPad every time someone asks me what to get for $500. Vizio is a good starts. Forget sub-par crippled tablets for $200. Give us decent well working tablets for $300.
Review: Elago Design P2 iPad Stand
Posted: March 31, 2011 Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: Elago Design, iPad, P2, Review Leave a comment »I’ve been putting on hold for a long time but I finally purchased a stand for my iPad.
After two weeks of strictly using iPad in Europe, I gained confidence and comfortability to use iPad in greater capability. In order to do so, I decided to purchased a stand.
I could look around for some options but I went straight to amazon.com and searched elago iPad stand. My first ever encounter of elago design was 3 years ago, when I had an iPhone 3G. I loved their simple and clean full case and snap-ons that I always wish them to make cases for various android phones. P2 stand released with the hefty price tag of $49.99 but now it’s on sale(?) for $29.99! I did not need another second to think about it. I clicked 1-click purchase and bam! it is here now.
It is very small, light, and simple. Following Apple’s deisng, it is a silver aluminum with two rubber paddings where iPad sits on the stand. I love how it looks and how small it is. I wish i can change view angles. It is fine when I sit on my desk and looking down but it is not perfect when my eye level is lower than the iPad.
Simple black box with the sticker.
Extremely simple packaging
With my iPad and bluetooth keyboard
Of course I’m blogging this with iPad =)
I strongly recommend to anyone who wants a simple stands to use it at home.
My thoughts about Amazon’s cloud service for music
Posted: March 29, 2011 Filed under: Gadgets, Music | Tags: Amazon, clouds, Music, streaming 1 Comment »I love the idea and how amazon started cloud service before anyone else but it failed to achieve In many ways.
First, how does it work?
It let’s you upload your own music, movies, and etc. to cloud and let you stream through your Android app or computer’s web browsers.
It sounds pretty good, isn’t it? But why is it a failure to be a great service?
1. It won’t let you find new music and purchase them, it only plays music you already own.
2. What about iOS, BlackBerry, and other devices??
I’ll give it a go for now but I’ll wait and see how Google or Apple will launch better service. Oh maybe and hopefully Amazon will improve it’s service next few days/weeks.
In love with G2 again.
Posted: December 16, 2010 Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: Enom, G2, HTC, Root 1 Comment »rooted, flashed Enom’s The Official Rom, and over-clocked to 1.5ghz.
the phone became a different monster and i’m in love again
a quick thought of new MacBook Air price
Posted: October 30, 2010 Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: apple, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MBA, MBP Leave a comment »I read many benchmarks and it looks like SSD makes huge differences in performance comparing to 13-inch MacBook Pro. Typically 256GB SSD are somewhere around $600 range. 320GB 5400rpm HDD are around $60~100. Considering two storage mediums’ price differences, 13-inch MacBook Air doesn’t seem too expensive. No matter what I’d get 15-inch MacBook Pro any given day though.
Google release official Korean IME for Android
Posted: October 8, 2010 Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: Android, Froyo, Google, IME, Korean Leave a comment »I guess it officially released 3 days ago. Now anyone can type Korean on your android phone. It works well, suggestions pretty accurate. I recommend all you Korean users to jump in and download it from the Market.
Edited to add QR code.
