Basically I have been playing with the HTC Dream smartphone for the last week and half, thanks to the loan phone from Optus. Let me say it first — it is a very very nice phone that I believe every geek would love to have one. On the day when it arrived on my desk, [...]
Problem I have recently bought a Nokia S60 smart phone, and have migrated my email to Google Apps. I am now using the Gmail interface to access my emails when I am on my desktop, but I am wondering how I can send/receive emails on my mobile phone. Solution(s) Well. It is complicated and so [...]
Took this phone the other day. Nokia 6150 Nokia E71 Released in 1998 Dual band GSM Infra-red port 84 x 48 monochrome display Released in 2008 Quad band GSM + dual band HSPA Wi-Fi + Bluetooth + Infrared + GPS/AGPS 320×240 QVGA colour display That Nokia 6150 wasn’t my first Nokia — I had a [...]
Took two deliveries at work today for my belated Christmas pressies (that I actually have to pay for myself). First one — all the way from the United Kingdom: It’s Real World Haskell by Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen. It was released in November 2008 by O’Reilly, which you can actually read the [...]
It’s all over the news yesterday and today. Kogan, a relatively-small electronics shop in Melbourne famous for re-branded cheap Chinese goods, has pre-released their Google Android powered mobile phone. It can now be ordered online but won’t be shipping until late Jan 2009. There will be two models: Kogan Agora for AUD$299, and Kogan Agora [...]
Playground is the personal weblog of Scott Yang, a Chinese-Australian Christian who works as a software developer in Sydney Australia.