War of the smartphones

After getting good response from my post on war on the pads I'm going to write on yet another war between apple and android. But this time round it's no longer the pads but the smartphones.

The smartphones that i'm going to compare in this post are Iphone 4G and Samsung Galaxy S the closest phone in the market to match the iphone. But this time round the comparison will be in video.





Personally i felt that the android counterpart have been matching the iphone apples iphone quite well in terms in hardware but in terms of applications the applstore beats androidstore hands down.

TP iPhone Apps now in the Apple Store

Hey everyone just sharing to you an article about iphone from TP credits to temasekpoly.sg


We’re immensely proud to announce that -
TP now has iPhone Apps!
iPhone owners, go to the App Store and check out the TP Diplomas and TP Mobile Apps. A quick rundown:

The TP Diplomas App is meant for O level students who:

• want to see what diplomas are offered by our schools
• want to know more about our diploma programmes on the go
• want to find courses within a certain range of cut-off points (COP) – note that the COP used
• are this year’s, and therefore should just stand as a gauge rather than what students need to
• hit for next year’s JAE.

We believe that last point will be especially useful for O level students.

The TP Mobile App is meant for our own students and staff. It has:
An announcement feed – get exam result dates, important notifications and more
A temasekpoly.sg feed – read this blog on the go (yeaaaaaaaaaah!)
TP canteens description – learn what the various canteens in TP has to offer (especially for those of you who don’t venture out of your own school’s canteen).
Hotlines – important numbers such as the various schools’ general office numbers
Creators of both Apps will also be updating the Apps with more features in time to come. And speaking of creators…

The team responsible for the Apps comes from the Diploma in Mobile & Network Services, Temasek Polytechnic School of Informatics & IT. I had a chance to talk to them a bit about their experience developing the apps, and learnt something fascinating -
The students that worked on the Apps were all volunteers. To be precise, this project was actually outside of their normal curriculum, and they had returned during the holidays to work on them. To say the least, I was rather stunned.

This entire project started when, during a meeting the lecturers from MNS had, someone brought up the possibility of looking into developing phone Apps. The idea grew fast and strong, and eventually students who were interested were given the opportunity to join the lecturers and work on the Apps.
“This,” I thought to myself, “was how our lecturers give their students a chance of a lifetime… and mould their lives for years to come.”
All you needed to do was see the pride and enthusiasm in the eyes of the students to know that they knew they were really glad to have been part of the team. They joked, laughed and smiled a thousand watts as they spoke to me and now, finally, their pride and joy was ready for use.
So what lies ahead? Many of them are already working on their own Apps (some of which are already on the App store). Some were team efforts, others were individual – but it was clear that they were bitten by the App development bug. They’ll also be developing these Apps for other platforms – namely Android, Windows Phone 7 and Symbian. So non-iPhone smartphone users, just wait a tad more!

The Next iphone: iPhone 5

Despite some bloopers with the iPhone 4 in 2010 like the antenna problem and white iPhone, apple had a hit with the iPhone 4. However in this year 2011 the coming of the new iPhone 5 comes the question what features will it come with it?

Every year Apple release their updated version of the iPhone and this have stir up a storm in the world of mobile phones. The release date and features of the next release is widely discuss in the international tech blog and websites.

Because of the design problem of the antenna on the iPhone 4 and no release of the white iphone 4 rumors have said that the release date of the new iPhone 5 will be brought forward to ease the market.

What to expect for the iPhone 5

• A new design of the iPhone that will solve the issues of the iPhone 4 antenna problem
• A white exterior version of the iPhone 5
• A fully working 3G facetime without the need of WIFI
• Upgrade of the camera and hardware

Facebook getting a facelift.

Facebook, the 500million users social networking website founded by Mark Zuckerberg during his college days is working on a promising facelift to the current interface that might revolutionize the world of social networking. Rumours have said that this is a preparation strategy from facebook to compete with the upcoming Google's social networking site call Google+1.

Mr. Mark Zuckerberg 26, havard dropout and self made multi-billionaire.

Now talking about the facelift, the major focus of this facelift is to make the profile page more visual and additional convinence, so at a glance on that person profile page, people can easily identify and get know more about that person.

The improvements on the profile page:

• Show a short introduction on that person.
• Show recent tagged photos on that person.
• Revamped group function to group your friends e.g classmates, cousins and etc.
• Profile comparison for mutal friends and common intrest.

Personally I still prefer the old interface where there is more emphasis on personal preference and control. For example users can set the privacy of their profiles to show what they want to show to strangers and hide what they don't want others to see. With the current upgrade the emphasis of privacy is gone, everyone can now see where are u working at, who are you dating and see from your photos what are you up to recently.

Users are given a option to upgrade their profile or continue to remain on their old profile page, the upgrade is irreversible, once upgraded the upgrade cannot be undo, so users should think carefully before upgrading their profile page.
you can do the upgrade and get more information on the facebook new profile page.

Photo Copy - OCR

Recently I got an assignment that I need to type a few pages of document into the computer to edit, but after typing for about 10 minutes and I still got alot more pages to type. Being the lazy me, I tried to google around looking for tools that might help me in typing this document and I came across this tool called OCR.

OCR stands for optical character recognition, it is a tool mainly used to covert books into e-books. So I played around with this tool, and it works fairly well with scanned documents but a slight increase in errors for photographs.

I feel that this tool will come in handy, espically for students that need to copy alot of notes during their lectures, with this tool they can just take a photograph with their handphone and convert those photographs into electronic text using OCR. There is also a free web base OCR tool that you can try.

War of the pads.

Not long ago Apple came out with a tablet device called iPad, it is widely supported by consumers and had been the undisputed champion on the market, but recently Samsung also came out with an android base Samsung Galaxy tab to challenge Apple's iPad, they have also done something like this in the past like coming out with Samsung galaxy S, which was suppose to be a Iphone killer.

iPad vs Galaxy Tab

So what makes the Galaxy tab a strong opponent to iPad? Lets's take a look at the difference specs of both devices.

picture from www.devicemag.com

By looking at the specs we can see that both have the same processor speed, Galaxy tab is smaller, lighter meaning it's more portable, have a front and rear camera and twice the amount of ram. The only losing part is the battery life and lack of application in the Android market.

From what we have see here Samsung Galaxy

you can also look at this article on android base iPad clone: China iPed vs iPad

Me & my blog

Hello everyone, i'm Sam Ong a freshman from Temasek Polytechnic mobile & network services. I created this blog for my new media assignment to share information in the field of IT and the topics that i'll be writing on will be like technology issues like new Apps in the market, software reviews, websites recommendation, electronics and gadgets review. Hopefully even after the completion of this assignment i can continue writing.