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while reading the updates made by Sacha in Tapei regarding the latest ARM-based netbooks (with snapdragon chip), i suddenly start thinking the choice of OS on this platform. Since it is an arm-based system, most likely we will get linux variants running on it with perhaps customized specialized interfaces. For some prototype or first hand screenshot, take a look at the pictures taken by Sacha (German entry, but pictures and visual speak more than words :) ).

The guys at the ETH Zurich had carried out a survey last year regarding the participation in opensource projects, specifically the Maemo and Openmoko projects. I think i am the only guy from Malaysia who answered the survey :) The result was published and you can view it here. It is good to see this, because often many asked why would one spend time and resources into some thing that cannot bring back money (directly).

as compared to the Eee PC 701, the 901 is not really that much bigger. However the real estate of the screen makes really quite some differences. For people who only need to occasionally view pictures, videos and web sites i think the 701 will do the job well. But if you plan to work on it, e.g documents or presentations, you will really appreciate the 8.9" screen with the rather now-standard 1024x600 resolution.

if you are following the press conference of T-mobile, Google and htc now, you are definitely aware of the development of mobile internet experience. The press conference is still on at this time at here.

right after i jotted down my thoughts, partly because Dan is following up with today's announcement from Nokia, we now have some pretty good news (at least for me). Ari Jaaksi made some announcement and it looks like the Internet Tablet's successor will be further "pimped" with goodies the community has been requesting (at least some).

been a while i follow up with the development of the Nokia Internet Tablets (770, n800 and n810). Not that i don't care about it anymore, but it seemed such units are more like toys to geeks then something that really help us in our daily lives. Ok, until n810, the rest are really nice as proof of concepts that show what potential such units can have. The n810 is the first one that i finally say "wow, now i can do more on a mobile unit than any other". But that was also almost a year ago.

finding the right information online is never easy. You often have following problems:

1. dunno where to start
2. dunno where to end
3. cannot find a consistant statement - many information contradict with each other.
4. 5 pages after the first google search result, you still don't see what you need.

Ever found hard to read some online slides given in different tutorials or conferences, and missed the talk because of busy schedule or expensive conference fees? Today i came across a site that might change things a little. Videolectures feature lecture talks on many computer science related topics, with video and slides together (maybe not all). I find this extremely useful, because most of the time the talks' slides contain only the important points, and reading them does not really tell you much.

It's finally weekend, and i have decided to take an hour out, to play with the OS2008 on N800. it is already a week since an official beta was released, but i have been considering hard whether to do it or not. Guess now you get the answer already ;)

no big news now, if you subcribed to some tech news sites - the gPhone idea is no long a speculation, but soon a reality (2008!). For those geek-in-heart, the SDK should be out on 12th November 2007. It looks like that Google's approach is to provide software stacks over different platforms/phones - the middleware approach. The idea is simple - People are welcomed to provide software that further attract more users, google gets the data from users, and provide personalized advertisement and services.