Posts Tagged ‘iPad’
Playing DivX and Xvid on iPad
One of the great frustrations for me with my iOS devices (and PSPs before them) has been the need for transcoding of video files before watching. This was always a time (and CPU) consuming and fiddly process, and for some insane reason the files often ended up being larger than the original. When I got […]
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Tags: avi, AVPlayerHD, divx, iPad, mkv, Xvid
Eyeballs not devices
Too many devices I seem to accumulated a proliferation of devices recently that want to have SIM cards in them for mobile data: Personal laptop (well actually a tablet, but not in the way that people use that label these days) Work laptop iPhone (not just data) Android phone (could be not just data, but […]
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Tags: 3, android, app, apps, Audible, contract, data, Galaxy Tab, iPad, mifi, mobile, payg, tariff, telco, Three, vodafone
More Android
This post will likely be trollbait for that special flavour of Apple fanbois and their anti equivalent… Weekend away I spent a most enjoyable weekend away at Maker Faire in Newcastle, and I took my iPhone 4 and the San Francisco (ZTE Blade) with me (along with my old Lenovo s10e netbook). The Blade made […]
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Tags: android, apple, firmware, Galaxy Tab, google, HSDPA, iPad, iphone, multiuser, root, tablet, Three, unlock, vodafone, ZTE Blade
OK. I very nearly bought a new tablety netbook earlier in the year, and I’d still like an s10-3t (or similar)[1], but I’m in no hurry to buy a new netbook and here’s why. Netbooks are good enough. They’re good enough for web surfing. They’re good enough for watching SD video (maybe even 720p if […]
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Tags: Asus, HP, iPad, lenovo, netbook, s10-3t, s10e, tablet
Mobile platforms
This is going to be one of those ‘to save me from repeating myself’ sort of blog posts, as I seem to have been frequently engaged in conversation recently about this topic. Apple Let’s start with the elephant in the room. Apple redefined the smartphone with the launch of the iPhone, and though I don’t […]
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Tags: android, apple, blackberry, INQ, iPad, iphone, mobile, Nokia, Palm, RIM, telco, tethering, WebOS, Windows Mobile
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