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        <title>Lowyat.NET: Latest topics by benison</title>
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        <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/</link>
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            <title>ASUS NVIDIA GTX 1050 2GB DDR5</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4742233</link>
            <description>&lt;b&gt;Item(s):&lt;/b&gt; ASUS NVIDIA GTX 1050 2GB DDR5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Package includes:&lt;/b&gt; GPU only &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Price:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;span style='color:red'&gt;RM500&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Warranty:&lt;/b&gt; Nil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dealing method:&lt;/b&gt; COD or postage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Location:&lt;/b&gt; Klang, Kelana Jaya&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contact method/details:&lt;/b&gt; 012-2330311&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Item(s) conditions:&lt;/b&gt; Used (Tip top&amp;#33; only for gaming)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Picture:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/0FJQyG' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2019/02/22/0FJQyG.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reason for sale:&lt;/b&gt; Upgraded to 1070</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Display Cards Garage Sales</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:58:33 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>MSI GTX 1050Ti GAMING X 4G 4GB DDR5</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4742232</link>
            <description>&lt;b&gt;Item(s):&lt;/b&gt; MSI GTX 1050Ti GAMING X 4G 4GB DDR5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Package includes:&lt;/b&gt; GPU only &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Price:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;span style='color:red'&gt;RM650&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Warranty:&lt;/b&gt; Nil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dealing method:&lt;/b&gt; COD or postage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Location:&lt;/b&gt; Klang, Kelana Jaya&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contact method/details:&lt;/b&gt; 012-2330311&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Item(s) conditions:&lt;/b&gt; Used (Tip top&amp;#33; only for gaming)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Picture:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/0FJ8u6' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2019/02/22/0FJ8u6.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reason for sale:&lt;/b&gt; Upgraded to 1070&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Display Cards Garage Sales</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:56:54 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>ASUS Strix GeForce GTX960 4GB DIRECTCU II</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4742223</link>
            <description>&lt;b&gt;Item(s):&lt;/b&gt; ASUS Strix GeForce GTX960 4GB DIRECTCU II&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Package includes:&lt;/b&gt; GPU only &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Price:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;span style='color:red'&gt;RM650&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Warranty:&lt;/b&gt; Nil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dealing method:&lt;/b&gt; COD or postage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Location:&lt;/b&gt; Klang, Kelana Jaya&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contact method/details:&lt;/b&gt; 012-2330311&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Item(s) conditions:&lt;/b&gt; Used (Tip top&amp;#33; only for gaming)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Picture:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/0FJLzQ' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2019/02/22/0FJLzQ.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reason for sale:&lt;/b&gt; Upgraded to 1070&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Display Cards Garage Sales</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:44:49 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>[WTB] GTX 960</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4541070</link>
            <description>&lt;b&gt;Item(s): Any GTX 960&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Package includes: Fullset?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Price: Offer me / range 450 - 550&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;span style='color:red'&gt;(&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;NOTICE&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;: Sellers are required to display the exact selling prices of their products. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the topic)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Warranty:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dealing method: COD&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Location: Kelana Jaya&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contact method/details: PM / 012-2330311&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Item(s) conditions: Used/ hardly use &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Picture: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reason for sale:&lt;/b&gt;</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Display Cards Garage Sales</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:48:34 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>[WTH] Full-Tme Sales Representative</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4362604</link>
            <description>Hiring Full-Tme Sales Representative&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Company Information&lt;br /&gt;- We are smart lock specialist&lt;br /&gt;- Working location is in Kelana Jaya, near to Paradign Mall&lt;br /&gt;- Working time is 9.30AM to 6.30PM (Monday to Friday)&lt;br /&gt;- 5 days work (Monday to Friday)&lt;br /&gt;- Basic salary is RM1600-RM2000 (Negotiable based on your working experience)&lt;br /&gt;- Incentive : RM1000-RM2000&lt;br /&gt;- This is a full-time job&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Job description&lt;br /&gt;- Answering inquiries through multiple channels while maintaining excellent customer service.&lt;br /&gt;- Helping potential customers with our products that best fit the customer’s needs and ensures the order is completed and possibility of up-selling solutions.&lt;br /&gt;- Maintaining follow-up and positive customer relations throughout the entire order and after-sales service processes.&lt;br /&gt;- Customer Service – Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; Responds promptly to customer needs; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meeting commitments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Job requirement&lt;br /&gt;- SPM, Diploma&lt;br /&gt;- Possessed 1 year of working experience&lt;br /&gt;- Possess own transport&lt;br /&gt;- Good working attitude and able to work under minimal supervision&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fresh Grad is encourage to apply&amp;#33; Please whatsapp 016-8220059 (Ben) for more information.</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Job Enlistments</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:59:13 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>[WTSwap] Xiaomi Mi4i</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3995319</link>
            <description>[WTSwap]Xiaomi Mi4i, Swap with Microsoft Lumia 950 or Xiaomi 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Item(s):Xiaomi Mi4i&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Package includes:Fullset&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Price:Swap with Microsoft Lumia 950 or Xiaomi 5&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Warranty:No&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dealing method:COD&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Location of seller:Klang Area&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contact method/details:PM or WhatsApp me at 012-2330311&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Age of item:about 1 year&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Item(s) conditions:Perfect condition&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reason for sale:Bored&lt;/b&gt;</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Mobile Phones Garage Sales</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:41:21 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Rehiring Program</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3892435</link>
            <description>&lt;span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'&gt;We are officially accepting Registrations for the &amp;#39;REHIRING Program&amp;#39; which started 15/2/2016&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The price ranges between RM5,500 to RM6,900 all in.&lt;br /&gt;2. The 1st payment is for REGISTRATION purpose ONLY &amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;b&gt;100% GUARANTEE APPROVAL.&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:clap:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/rclxms.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rclxms.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:clap:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/rclxms.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rclxms.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Call us now&amp;#33;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:thumbs:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/thumbup.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbup.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'&gt;Ben : 012-3553319&lt;br /&gt;Barry : 012-3833355&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/unicorn/um-legalize-social-ads-en-bm_zpssdau2knq.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Services Noticeboard</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2016 13:56:29 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Kitchen Cabinet &amp;amp; Carpentry Work</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3889143</link>
            <description>&lt;b&gt;Exquisite Mr Carpenter Fit Out Interior Sdn. Bhd.&lt;/b&gt;, a pioneer in furniture manufacturing and interior renovation industry in Malaysia. We are able to provide a one stop design and sourcing, which means a conceptual design, layout, selection of light features, soft furnishings, carpets, door and so forth. We take care of your headaches. We can also provide complete interior renovating work in overseas, we will act as a turnkey contractor,  which means we will provide complete service from conceptual, planning, design, project management, contracting and product sourcing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Scope of Services&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Turnkey Project – Design Consultancy &amp;amp; Project Management&lt;br /&gt;• Fit Out Interior for Retail/ Hotel/ Residential / Offices &amp;amp; Commercial&lt;br /&gt;• Home Owners :- &lt;br /&gt;- custom built house kitchen cabinet&lt;br /&gt;- wardrobes&lt;br /&gt;- TV console&lt;br /&gt;- Laminated partition&lt;br /&gt;- TV partition&lt;br /&gt;- Timber divider&lt;br /&gt;- shoe cabinets&lt;br /&gt;- bedframe&lt;br /&gt;- bedhead&lt;br /&gt;- working table&lt;br /&gt;- display cabinet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Check out our current HOT DEALS.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/emc/simplix-2015-package_zpst1t7ysv8.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/emc/modello-2015-package_zpscgdub5rt.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Get in touch with us&amp;#33;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:hyper:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/rclxm9.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rclxm9.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exquisite Mr Carpenter Fit Out Interior Sdn. Bhd.&lt;br /&gt;Email : esmeralda@mrcarpenter.com.my&lt;br /&gt;Phone : 012 323 0311&lt;br /&gt;Web: &lt;a href='https://www.mrcarpenter.com.my' target='_blank'&gt;www.mrcarpenter.com.my&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FB : &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/mrcarpentermy/' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.facebook.com/mrcarpentermy/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Property For Sale</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:26:52 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Are people really pantang 4th floor</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1805926</link>
            <description>Is it really harder to rent out 4th floor apartment or condo. Does people really mind its 4th floor. Will people really squash the value down. What do you guys think.</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Property Talk</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:02:28 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Official Windows phone 7 Thread</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1574090</link>
            <description>&lt;span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Windows Phone 7&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_01.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The basic facts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Windows Phone 7 is the successor to Microsoft&amp;#39;s line of Windows Mobile phone operating systems. It&amp;#39;s based on the Windows CE 6 kernel, like the Zune HD, while current versions of Windows Mobile are based on Windows CE 5. Microsoft announced the new OS at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, and says that the first handsets to run it are supposed to be released by the holiday shopping season of this year -- and the company is emphatic in saying that it doesn&amp;#39;t mean December 24th -- you&amp;#39;ll have time to place your order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The visual and underlying differences in the operating system are almost too numerous to mention, including a completely (and we do mean completely) upended user interface, an emphasis on finger-based touchscreen input, deep social networking integration, fully branded and expansive Zune and Xbox components, and extremely strict hardware requirements for partners. A couple familiar touchstones from the past include plans for Outlook and Office support, as well as licensing to a wide variety of third party hardware vendors -- despite the name change, Microsoft still isn&amp;#39;t building any phones itself. Microsoft says it&amp;#39;s aiming the platform at &amp;quot;life maximizers,&amp;quot; and it&amp;#39;s come up with a fictitious 38 year-old couple named Anna and Miles who represent the target end users: people who need to get work done on their phones but still want to play games and don&amp;#39;t want to fiddle around with settings. It&amp;#39;s cute, we&amp;#39;ll give them that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardware&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_02.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;#39;s a look at the specs detailed to us thus far:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•	At first, only large 800 x 480 (WVGA) touchscreens will be permitted, but 480 x 320 (HVGA) devices will make an appearance &amp;quot;later.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;•	Five specific hardware buttons are required: Start, back, search (which integrates with Bing services where appropriate), camera button, and power. Some devices might have more, but these are the baseline. Apps aren&amp;#39;t generally allowed to override these buttons -- it&amp;#39;s an offense that could result in being rejected from the Marketplace.&lt;br /&gt;•	Capacitive multitouch with support for a minimum of four contact points, though no more than two are used by any of the platform&amp;#39;s six native gestures (developers are welcome to use as many as they like).&lt;br /&gt;•	A Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU with DirectX 9 graphics support. Microsoft says the platform is flexible enough to expand to other chips in the future, but right now it&amp;#39;s all Qualcomm.&lt;br /&gt;•	256MB of RAM or more&lt;br /&gt;•	8GB of internal Flash storage or more&lt;br /&gt;•	No support for microSD cards, though that&amp;#39;s partially offset by the requirement for capacious internal storage. Some phones might implement the required internal storage on a microSD card, but it&amp;#39;s not supposed to be user-swappable, and if you do switch it out, you&amp;#39;ll reset the phone and lose all your data -- but you should be able to get most of it back when you sync with the cloud.&lt;br /&gt;•	WiFi&lt;br /&gt;•	AGPS&lt;br /&gt;•	Accelerometer&lt;br /&gt;•	FM radio&lt;br /&gt;•	5 megapixel camera or better with flash&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hubs and first-party apps&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER BEGIN--&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilertop&quot; onClick=&quot;openClose('9044f18a127a67dcf66db024712aaa0b')&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&amp;raquo; Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... &amp;laquo;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilermain&quot; id=&quot;9044f18a127a67dcf66db024712aaa0b&quot; style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER END--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hubs are the clearinghouses for the phone&amp;#39;s core functionality, broken down by genre -- it&amp;#39;s a unique (and rather intuitive) concept unlike anything we&amp;#39;ve seen on other mobile platforms. Third-party developers will be able to tap into these hubs to enhance them; an example given at MIX10 was a photo retouching app that plugs into the Pictures hub and lets users open and modify their images directly from there. We haven&amp;#39;t seen everything from Windows Phone 7 yet -- particularly in the application department -- but here&amp;#39;s a look at what we have been given access to, and brief descriptions of the software&amp;#39;s functionality:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_03.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;People hub:&lt;/b&gt; Pulls in contacts from Gmail, Exchange, Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live and others, aggregating contact information, status updates, and contact images into a single view (or views, really). The main view of this hub keeps your most recently or heavily contacted people in first view dynamically (though this can be customized as well), and allows you to quickly jump to feeds of your recent updates from social networks aggregated by Windows Live. There&amp;#39;s also a section here called &amp;quot;me&amp;quot; where you can view and edit your own statuses within your networks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_04.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pictures hub:&lt;/b&gt; An aggregate of your locally stored photos, cloud-based Facebook, Windows Live, or other connected picture galleries, and feeds of your contacts&amp;#39; recently updated images. The pictures hub will also allow you to upload and comment on photos on services like Facebook natively inside of the hub experience. Photo apps can also plug into the Pictures hub to offer editing and sharing functions as well. Like we said earlier, you can&amp;#39;t order photo sources by priority or preference, so we&amp;#39;re a little concerned that this hub will be quickly overrun, but we&amp;#39;ll see how it works in practice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_05.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Games hub:&lt;/b&gt; Integrates with Xbox Live, including the housing of a miniature version of your avatar (in 3D and everything), Xbox LIVE games and achievements, Spotlight feeds, and the ability to browse gamer profiles. Microsoft says it wants games that are easy to play in the &amp;quot;mobile minute,&amp;quot; and is focusing on turn-based games to start, but we&amp;#39;ve now seen a few impressive 3D XNA games shown off, complete with Xbox achievements and other features pulled in from Live. Integration with Xbox and its ecosystem is being taken very seriously by the folks in Redmond -- you&amp;#39;re not just going to be playing Sudoku here. This should be an easy one to not screw up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_06.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Music + Video hub:&lt;/b&gt; It&amp;#39;s a Zune HD in your phone. Seriously. It&amp;#39;s exactly like the Zune HD experience. You&amp;#39;re able to utilize Zune Pass here too, including the ability to browse and download new music over WiFi and 3G. Video is a go too, and we assume that means rentals as well as purchases, but it&amp;#39;s still unclear how this will interact with your desktop, Xbox, or Media Center setup. Microsoft initially said it was working with partners like Pandora to integrate with the hub, utilizing the Zune player to tap into Pandora&amp;#39;s streaming service, but they&amp;#39;ve backed off that message dramatically, and it&amp;#39;s not clear at all if this feature will still make it into the launch release. Divx playback will be supported out of the box, something that a number of higher-end featurephones and smartphones have integrated in recent years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_07.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marketplace hub:&lt;/b&gt; Microsoft is deeply rethinking its Marketplace strategy for Windows Phone 7 right down to the name -- it&amp;#39;s now officially &amp;quot;Windows Phone Marketplace,&amp;quot; a minor tweak from the Windows Marketplace for Mobile moniker they&amp;#39;d used before. The revised Marketplace will be much more than an app store -- instead, it&amp;#39;ll be billed as a one-stop shop for a variety of content from apps and Xbox games to music, and carriers will also have the ability to customize it by adding their own highlighted content. Much more on Marketplace below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_08.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Office hub:&lt;/b&gt; Microsoft&amp;#39;s bread and butter, but so far we&amp;#39;ve just seen the hub itself -- none of its deeper functionality like document editing. There&amp;#39;s an emphasis on OneNote and SharePoint Workspace that should be pretty interesting, however. Ultimately, based on the new UI paradigms and user experience directives of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is going to have to rebuild these applications from the ground up. As long as they&amp;#39;re able to make them super functional while keeping the Metro look intact, this should be a real win -- we&amp;#39;re still curious as to how the company plans to cram all that information into a UI which is focused on doing away with visual noise, and the lack of system-wide clipboard functionality is going to be an issue here, no matter how much Microsoft insists users only want to view documents and add comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_09.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;And all the rest... &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Email:&lt;/b&gt; Relies on swipes to switch between message views (unread / flagged / etc.), and has a color-coded system for differentiating between work and personal messages. We&amp;#39;re hopeful there&amp;#39;s an option to un-mix multiple inboxes as well, but it&amp;#39;s unclear so far. Microsoft&amp;#39;s focused the app on mobile &amp;quot;triaging&amp;quot; of email, so there are robust tools to manage multiple messages, but there&amp;#39;s also a lot of negative space in the app, which is a bit of a concerning (if beautiful) trend throughout the UI. We don&amp;#39;t expect any deep integration with services like Gmail beyond the contact syncing... though if Microsoft could pull labeling, archiving, and threaded messages off here, we can think of at least one editor who would be seriously inclined to switch to this platform.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Calendar:&lt;/b&gt; One of the odder apps visually, it almost looks like a DOS UI, with a white-on-black / primary color presentation. There are differentiations for specific types of data, such as red and blue notation for personal items and work. As we said earlier, this is weirdly one of the most striking applications on the phone, with lots of interesting functionality tied to its visual elements, like little lines in the day boxes which represent appointments when you&amp;#39;re zoomed out to a month view. There&amp;#39;s also a cool little &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;ll be late&amp;quot; button, which automatically sends messages to meeting participants when... you&amp;#39;ll be late.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;SMS:&lt;/b&gt; It&amp;#39;s barebones so far, but supports SMS and MMS, and it appears that the keyboard can be rotated to landscape for text entry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Phone:&lt;/b&gt; Even barer bones -- chromeless is in full effect here. The UI isn&amp;#39;t nearly done yet -- the white arrow is supposed to bring up call options, but it doesn&amp;#39;t do anything at the moment.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Internet Explorer:&lt;/b&gt; This is a big one, and Microsoft claims to have something newer and more based on the desktop IE than the current Windows Mobile / Zune browser. Features include multitouch pinch-to-zoom, &amp;quot;tabbed&amp;quot; browsing, and a new text rendering engine that brings supports sub pixel positioning for text. It&amp;#39;s not as fast as we&amp;#39;d like just yet, but Microsoft has more than half a year to work out the kinks, and at least the page rendering is accurate. Apps can call upon the IE engine internally to render pages as well, and pass data back and forth with web pages using Javascript.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bing search:&lt;/b&gt; Search has contextual use in most apps, but from the Start menu it pulls up a separate, dedicated Bing app. When you search, Bing will try to decide what sort of search you&amp;#39;re doing and present an appropriate set of results -- local results instead of web pages if you&amp;#39;re looking for sushi, for instance. You can pivot between views, naturally, and the results are presented in the standard Windows Phone UI instead of just a mobile browser version of Bing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bing Maps:&lt;/b&gt; Addresses throughout the phone are turned into hyperlinks that can pull up Bing maps (phone numbers and email addresses are also intelligently discovered by the OS and made linkable), which includes pinch to zoom navigation and an auto-switch from map to satellite view at a certain zoom level. Microsoft is really pushing geolocation here, though we assume users will be given an option on whether or not they want to be found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;Delighters&amp;quot;:&lt;/b&gt; What you see here isn&amp;#39;t the full list of functionality and features -- Microsoft has said it&amp;#39;ll be rolling out &amp;quot;delighters&amp;quot; over time that extend the platform in unique and interesting ways. We don&amp;#39;t know exactly what they&amp;#39;ll be, but we were flat-out told that copy / paste support isn&amp;#39;t among the group, so that&amp;#39;s that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Third-party apps&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/benisonkok/wp7/wp7_10.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though there are countless huge changes for manufacturers, developers, and users alike in Windows Phone 7, one of the largest is going to be the third-party app ecosystem: you must get your content from the Marketplace, a far cry from the Wild West attitude of the WinMo 6 days. In fact, you could even argue that it&amp;#39;s a little bit more restrictive than Apple&amp;#39;s already-draconian app distribution policy in that there won&amp;#39;t initially be any provision for an ad hoc distribution mode that allows you to bypass the Marketplace and distribute your app (say, to a small company or for beta testing) to a limited number of users; Microsoft says that they&amp;#39;re keenly aware that there&amp;#39;s interest in such a feature, but they simply weren&amp;#39;t able to target it for the first release, along with a full-featured app distribution solution for large enterprise customers. The company is promising a &amp;quot;predictable and transparent&amp;quot; process for app approvals based on constantly-evolving &amp;quot;business, technology, and content&amp;quot; policies, and the final versions of those policies are expected to be detailed for developers in May 2010. We can tell you that there won&amp;#39;t be any silly &amp;quot;duplication of functionality&amp;quot; rejections: Microsoft says it won&amp;#39;t reject a Google Maps or Google Voice app, or replacement email clients -- or even browsers, if some dev manages to code one up in Sliverlight or XNA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here&amp;#39;s a quick look at some of the apps and games that have been demoed so far:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Associated Press:&lt;/b&gt; AP&amp;#39;s mobile apps have become mainstays for many folks, so it&amp;#39;s no surprise that Microsoft was keen to show this one off. It makes full use of Windows Phone 7&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;panorama&amp;quot; view, which serves to make it a distinctly different experience than you&amp;#39;ll find on the iPhone or Android versions. There&amp;#39;s also a nifty photo browsing tool that flips out images in a fan -- it&amp;#39;s very trick. The AP app is a great showcase for what devs can do if they fully engage the Metro UI -- something that not every app we&amp;#39;ve seen does well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Netflix:&lt;/b&gt; This is more than your average Netflix queue manager -- the company&amp;#39;s prototype WP7S app actually bundles Watch Instantly functionality, meaning it becomes a source of entertainment on the road. Interestingly, Netflix is emphatic that they haven&amp;#39;t &amp;quot;announced&amp;quot; a Windows Phone 7-compatible app, they&amp;#39;ve merely prototyped one; that being said, we&amp;#39;d be shocked (and saddened) if this didn&amp;#39;t become available at or near the platform&amp;#39;s retail launch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hush Hush:&lt;/b&gt; WP7S apps aren&amp;#39;t required to live and breathe the Metro UI style, and Hush Hush is a perfect example of that. This diary app looks... well, like a diary, which should function pretty well on the large WVGA displays that these devices will have out of the gate. Neat little feature here: you can bypass the lock by &amp;quot;smashing&amp;quot; the phone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLS:&lt;/b&gt; This is an official app developed in cooperation with Major League Soccer -- it&amp;#39;s the usual stats-and-video-clips affair, but it served as Microsoft&amp;#39;s first official demo of the so-called Microsoft Notification Service that pushes notifications to WP7S devices in much the same way that Apple&amp;#39;s system does. The app doesn&amp;#39;t need to be running in order for users to receive alerts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Seesmic:&lt;/b&gt; This is more or less a straight port of the same experience Seesmic offers on Windows on Mac, a testament to how easily they were able to port their Silverlight-based client.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Shazam:&lt;/b&gt; Shazam&amp;#39;s been pretty great at making sure that it has presence on every mobile platform of note, and Windows Phone 7 is no exception -- they took the stage at MIX10 to commit to the platform, so you can rest easy knowing that you&amp;#39;ll have no trouble identifying songs with your shiny new WP7S handset.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Goo Splat, Battle Punks, and The Harvest:&lt;/b&gt; These games come from different backgrounds -- Goo Splat&amp;#39;s an XNA game on Zune HD that shows off how quick and easy it is for studios to port their existing stuff, while Battle Punks and The Harvest are 3D games capable of showing off Windows Phone 7&amp;#39;s deep Xbox Live integration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In its first week of software partner announcements, Microsoft has compiled a healthy list of companies -- both large and small -- that have thrown their weight behind the platform:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•	The Associated Press&lt;br /&gt;•	Archetype International&lt;br /&gt;•	AWS Convergence Technologies -- Weatherbug&lt;br /&gt;•	Citrix Systems&lt;br /&gt;•	Clarity Consulting&lt;br /&gt;•	Cypress Consulting&lt;br /&gt;•	EA Mobile&lt;br /&gt;•	Fandango&lt;br /&gt;•	Foursquare&lt;br /&gt;•	frog design&lt;br /&gt;•	Glu Mobile&lt;br /&gt;•	Graphic.ly&lt;br /&gt;•	Hudson Entertainment&lt;br /&gt;•	IdentityMine&lt;br /&gt;•	IMDB&lt;br /&gt;•	Larva Labs&lt;br /&gt;•	Match.com&lt;br /&gt;•	Matchbox Mobile&lt;br /&gt;•	Microsoft Game Studios&lt;br /&gt;•	Namco&lt;br /&gt;•	Oberon Media&lt;br /&gt;•	Pageonce&lt;br /&gt;•	Pandora&lt;br /&gt;•	Photobucket&lt;br /&gt;•	PopCap Games&lt;br /&gt;•	Seesmic&lt;br /&gt;•	Shazam&lt;br /&gt;•	Sling Media&lt;br /&gt;•	SPB Software&lt;br /&gt;•	Stimulant&lt;br /&gt;•	TeleCommunications Systems&lt;br /&gt;•	Touchality&lt;br /&gt;•	Vertigo Software&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Windows Phone 7 Series Ad from MIX10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[YOUTUBE]EQ5gpMf2--w[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;XBox LIVE On Windows Phone 7&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[YOUTUBE]jrpPqR_WEsA[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Windows Phone 7 Ad featuring HTC Mondrian-1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[YOUTUBE]dFAUTy4wizU[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Windows Phone 7 Ad featuring HTC Mondrian-2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[YOUTUBE]HvV6_t3crlk[/YOUTUBE]</description>
            <author>benison</author>
            <category>Others OS General Discussion</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:12:29 +0800</pubDate>
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