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[WTH] Part timers for a running event

directdamage — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 01:32:48 +0800

We are hiring 150 people to work in a running event on the 22nd of November 2015. This running event is confirmed and we will update you with more information when available. Please email klrunningevents@gmail.com for more information.

Role: Work at different check points of the running event.
Slight help to set up the event.

Remuneration: To be confirmed. Email for more information.

Requirements:Able to work fast and smartly.
Age of 18 and above.
Able to speak English, BM or Cantonese.
Hardworking and discipline.
Own transportation.

Contact Person: Email klrunningevents@gmail.com for more information and quick reply.

WTS MOTO G 8GB BRAND CONDITION

directdamage — Thu, 22 May 2014 23:40:00 +0800

Item(s): Moto G 8gb

Package includes: Full Set

Price: 500

Warranty: left 10 months

Dealing method: COD KL or Sunway or Sri Petaling

Location of seller:KL

Contact method/details:PM

Age of item:2 months

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Item(s) conditions:Untouched brand new condition. No scratches

Reason for sale: extra set

Motorola Flipout

directdamage — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:13:06 +0800

It is now official but not yet in Malaysia, but its a start. Motorola has made their latest MotoBlur handset official, announcing the Motorola FlipOut for a European release sometime in the next few weeks. The Android 2.1 phone will be available in seven colors, and is aimed at the young, social networking crowd with a small form factor and a tweaked MotoBlur interface that has enhanced screen custimization, a new Happenings and Messages widget, and Data Manager for monitoring usage among other additions. In the way of hardware you get a full five row flip-out QWERTY keyboard, a 3MP camera, and a 2.8-inch QGVA display. The FlipOut comes with 512MB of internal storage and a 2 GB microSD card. No pricing was announced.

So, is it gonna hit Malaysia soon? Is Motorola Flipout gonna make Microsoft KIN I and II looks like a smart dumbphone again?

Source - Phandroid

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T-mobile myTouch 3g Slide

directdamage — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:56:18 +0800

The T-mobile myTouch 3g Slide manufacture by Htc

This model is the big brother to to older model myTouch. The gist of the myTouch 3G Slide is that it's an Android 2.1 phone running totally T-Mobile software on top of Htc Sense, way above and beyond the original myTouch, nearly to the extent of Sony Ericsson or HTC, with custom interfaces and software—it even has different "themes" depending on what you're doing, much like HTC's Sense interface. And it's got what T-Mobile calls an Sidekick-inspired keyboard (odd, since Sharp built the Hiptop/Sidekick, and the Slide's made by HTC). It's the second of clearly many myTouches coming down the road.

The two biggest features of the T-Mobile designed software are the Faves gallery—which is a dedicated application for your 20 favorite contacts, mashing together all of the various ways you can get a hold of them, and giving them priority status when they're trying to get a hold of you with a special LED light and status in the notifications shade—and the Genius button. Yes, the Genius button. (T-Mobile apparently does have the trademark on it.) It's voice command and speech-to-text, that's more extensive than what Google offers by default, and it's powered by Nuance, the guys behind Dragon Dictation. It seemed to work pretty damn well in the quick demo I had.

My major concern is two-fold: The standard one over delayed Android updates for any phone running custom software—one that T-Mobile actually acknowledges and accepts, since with this product they don't necessarily want to be on the cutting edge of Android updates (they want it to be a safe, easy Android phone). The second is that the software might overlap and cut across Android in some confusing ways (the early Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is a poster child for this), even as T-Mobile takes steps like building in Swype text input and including DoubleTwist for music syncing to make it more palatable to a more mainstream user. It's hard to judge overall how effective the interface is without using it extensively, but since the Slide's not coming out til June, they've got plenty of time to integrate the myTouch software more seamlessly with Android. So we'll see. But I dig the hardware quite a bit—especially the keyboard—even without an eye-bleedingly high res screen.

Source from Engadget and Gizmodo

After all above blahblahblah, will it come to KL or should i say will any lowyat.net forumer will bring/bulk it in? The questions still remains the same until someone actually brings it in. For now, just hope and maybe think about it

HTC May Buy Palm to Fight Apple

directdamage — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:00:43 +0800

Palm for sale?

Uh, whoa. Bloomberg just reported that Palm is putting itself up for sale and that offers will potentially come in this week. That's pretty wild news, considering CEO Jon Rubinstein was adamant just a few days ago that Palm had a plan to get profitable -- even while his company's stock price went on a buyout-rumor fueled rollercoaster. Bloomberg says that Palm's already retained Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find a buyer, with HTC (yes!) and Lenovo both expressing interest -- and Dell's apparently already taken a pass. Naturally none of these parties are saying anything on the record -- we just pinged Palm and they declined comment -- but if this is true, things are about to get wild, and fast. We'll keep you updated, stay tuned.
From Engadget

HTC May Buy Palm to Fight Apple

Moribund Palm is up for sale, says Bloomberg. Who is in the short list of potential bidders? It's not Google, but close enough: HTC. And it makes total sense, because buying Palm could save HTC's ass in the Apple lawsuit.

Bloomberg says that Lenovo may want to buy it too. However, the most interesting bidder is HTC by far. The reason: HTC may find in Palm the patent portfolio it needs to battle Apple's lawsuit.

Apart from Apple and Google, Palm—which currently has a $870.8 million market value—is the only company with a modern smartphone operating system in the market. Palm has a long history in the PDA and smartphone worlds. Their original Palm Pilot—their low-cost Newton wannabe—was a total success back in the 90s, and their Treo smartphones were probably the first nice PDA/phone hybrids. As a result of this long story, Palm owns patents that may become very effective weapons in the war against Apple's omnipotent JesusPhone. Weapons that HTC may use to settle the lawsuit against Apple.

Apple and Palm has threatened to sue each other in the past. Rubinstein, who was at Apple during the development of the iPhone, came to Palm to create a theoretical iPhone killer and save the company from irrelevance. He got a nice phone, but his marketing strategy failed miserably. However, during this time Apple never sued Palm, presumably because Palm has enough patents to sue Apple back and make the legal battle pointless.

Although Palm has plenty of good intellectual property and a great smartphone operating system, their Pre and Pixi phones have been a sales failure. Knowing this, would the Palm Pre and the WebOS survive the sale? Or better said: Can anyone turn WebOS into a real contender in the current smartphone war? Between Google and Apple battling head to head—and Microsoft soon to join the war with Windows Phone Series 7—my gut feeling is that no, WebOS will not survive.

It seems like the only thing that makes sense is buying Palm to snatch some of their patents to use against Apple lawsuits and to improve future phones. Exactly what HTC needs. And maybe Google would like to help a bit here, just to avoid having to indemnify HTC in case Apple destroys them to bits.

From Gizmodo

Would HTC really buy Palm?

So the big shocking news (or non-shocker, depending on your view) is that Palm is making itself available for sale. It's a little too early in the game to jump to wild conclusions but Bloomberg sources say that HTC and Lenovo are both in the mix to make a bid to buy Palm. And though Lenovo has some Android ties, no company has backed Android like HTC. HTC buying Palm would be epically huge in this smartphone world of ours. Epic. -ally. Huge

Think about it. HTC produces stellar hardware for both Android and Windows Mobile. Some could say that HTC is half the reason why Android is so successful and why Windows Mobile is still alive. If HTC suddenly bought Palm, would HTC start building webOS devices as well? Or would they stop manufacturing devices for Android and Windows Mobile and go strictly webOS? Or would nothing happen, and HTC simply let Palm stay Palm and just continue to build for Android and Windows Mobile? There are questions abound and the ramifications would be huge because half of the players in the smartphone space are involved (other half being: Apple, RIM, and Nokia).

And we're not familiar with patent law, but could HTC buy Palm and use Palm's library of patents against Apple in Apple's lawsuit? Ammo for a potential don't sue me because I can sue the pants off you type move? But if Palm's patents are that valuable, wouldn't everyone be interested? There's so many more questions to ask that we can't wait to see this thing develop. The smartphone world as we know it is going to change.

So, would HTC really buy Palm?
From Android Central

We will see how it goes later this year

[addedon]April 12, 2010, 3:05 pm[/addedon]How awesome if HTC buys Palm.. There would be WebOs in some phones which is awesome and There would be Palm Pre and Palm Pixi available in Malaysia by Htc

Which of these devices would you choose? v2.1

directdamage — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:47:03 +0800

Hi,

Vote for the best devices so far ever made....

Which of these devices would you choose? v2

directdamage — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:32:03 +0800

Hi,

Vote for the best devices so far ever made....

Which of these devices would you choose?

directdamage — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:56:30 +0800

Hi,

Vote for the best devices so far ever made....

[ WTAsk ] Htc Desire

directdamage — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:25:23 +0800

Hey, does anyone know what will the price be for Htc Desire? And when will it be announce?
And also will anyone ship/bulk Htc Desire in? Any idea?

Google Nexus One

directdamage — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:12:41 +0800

Hi,

What do you think of Nexus One? or should i say What do you think of your Nexus One?
Please vote

Htc Hero

directdamage — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:10:34 +0800

Non Hero users
What do you think of Htc Hero?

Hero users
What do you think of your awesome/beloved Htc Hero?

It ROCKS or it just SUCKS?

Htc Hero

directdamage — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:06:56 +0800

What do you think of your beloved Htc Hero? It ROCKS or it just SUCKS?

Discussin - Google/Htc Nexus One problems/issues

directdamage — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:13:28 +0800

Hi,

Please share with us your problem/issues that you're having with your beloved Nexus One... By doing this, forummers can discuss about the/your problems with Nexus One and might be able to help you to solve your problems or issues that you're having... So yeah

Thanks

Nexus One Specs
Nexus One Specs in detail

Nexus One rooting tutorial>> http://theunlockr.com/2010/01/02/how-to-root-the-nexus-one/
Loading a custom Rom into your Nexus One>> http://theunlockr.com/2010/01/08/how-to-lo...-the-nexus-one/

HTC Hero known problems/issues?

directdamage — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:39:25 +0800

Hi,

Please state your known problems and issues for your HTC Hero....

Thanks

How to backup, root and add rom to Htc Magic ?

directdamage — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:20 +0800

Hi,

Anyone know how backup, root and add rom to Htc Magic ? If you got video then its better...
What is the best ROM so far that has market?