Screen2 mobile phone dock
Does your phone limits you?
Here is a nice concept where a “mobile phone dock” extends the features you love to use the most. Anyone can web browse, chat, send/receive messages, video conferences, photo viewing many many more…
In this stage of design the dock “takes” iPhone and Blackberry.
The Cube coming on iPhone
For who doesn’t know, “Cube” is a multiplayer/single-player FPS (First Person Shooter) game for Mac OS X.
You can find the full info about Cube / Sauerbraten / Cube 2 - here.
Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines. Uses OpenGL & SDL.
Allows in-engine editing of geometry in full 3D (you fly around the map, point / drag stuff to select it / modify it), which can even be done simultaneously with others in multiplayer (a first!). Has simplistic but effective fine grain vertex lighting that looks like lightmapping and can do dynamic lights & shadows. Doesn’t need any kind of map precompilation, even lighting is done on the fly. Has very simplistic quad-tree world structure that can do slopes (heightfields with caps) and slants, water, does decent collision detection & physics, has client/server networking that goes a long way in giving a lag-free game experience, and features a Doom/Quake-style singleplayer (2 game modes, savegames) and multiplayer (12 game modes, master server / server browser, demo recording) game with some uncompromising brutal oldskool gameplay.
Most of the engine design is targeted at reaching feature richness through simplicity of structure and brute force, rather than finely tuned complexity.
You can check Cube on iPhone in action after the jump. (and more picture)
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Lenovo the G1 in China
Looks like HTC G1 is too good for China, so the figured that Lenovo is better.
So here is how future Google Android mobile phone in China looks like.
Google Maps on G1 and iPhone
We just found two different Google Maps versions (one for iPhone, the other for HTC Google G1) so you can compare easily.
Videos after the break.
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Casio W63CA mobile phone
Wanna be amazed by a phone ?
Try this specs. Casio W63CA cellphone features :
- 8.1 Mp digital camera ‘made by Casio’ (which I don’t need to remind you, they make some pretty good compact digital cameras) with 9-point TTL autofocus, face detection, anti-shake, VGA 30fps
- 3,1″ OLED WVGA (800×480) screen
Everything in a compact 110 x 50 x 17.4 mm body.
I can’t say for sure, but this is probably the best digital camera phone on the market out yet.
GO GO GO Casio !!!
Samsung Pixon wonder
Samsung Pixon aka M8800 is getting some hopes up from consumers to be “best digital camera phone ever” or at least, of the year 2008.
It features a 8Mp digital camera in a slim 13,8mm body,. But beside the full touchscreen and web features what are we going to expect from the camera ?
Good question.
Well it is said that all 8Mp are a little crowded in the phone so it should get quite noisy after ISO800. To “forget” about that let’s spoil ourselves with the features :
- face detection
- blink detection
- smile detection
- low-light detection
- image stabilization
- shake reduction
- WDR low light
- 16x digital zoom
- fast shutter (which involves the high ISO - not recommended)
- autofocus
- geo-tagging
- different automatic modes : panorama, portrait, night….
Of course for taking a proper picture, we always recommend a dSLR or advanced P&S camera, but if you find yourself somewhere without your “gear” M8800 should do just fine.
This phone has been released a few days ago in France and will appear son enough in the store near you.
Unfortunately, we got to play with the famous LG Viewty and let’s say it was a big disappointment, beside the high resolution, all photos got out blurry, out of focus, dark, not sharp; we can’t compare it not even with the cheapest compact digital camera. Maybe Samsung knows better.
We leave you after the jump with some Samsung INNOV8 comparisons and video reviews + commercials of M8800
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