Also, I got a HTC Desire a few weeks ago. Love it!
It's really becoming the multi-purpose do-it-all device that we all need to make our life a non-stop information gathering/processing journey from the cradle to the grave. :-P
Showing posts with label mobile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mobile. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Smartphone retro gaming!
Wohoo! Smartphones with touchscreen can run games properly!
Morphgear is an emulator platform for (amongst other) Windows Mobile. There are modules for NES, SNES and more available. You'll have to pay for it to play more than five minutes, but hey, it works and with this amazing skin I've got myself a little gameboy thingy.
And ROMs are amazingly small. (Super Mario Bros is 40 kb! I can add 200 000 of those on one SD card). The music brings me back.
Woot woot. :)
Morphgear is an emulator platform for (amongst other) Windows Mobile. There are modules for NES, SNES and more available. You'll have to pay for it to play more than five minutes, but hey, it works and with this amazing skin I've got myself a little gameboy thingy.
And ROMs are amazingly small. (Super Mario Bros is 40 kb! I can add 200 000 of those on one SD card). The music brings me back.
Woot woot. :)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Making the smartphone smart, only €19.99
My HTC Touch HD (a.k.a. Blackstone to you guys across the pond) is my first "Smartphone", and was reputedly an iPhone killer.
It hasn't lived up to that. Not that I've owned an iPhone.. yet.. but it feels a bit clanky to use. And no games has worked well yet. Bah!
But, since it's got 0.5 GHz, ~300 mb ram and 8 gb flash, it ought to be good at something. And I just found out that with WMWifiRouter it becomes an excellent 3g modem + wireless router (that can also play youtube videos in 800x480 :).
This is an excellent piece of software. It installs smoothly, asks for some options, then gives me 6 buttons to start mapping between wifi, 3g, bluetooth and usb whichever way makes sense.
It also monitors the battery's temp in case it overheats... Oookay. I suppose it's a good thing that it does, but it's like having a warning light + engine shutdown in your car in case the rear wheel nut is coming loose.
Can't blame the program for that, though.
I ended up with this because Vista fails to reco'nize my HTC as a PAN supporting bluetooth device. Pfft! My old GSM-only Nokia worked amazingly well (connect to network - bluetooth pan - presto), although it was hideously slow. Well, since it worked for the Nokia, I'll blame HTC this time around.
Anyway, I'm glad that I can now access the net from my laptop _anywhere_. Very nice when on some trains that don't yet offer WiFi. (Most budget trains don't, and the only ones running to my parent's part of the country don't either... although they do have power outlets.)
It hasn't lived up to that. Not that I've owned an iPhone.. yet.. but it feels a bit clanky to use. And no games has worked well yet. Bah!
But, since it's got 0.5 GHz, ~300 mb ram and 8 gb flash, it ought to be good at something. And I just found out that with WMWifiRouter it becomes an excellent 3g modem + wireless router (that can also play youtube videos in 800x480 :).
This is an excellent piece of software. It installs smoothly, asks for some options, then gives me 6 buttons to start mapping between wifi, 3g, bluetooth and usb whichever way makes sense.
It also monitors the battery's temp in case it overheats... Oookay. I suppose it's a good thing that it does, but it's like having a warning light + engine shutdown in your car in case the rear wheel nut is coming loose.
Can't blame the program for that, though.
I ended up with this because Vista fails to reco'nize my HTC as a PAN supporting bluetooth device. Pfft! My old GSM-only Nokia worked amazingly well (connect to network - bluetooth pan - presto), although it was hideously slow. Well, since it worked for the Nokia, I'll blame HTC this time around.
Anyway, I'm glad that I can now access the net from my laptop _anywhere_. Very nice when on some trains that don't yet offer WiFi. (Most budget trains don't, and the only ones running to my parent's part of the country don't either... although they do have power outlets.)
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