tech65 » Event http://www.tech65.org voice of technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:23:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) 2006-2012 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ daniel@tech65.org (Tech65) daniel@tech65.org (Tech65) Technology, Singapore, Gadgets, Computers, Software, Hardware 1440 http://www.tech65.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/t65mainwhite-144.pngtech65http://www.tech65.org 144 144 http://feeds.feedburner.com/65bits Tech65 Pte. Ltd. is Singapore's Technology Source. With a deep bench and the broadest expertise online, we cover the tech news that is most relevant to you. With a focus on the Singaporean audience, but an eye to the wider world, our reporting provides a distinctly local flavour that appeals beyond our shores.Tech65.org is our flagship website, serving as the central repository of all our video, audio and photo content. We are also especially proud of our flagship audio podcast, 65bits, a bi-weekly podcast aimed at giving you the absolute essential tech news. Technology, Singapore, Gadgets, Computers, Software, Hardware Tech65 Tech65 daniel@tech65.org no no Samsung Post MWC09 Event in Singaporehttp://www.tech65.org/2009/02/18/samsung-post-mwc09-event-in-singapore/ http://www.tech65.org/2009/02/18/samsung-post-mwc09-event-in-singapore/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:00:15 +0000 Daniel http://www.tech65.org/?p=397 Last night, DK, Nicole, Hisham and I attended Samsung’s Mobile World Conference 2009 event in Singapore at their flagship store in Vivo City, where they showed us some of the phones that were launched at the Mobile World Conference 2009 in Barcelona. In total they showed off 7 phones, namely their entry-level C3050, their Ultra B (for bar), Ultra S (for slider) and Ultra Touch (their top of the line model), their new music phones Beat DJ and Beat Disc, as well as their Omnia HD (first smart phone to do 720p video recording, and first non-Nokia phone on the Series60 touch screen platform after the Nokia 5800). Most of these models were prototypes or dummies, but it gave us a glimps of what to expect from Samsung.

The following are some photos and videos we took at the event.


Samsung Ultra Touch

A pretty slick phone with the usual powerful camera found on the Pixon. Running on the TouchWiz UI (I prefer to think it’s an OS) found on the Pixon, it is very similar with it in terms of specs, including the lack of WiFi, which continues to boggle the mind. There’s an interesting face recognition feature being shown off here similar to that found on iPhoto 09 that allows you to tag faces in a photo, and lets you call them by touching their faces on the screen. Of course the presenter points out that if you have too many faces in a photo, the boxes are gonna be too small to touch.

Samsung Beat DJ

Samsung has decided to replace the “Live Loud” brand of it’s music phones with a new “Beat” brand. The Beat DJ is their flagship Beat phone, also running on TouchWiz UI, ALSO lacking WiFi. The “DJ” feature on this phone seems to be just a novelty, but I’d like to point out that the touch area extends to the wheel at the bottom. Oh, and as much as we at Tech65 hate people who blast their music in the public, it appears that it is a trend nowadays, so we can’t blame Samsung for responding to this “beng” market by putting B&O speakers into their Beat phones. Urghh…

Now you can get out of awkward situations with the Samsung Ultra B

I thought this was the funniest thing I’ve seen built into a phone. This phone has a “fake call” feature that when activated by a shortcut, initiates a fake call. Wait, hold on, I got a call… “Hello? What? Little Johnny fell into the well?? I’ll be right over!! Sorry, gotta dash… Emergency…” According to the rep, you can even record a conversation so that it sounds like you actually have a real call! Oh, and when there’s a real call, the phone won’t ruin your cover by ringing. I know there are iPhone apps out there that do that, but this is the first time I’ve seen something like this built right into a phone!

]]> http://www.tech65.org/2009/02/18/samsung-post-mwc09-event-in-singapore/feed/ 1 Kevin Lim’s cameo @ 65bits’ 100th Episode eventhttp://www.tech65.org/2008/12/27/kevin-lims-cameo-65bits-100th-episode-event/ http://www.tech65.org/2008/12/27/kevin-lims-cameo-65bits-100th-episode-event/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:26:49 +0000 Daniel http://www.tech65.org/?p=296
Tech65 100th Episode Cameo from brainopera on Vimeo.

Our good friend Kevin of Theory.IsTheReason.com made a cameo at our 100th episode event today at Geek Terminal.

Special thanks to Geek Terminal for the awesome set up and for sponsoring the venue today!! Thank you guys so much!! Special mention goes out to Danny and Michael of Geek Terminal!

The best picture I took of the audience today

And of course, not forgetting the awesome audience today at the event, and all of you listeners of 65bits, for making today’s event a success! The 100th episode will be online in a few days time. In the mean time, don’t for get to check out our first episode of Gear65, our brand new weekly gadgets show!!

Have a great weekend ahead!

]]> http://www.tech65.org/2008/12/27/kevin-lims-cameo-65bits-100th-episode-event/feed/ 4 65bits Episode 93: I mean, who cares about Apple, right?http://www.tech65.org/2008/10/19/65bits-episode-93-i-mean-who-cares-about-apple-right/ http://www.tech65.org/2008/10/19/65bits-episode-93-i-mean-who-cares-about-apple-right/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:49:23 +0000 Daniel http://www.tech65.org/?p=253 Yes, it’s that time again. Another Apple event, another set of new Apple products. In this episode, the entire Tech65 crew attempts to avoid the Apple topic, and talk about everything else. How about a discussion on Digital Media in Singapore? Or finding out what’s the deal with Samsung’s new Innov8 phone? Oh, I know! Let’s talk about the next version of Windows! I’m sure everyone wants to find out what they decided to name it! And how about some tips on reformatting your Windows machine! I mean, who cares about Apple, right?

Featuring: Daniel, NTT, Farinelli, Ryu, Nicole, Naveen and special cameo by DK.


[01:29] Announcement: New 65bits podcast feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/65bits for 65bits only. Stay with this feed for all future Tech65 audio podcasts.

[04:00] Pre-DigitalMediaFest 2008 Discussion. What is Digital Media in Singapore?

[09:50] Impressions of the new Samsung Innov8
- Review by Claudia.sg

[13:44] Kongregate Labs: Gaming tutorials on creating Flash Games

[16:13] HSDPA Eee PC 901 promotion with SingTel Broadband On Mobile

[20:35] Microsoft unveils final name for Windows 7

[26:57] Apple Time!

[28:03] Oh wait, before that, tips on reformatting your Windows machine

[33:48] Finally! The “dreaded” Apple event discussion
- New MacBook
- New MacBook Pro
- New Cinema Display

]]> http://www.tech65.org/2008/10/19/65bits-episode-93-i-mean-who-cares-about-apple-right/feed/ 7 1:01:16 Yes, it’s that time again. Another Apple event, another set of new Apple products. In this episode, the entire Tech65 crew attempts to avoid the Apple topic, and talk about everything else. How about a discussion on Digital Media in Singapore?[...] Yes, it’s that time again. Another Apple event, another set of new Apple products. In this episode, the entire Tech65 crew attempts to avoid the Apple topic, and talk about everything else. How about a discussion on Digital Media in Singapore? Or finding out what’s the deal with Samsung’s new Innov8 phone? Oh, I know! Let’s talk about the next version of Windows! I’m sure everyone wants to find out what they decided to name it! And how about some tips on reformatting your Windows machine! I mean, who cares about Apple, right? Featuring: Daniel, NTT, Farinelli, Ryu, Nicole, Naveen and special cameo by DK.[01:29] Announcement: New 65bits podcast feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/65bits for 65bits only. Stay with this feed for all future Tech65 audio podcasts. [04:00] Pre-DigitalMediaFest 2008 Discussion. What is Digital Media in Singapore? [09:50] Impressions of the new Samsung Innov8 - Review by Claudia.sg [13:44] Kongregate Labs: Gaming tutorials on creating Flash Games [16:13] HSDPA Eee PC 901 promotion with SingTel Broadband On Mobile [20:35] Microsoft unveils final name for Windows 7 [26:57] Apple Time! [28:03] Oh wait, before that, tips on reformatting your Windows machine [33:48] Finally! The “dreaded” Apple event discussion - New MacBook - New MacBook Pro - New Cinema Display 65Bits, Podcasts Tech65 no no 65bits Episode 92 : In Mother Russia, the OS boots you!http://www.tech65.org/2008/10/12/episode-92-in-mother-russia-the-os-boots-you/ http://www.tech65.org/2008/10/12/episode-92-in-mother-russia-the-os-boots-you/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:54:17 +0000 NTT http://www.tech65.org/?p=248 TWiST65, we have Nicole and Ryu with us to jump around in the geek pool. Expect to pay that little bit less of unecessary cash when telcos figure out how to cut it, predict where to stand to get your face captured ON GOOGLE!! (incidentally, we’ve given quite abit of airtime to new Google products rolled out these couple of weeks and rolling out in the next few months), and yet more smartphone news. Finally, a Macbook event on October 14th. YAY FARINELLI SAYS YAY!

If you were the star of my life, I’d be fried into black soot right now. THIS! Is Tech65.

Stories this week :

[0:58] S’pore, M’sian regulators to study cutting roaming charges with telcos

[4:06] Google Hackathon Singapore
- Harish Mallipeddi - The guy who was sponsored to go to Yahoo! hackday 2008.

[7:42] Google Street View – Coming to Singapore

[12:24] Google Talk gets more Translation Bots!

[16:13] Google Mail Labs

[21:12] xkcd – Youtube Audio Preview

[23:32] G2: HTC Touch HD may be T-Mobile’s next Android phone

[33:53] BlackBerry Storm 9500 hands-on

[38:00] Apple “notebook” event is on, October 14th!

[41:55] Byte of the Week : Gothere.sg

]]> http://www.tech65.org/2008/10/12/episode-92-in-mother-russia-the-os-boots-you/feed/ 9 0:51:38 TWiST65, we have Nicole and Ryu with us to jump around in the geek pool. Expect to pay that little bit less of unecessary cash when telcos figure out how to cut it, predict where to stand to get your face captured ON GOOGLE!! (incidentally, we[...] TWiST65, we have Nicole and Ryu with us to jump around in the geek pool. Expect to pay that little bit less of unecessary cash when telcos figure out how to cut it, predict where to stand to get your face captured ON GOOGLE!! (incidentally, we’ve given quite abit of airtime to new Google products rolled out these couple of weeks and rolling out in the next few months), and yet more smartphone news. Finally, a Macbook event on October 14th. YAY FARINELLI SAYS YAY! If you were the star of my life, I’d be fried into black soot right now. THIS! Is Tech65.Stories this week : [0:58] S’pore, M’sian regulators to study cutting roaming charges with telcos [4:06] Google Hackathon Singapore - Harish Mallipeddi - The guy who was sponsored to go to Yahoo! hackday 2008. [7:42] Google Street View – Coming to Singapore [12:24] Google Talk gets more Translation Bots! [16:13] Google Mail Labs [21:12] xkcd – Youtube Audio Preview [23:32] G2: HTC Touch HD may be T-Mobile’s next Android phone [33:53] BlackBerry Storm 9500 hands-on [38:00] Apple “notebook” event is on, October 14th! [41:55] Byte of the Week : Gothere.sg 65Bits, Podcasts Tech65 no no