Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Facing East @Downtown Bellevue

Clean and nice modern Taiwanese Restaurant...
And nice ice shaving! (팥빙수)
2011.10

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Alcatel OT 606A: Sparq

One of the worst of the worst device I have ever played...
Simple answer to this device.... if you want to make cheap devices, just build a simple one focused on making calls and don't try to load this and that on it...(I.e. email client, facebook etc) nothing worked smoothly...
2011.10

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Truely Fall in Seattle

Four colored skies....blue sky, white cloud, dark cloud, and Washington grey with water drops plus some winds...
Yes Fall has come to this town...
2011.10
@Office


Monday, October 10, 2011

Ashes of Times Redux

Another Hong Kong Movie during weekend via Netflix


東邪西毒 Redux... felt like a totally new movie with this "Redux" 
Still great movie...Director Wong is still magician of words... 



Tears for LG: LG Makes Latest myTouch Devices

Recently there was a news on LG from the front page of company's intranet site...

Saying, LG will deliver 2 myTouch devices -company franchise models- in this holiday.

Strangely enough my company, which is obvious no 4, runs a model of "franchise" devices - meaning service provider dictates every things on device design and "OEM" delivers..

don't know how much the service provider can dictate as much in smartphone era as it used to do in past, but this was the way htc grew its US business and smartphone business without its brand... And I heard there has been increasing tensions from htc that they will not do this type of business any more without their brand..

As a little shareholder of LGE...this is such a sad news.. maybe LG can get some volumes? But in this way? The more sad piece is all the comments from employees saying "This is a horrible move for franchise device!" Relating all the bad experiences with LG devices..-.-

It's tough days in Youido?
2011.10

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

iPhone 4S?

Sorry Apple but looks like you are running out of gas for innovation..

* Dual-core A5 chip: Dual core is already a standard on high end smartphones...
* Camera and optics: Sorry again...standard
* iOS5 and iCloud: Android is there and cloud is already available thru various applications
* Siri: ......and "There is a app for that" as well...

So other than the fact what it does as "Baseband chip" work both on GSM and CDMA, I don't see anything hot in here.. (But if someone is already with GSM, what does having CDMA mean?)

Is this signaling Apple is running out of gas for innovation or something "quantum jump" is awaiting? (in junction with all the patent affairs....) or is this following the classic path of Apple II vs. IBM compatibles?.. These folks should have at least upgrade their look and feels (i.e. display size)

Sorry, I don't feel anything special with iPhone, and feel happy around Samsung and HTC smartphones I have been using...and sad news for people who were holding their decisions with expectation of something big from this version and Sprint who put its future of its business with this iPhone release...

2011.10

Saturday, October 1, 2011

View from Downtown Bellevue

Oh..Wow expensive apartments have a reason...
2011.10
@community house in Avalon Towers  Bellevue