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DaffyDuck
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Different priorities. I don't care about 3G on an ebook reader - I care that the nook let me put my 1,300+ ePub books on it.
Look up "calibre" as an app to manage and create ebooks.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:40 am on Oct. 4, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Quite funny.
...a $35 (or $61) Android Tablet... for schools, no less, in India.
Yet, Negroponte's continued "OLPC' project keeps failing.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/10/05/aakash.tablet.gets.formal.release/
Aakash tablet gets formal release
After delays, the Indian government on Wednesday showed off the final version of its very low-cost Android 2.2 tablet. Now called the Aakash ("sky"), the $35, seven-inch tablet is created by PocketSurfer inventor DataWind and will be made within India. It keeps costs down by using an older 366MHz Connexant chip, 2GB of internal storage, and 256MB of RAM.
The slate will still find room for a microSDHC card slot and a pair of USB ports for expansion.
An initial run of 100,000 tablets is deploying to schools over the next few months. Millions of students should have access to the Aakash, ministor of communications Kapil Sibal said. A more home-focused version will cost the equivalent of $61 with extra features, though the details weren't outlined.
The tablet has been development for over a year and was intended to bring computing to schools across India. Only eight percent of Indians have Internet access, most of those located in the largest urban areas, and many still often consider even a low-end desktop PC too expensive. Tablets are more limited relative to computers but, for a population that has rarely ever used a computer, still has the potential to raise the standards for education and communication.
Apple currently dominates tablets in India, with 60 percent of the market to itself. Samsung as elsewhere is a distant second, with Galaxy Tabs reaching 25 percent. The market in the country is still likely much smaller than it is in North American or Europe as the higher prices rule it out for all but the more affluent people in the country.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 11:17 am on Oct. 5, 2011
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China Sailor
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 11:40 pm on Oct. 4, 2011
Different priorities. I don't care about 3G on an ebook reader - I care that the nook let me put my 1,300+ ePub books on it.
Look up "calibre" as an app to manage and create ebooks.
Maybe so iDuck but when you are sitting in an shit-hole airport (such as JFK) waiting for that next plane to nowhere (such as DOH) 3G is real useful as public wireless in these shit-holes is virtually non-existent but Amazon's 3G network is going strong....
But like you said iDuck, different priorities...
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:01 pm on Oct. 5, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Really?
Have you actually used the kindle, using 3G, for surfing, in a shithole, out of the way, location? I don't mean Singapore.
Because, as far as I know the 3G functionality is USA and supported markets only on kindle, and not for surfing.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 2:46 pm on Oct. 5, 2011
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China Sailor
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Have... if you check Amazon's websites there is a list of telecoms that provide 3G roaming for Amazon's network provider albeit not all shit-holes are covered.
http://client0.cellmaps.com/viewer.html?cov=1
As their store is accessed over their browser and they give browser access as one of their experimental tools, I have been able to browse with the Kindle overseas.... no sites with a high level of functionality of course as the memory alloted to the browser is limited but google, google maps, and gmail work just fine.
But I understand iDuck, you are not the world traveler that some of us are and camping for you is having to stay at the Holiday Inn  ...
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:38 pm on Oct. 5, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from China Sailor on 3:38 am on Oct. 6, 2011
But I understand iDuck, you are not the world traveler that some of us are and camping for you is having to stay at the Holiday Inn
See... you were credible *until* that little gem.
Thanks for that map - as I suspected, no coverage at all in shitholes like Vietnam, Laos, Africa, most all of China, etc... plus, by your own confirmation, only minimal browsing, at most, is supported in an experimental manner.
I generally prefer, and succeed in getting the kind of connectivity that I prefer - including in airports in BFE (where in-airport wifi is usually well-supported by the Boingo service)
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:09 pm on Oct. 5, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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I got some bad news for you, CS:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/03/amazon-3g-browsing-kindle
(WIRED, I believe, is a legitimate news source)
Amazon drops 3G web browsing from Kindle
In a post on its customer support forum, Amazon has confirmed that web browsing over the 3G connection will no longer be possible on new Kindles.
For some time, the Kindle has featured an experimental browser that lets you access the web -- albeit a monochrome, slow-to-refresh web -- on the e-book reader's screen. It's clunky, but it can prove a godsend for travellers with the 3G edition of the Kindle who need to access email or other urgent information in locations with no Wi-Fi.
From the newest Kindles onward, however, 3G web access will be restricted to Wikipedia and the Kindle Store only. No Gmail, no BBC News, no Twitter. To access those sites on the Kindle, you'll need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network.
The news came in response to a user questioning why the product page for the Kindle Touch simply says: "Experimental web browsing is available via Wi-Fi." Two hundred replies later, an official customer support account replied: "We apologise for the confusion. Our new Kindle Touch 3G enables you to connect to the Kindle Store, download books and periodicals, and access Wikipedia -- all over 3G or Wi-Fi. Experimental web browsing (outside of Wikipedia) on Kindle Touch 3G is only available over Wi-Fi."
On the bright side, though, existing Kindle users, who own what Amazon is now calling the Kindle Keyboard, get grandfathered in to as much 3G use as they want. The company said: "Our Kindle Keyboard 3G will continue to offer experimental web browsing over 3G or Wi-Fi."
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:57 pm on Oct. 5, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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All the while, my iPad has worked well, so far, in most out-of-the way places, via the built-in 3G radio and the replaceable SIM, or wifi and Boingo, where available.
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:00 pm on Oct. 5, 2011
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jingjo
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I bought my eleven year old Son an I pad last Christmas and it's unreal!
To night he downed loaded a remote for the telsta t box (free)
With the wi fi he can get on a 100mts away from our house and down load all info for his school work etc
Great tools,I just have to get up to speed with all the different apps LOL
Seems the software just keeps on improving
When I up date the lap top (note Pad) I'll be getting an Apple 
So Nice and Graphic's look Sensational.
RIP SJ
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 6:33 am on Oct. 6, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Here you go, now the best tablet to run Android apps... is an iPad.
Thanks to Alien Dalvik, and app that runs Android apps within its own environment, the iPad might end up being the one tablet to be able to accommodate apps from both platforms.
Very much like the Mac, which can run any flavor of Windows simultaneously while also being a Mac.
http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/07/android-apps-on-your-ipad-theres-an-app-for-that/#more-97657
Android apps on your iPad? There’s an app for that.
Android apps running on your iPad? Alien Dalvik makes it possible.
In case you’re not familiar with Alien Dalvik, it’s a port of the Dalvik virtual machine, which is the software layer in Google’s Android operating system responsible for executing Android apps. According to SlashGear, the Myriad Group (the brains behind the Alien Dalvik project) announced support for Apple’s iPad in Alien Dalvik version 2.0.
As a result, the unimaginable (even unholy) becomes possible: You’ll be able to download, install and run Android software on your Apple-branded tablet. Alien Dalvik wraps each Android app file in its own virtual machine so it kinda feels as if you were running a native iPad app. The Myriad Group explains:
From a user perspective, Alien Dalvik 2.0 is completely transparent and installed without user disruption. Users simply enjoy the same rich Android ecosystem they have become accustomed to via mobile on other key screens, such as playing Angry Birds on HDTV. This all while gaining faster access to a wider range of apps, thus encouraging a higher frequency of downloads and increased ARPU.
We assume performance isn’t comparable to the experience of running native iOS apps on an iPad 2 and we’re surely expecting some hiccups and likely compatibility issues. With that in mind, this development begs the question: Why would you want to run Android apps on your iPad?
Apple’s iOS software boss Scott Forstall said at Monday’s iPhone 4S introduction that about 140,000 out of the 500,000 apps available on the App Store have been specifically created with iPad in mind. Android apps also aren’t as pretty or delightful as their iOS counterparts. But the fact that most are either free or ad-supported should mean something so we expect some folks will give Alien Dalvik a try. Stay tuned as the team promised to show off Alien Dalvik 2.0 running third-party Android apps on iPad 2 at CTIA 2011 next week.
Alien Dalvik is available on several platforms other than Android, including Nokia’s MeeGo-driven N9 smartphone. The team has big plans as they’ve embarked on porting Alien Dalvik to a wide variety of devices spanning set-top boxes, television sets, smartphones and tablets. The N9 smartphone can run Android apps pretty nicely even though the performance reportedly doesn’t cut it compared to the native experience on Android-powered handsets. Alien Dalvik should have come to Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, but RIM had opted for their own “app player” instead.
Cross-posted on 9to5Google.com.
Sent from my iPad
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:07 pm on Oct. 7, 2011
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