Future - Review

I’m thinking about rebuilding this site!

Tristan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:09:43 +0000

Because this is my first site and didn’t know much about HTML and PHP I think that it would be better for me to sart off from scratch on the design of this site. Expect the site to be down for some time in the near future. I have a lot of other work to do on the side. I am currently moving to Grenoble, France to continue my studdies and start college. If you have any suggestions about how you want to site to look like, any reply would be aprresciated.

Thanks and see you soon!

Rebuilding Future Review

Tristan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:09:35 +0000

Thanks and see you soon!

Torrent of the week, Surrogates

Tristan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:44:54 +0000

In the near future, humans live in isolation and only interact through robotic bodies that serve as surrogates. When several humans are murdered when their surrogates are destroyed, a cop (Bruce Willis) investigates the crimes through his own surrogate. After a near fatal encounter, the cop’s surrogate is destroyed and forces him to bring his human form out of isolation and unravel a conspiracy behind the crimes.

Here is the .torrent file (download with your favorite client). If you don’t have one I recommend utorrent.

Unboxing the N900

Tristan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:21:45 +0000

For $650 (£499) and running the new Maemo Linux OS instead of Symbian s60. This might be a big turning point for Nokia trying to convince us that they are still #1 in the cellphone business.

They will need a lot more to become #1 in the US though. Having apple ahead of the race with their app store. Let’s just see how the OVI store evolves and what Nokia has under their sleeves (if anything).

The N900 as I said was running a Linux OS which means “OPEN”. Programmers will be happy to see this but they will need to be switched from making apps for the Iphone to making apps for N900 and that will take some courage and work from Nokia.

Here are the specs for the N900: (taken from gsmarena.com)

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 1700 / 2100 / 900
	Announced	2009, August
	Status	Coming soon. Exp. release 2009, November

SIZE	Dimensions	110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm, 113 cc
SIZE	Weight	181 g

DISPLAY	Type	TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	800 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches
		- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Full QWERTY keyboard

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3 ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes, with stereo speakers
		- 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Detailed, max 30 days
	Internal	32 GB storage, 256 MB RAM
	Card slot	microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB

DATA	GPRS	Class 32
	HSCSD	Yes
	EDGE	Class 32
	3G	HSDPA, 10Mbps; HSUPA, 2Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
	Infrared port	Yes
	USB	Yes, v2.0 microUSB

CAMERA	Primary	5 MP, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light
	Features	Geo-tagging
	Video	Yes, WVGA(848 x 480)@25fps
	Secondary	Yes, VGA

FEATURES	OS	Maemo 5
	CPU	ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
	Radio	Stereo FM radio (via third party software); FM transmitter
	Games	Yes, Bounce, Chess, Mahjong + downloadable
	Colors	Black
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.1
		- Digital compass - MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player - WMV/RealVideo/MP4/AVI/XviD video player - TV-out - Voice command/dial - Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) - Photo editor - T9

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1320 mAh (BL-5J)
	Stand-by
	Talk time

Talk about what you think in the forum!

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Torrent of the week

Tristan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:29:38 +0000

If you haven’t seen the movie yet and don’t have money to go to the movies. Here is the best copy I found on the Internet. You will need a Torrent client like utorrent (my fav), then open the .torrent file in the client to download.

Download the .torrent file HERE

Inflight video with Samsung i8910

Tristan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:28:10 +0000

Here is a video test of the Samsung i8910s 8 megapixel camera. Enjoy

Help me make Future Review even better

Tristan — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:04:33 +0000

As you might know this is my first blog, it was put up about 4-5 months ago. I wanted to ask my readers what they would like me to change/add/remove, basically how can I make Future Review a better place for everyone. I don’t have much knowledge in this field so that is why I am asking you. You can post you thoughts/ideas in the comment section or in the Forum. Anything would be very helpful. Thanks.

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Sorry for not posting anything :(

Tristan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:44:22 +0000

I have been on vacation since the beginning of July and haven’t found the time to update this blog. I am trying to find a better theme that can make navigation and the appearance a lot better.

I am still planing to write a review of the Samsung i8910 (omnia HD) which I have been using for the past month and a half.

So once I have time I will get back to writing and change the blog/forum around to really make this blog a permanent one during my years and college and even after. I might open up another blog focused more on tech and the evolution of technology. I will post an update about that once it comes true.

For the moment you can still navigate through the blog and hopefully find information that is useful. You can ask questions in the forum and if I have some time I will answer them.

Will be back States side soon and then there the fun will start again

The LG BL40 Chocolate looks close to a Hershey bar

Tristan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:16:14 +0000

The BL40 is the 4th black series device made by LG. Having a 4 inch 21:9 display, it might take up your whole front pocket. The phone though supports multitouch, A-GPS, WiFi, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, 5 mega pixel camera and a nice Flash UI.

This is one cool looking device

3rd DLC coming for Killzone 2

Tristan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:52:27 +0000

++July 14th 2009 at 8AM Greenwich Mean Time++ Remember, that’s the release date for the new Killzone 2 update.

The list is long and is sure to please many PS3 gamers, including myself. To start it off 2 new maps are coming out, Napalm and Cordite, and many bug fixes including:

. Code support for DLC to allow the additions of the Flamethrower and the Boltgun to multiplayer
. New trophies added for DLC pack III “Napalm and Cordite”.
. And a lot of fixes and stuff, the list goes on!

The 1.28 update will weigh 91MB (for Asia, 316MB ha). And there will be a 2 hour downtime when the update goes public.

For the complete list of features, head on over to playstationblog.com