Cui – On My Way

I’m a fan of Firefox all along, at least in the desktop side. And I do wish one day I could have a Firefox mobile version in my iPhone, for a long time.But Apple has turned my down on this already.

I’m  not saying how poor the built-in default Safari browser behaviors in the iphone, actually it does do a pretty good job in stability and user interface. However, since I’ve been already benefiting much from the plugin mechanism that Firefox desktop edition supports for a while, I know Safari could be able to possibly do a better job.

Giving customer  more choices is not always a bad thing. Good product wins in the end, I believe. Time proves. Obviously in this point, Apple disagrees.

Now comes Opera Mini iPhone edition. But Will Apple approve it?(ZDNet), though iPhone owners may likely embrace it for its 5 improvements(PCWorld).

I hope the answer is yes, but I doubt, really. Wait and see.

Anyway, I’ve give you some alternatives. If you need WAP browsing, file downloading and some other things, please install UCWeb, a popular mobile browser developed by a Chinese company UC. If you can’t read Chinese, please try Wapzilla, MyMedia instead.

As reported(Chinese),  people can watch the coming 2010 CCTV Spring Festival Gala on their iPhone by CNTV‘s CCTV Mobile iPhone application, which I’ve talked before.  Screen shot above is captured at the time of writing.

Though the report did mentioned that Apple has agreed to give this application a big recommendation on its homepage(no clue on exactly which one, apple.com? apple.com.cn? AppStore or somewhere else?), at least until now I haven’t seen it on neither of them.

Anyway, if you are not be able to watch this traditional party show via TV or PC, perhaps you can give this application[iTunes Store] a try, though personally I’ve been spending less and less time on the gala year by year.

A piece of important news in the mobile field,  though not related to iPhone but does attract my attention:  Symbian becomes open source now(by phonescoop). Check out the offcial FAQ and Get Started then.

Good news to all of the Symbian developers who wanna know more about the very complicated platform. How complicated, you ask? Well, 33 million lines of codes may give you an idea.

iPad is a browser?
Yeah, you said it. Actually it’s the best internet browser in this planet ever. Pinch, Zoom In & Out, Speed, yep, in all these respects. Safari works great, which has been proved in the iPhone. Now it comes to iPad. So it would be very easy for you iPhone owners to catch up here.

iPad is an ebook reader?
Absolutely. Apple even created a new application named iBook for this purpose. With iBook, you can get the ebook with one click, just like you do applications by AppStore, music by iTunes. Furthermore, the reading experience is ‘gorgeous’ and ‘phenomenal‘, esp. the part of paging up and down. You can even stick to the same page by paging up a little bit, exactly the same when you do a real reading in the printed book(video here). Not mentioned that your book are rendered on a shiny 9.7 inch wide-screen in the resolution of 1024-by-768-pixel at 132 pixels per inch(ppi).

iPad is a gaming device?
You bet. Did i mention iPad has an 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip CPU? Plus the whole multi-touch screen. You already played couple of games in the iPhone/iTouch, right? Very cool, isn’t it? Now with the new hardware, you can imagine how you will feel the new iPad games are coming.

iPad is an iPod, an photo organizer, an email client, an navigator?
True, to all of them. Larger screen, better viewing experience, faster and more powerful than iPhone. However, big size reduces its portability. You cannot put iPad into your pocket as you do to iPod. Actually we cannot expect one single device to do all things and meet all needs. That’s not fair, isn’t?

iPad is an phone?
No, at least officially no any phone functions until now, though iPad does have a model of  Wifi+3G. So iPad can’t take the place of your iPhone, either.

Do I need an iPad?
It depends. If you spend a lot of time on reading, including browsing the web and reading an ebook, or on gaming, and are willing to be an early adopter of Apple’s cool gadget, personally I think iPad is worth of a try.

Well, that’s my answer to the question of what iPad is. What’s yours, my friend? Share with me in the comments, please.

Yes, it is. How hard? you ask. Well, check it out now by taking a look at the picture below(I’m not the author,someone anonymous(but pretty creative) is).

Tons of thousands of websites and personal blogs have been shut down, no .cn domain names registration for the individuals any more, no Tor, no YouTube, no Facebook, no Twitter, blablabla.The rope around the Chinese netizen‘s neck is becoming tighter and tighter.

Jordy sings ‘It’s hard to be a baby‘, well, a Chinese netizen as well.

BTW, 2010 is the year of Tiger. sorry, Woods, don mean you here.

Enjoy, my dear friends and readers.

P.S.

1.300k iphone has been sold until Dec.27, Dec by China Unicom(Chinese). And China Unicom’s gonna present a big marketing campaign in eight big cities from Jan.1 to 3 of 2010(Chinese,again. sorry).

2.I’m expecting the Wonder of Apple’s Tablet as well on Jan.6, how about you?

If you love rock n roll and you know Chinese, you have no reason to not love Cui Jian, the Father of Chinese Rock n Roll. He’s just finished his live show in Beijing Exhibition Center at X’Mas Eve. The video above is his three returns in the end of the show. Three hours singing, three stage reappearance(audience request), What a legend!

Help Wikipedia, Help Ourselves. My money is limited, but better than nothing. Same as one of the donators’ feelings, ‘just cann’t ignore the appeal everyday’.

Time to do something to show our appreciation now. I believe us.

Very depth and worthy of your time, if you are keeping an eye on the mobile internet.

If you’ve got limited time and just wanna get a whole picture, then this article is for you(title says all):We Read The Morgan Stanley Mobile Internet Report So You Don’t Have To.

For Chinese readers, please take a look at TechWeb’s translation summary here.

Of course Apple has been mentioned again and again, and you know the reason, don’t you?

Full report of three pdf files are(click to download):

The Mobile Internet Report Setup
The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes
The Mobile Internet Report

Just add the support to the Google Friend Connect here in this blog yesterday by the fantastic WP plugin FriendConnect Login .

All it means is, for those of you who’d like to comment but do not wanna filling those required info(name,email)  and do own a Google Account, you will then be able to comment immediately now, if you already signed in with your Google Account.

Thought it’s called Google Account, it does support some other non-Google account services actually, like Yahoo, AIM,OpenID and NetLog. You may check Google’s official page for more details.

Besides, I did try to enable support to Facebook Connect, but failed unfortunately. I’ll try it later.

You are also encouraged to let me know your frequently used account service name by leaving a comment here, so that I can check if it’s possible to support it here. You know, I don wanna install too many plugins, ‘coz that won’t be good to the site’s performance.

Enjoy!