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Category Archives:Hardware
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

So you may have seen TweetMeme went a little Joggler-crazy last week, with a grand total of 6 turning up in our office (although not all at the same time). This is because Dom turned up one day, said they were on offer for £50, showed us all the software and hardware hacks, and we [...]

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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

I’ve been playing around with getting started building Android (I’d like to get 2.0 working on my Joggler). To build Android under Linux, you need the sun-java5-jdk package. This is due to a conflict in the @Override command, which means you can’t use the Java 6 JDK for this task. Unfortunately the sun-java5-jdk package isn’t [...]

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Monday, April 12th, 2010

So an iPad turned up at work last week, and I got to have a bit of a play. Here are my first impressions, and some pics and video.

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Sunday, February 21st, 2010

What better way to write about the Nexus One, than on the Nexus One itself? But first, a little history. Until a few days ago, I had had a Nokia E61i, my then favourite phone of all time. Full QUERTY keyboard, S60 OS power, good 3G and E-mail, but most of all my loyal companion [...]

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Saturday, February 20th, 2010

So here it is, the unboxing of the Nexus One. More about what I think of the phone itself are to come soon; but this is just a really early glance at the device. I couldn’t even turn it on for a few hours because it was charging (and I was supposed to be working). [...]

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