BlackBerry 9000 ‘Bold’ review

RIM BlackBerry 9000 ‘Bold’ is official out today in North America (US & Canada) to compete with Apple iPhone which will be released in Canada summer 2008.

The BlackBerry Bold features a half-VGA (480×320 pixel resolution) and a 65,000-color display. There’s a heaping of wireless options on the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) BlackBerry Bold. It also integrates Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g), Bluetooth 2.0 with full A2DP support, and built-in GPS.

The RIM BlackBerry Bold is equipped with a 624MHz Intel PXA270 processor. There’s also 128MB of flash memory and 1GB of onboard memory, which is all supplemented by the microSD/SDHC expansion slot.

As for multimedia, this smartphone is equipped with a 2-megapixel camera with video-recording capabilities and up to 5x zoom. The media player also continues to support numerous audio and video formats, including MP3, WMA, AAC, DivX4, and WMV3 files.

Here’s a video review of BlackBerry Bold found on YouTube.

More detailed review can be found here (courtesy of CrackBerry.com):

• Part I – eBay Purchased BlackBerry Emerges
• Part II – Observations & Video Quick Tour
• Part III – OS4.6
• Part IV – New Eye Candy

Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIM) opens at $136.70, high $140.29.

(Pictures credit: RIM)

Dancing baby

This Family Guy musical reminds me of Dancing Baby cha-chas back in 1998

HTC Touch vs iPhone

I know this is not new stuff but this video that I found by far the best video on this subject.

HTC Touch is more flexible and has better SMS/Email capability. Also searching contacts and making calls are easiler.

iPhone is much more capability on the multimedia and web browsing, however, don’t forget this is a phone. If it has trouble finding contact and making call, might as well get an iPod Touch instead.

Mother Tongue (母語教學) – Uncensor

Cantonese stand-up and it is just hilarious!

Richtree & Library Bar 2006

It was a great dinner and thanks Ian for sharing the pictures with us Here they are!

more photo albums can be found in Jackey's Photo Blog

UW Elec2005 New Year Dinner

As an honor member of Elec2005, I was invited to the New Year Dinner Party of Elec2005 organized by Rishi Anand on December 30, 2005. The party took place in Frankie Tomatto's (Italian buffet restaurant) and there were close to 40+ people showed up. When I was dinning with the classmates of Elec2005 (aside: I am originally from Comp and I took a lot of power/semiconductor courses in 4th year … that's why I know most of them), I almost felt like I was part of them as if I was with them in the past 5 years. In fact, I only met for in my final year. I guess it was because of their togetherness influencing my feeling. Furthermore, Rishi and I were really good buddy and we work together after we graduated. Anyway, here are some pictures I took.

more photo albums can be found in Jackey's Photo Blog

Kevin’s Farewell Party 2005

Kevin was my manager in PXLW and he is a super nice guy. Everyone in the office misses him alot and we took him out for dinner on the day before his last day. Victor and I drew him a farewell card (Thanks to Maria for finding out my talent!) and we (Drake, Matt, Maria, Laila, Victor and me) had also prepared a hockey goalie stick with all our pictures on it as a farewell gift …

I've took some pictures during the dinner party and here they are!

I've also used my DC to take two video shots: Card and Goalie Stick

Miss you all the time, Kev!!

Brian’s B-day Party

Happy Birthdy Brian! Thanks Norris organizing this party and it was wonderful. Pictures can certainly recapture unforgetable memories and here they are (courtesy of BChi/Norris)

Convocation 2005

Alright … it's me again. Although it seems a long time, our convocation was just 3 months ago. I finally organized the photos and uploaded them to my online photo album site. I have to admit that the photo aren't premium quality because I don't have a super-fast Internet connection. To avoid spending hours to upload, I reduced the quality so I can upload them sooner. If you want to get the original 5 mega pixels picture, please just e-mail me the one you want and I will send them back to you as an attachment. Click here and enjoy!

more photo albums can be found in Jackey's Photo Blog

Project ARTEMIS

"Late better than never" always works for me … I've kept these photos for over a year now. Finally I've organized them and post them to my on-line photo album. Project ARTEMIS is the thesis project of our undergraduate degree. It is one of the most successful project I've had. I am sure my partners (Alisa, Dan, Ian and Sunny) feel the same.

There are two parts of these photos. The first part contains the photos which were taken during our R&D phase. These photos are more live and people-oriented. The second part contains the photos which were taken during the symposium and focus on the robot itself.

Good old time …

more photo albums can be found in Jackey's Photo Blog