some carriers provide internet plans only for tablets.
i tried such a sim card in several devices - it did not connect. checked the apn on the tablet where it works. same.
as i understand the carrier only sees the imei, is there a way to find out if the device is a tablet or phone via imei number?
#imei #mobile #internet #carrier #provider #isp #telecom #network
I know this is not exactly a good place to raise such questions, bun anyway.
Some people share photos on Instagram, that have been taken with phone. some people share pictures that have been taken with digital or film SLR cameras.
Now, how Instagram is defined? Is it a community of people who shoot with phones? Then, how ethical to post there photos made by other, more flexible and powerful devices?
And how much powerful? If I get a phone with a good camera, does it count? How bad should the quality of the image be in order to be okay to post it on Instagram?
Then, if I happen to have a bad scan of a film frame, or just a low quality shot, because I have messed up settings - is it bad enough to post there?
May be then it’s not a phone pictures sharing space, but instant photos sharing space? Then, is it ethical if I share a photo made by my Canon 6D which has WiFi and allows instantly transfer photo to phone?
Or is it just another photo sharing service, which is popular among those who makes photos with phones, and I don’t have to make bad quality shots in order to put there?
Or shell I necessarily apply Instagram filter? Or can I shoot the photo with another camera? This questions also relate to VSCO service. Should I only apply VSCO proprietary filters in order to publish photo on that photo service? And on the other hand, does it make any sense to publish there something which was not created with the help of their software? Then, they have special software for Windows and Mac. Does that count?
Eventually, what if I just want to be connected with local community, people I know in person, and show off my photos to them, because they have no idea what am I doing? Or it is offensive behaviour?
If we were talking about photography sharing space, I would not have this question. Good photo remains a good photo independently of how it was made. Same is true for bad photo. But this place is called Instagram. Does it assume one has to show off only how can he shoot with weak gear?
#instagram #photography #question #cameras #mobile #instant
It generally takes me some time when talking to people to understand what they mean by terms like “mobile”, “web” and “cloud”. But when I find out, I can help them with it.
#mobile #web #cloud #programming
what do you think about usage of instagram like effects in mobile photography? or about lomo like effects?
I am asking because I also do photos with mobile, and I wonder, shell we use effects, or try to achieve something beautiful by the frame itself, by knowing limited capabilities, and allowing ourselves just a little, may be, color/light correction?
#photography #photo #instagram #mobile_photography #mobile-photography #mobile #question
mobile device manufacturers are trying to advertise their products as means of creativity. not only means of consumption. which is also good, because it’s about us. we want to be creative, not only consume.
i would like to say, let’s not forget, that we have amazing tool for creative work, right under ours very nose, but it becomes more and more neglected.
it is banal desktop personal computer.
it has terrific operating systems, well developed, toolkits and frameworks for writing software, diverse tools for creative work - photoshop and gimp, inkscape and illustrator, maya and blender, different cad systems for architects and engineers, cool software to create movies and animations.
btw, it’s symptomatic, that gtk toolkit was created in order to write gimp. (: because if you have such cool programs it means you have cool tools to write them.
on the contrary on mobile we have tools like instagram and picsart (btw, latter is developed in armenia, some of my friends work there, it’s founded by my former chief), and those tools are more like toys, too primitive.
and when you have only mobile device you have much more limited possibilities to learn, to go deeper, if you are curious. if you use windows, you can discover cmd, regedit, download real visual studio, use real professional tools like adobe illustrator, even when pirated. on mobile you cannot have such tools. you cannot make creative work which demands more tools, more efforts, and more knowledge, more personal development. that’s why i liked my n810 with maemo, it was basically hildon over debian, and when you have debian, it means whole gnu/linux world in your hands, you have tools, you can go deeper, do and learn a lot.
so this all beauty - development frameworks, toolkits, creative and professional tools, it’s all now neglected by the society which is amazed with mobile so called apps.
#mobile #desktop #photoshop #gimp #illustrator #inkscape #blender #instagram #picsart #console #tools #programming #gtk #debian #maemo #creativity
explains how to install Sailfish on Nexus 5, for that one needs to make few steps under cyanogen, one of which is
in case you didn’t know it about playstore. okay. aha.
http://www.jollausers.com/2014/09/how-to-install-sailfish-os-on-nexus-5-the-easy-way/
#jolla #nexus #android #cyanogenmod #linux #gnu #qt #sailfish #install #operating-systems #mobile #freedom
ամէնալաւ սելֆիներից մէկը (one of the best selfies ever)
աղբիւր
#սելֆի #ինստագրամ #լուսանկար #հեռախօս #դիւրակիր #ինքնանկար #selfie #instagram #photo #phone #mobile
I mean, in iOS world, we don’t believe in garbage collectors, and we think the Android guys are nuts. I suspect that the Android guys think the iOS guys are nuts for manual memory management. But you know what the two, cutthroat opposition camps can agree about? The JavaScript folks are really nuts.
There is absolutely zero chance that you can write reasonable mobile code without worrying about what is going on in system memory, in some capacity. None.
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/
#garbage-collection #garbage #programming #memory #speed #performance #mobile #research #ios #iphone #ipad #memory-management #memory
essentially on the iPhone 4S, you start getting warned around 40MB and you get killed around 213MB. On the iPad 3, you get warned around 400MB and you get killed around 550MB. Of course, these are just my numbers–if your users are listening to music or running things in the background, you may have considerably less memory than you do in my results, but this is a start. This seems like a lot (213mb should be enough for everyone, right?) but as a practical matter it isn’t. For example, the iPhone 4S snaps photos at 3264×2448 resolution. That’s over 30 megabytes of bitmap data per photo. That’s a warning for having just two photos in memory and you get killed for having 7 photos in RAM. Oh, you were going to write a for loop that iterated over an album? Killed.
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/
#garbage-collection #garbage #programming #memory #speed #performance #mobile #research #ios #iphone #ipad #memory-management #memory
In particular, when garbage collection has five times as much memory as required, its runtime performance matches or slightly exceeds that of explicit memory management. However, garbage collection’s performance degrades substantially when it must use smaller heaps. With three times as much memory, it runs 17% slower on average, and with twice as much memory, it runs 70% slower.
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/
#garbage-collection #garbage #programming #memory #speed #performance #mobile #research
The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
I’ve always known this, and I’m sure most of you do too, but we never really talk about it. Every smartphone or other device with mobile communications capability (e.g. 3G or LTE) actually runs not one, but two operating systems. Aside from the operating system that we as end-users see (Android, iOS, PalmOS), it also runs a small operating system that manages everything related to radio
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
#surveillance #mobile #operating-systems #android #ios #palmos #3g #gsm #lte #technologies #radio #smartphones #device #communications #privacy #freedom
Mobile App Competition
http://www.onearmenia.org/shift/
ONEArmenia’s second installment of its SHIFT Initiative invites you to pitch an app idea that is significant, scalable and profitable. Our accomplished jury will select the strongest idea which will be developed with SocialObjects Software, a world-class mobile app dev group in Armenia.
ONEArmenia will fully fund the development, and a portion of potential profits will go to sustain future ONEArmenia projects. (Submission deadline is January 1, 2014)
#mobile #onearmenia #armenia #shift #competition #software #development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/11/phonebloks/#continued
#mobile #phone #smartphone #gadget #module #design #electronics #crowdfunding #ecology #phonebloks #consume #waste #freedom
The Full Story of #Nokia and #Microsoft - How we got here, and why Microsoft will fail with Nokia handsets just like it did with Kin http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/09/the-full-story-of-nokia-and-microsoft-how-we-got-here-and-why-microsoft-will-fail-with-nokia-handset.html
Ok the news is out. I told you literally two years ago, that the Windows Phone strategy would be the death of Nokia’s handset business, and today we have the final nail in that coffin. I honestly, truly with my hand on my heart, hoped this day would never come, and that my prediction would be seen as wrong. But unfortunately I was correct (once again). I do tend to know this industry. And I was the first to tell you, on this blog, that Nokia’s handset business just died. I told you when it happend, and more importantly, I told you why it died. It didn’t die with the crazy Burning Platforms memo, nor with the announcement of Microsoft Windows Phone either. So this is my (first) full epitaph to Nokia. And we have to have a bit of history. (Long blog warning - this runs 12,000 words, so get yourself a cup of coffee, this will take about half an hour
#mobile #phone #smartphone #elop #elop-effect #tomi #tomi-ahonen #communities #brands #handset #maemo #symbian #meego #lumia #windows #intel #fremantle #n900 #n9 #n950 #iphone #apple #samsung #internet #operating-systems
Shuttleworth’s closing comment http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge?c=activity
#uberphone #ubuntu #shuttleworth #edge #ubuntu-edge #phone #device #mobile
Delta Gives Windows Phones To 19,000 Flight Attendants, Brings Number Of Windows Phone Users To 19,003
#windows #phone #delta #windows-phone #microsoft #smartphone #device #mobile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNl9cLLkmso
#gta-04 #openphoenux at #fosdem #2013
#openmoko #openpandora #hacker #linux #gnu #debian #mobile #shr #qtmoko #brussels
խելախոսի մաշված էկրանը նույնքան թույն է, ինչպես մաշած ջինսերը։
mobile screens with scratches are cool, like worn jeans
#scratches #mobile #screen #jeans #smartphone #phone #old #մաշած #ջինս #խելախոս #էկրան #թույն #ձեռքի #հավես #ուտենց
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnQUQZGRjjw
#Open-Source #Telecommunications #Infrastructure #network #mesh #serval #servalproject #freedom #p2p
so this is incredibly cool - mesh self orginizing phone network
http://www.servalproject.org/features
#serval #servalproject #batphone
The Serval Project – named after the problem-solving African wildcat – consists of two systems. The first is a temporary, self-organizing, self-powered mobile network for disaster areas, formed with small phone towers dropped in by air.
The second, and the one being tested in the outback, is a permanent system that requires no infrastructure and creates a mesh-based phone #network between #Wi-Fi enabled #mobile #phones, and eventually specifically designed mobile phones the researchers have called #Batphones, that can operate on unlicensed #frequencies.
#Mobile - friendly #URL s of popular sites http://wiki.maemo.org/Useful_Mobile_URLs
#maemo #mobile #links #web #www
In your pocket today you have more computing power than all the NASA computers in the #1960 ies.
#NASA used computers to launch man on the #Moon. We use our #smartphones to launch #Angry-Birds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvyfHuKZGXU
#AR #Augmented-reality - the 8th #mass-medium
#Tomi-Ahonen at #TEDx MongKok ##TEDxMongKok #mobile #phone #computer #computers
These photographs are done while waiting for something or someone and staring at the floor. Started in 2007 and ongoing the series gradually became some kind of a diary, exposing different episodes of life. http://www.vahrammuradyan.com/waitings/ #mobile #photography
So #ubuntu for #mobile uses #QML and #Qt http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/
#mobile #photograhy groups
#2012 the year in #mobile #photography http://connect.dpreview.com/post/8868846516/2012-the-year-in-mobile-photography
Richard #Stallman (the father of #GNU) believes that #society by accepting overt full time #tracking implicates the innocent who don’t carry a #phone as a full time tracking device as suspicious.
It works like this: For some reason, maybe you were cheating on your wife and visiting a girlfriend or just playing D&D with your nerd buddies near what unknown to you turns out to be a meth lab. After the cops bust the lab they do an audit of cell tower records a few months back and find you visiting at strange hours in the same vicinity, you are now suspected of being a top level drug dealer who is lying low after the lab bust. The cops finally get tired of you not selling drugs after following you for a few weeks probably with a good search warrant to tap phones and sneak&peek your house. They break the door with a SWAT team, shoot your dog, pepper spray your wife, cuff your kids, and haul you in. The cops offer to drag you through court and maybe even lie to get a conviction unless you turn in more drug dealers, they also can confiscate your home, vehicle and posessions with only suspicion that it was used in smuggling or selling #drugs.
Kinda makes you wish you had not carried you standard issue human #tracker with you everywhere not knowing if there was something suspicious that you might get tangled up in.
More likely is situations like the Arab spring(summer,fall, winter, spring, summere…) where governments may direct secret police to monitor the #mobile phone #network logs to track people.
Bing tinfoil hat about #privacy is like being tinfoil hat about the law, you never know when you will be mistaken as a much bigger fish than you actually are. I used to be a SWAT team medic, the busts we made were sometimes ridiculous, the way the family of the suspect were often treated was even worse, so yea, I got issued a tin plated kevlar helmet.
Enter the #mobile phone number you want to query and immediately see its location anywhere in the world. http://cellzio.com/?gclid=CJG-qLLxj7QCFUON3godbEYAzg #gsm #phone #tracking
The first thing to do when using Samsung #Galaxy-S is not believing the #Samsung instructions. They will say that one should install #Kies, their horribly crappy PC suite which is 130MB large and fails to install because the first thing that it does is failing to connect to a server in #Korea to download even more files. http://wiki.freepascal.org/Custom_Drawn_Interface/Using_the_Android_SDK,_Emulator_and_Phones #samsung #android #fpc #freepascal #mobile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_T7ORd4tdg @{harry haller ; harryhaller@joindiaspora.com} recently I have helped a friend to port his desktop app, which takes info from #sensors connected to usb (he also have been written all those sensors drivers) to #maemo #n900 where we were able to use #usb in host mode. (: #hack #maemo #gnu #mobile
#privacy related talk on a slashdot #realityshow #ciq #carrieriq http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2553980&cid=38232678
#openmoko #surveillance #mobile #freedom
#Multitasking is the clearest advantage over all other platforms. Openness and inclusion of other companies to the #MeeGo ecosystem is an advantage over #iOS and #Windows. Freshness and difference in #UI and #UX is an advantage over #Android. http://www.myphone.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=342410 (scroll down for the translation) #Jolla #mobile #maemo #jolla-mobile #finland
The #SmartPhone Who Loved Me: FinFisher Goes Mobile? https://citizenlab.org/2012/08/the-smartphone-who-loved-me-finfisher-goes-mobile/ #reverse-engineering #spy #technologies #mobile #freedom
