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An app for the iPhone that simulates a lighter. Yup, you heard that right. So why is it all the rage in Europe and Japan? Read on.
This is insane.
iPhone users all over Europe and Japan have been going ga-ga over a new app released by a company called Smule. Basically, "Sonic Lighter" is software that displays a virtual lighter on your iPhone; with e-flames blazing on your phone's screen. And yes, the flame "sways" depending on how you move your phone. The main attraction though is something else.
The app is location-aware: if you choose, you can display your location on a virtual globe. When you do so, and when you run the app, you show up as a flame shaped blip on this map. The more you run the app, the more "kilojoules" you burn -- which further brightens your area on the globe. When you're done for the day, just blow on the microphone to "extinguish" the flame. For those who think it's not cool enough, you can ignite other lighters on iPhones near you.
Not satisfied? Have a look at this:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2XUw6Hy4Tzk
http://www.smule.com/products/
WILL IT BE AVAILABLE FOR OUR HTC TOUCH DIAMOND????
that guy blowing his iphone is creepy.
wow
really useless
Setting fire to iPhones is great idea, nice thread.
Don't they just spontaneously combust anyway?
N3m3515 said:
wow
really useless
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+1. Can someone explain how this software make my life easier/better?
it will not make life easier/better, but its cool to know what ur phone is able to do
lude219 said:
+1. Can someone explain how this software make my life easier/better?
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Can someone explain how this software make my life harder/worse?
Zida2k said:
it will not make life easier/better, but its cool to know what ur phone is able to do
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I'd like my phone to take care of the kitchen
well thats useless .. but also fun! .. i put these apps from time to time to have fun with my little brother & sister lol
i wouldnt mind to get this app on my diamond
The brilliant thing is, is that the Diamond is perfectly capable of doing this is someone was willing to create the application. The only reason we don't see as many cool applications as there are for the iPhone, is because there is little to no advertising to draw the consumers in, and there's no officially released SDK for the sensors on the Diamond.
The Diamond does actually havemore hardware based sensors than the iPhone does, and it also has the added advantage of being able to run programs made by any random user with a compiler handy.
I know this has been said again and again, but I just have to put my opinion out there..
To realize what provoked this thread see here and a benchmark test on youtube where the evo gets pwnt by the nexus one and droid x on so many levels.
HTC claims that the reason EVERY other android phone can get twice as much frames per second as us is because they don't have an HDMI port..
Did they really think that was gonna fly?
I'd gladly never use my hdmi port to have smooth as butter 60FPS.. and to set the record straight we DO notice the difference.
At the very least they could have imposed the limit only when content is being output via hdmi!
I cannot understand how they thought we'd sit back and allow this.
Android is the home of nerds, enthusiasts, overclockers, benchmarkers and rom chefs.
This isn't the typical iphone userbase, we notice a lack of performance and inefficiency.
Both of which our phones are in no short supply of..
Our tests and kernel tweaks have proved that this DEFECT can be bypassed, so why are they still going on about hardware limitations?
How come our PREMIUM phones that we have to pay an extra 10 bucks per month just to own, can't even catch up to the very first android phone (G1) in terms of 2D FPS?
How come everybody else is capable of 60fps while we with our "revolutionary multimedia phones" can't even churn out anything past 30FPS without tweaks, and hacks, and best of all voiding our warranties.
It's ****ing blasphemy I tell you.
How about a rom that allows for disabling of hdmi?
I don't know just how ingrained it is with the snapdragon CPU or more likely the gpu, but it's surely possible.
I mean how many of us would've gotten these phones if we knew it was either hdmi or 60fps?
Hdmi has nothing to do with the cap.
This belongs here:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=699290
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HTC claims that the reason EVERY other android phone can get twice as much frames per second as us is because they don't have an HDMI port..
Did they really think that was gonna fly?
I'd gladly never use my hdmi port to have smooth as butter 60FPS.. and to set the record straight we DO notice the difference.
At the very least they could have imposed the limit only when content is being output via hdmi! <-That should be a poll option
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Aridon said:
Hdmi has nothing to do with the cap.
This belongs here:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=699290
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HDMI is their excuse isn't it, Droid X has HDMI will it always be limited to 30FPS?
Personally, I'd rather loose battery life and HDMI (never going to use that ****) output for no lag and better performance.
At least give us the option, HTC.
For the most part HDMI out, is a "feature for friends".
I don't think that many of us are ACTUALLY using this often.
I mean it's nice to have and i'm sure it can come into handy one day, but not at this expense!
Hdmi has nothing to do with the cap.
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According to Keith Nowak it has very much to do with hdmi..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=713677
I have sifted through that convoluted thread.. but see no indication that anything else is causing the cap..
So then? What IS causing it.
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For the most part HDMI out, is a "feature for friends".
I don't think that many of us are ACTUALLY using this often.
I mean it's nice to have and i'm sure it can come into handy one day, but not at this expense!
According to Keith Nowak it has very much to do with hdmi..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=713677
I have sifted through that convoluted thread.. but see no indication that anything else is causing the cap..
So then? What IS causing it.
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are you implying i have no friends?
Indeed.
Screw implying.
You straight up got no friends bro!
Sorry, better luck next time.
Sent from my Evo 4G
I don't really understand why I'd use hdmi. This thing isn't pushing out .mkv files is it?
And you better believe I'm not spending extra money on a fancy mini hdmi cord. F that.
Take out the hdmi, give me a freaking Ethernet port instead Haha. Id prolly use that at least once, which will be more than I ever use hdmi.
(Actually come to think of it 4g to wired Ethernet tether for devices that don't support usb tether would be rather slick.)
Now that HTC fixed the grounding issue on the phone with the OTA update, my attention is now completely on the FPS issue. This is really frustrating. I have 5 days left to return my phone and I am really trying to figure out what to do. I don't want to go to Verizon because it's more expensive and I'm still in contract until Oct if I return the Evo. $50 ETF isn't a huge deal though. I've never been an apple fan and have never personally owned an iPhone but when you put the Evo next to Apple's latest, the screen choppiness really shows. It makes me mad. It makes me feel like the Evo is still behind the iPhone (when on paper is was not at all).
Look, I'm not sitting here saying that 30FPS is making my phone crappy and less enjoyable. The thought of getting duped by HTC is what bothers me. HTC sold us something on paper, and delivered something else. Isn't that called bait and switch?
Another problem is that none of the Sprint sales people, HTC customer service reps, or Best Buy/RS employees know enough about FPS to realize what it has done to our "wicked fast" phone. They look at us like we're crazy. I was describing the grounding issue to my local RS sales guy and he was giving me a look like I was being a baby about it.
Even though the 30 fps cap is still there the new update has gotten rid of all the screen lag I've had in sense and the browser.
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Even though the 30 fps cap is still there the new update has gotten rid of all the screen lag I've had in sense and the browser.
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The motion blur you see when you swipe screens or scroll in the browser is a result of 30FPS. I still have it after the update. Use a nexus one or droid and you'll see the difference. It's very noticeable side-by-side. Sure, I don't see it when I'm using my phone. My brain gets used to it. The problem is that phones that have been out for 12 months have better screen motion than we do with our "wicked fast" phone.
meh at least we don't have to deal with this:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=954054
Wow! Seems pretty widespread... That really sucks. On top of that, they have to deal with the manipulations as Apple tries to dodge the complaints.
Great another post of so me one whining go return the phone, please return your phone and get a box of tampons
BrianDigital said:
Great another post of so me one whining go return the phone, please return your phone and get a box of tampons
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I'll make sure to get you an English 101 book while I'm out shopping.
coolguy949 said:
I'll make sure to get you an English 101 book while I'm out shopping.
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Hardy har, atleast I used one comma hey look htc just released a patch to fix the cap. Soley based off your whiney post
This is a public forum. People complain on it. Get used to it.
ahh fanboys make me smile
Thought this would fit in the development thread. Please move to general if felt needed. http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/htc-says-evo-4gs-30fps-cap-on-video-output-cant-be-increased/#comments
"HTC says EVO 4G's 30fps cap on video output can't be increased
By Chris Ziegler posted Jul 9th 2010 5:31PM Even though we've seen evidence of a hack that circumvents it, we've been able to corroborate a story over at AndroidGuys this week that the HTC EVO 4G's 30fps cap on screen output is a terminal condition -- so says HTC, anyhow. The official story is that the cap was necessitated by the phone's support for HDMI-out, and there's no way the company could craft a software update to nix the limitation. Of course, as usual, we have every faith that the xda-developers community is going to magically take care of this in a way that's easy enough for at least power users to install -- but until then, you'll just need to deal with a frame rate that's just barely perceptible to the human eye. We suspect you'll manage."
Not really breaking news IMO, they have been saying that.
I can see where people might get excited by your thread title only to be disappointed tho lol
Rippley05 said:
Not really breaking news IMO, they have been saying that.
I can see where people might get excited by your thread title only to be disappointed tho lol
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Agreed, changed to recent news. Dont want to mislead anyone.
Wrong section....
Well that's a shame.
Guess we won't have their engineers to help us on this one
More work for us..
When we truly fix this cap, we should all get together one day, knock on peter chou's door and hold out our phones running silky smooth gears.
They've been saying that since day one.. Are we seriously getting trolls here or is it just a coincidence that someone feels the need to reiterate this every day?
I'll sit here and enjoy the 46FPS on my novatek panel for now, hopefully at 60FPS soon enough.
I wonder if its possible to fix this issue but break HDMI output?
I mean I could care less about hooking my phone to my TV to watch anything in HD...
Or am I missing something
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They've been saying that since day one.. Are we seriously getting trolls here or is it just a coincidence that someone feels the need to reiterate this every day?
I'll sit here and enjoy the 46FPS on my novatek panel for now, hopefully at 60FPS soon enough.
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Just sharing the most recent news my man. And I dont think HTC ever confirmed this. They claimed to have been "working on it". I figured the devs would like to see what HTC recently said. Move the thread if you have the power to then!!
I've wondered if it could be fixed by killing power to the HDMI-out. Seems like HTC woulda been able to include an HDMI-out toggle and enable 60fps w/ HDMI toggleOFF if that were the case though.
old news and wrong section
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I've wondered if it could be fixed by killing power to the HDMI-out. Seems like HTC woulda been able to include an HDMI-out toggle and enable 60fps w/ HDMI toggleOFF if that were the case though.
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That seems like the logical thing to do. However, you have to remember we're talking about HTC.
On another note, I would love to get rid off the HDMI port to have full 60fps. I know for sure that I'll never ever use that stupid feature in my life from a phone.
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That seems like the logical thing to do. However, you have to remember we're talking about HTC.
On another note, I would love to get rid off the HDMI port to have full 60fps. I know for sure that I'll never ever use that stupid feature in my life from a phone.
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If HTC turns out to be right and the screen *must* be limited to 30fps in order to enable HDMI, then it seems to me like the development community has a pretty clear (if difficult) plan in front of them. Once 60fps is figured out, then including a settings-style toggle between 30FPS/HDMI and 60FPS/No HDMI would be the solution. Hell, auto-toggle it when an HDMI cable is plugged in or yanked, too. And if we ever get an always-on HDMI out for the whole interface, that switching system could still work. Well, in theory.
Anybody excited about this?
I didn't see any threads so perhaps not, but I think this looks very promising.
Sony and Google in bed together?
I know this isn't exactly news, I just wasn't sure if it would materialize.
http://www.google.com/tv/#utm_source=Horizon_GDN&utm_medium=Banner&utm_campaign=GTV
You're super late and you probably didn't see threads in here because this the Evo section of XDA. GTV looks good but I'm going to wait for the next version.
I want one but it doesn't do 120 Hz or 3D....bummed
You're late to the dance (i know..) also Logitech has their own version as well.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/smartTV?WT.
Which you can use your "Evo" as a remote control... There is the tie in, thank you.
gqstatus0685 said:
You're super late and you probably didn't see threads in here because this the Evo section of XDA. GTV looks good but I'm going to wait for the next version.
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Touche'
And sorry, Evo section is the only part of XDA that I frequent
As far as 120hz goes, I think only BluRay and video games make good use of this.
I'm pretty sure everything that goes over IP is never breaking 60hz. Cable tv included.
Mitch Matrixx said:
Touche'
And sorry, Evo section is the only part of XDA that I frequent
As far as 120hz goes, I think only BluRay and video games make good use of this.
I'm pretty sure everything that goes over IP is never breaking 60hz. Cable tv included.
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Well i play blu-ray's and have a 360 and a PS3 so its kinda a downer. Still interesting though. The 40" at $999 is a great price.
Mitch Matrixx said:
Touche'
And sorry, Evo section is the only part of XDA that I frequent
As far as 120hz goes, I think only BluRay and video games make good use of this.
I'm pretty sure everything that goes over IP is never breaking 60hz. Cable tv included.
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Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING, makes use of 120hz currently.120hz on tv is just to match frame rates between your tv running off of 60hz electricity and film's 24hz frame rate.
Signed an ISF certified calibration technician.
From my Evo to your eyeballs.
Nothing? But it looks so good when i seen them at Sam's Club.....
To me it seems like most 60hz 720p's look better than the 120hz 1080p's. Maybe my eyes are just that bad though?
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cowfodder said:
Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING, makes use of 120hz currently.120hz on tv is just to match frame rates between your tv running off of 60hz electricity and film's 24hz frame rate.
Signed an ISF certified calibration technician.
From my Evo to your eyeballs.
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Thanks for the info. I was beginning to think there was more to it than just numbers. I have a beatuiful 1080p tele sporting "120hz" and it does look amazing during some serious bluray playback... But alas, I believe it's the motion smoothing technology at work.
I tried explaining this to my friend a while back about 240hz. It's just motion matching/smoothing- but damn does it look nice.
Would appreciate if you all could post in when you receive yur 3.1 update.
Please do state yur location.
Tq
They said end of June on their facebook page, I wouldn't be expecting it for a couple more weeks yet.
i'm not sure what the big rush for.
still use 135build
china ,asia
edgie168 said:
i'm not sure what the big rush for.
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i think people expect it to fix each and everyone of their problems... when all it'll likely do is ad more twitter/facebook bloatware into the tablet.. Hahaha.
Fluffbutt said:
i think people expect it to fix each and everyone of their problems... when all it'll likely do is ad more twitter/facebook bloatware into the tablet.. Hahaha.
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I want to use my Xbox 360 Controller to play me some emulators!!!
I'm looking forward to proper mouse support, and hoping the cell problem is fixed. I also want 1080.
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I'm looking forward to proper mouse support, and hoping the cell problem is fixed. I also want 1080.
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same here....1080....
Didn't 1080p support come with the recent minor update? I thought I read that it did somewhere, I might be wrong though. Lol
lord_voldemort666 said:
Didn't 1080p support come with the recent minor update? I thought I read that it did somewhere, I might be wrong though. Lol
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Still not had that minor one here in the uk!
Had the update to 1.139.05 in the UK but still no 1080 yet. That and mouse support is what i'm looking forward to.
I was born with a bit of patience so can wait happily a few weeks more.
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i didn't realize you could tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on a 10" screen.
seriously, folks crying about no 1080p support on a 10" tablet is just silly. you can't even REALLY tell the difference unless you compare a -52" tv to a 52"+ tv, so how are you going to "see" the difference on a 10" screen?
edgie168 said:
i didn't realize you could tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on a 10" screen.
seriously, folks crying about no 1080p support on a 10" tablet is just silly. you can't even REALLY tell the difference unless you compare a -52" tv to a 52"+ tv, so how are you going to "see" the difference on a 10" screen?
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agree +1
the screen of the tablet is not meant to be 1080p anyway...
and.... for me really so far
What is the point to get HD capability on a tablet ? are you going to take HD video of your holidays with a TABLET ????? should you buy a CAMERA.
take some shoot yeah but for real quality... we are all agree that we need to buy the devices meant to be use for this.
hehehe
soon the 52" tablet in HD....
edgie168 said:
i didn't realize you could tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on a 10" screen.
seriously, folks crying about no 1080p support on a 10" tablet is just silly. you can't even REALLY tell the difference unless you compare a -52" tv to a 52"+ tv, so how are you going to "see" the difference on a 10" screen?
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I'm pretty sure they are talking about when hooked up to a TV through hdmi...
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I'm pretty sure they are talking about when hooked up to a TV through hdmi...
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so, what, 720p isn't good enough right now?
the point is
if you want watch movie HD on your big TV well... you should not rely on a tablet to read them.... and buy a HDBox
I think really the tablet should not be NOW but later with technology and better screen... Full HD
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edgie168 said:
so, what, 720p isn't good enough right now?
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I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they aren't talking about 1080p on the tablets screen. Maybe some of them have bigger TVs though, in whch 720 is NOT good enough. All I know is that I can see a huge difference 720 and 1080 on my little 19 inch TV, so on a bigger TV it would blow.
sanaell said:
agree +1
the screen of the tablet is not meant to be 1080p anyway...
and.... for me really so far
What is the point to get HD capability on a tablet ? are you going to take HD video of your holidays with a TABLET ????? should you buy a CAMERA.
take some shoot yeah but for real quality... we are all agree that we need to buy the devices meant to be use for this.
hehehe
soon the 52" tablet in HD....
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You can tell the difference, if you take picture on a 15mega pixel zoomed in. Then you can see the difference..
what emulatiors are you running. New to the tablet scene and can't find a good gba emulator that works. Any suggestions?