Isaiah's Tech

Street Fighter IV was just released in Japan and it sold out in the first day. Capcom sold 86,000 copies of their new Street Fighter IV. This is actually one of the most anticipated games, i think, of this year. Although, Joystiq and Capcom were surprised about the overwhelming demand, i actually wasn't. This game looks amazing!! Just look at Ryu go, even though he's losing against Ken in the screenshot.

Remember the Conficker worm? This is the worm that has stirred and infected many Windows PCs around the world. Even, Microsoft is afraid of it. They are now rewarding $250,000 US to whoever turns in the founder of the worm. The worm has infected up 15 million Windows PCs to-date.

This weekend's MWC is going to be a great one and now we have another Nokia phone to add to their line-up. One with an 8MP camera using a Carl Zeiss lens. This picture on the left, has been taken by Nokia's 8MP phone and it may be competing with the Samsung INNOV8, as my friend Yang pointed out. The picture seems to have pretty good quality, so we'll see more of this phone at its official announcement this weekend. Nokia actually decided to release a leak, finally.

Take a good look at the 3 new upcoming Motorola phones. From left to right, you will see the QA4, the VE66LV and the QA1. I think that the best phone out of these 3 could be the QA1, since it has a touchscreen. Hopefully, it works well and isn't running any kind of WinMo OS. The QA4 also looks decent, but the screen just looks way too tiny. The VE66LX is gold and looks like your typical Motorola phone. Ehh, nothing to look at here. Boring.

Samsung is working on their new 50nm GDDR5 memory, but it will probably be a while before we see this in new graphics cards. This memory "promises to support a maximum data transfer speed of 7.0 gigabits per second and boast a maximum bandwidth of 28 gigabytes per second." Samsung also mentions that shifting to their 50nm manufacturing will also increase "production efficiency by a full 100 percent, and allows the memory to operate at 1.35 volts, which is a 20 percent reduction compared to current GDDR4 memory." Samsung seems to be making all of the breakthrough's lately; with their phones, 32GB RAM sticks and now this. I'm also looking forward to their MWC line-up.

Street Fighter IV Sells Out (and picture): http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/13/street-fighter-iv-sells-86k-copies-first-day-in-japan-capcom-sa/
Microsoft Rewarding $250,000 For Conficker Worm Founder: http://i.gizmodo.com/5153202/microsoft-and-cybersecurity-superfriends-offer-250k-for-conficker-worm-maker
Nokia Teases Fans With A Picture (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/13/nokia-shows-off-sample-image-from-mysterious-8-megapixel-phone/
Motorola's 3 New Phones (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/13/motorolas-qa4-ve66lx-and-qa1-dash-onto-the-scene-rumor-style/
Samsung Working on 50nm GDDR5 Memory: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/13/samsung-begins-production-of-50nm-gddr5-memory/

Today has been a wonderful day. So, Religion was unimportant and i had my test in Advanced Functions which, i think, i did fairly well on. During lunch, though, is when my miracle happened. I was talking to, my friend, Mr. Yang Xu. He told me that he's getting a Samsung INNOV8 soon, so i'll hopefully be able to do my review on that in another blog. But anyways, he told me that he's getting it around our area, which was shocking to me. So, he told me to visit this site. SN Trader. I went on the site and, right away, i saw an unlocked Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, which i thought was pretty fascinating. I didn't think Canada would have a store like this around here, especially. I cruise the site even more and i find the Nokia 5800 XpressMedia Tube. The Nokia N81 (my phone). The Nokia 8600 Luna, which i wanted, around the time i got my N81, just because of the looks though. It looks amazing, go search it on Youtube. I also saw the Samsung M8800 Pixon. I'm not going to list all of the phones now, but there is one phone, which amazed me. You should know which one it is, by now. This store sells the HTC Touch HD, for an overwhelming and upsetting amount of $991.00 CAD ($792.80 USD). So, that was that. After Chemistry finished, i went home. While i was walking home, both of my legs started to cramp, which was annoying. Anyways, i got home safely, as you can see. I looked in the mailbox because there seemed to be an excessive amount of mail today. I go through it and find mail for me. Exciting stuff. I opened it and i saw that i received my G2 License, finally! That's all of the excitement that has taken place today. Unfortunately, i did not finish the research for my Culminating Assignment yesterday, so that means, i have to do it tonight. I'm going to do 2 quick articles first though.

I have no clue why anyone would do this, but yes, someone has. A gamer from Beijing has swallowed 5 pieces of saw blades, in order to commit suicide. He failed, which makes things a whole lot worse. As he was being sent to the Beijing hospital ICU, he continued to talk (no clue how he managed to do so) about how to win in his favourite computer game. Talk about weird. Asians and their games. I still respect you all.

HTC, one of my favourite phone companies, are now stirring up some news. Apparently, HTC's 2009 phone list has been leaked online. Around 25 HTC phone pictures heave leaked, starting off with the, already-known, HTC Iolite. Although, i was hoping that the rumours about an HTC Touch HD with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard were true (an HTC Touch HD Pro), it doesn't look like there is one on this leaked list. The closest thing to an HTC Touch HD Pro on this list would, i think, is pictured above. Although, i hope they changed the red keyboard to a, more-standard black one... I hope these aren't all of HTC's phone that are coming out this year because none of them, to me, look too appealing. It will be interesting to see which phone on this list will be the follow-up to the T-Mobile G1. Go Google!

HTC Touch HD picture: http://www.sntradersonline.com/phone_details.php?product_id=snp1005
Gamer Swallows Saw Blades: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-01/12/content_7387865.htm
2009 HTC Phone's Leaked: http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/12/2009.htc.phone.lineup/
25 HTC Phone pictures Leaked (and picture): http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=52811

So, in the middle of writing my last blog, the Grinch came home. The apology letter that i left for her may have gotten through to her a bit. I wrote an apology letter on Sunday night and left it by the stairs on Monday, when i left for Nikki's house after my G2 Test. She came home and i think the letter lifted her normal grumpiness and we are now talking to each other. I can now refer to her as my mother, instead of the Grinch. And we all lived happily ever after... for now that is.

Anyways, more LG news, wowzers. LG has developed a watch phone. "It features a touchscreen LCD, 3G data, a 1.43-inch screen, and a built-in camera for videoconferencing. [Unfortunately] No price yet." A watch phone, wow. It has plans to release in Europe and Japan, but there is no news on it being released in the U.S. (or Canada) as-of-yet. Hopefully, it'll come out in the U.S. so that maybe i'll be able to see one in my life. It will be shown at CES 2009, just like their upcoming (really thin) LCD TV.

Last (phew!), but definitely not least, the Samsung i8510 INNOV8. This phone will now hit American soil (and maybe even Canada's). The FCC revealed that it now supports North American 3G bands, namely AT&T and Rogers. This phone packs a lot of features, which i will go through. But, G4tv.com puts it best when it says, "It's even got 3D surround sound...in a phone?!" This is one of the phones, i've had my eye on for months now, but a real turn-off to this phone was that it doesn't have a touch-screen. This phone is mighty on specs, seriously mighty. It has a 2.8 inch screen, 8-megapixel camera, 3G and Wi-Fi, 128 MB RAM, built-in GPS, 8/16 GB internal memory and a bunch of other mumbo-jumbo. I'm not going to go in-to depth too much, like i did with the HTC Touch HD, simply because this phone will not break-up my love triangle with the Nokia N97 and the HTC Touch HD. It could've been a love square, but no touchscreen equals a no-no for me, nowadays.

Finally, finished! I hope that was a good read because i really enjoyed writing it. Anyways, time for my nap.

LG Watch Phone (and picture): http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/692056/Cool_New_LG_Watch_Phone_.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=TheFeed
Samsung INNOV8 (and picture): http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/692060/FCC_Approves_Samsungs_INNOV8_Phone_.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=TheFeed
Samsung i8510 INNOV8 (review): http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i8510_innov8-review-302.php