Samsung Instinct SPH-M800

Samsung Instinct SPH-M800 has an eye-catching design but it is nothing spectacular. It is a touch screen device with a thin candy bar shape with 4.57 inches by 2.17 inches by 0.49 inch dimensions. This makes the phone fatter and taller as compared to the iPhone but when you measure it on the front face, it looks a bit thinner. Samsung Instinct SPH-M800 is also quite similar to its GSM sibling, the Samsung SGH-F490. The handset weighs 4.4 ounces and it feels pretty sturdy in the hand with solid construction. I also liked the simple color scheme of basic black and silver.

The real estate of the Samsung Instinct SPH-M800 is dominated by the touch screen. You get a resolution of 432×240 pixels resolution with support for 262k colors. The screen is really gorgeous. The graphics looked vibrant, the text was crisp and the colors too popped out nicely. This is better than a lot of other displays I have previously seen. You get a few options for personalization but the font of text or menu cannot be changed. However, you can adjust the backlighting time and brightness. Also noteworthy is that when the screen goes dark, it gets locked automatically.

The display of Samsung Instinct SPH-M800 looked good but I just had one complaint. The screen is half inch smaller as compared to the iPhone. This might not matter much to you but while viewing the videos or browsing the Web, the content looked cramped. On the bright side, this display is still better than smaller touch screen of Samsung Glyde. The menu interface of this phone is attractive and easy to use. On the bottom, there are four menus – Web, Fun, Main and Favs. The 4 page menu design is effective and quite interesting. You can program the Favs menu according to your preferences for stocking it with the functions that you like the most. The main menu has features like GPS, organizer and messaging. Fun menu has camera, multimedia options and games while the Web menu holds a collection of browser shortcuts.

The menus have bright icons to show that there are plenty of different features on the Samsung Instinct SPH-M800. However, only Web and Fun menu can be customized. I was also happy about the intuitive secondary menus. For instance, I didn't have any problems while starting new messaging or for moving items in lists. The touch screen too gives nice haptic feedback to show that the device has recognized your touches.(source)

World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

Most Powerful Sony PS3 Supercomputer in the world

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has connected 1,760 PlayStation 3 systems together to create the World’s Most Powerful PS3 Supercomputer.

The Condor Cluster, as it’s been named, is capable of 500 TFLOPS per second, and includes 1,760 PS3s, 168 separate graphical processing units, and 84 coordinating servers.

According to the Air Force, at $2 million, the system costs only five to ten percent as much as a comparable system made from separate components, in addition to consuming one-tenth the energy.

How to delete Skype chat/call history

You might be using Skype 5 for audio/video call and sometimes you use it for instant messages too . By default your chat history is saved by Skype , so you might sometimes need to clear them if you have some personal chat and don't want any unauthorized access to that data .

Follow the steps given below to delete the chat history in Skype :

Open Skype and login to it.

Go to tools-> Options

Click on options and then click on Privacy and you will find something like this :

Now click on Clear History and you will get a pop up like this :

Click on delete and all your Skype chat/call history will be gone .(source)

HTC Fuze – Good QWERTY keyboard

HTC Fuze has a 2.8 inches touch screen just like the HTC Touch Pro and it supports a resolution of 640×480 pixels with support for 262k colors. Text and images looked sharper and also more vibrant on the VGA screen as compared to the Tilt's display. You also get HTC TouchFLO 3D interface which HTC is now putting in a lot of their products. On the bottom, there is a toobar through which you can scroll from right to left to see all the applications that the phone has. A single touch to these icons will open up the application. I really liked this animated 3D effect, you can scroll through the messages and files by just moving your finger or thumb in up or down direction. The Home screen of the HTC Fuze phone is quite similar to that of Sprint's HTC Fuze but it now has AT&T services. The Today screen can be personalized with different background images and themes.

HTC Fuze comes with built in accelerometer which automatically changes the view of the screen when the phone is rotated. For instance, when the device is turned from a vertical to horizontal position, the display too changes from portrait to the landscape mode. This saves you some time as you don't need to go through the menus to do this manually. My only complaint here is that the screen transition could have been faster.

For giving the business users with best functionality and tools, there is a full QWERTY slide out keyboard on the HTC Fuze phone. This will take care of all your messaging needs. The feed and layout is different as compared to that of the Sprint Touch Pro. The button size is retained but the keyboard is now slicker looking and the number row on the top has been replaced by a row for symbols. The numbers share button space with letter keys on the right side and they are highlighted in blue color. The last row has shortcuts for all popular applications like Web, e-mail, calendar, etc. They layout has been changed but I didn't have any problems while typing long messages and overall, the keyboard is pretty satisfactory.

Controls on HTC Fuze include standard navigation array underneath the display which includes directional keypad with OK button in the middle, back button, Home shortcut, Talk and End buttons. The directional pad is touch sensitive and you can use the thumb in certain apps like Web browser for zooming in and out of your pages.(Source)