first yahoo answer

My first best yahoo answer. ;>
http://greenpills.blogspot.com/2008/06/first-best-answer.html








Link:
Is P89C51 I2C compatible?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20080508004034AA6zXVw

Android contest winners

Android yesterday announced the first round of winners of ADC.

Location based services dominate the list
- navigation tool (breadcrumbz),
- family&friends tracking service (lifeaware),
- location based game (City Slikkers),
- 7-day weather forecast for mobile's location (handwx),
- geographical content based Social networking service (Beetaun),
etc.. ;>

Here is the complete list: ADC Round 1 winners.

Interestingly, only 46 out of 50 winners were publicly announced and 4 winners opted out not to disclose their projects.., No games are in the winners list ;> and the Android Developer Challenge Award Goes to HandWx(TM) Location-Based Mobile Weather Application.

These award winners are now eligible for some greater recognition - via ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards, for a total of $10 million in awards.. Second list of winners are expected

Links
Snapshot of winning applications and description - a slide deck
Complete judge list - Android Judge list (hurrrah.., 2 from my company. ;> )

Nokia Mosh - Perfect destination for Mobile contents

I got Super-Mario game, and then a cool radar screen saver to my mobile in less than a minute.

It is as simple as
- Go to Mosh page
- Browse the content/Search with keyword
- Click 'get' & save to your PC & upload to mobile.

Or
download direct to mobile @ http://mosh.nokia.mobi


One can get Apps, Games, Videos, Ringtones, Themes, Wallpapers and everything there on earth, that your mobile can understand..
Simple right?

And it looks like a more stable and standard community portal from Nokia (launched in Aug-2007), and it might sound legal - but its flooded with proprietary contents violating copyrights. I got my desired contents in no time, but why the sweated developer/creator is not paid?? Its done in thousands of forums, but is that expected in a nokia portal?? That looks odd.

What ever it may be, one can reach the content with utmost ease now..
(Give a try to conventional method ;> - One may get actual free content on search page 50., or probably will end up with some spam or paying a sum to the carrier).

Links
Nokia - Mosh
Nokia Press Release
Wikipedia - MOSH

iPhone - YAB

iPhone was announced in Jan2007 - then became most discussed - was launched in June2007 - and sold like an iPhone
(no comparison is found for iphone sale yet ;>).

Dust is still not settled and now iPhone3G will be out in mid-2008
and.,

• Its interesting to note Nucleus RTOS being a part of all the iPhone show, but less noticed. As the world sees Mac OS-X driving the iPhone, the infineon baseband runs Nucleus too for low level OS services, and its very much needed for modem real-time requirements and further, Nucleus known for its small memory footprint (where complete system can be sclaed down to 13kb including code and data ;P )
  
  
• ARM being the core processor, running at 620MHz makes it as the fastest smartphone available in market (may be atleast i'm not aware of any available nokia, sony-ericsson mobiles running at speeds higher than 350MHz). This coupled with cool UI + using LLVM for OpenGL, has taken user-experience to new bounds in hand-held devices..
  
  
• just like ipod, linux can power iphone too (not deployed much like ipod, may be coz iphone OS X UI was pretty cool)
  
  
• Profit to Apple through iPhone less is negligable when compared to the profit share it gets from partner carriers (Device price - $400 for 8GB. $1000+ from carriers per user per year, with AT&T plan)
  As far as apple is concerned, this makes sense to launch only locked iPhone through carriers and if apple releases open unlocked handsets, device price might be expected to match carrier revenue share.

It will be interesting to see when/how/at-what-price/at-which-plan/through-which-carrier, iPhone will be 'launched officially' in India..

Links
Apple iPhone
Wikipedia iPhone