If you haven’t heard yet, Dropbox is a great cloud storage solution accessible by many different traditional desktop and mobile platforms. In most cases, dragging and dropping (or highlight copy, highlight paste) are the only commands to get your important files to and from the all knowing cloud. Simple. East. Fast.
Today we’ve finally gotten a look at the official Dropbox for BlackBerry app. Much the same as other Dropbox apps, the BlackBerry version is straightforward and to the point. Mind you, the version of Dropbox that we’re looking at is 1 of 500 extremely limited beta copies floating around. On that note, several kind of “obvious” features are missing — upload files (non-picture files), moving/deleting files, move/delete folders. Kind of odd they’d leave what I’d call “basic” functions out of the official app. But again, this is an early beta. Hopefully said features will squeak in before the tag comes off.
Either way, it’s a very promising app that will no doubt streamline many a BlackBerry users’ lives. Hop on past to see a nice collection of screenshots.
Just when you think the tech field as a whole couldn’t become any more saturated with incompetent business owners and greedy anti-consumer execs, someone else steps forward to say “Hey, look at me! I’m the biggest asshole.”. That asshole would be Adobe. Usually, Adobe spends their time catching flack for their questionably relevant developer tool — flash. That’s important and all, but no where near as important as the battle over SOC or Selectable Output Control.
Now, we already talked about SOC yesterday and highlighted how asinine and useless it is from a consumer standpoint. But alas, these tech giants apparently feel that fucking over customers equates to big dollar profits. With that said, it’s with great sadness and displeasure that I share with you Adobe’s acceptance of SOC in Flash Access 2.0.
In the age of glitz and glam from the likes of iPhones and Android devices, LiMo, Androids cousin gets left out of the lime light. LiMo, which is a string of Linux, has so far suffered from slower adoption than it’s once equally small cousin Android. Perhaps the Access Emblaze Else shown above can get that ball rolling hmm? The fan-like interface pictured isn’t quite my style as it’s a bit dark and bland. But you can’t please everyone. What’s your take? Does it need more work or are you diggin’ this fan UI?
UI aside, on paper the “Else” handset above looks like it could compete with bigger names as it features a 3.5-inch, 854 x 480 capacitive touchscreen WiFi/3G/Bluetooth/GPS, built in accelerometers, and a 5 MP camera. As far as radios go, it’s stuffed: WCDMA/HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band 850/900/1800/1900MHz and Tri-band 850/1900/2100MHz. If this device can ever make it past prototype and lab basement, I wouldn’t mind feeling it up. I’m sure I’m not alone am I?
Linux for Devices
Those of you who look at your router day in and day out and cant stand to see all of the heft and excessive amounts of plastic may have something to look for in the Logitech Japan’s LAN-W300N/R. The main draw here is of course the size — the insanely thin (for a router) case. Thickness for said router starts out at a still rather svelte 24mm and moves down to a Lindsy Lohan skinny 7mm. Butter is safe no more. As far as actual real specs such as speed, which by the way tops out at 300Mbps, price, and availability are sadly still unknown. At least you have a pretty face to stare at right?
Source: Geeky-Gadgets, Slippery Brick
