www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0L2gr2O_Bs

A  few pics, not that I used it anywhere interesting

Using my superpowered brain and a dash of ‘Oh Look At The Big ADVERTS’  … I realised it was an event from Knockhill racing circuit and you can go see what the event was all about.

Of course If I had known about it I would have definetly taken part .. or not as the case may be because no matter how often I dream of driving a metal machine really fast while sounding like the growls of turbo powered grizzly bear, I’d rather not be a danger to myself and everyone around me while my brain scream ‘What The Hell Am I Doing!’ and stick with the safe travel speed of foot power, i.e., at least one foot on the ground at all times and if this conjures up an image of a hopping man, my apologies. Now before I ramble on further I shall call it a night and hopefully dream of my i8910 if it ever gets here

I have two phones in mind for my future, and both are good, these are the main deciders for me

Nokia N97

+ QWERTY keyboard & touch screen

+ Nokia has proven track record at providing useful firmware updates

+ 32 GB internal memory

+ OVI App Store, Nokia online marketplace

+ Reliable S60 5th Edition compatibility

- 5 MP Camera, – I know MP don’t matter too much, but my N82 has a better camera

-  Unimpressive processor, ARM11 434 MHz single, no Graphics acceleration, only a bit better than the Nokia 5800 ( how smooth and quick will it be?)

Samsung i8910

+ 3.7″ AMOLED Capacitive touch screen vs 3.5″ Resistive for N97

+ 8 MP camera, capable of recording HD quality video

+ ARM Cortex-A8 processor, dual, with graphics acceleration running @ 600 MHz

- S60 5th Edition compatibility issues, some apps may require resigning or firmware hackery

- AMR audio codec used when recording HD (not as DLNA compatible as made out, may be fixed in future firmware update see HERE )

I think I will have to wait, i8910 is already out on Orange, N97 should be out end of this month, my contract expires in July, by that time hopefully a clear winner will make itself known, and hopefully O2 will be carrying it

EDIT 12/06/2009

See Video Comparison from N97 and i8910 at My Nokia Blog

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It’s always a good time and as expected sweets and drink were available. Not that it was the only reason I went, of course.

First, we have my favourite project of the day, Helicopter

Unfortunately, they were being safety conscious and decided not to hae the 4 rotors, one on each arm on. The demonstration video showed it flying around and avoiding hitting object automatically, they could even control it via text message. I wish I could have played around with it

Secondly, satellite tracking

Now, doesn’t that look cool! It’s an ongoing project so not 100% complete but their objective is to track and communicate with satellites as they fly overhead (on top of Glasgow) They’re eventually planning to have it installed on the roof of the building

The last two weren’t exactly within my interests per se but I’ll put them up for diversity

It’s a telemetry acquisition device for a car, namely Formula Student and they did an interesting comparison with a commercial system which showed that it was more feature packed for less than half the price. Maybe it’ll be commercialised

Lastly, I never really got a good look at this one, but was impressed by the size of the flywheel

There were a few other good project, one done by the students who were one year below me in the same course showing an automated security camera that noticed when objects are removed or moved or put into the frame and highlighting with a red border. Not got a good shot of that though

That’s all folks! A good day, with Irn-Bru and Quality Street choc snacks