Chat ON finally became THE Famous!

When u think there's not enough of interactive chatting apps around, here comes Chat ON!

Chat ON brings messaging and online interaction to a whole new level, not to mention the uniqueness of each individual's theme, the app has different themes customized on them to make it unique for each user.

I was invited to join the launch for the newly celebrated Chat ON last Friday. To be honest, orange wasn't one color that stands out in my closet. Best thing to do was shopping for new clothing with new colors. Back to the story, I was greeted with very cheerful laughs and sound when I first reached the venue which was at Butter Factory Club KL.

The thing that greeted my eyes that pleases me a lot was a Starbucks truck standing directly outside the club. The best part of the whole scene when I was outside was free Starbucks for all who have registered for the event. I came under MYC naturally as a Mobiler. Got a cute sticker to mark myself as Chat ON territory (just kidding).

Going on with the club entrance, there were Chat ON ambassadors there that were holding brand new Samsung phones, all pre installed with Chat ON app on them ready to be shown to the public what this baby can really do.

I first saw one of the features shown which was very much different from many of the messaging app that I knew. One of which was Real Time Drawing. It was something that you could do to actually be creative as a user or a sender. Here is a drawing of which I could express more about this feature.

There's also emoticons that Chat ON specially names as Anicons, they are the cutest things I will ever see as emoticons and I have hard copies of it as stickers, part of the freebies that I received in the bag that was given upon registration. The Anicons is another way of expressing one self as it always have been to keep the conversation interesting, not dull or monotonous with just words all over the messaging app.

Here are the pictures of how the Anicons looked like.

Besides the Anicons, there are also much expressive fonts that are available on the app giving it a full wave of variety to express oneself better. It also gives the app a platform to be interesting rather than dull.

Being able to express oneself thru these features while interacting makes our thoughts and feelings dynamic and it also gives our conversation a sort of flow that can make life fun and lively.

To add on to Chat ON, the app doesn't just have the traditional calls and messaging abilities. The app also has the ability to conduct a video call in real time face to face making it a wonderful experience interacting with friends and family wherever you are.

Chatting with friends in 2 or more languages have never became any easier on Chat ON. Chat ON gives the user the ability to translate from one language to another via the auto translation function. This can also be done by tap and hold a speech bubble to translate messages instantly. This has become quite the solution to communicate with friends all around the world and given this opportunity, the world is now at our finger tips by given this ability to do so.

There's also a feature known as the trunk on Chat ON, giving the user a space where searching for shared material, such as audio, images or even video gets easier. The accessibility in the app makes it really easy to share and re share moments and materials again and again without giving much difficulty in sharing with other users.

Chat ON celebrates friendship and comradeship. This was clearly shown thru the partnership with third party vendors giving the user opportunities to be informed about new promotions and products by just adding the pages as "special buddies". For example, when Starbucks is added as a friend, it automatically sends out ongoing promotions or new products that are on the shelf at Starbucks. This keeps the fans updated about new things going on with various products giving us the heads up thru this app.

Chat ON gives a really a whole new way of interacting with the world. With its cute, unique, and many functions/features, users of all ages are able to experience a really enjoyable way of messaging and interacting with other people in this modern world.

The Real Story of Christmas

Have it always been snowing, laughter, bells ringing and Santa Claus or even Jesus being born into such a happy environment? Think again..

I was at a Christian fellowship with my other fellow students on campus listening to the talk about repentance given by Rev. Pax Tan.

What caught my attention and thoughts for the night was merely about the life of Jesus and how He came as God and also as man to identify with people lower than u and I. When I say this, it has to show the humility in all of this and it ain't just about having no money but more negative that the world would normally have rejected "it" among them.

What I was referring to were the poor, the rejects, those who don't smell the same as everyone else, the bastards, prostitutes, loan sharks, prisoners, refugees, those have are different and ain't accepted in general by the community. Jesus came to live among us, that's y He was known as Immanuel, which meant God with us, man of this world.

He was born in such an environment where u would not ever believe how scandalous the situation was. I never thought of this story in that manner, I have always thought that Jesus was born in such and such a place but things like sleeping around and getting impregnated, smell like animals, being a true disgrace, and the whole story was a fraud. It was so saddening and there's much negative emotions revolving around His birth. And yet many failed to see this and still sings "Joy to the World" approaching Christmas when all it truly was on earth was anger, disappointment, sadness, betrayal, jealousy, lies, gossips and things as such rather than what everyone thought it is, let's see, happiness, laughter, joy, magic, comfy, warm, 5 star hotel, a luxurious place of birth for the little king.

We were challenge to ask is this an accident or was it all planned that he will be given birth to in a manger (place where animals have their meals). Being the King of kings, the only begotten Son of God, I can't imagine someone like that to even be born in a place of such as the manger. Any earthly parents would never have done something like that to their children, don't u think so?

Nevertheless, for that have been spoken, i have really been very blessed by the message he has to share with the students of our Christian fellowship. It is always important to have revelations of then Word every now and then and I believed that night, we did! Praise unto God

I hope all of you are blessed or inspired by this sharing.

P. S. Sorry for the profanity used in the context.

World War Z on MY Smart Stay Samsung Galaxy Note 2!

World War Z trailer thru the screen of my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 was despicably great for its continuous  

display using Smart Stay mode, it's one great feature that both Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 2 have that gives 

the user a sense of comfort when watching great scenes through the phone without being interrupted or cut 

off especially thru the jammed pack action scenes of zombies flowing thru each scene of the movie, the 

horror and thrill that each scene has to offer there 

Being selected to attend the Samsung GALAXY S4 roadshow!

That evening right after class was announced to be canceled at COE, Uniten, I got this phone call from Samsung Mobilers at MYC.

As always that call gives me a sense of an overwhelming excitement. I was right to be so excited about the call, this is because I was selected to be one of the Samsung Mobiler Writers that rides in the pilot team, or also known as the pilot test group. I am grateful for being selected again as part of another pilot team in Samsung Mobilers under MYC. 

This has given me a head start in being expose to a smaller group working on a similar project as well as having the opportunity to be familiar with the system before the system is open up to the public. 

OK, back to my story. After being brief about this pilot test group, we were given our first assignment which was at Taylors Lakeside Campus the next day. 

A roadshow for Samsung devices took place at the campus that morning and among the 5 that were present during the briefing, me and Summer decided to go for the roadshow to carry out the first part of the assignment (there's part 1 and 2 in it). Part 1 was to get ourselves a video shoot session with our pro videographer Gary! While part 2 was an assignment for those who couldn't make it to the roadshow that morning. 

Made it to the roadshow that morning almost afternoon in a hurry due to bad transportation schedule. 

Devices on the table (Samsung Galaxy 8.0 and Samsung Galaxy S4)

The Samsung Galaxy S4 was left on the table waiting to be tested out by curious passer by. I was just as excited to be able to find myself playing the phone in front of the camera. Took some time figuring out the features and everything on the phone should be at. 

Samsung Galaxy S4 has some cool features:

• Drama Shot
• Sound and Shot
• Dual Camera
• Group Play

So I got to try every new feature that the phone has to offer on the spot with the widest grin on my face. I could never stop smiling from the time Samsung Galaxy S4 was shown and explained to me by an ambassador at the roadshow that morning. 

The first feature that I tried out was Drama Shot. It was a new feature that allows the object to be shot at different times during an act. I shot a few pictures of mine while playing around with the phone. Mind you, it was an exercise program needing to jump all over the place just to test how good the feature really was. 

Exercise program for Drama Shot

A good sample shot from one of the ambassadors

As for the Sound and Shot feature, me and Summer decided to take each other's shots and then comment into it. Too bad I wasn't able to catch the sound part that came together with the shot. Though I would imagine this feature to be a great one especially for keeping memories of travelers traveling to different parts of the world catching wonderful sound with beautiful pictures too. I seem to also believed that having sound together with the pictures, it seem to make the pictures more lively and not just something plain to look at. 

As for the Dual Camera, I should believed that the pictures can say much for itself. Its like having 2 cameras working at the same time. the smaller frame will normally represent the secondary camera, while the whole picture will be for the primary camera to capture its shots. I would really so love to have this particular feature integrated into my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. The frame that covers the side of the mini pictures that have taken thru the secondary camera can be changed to different designs too.

There is the heart shape design, fading circular design, fish eye design, and i think side by side design, and a few others. This feature makes it easier to get a full view of what needs to be taken as well as placing the photographer within the frame of the picture. I wonder what can be anymore better than having such a handy feature in various situations such as traveling, or any shots that the photographer wants to be part of as well such as gatherings, outings, or being part of a family portrait. There are other creative methods of using this feature too. 

Group Play gives a whole new definition to the term sharing the smart phone world. This feature enables its user to have a very rare style of sharing information, and media such as music, games and pictures. So far I have not found any style of sharing in the market enabling the user to connect wireless to other devices and being able to synchronize the devices to either have a slide show for pictures or being able to play songs at the same time. Group Play also enables the users to have 2 or more devices being enabled to challenge one another in multi player games making it so much exciting, and it is done wirelessly. 

We finally ended the whole thing by doing a small commentaries by both me and Summer. I took a few times trying to sound natural in my words and I finally did it. Not too perfect like some advertisers on TV but it should do for now being a newbie at this. 

So after covering every part of the features that were key parts of the phone. Summer and I narrowed down our discovery to other features that are pretty new in the market and also an exciting feature to behold. They are known as Air Gesture and Air View. There are some demos that I could share thru the pictures that I have about this features. Hopefully you guys get to understand better what is this all about :)

Air view (pictures popping out in gallery with finger hovering above the phone)

Message preview pops up with finger hovering above it (air view activated)

An overall summary is that I personally felt that I wouldn't get to enjoy all this benefits, being in front of the camera and getting to play around with gadgets, traveling and doing stuff people rarely do. It gets possible by being a Samsung Mobiler and I am very glad that I am one right now. I can't speculate how much more I would get to participate in the future. I am really excited and this is only the BEGINNING! :D

Galaxy S4 featuring Jurassic Park 4 (3D)

I know that there are many great movies that have either been screened earlier this year, or movies to be screening in the later part of this year.

One of the uprising movies that seem to have rise from the ashes seem to be none other than Jurassic Park 4 (3D). Being a remake of the last Jurassic Park movie makes it a great come back since it was done using 3D settings, giving a sense of thrill and excitement to the movie. 

It was similar to the recent launched of the Galaxy S4, that was a flagship of Samsung at point of time, which was formerly from Galaxy S3. 

The only similarity that I could see in both events is that both turned out to be the fourth installment of its kind. Both the phone and movie has a deep sense of surprise and is uniquely designed to give the user an out of this world experience in the latest form of technology and entertainment that it has to offer. Galaxy S4 has its unique gimmicks and live up to its tagline "LIFE COMPANION" and Jurassic Park 4 being remake into its 3D form gives a sense of suspense to it. 

I am personally very excited to catch Jurassic Park 4, as much as I was excited to be part of the country's first Galaxy S4 launched here in Malaysia back then. 

Right now, I could just imagine the image of a dinosaur coming out of the screen, that's how excited I really am, and giant reptiles running across the field through the faces of amazed audience in the cinema!

I hope to be able to catch that imagination and truly enjoy the magic of dinosaurs coming to life on screen. It's gonna be like what people say MOVIE MAGIC!

Exciting updates for Galaxy S3 in June !!

It looks like the Samsung is rolling out updates for one of their high end phones, which is none other than Galaxy S3. 

I actually found out about the upcoming update for the phone via one of the websites:

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/69970/android-4-2-2-jelly-bean-based-i9300xxufme3-firmware-leaked-for-the-galaxy-siii.html

So it still classifies as a leaked though I am very excited to say it doesn't matter since anything that comes out as a leak tend to be true. Worse case scenario, it may just be as close as possible to the real deal. 

So as I was saying, Galaxy S3 will be given an update of Android 4.2.2 and most of the features in it is similar to the features that we are familiar with in the recent Samsung flagship, Galaxy S4. 

Features such as multiple widgets on the lock screen will be available to the upcoming Galaxy S3 update.  The light effect on the lock screen of the phone will also be available to Galaxy S3 in addition to a better improved ripple effect that the Galaxy S3 is currently available with: ripple effect. 

I was personally looking forward to the update for the camera, which is on the Galaxy S4. The Galaxy S4 has a very interesting add on feature which is the dual camera feature which can take picture from the photographer's point of view as well as the object that it is supposed to take. I guess I will still have to look forward to the next update for the phone then. 

There are many other features that the update has included, but I will just list it down, since it doesn't really catch my interest, besides the extra features that I have explained earlier

- Android 4.2.2 – Build ID: JDQ39

- New S4 Lockscreen: Multiple Widgets, two Unlock effects (Ripple and Light), improved ripple effect than Android 4.1.2, ability to change clock size and set a personal message- New Screen modes (From S4): Adapt Display and Professional Photo- Daydream- Driving mode- Actionable notifications- New Additions in Notification Center- Completely revamped Settings UI (Tabbed interface – Exactly like the S4)- Addition of Voice controls (Let’s you control various parts of the phone using voice commands – Galaxy S4 feature)- Gallery modes have white background (When changing gallery modes to 3D the background changes to white)- Full screen Samsung apps- New S-Voice (from S4)- New smart switch widget

This video might help to give the read a clearer picture of what I have explained in my post earlier :)

What was S4 about in my HEAD?

While having some ice cream not while ago, my mind suddenly started boggling with different things I wanted to talk about Galaxy S4. Many people first question to me when they first heard of me attending the launched was 'Did u get a new phone?'

I was 'no, i did not'. I mean y would I of all people to be given a new phone such as Galaxy S4. I already own S3 once upon a time and I am right now holding a note 2. So I bet its more than enough for me to tell as much as I did like to about this phone that's sooooo hot in the market right now, the flagship of the ter-awesome sangat Samsung Galaxy S4. Yes I do not deny that I was really excited when I first saw the phone, its specs and the promo for it and the list goes on. It looked so huge (something that I favor for a tablet or phone nowadays) and it makes my eyes sparkle the more I looked at it (no kidding).

When I talk about it, to be honest, I can't hold myself in a chair and like go gaga over it. It's practically just isn't normal for me unless it really gives me that deep sense of interest for such a gadget. 

I got selected for the launched by MYC under the mobilers group and somehow when I got to see the real thing, I was like 'erm, it looks small' in my thoughts (that's becoz I hold a note 2).

But I would say I admired the phone so much bcoz of the extra features that it has in its software. I heard rumours that those features may be updated into S3 and Note 2. This got me pretty excited. 

So as to share what in the world does this phone has that I admired soooo much, I wish it that I have it in my phone so badly though rumour said that it will only be out in May/June and let's hope that it's true. T_T

I won't sharing every single features that is new on the phone. So yea, ,my information ain't that complete after all.

first thing first, what I delighted so much is one of the camera features. It is known as the DUAL-CAMERA. Dual camera allows the person who is taking pictures to be part of the group as well. It may not seem realistic when being part of the group picture, but it allows the user to be remembered when it comes to bringing back memories thru the pictures that have been taken. Such examples I can use is the one that came from the first demo where S4 was launched down at New York. A dad has always been the one that took the pictures of the mom and the children and never really been part of the family photos that have been up on the walls at home. It felt like such a shame to not have daddy there. S4 makes it possible that daddy could be in those pictures when mommy and ah boy/girl is making a memorable statement. 

What I love about S Translator was becoz of the multicultural and multi language country where I lived in. And it is not easy to actually get to learn that many languages as easily due to our interest and also the capacity of our minds. S Translator that connects from the Google database makes it so much easier to actually connect with people not only in my country based on my perspective, but as you are traveling, you meet people too all over the world who has different languages that u may want to connect with due to certain reasons but wasn't able to carry it out or technically just having a difficult time conversing to get details of needs at that point of time. 

There's also the Smart Pause that goes for videos esp when someone needs to look away from the phone when he or she is watching a video as often without needing to press the pause button. The camera that is on the front of the phone will detect the face of the user as the user's face moves in and out of looking at the screen while watching his/her videos.

Group Play that was promoted had quite an interesting style of having fun as a group of 2 or more people esp those who owns an S3, Note 2 or a S4. Group play isn't something new in the market already, rather it was juz enhanced to be used on a higher platform, instead of just sharing medias such as videos, songs and pictures or documents of any kind. Group Play now has the ability to share speakers to play the same song, making that song an amplification over a number of phones that it is played on. Another way of having fun is having group competitions. One of which is the car racing games. I bet a lot of guys will find it at its convenience whenever they are up for a game among the dudes or dudets. :D

Air View/Air Gesture is an interesting change of lifestyle when it comes to phones. Although it's not new to the Note 2. But there are features like changing songs or just changing medias with a swipe of a hand. It just looks cool doing that and of course if it is as efficient as it is promoted, it could be a really handy feature for many of us out there. Especially when we r really crazy about just touching air and moving things into position. I really wonder how cool is that to do so. As for a Note 2, it is still limited to using a S Pen to do the cool tricks that S4 can do.

I wouldn't say there's much changes that I should be envy about when I see a S4 user.

But then again it is new and it always looks good when someone else holds the phone, not u! :D

p.s. I wouldn't deny that LTE version of S4 is gonna be a hit in the market, many are asking about it, I would advise those who are planning to get a S4 to be wise in their decisions :)