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Do we need mobile library services? Not reallyPosted on December 21st, 2010 43 comments
Mobile services have to fulfill information needs here and now
Like many other libraries, the Library of the University of Amsterdam released a mobile web app this year. For background information about why and how we did it, have a look at the slideshow my colleague Roxana Popistasu and I gave at the IGeLU 2010 conference.
For now I want to have a closer look at the actual reception and use of our mobile library services and draw some conclusions for the future. I have expressed some expectations earlier about mobile library services in my post "Mobile library services". In summary, I expected that the most valued mobile library services would be of a practical nature, directly tied to the circumstances of internet access 'any time, anywhere', and would not include reading and processing of electronic texts.
Let me emphasise that I define mobile devices as smart phones and similar small devices that can be carried around literally any time anywhere, and that need dedicated apps to be used on a small touchscreen. So I am not talking about tablets like the iPad, which are large enough to be used with standard applications and websites, just like netbooks.
As you can see, most, if not all of the services in the Library of the University of Amsterdam mobile app are of a practical nature: opening hours, locations, contact information, news. And of course there is a mobile catalogue. This is the general situation in mobile library land, as has been described by Aaron Tay in his blog post "What are mobile friendly library sites offering? A survey".
In my view these practical services are not really library services. They are learning or study centre services at best. There is no difference with practical services offered by other organisations like municipal authorities or supermarkets. Nothing wrong with that of course, they are very useful, but I don't consider these services to be core library services, which would involve enabling access to content.
Real mobile devices are simply to small to be used for reading and processing large bodies of scholarly text. This might be different for public libraries.Their customers may appreciate being able to read fiction on their smart phones, provided that publishers allow them to read ebooks via libraries at all.
Even a mobile library catalogue can be considered a practical service intended to fulfill practical needs of a physical nature, like finding and requesting print books and journals to be delivered to a specific location and renewing loans to avoid paying fines. Let's face it: an Integrated Library System is basically nothing more than an inventory and logistics management system for physical objects.
Usage statistics of the Library of the University of Amsterdam mobile web app show that between the launch in April and November 2010 the number of unique visits evolves around 30 per day on average, with a couple of peaks (350) on two specific days in October. The full website shows around 6000 visits per day on normal weekdays.
For the mobile catalogue this is between 30 and 50 visits per day. The full OPAC shows around 3000 visits on normal weekdays.
In November we see a huge increase in usage. Our killer mobile app was introduced: an overview of currently available workstations per location. The number of unique visits rises to between 300 and 400 a day. The number of pageviews rises from under 100 per day to around 1000 on weekdays in November. The 'available workstations' service accounts for 80% of these. In December 2010, an exam period, these figures rise to around 2000 pageviews per day, with 90% for the 'available workstations' service.
We can safely conclude that our students are mainly using our mobile library app on their smart phones to locate the nearest available desktop PC.
Mobile users expect services that are useful to them here and now.
What does this mean for core library services, aimed at giving access to content, on small mobile devices? I think that there is no future for providing mobile access on smart phones to traditional library content in digital form: electronic articles and ebooks. I agree with Aaron Tay when he says "I don't believe there is any reason to think that it will necessarily lead to high demand for library mobile services" in his post "A few heretical thoughts about library tech trends".
Rather, mobile services should provide information about specific subjects useful to people here and now.
In the near future anybody interested in a specific physical object or location will have access via their location aware smart phones and augmented reality to information of all kinds (text, images, sound, video, maps, statistics, etc.) from a number of sources: museums, archives, government agencies, maybe even libraries. To make this possible it is essential that all these organisations publish their information as linked open data. This means: under an open license using a generic linked data protocol like RDF.
I expect that consumers of this new type of mobile location based augmented linked information would appreciate some guidance in the possibly overwhelming information landscape, in the form of specific views, with preselection of information sources and their context taken into account.
There may be an opportunity here for libraries, especially public libraries, taking on a new coordinating role as information brokers on the intersection of a large number of different information providers. Of course if libraires want to achieve that, they need to look beyond their traditional scope and invest more in new information technologies, services and expertise.
The future of mobile information services lies in the combination of location awareness, augmented reality and linked open data. Maybe libraries can help.
Mobile library servicesPosted on March 4th, 2010 3 comments
Location aware services in a digital library world
This is the third post in a series of three
[1. Mainframe to mobile – 2. Mobile app or mobile web? – 3. Mobile library services]
While library systems technology and mobile apps architecture make up the technical and functional infrastructure of mobile web access, mobile library services are what it's all about. What type of mobile services should libraries offer to their customers?
As stated before, the two main features that distinguish mobile, handheld devices from other devices are:
- web access any time anywhere
- location awareness
It seems obvious that libraries should take these two conditions into account when providing mobile services, not in the least the first one. I don't think that mobile devices will completely replace other devices like pc's and netbooks, like Google seems to think, but they will definitely be an important tool for lots of people, simply because they always carry a mobile phone with them. So in order to offer something extra, mobile applications should be focused on the situational circumstance of potential access to information any time anywhere, and make use of the location awareness of the device as much a possible. But does this also apply to services for library customers? That partly depends on the type of library (public, academic, special) and the physical and geographical structure of the library (one central location, branch locations).
As a starting point we can say that mobile library services should cover the total range of online library services already offered through traditional web interfaces. However, mobile users may not want to use certain library services on their mobile devices. For instance, from an analysis of usage statistics of EBSCO Mobile at the Library of Texas A&M University, generously provided by Bennett Ponsford, it appears that although the number of searches in EBSCO mobile is increasing, only 1% of mobile searches leads to a fulltext download, against 77% of regular EBSCO searches. These findings suggest that library customers, at least academic ones, are willing to search for books and articles on their mobile devices, but will postpone actually using them until they are in a more convenient environment. Apparently small screens and/or mobile PDF readers are not very reader friendly in academic settings. This may be different for public library customers and e-books.
So, libraries should concentrate on offering those mobile services that are wanted and will actually be used. In the beginning this may involve analysis of usage statistics and customer feedback to be able to determine the perfect mobile services suite for your library. Libraries should be prepared for "perpetual beta" and "agile development".
There are two main areas of information in which libraries can offer mobile services:
- practical information
- bibliographical information
This is no different from other library information channels, like normal websites and printed guides and catalogues.
Practical information may consist of contact address, email and telephone information, opening hours, staff information, rules and regulations of any kind, etc. In most cases this is information that does not change very often, so static information pages will be sufficient. However, especially with mobile devices who's owners are on the move, providing dynamic up to date information will give an advantage. For instance: today's and tomorrow's opening hours, number of currently available public workstations per location, etc.
The information provided will be even more precisely aimed at the user's personal situation, if the "location awareness" feature is added to the "any time anywhere" feature, and up to date static and dynamic information for the locations in the immediate vicinity of the customer is shown first, using the device's automatic geolocation properties. And all this gets better still if the library's own information is mashed up with available online tools, like showing a location on Google Maps when selecting an address, and with the device's tools, like making a phone call when clicking on a phone number.
Bibliographical information should be handled somewhat differently. Searching library catalogues or online databases is in essence not location dependent. Online digital bibliographical metadata is available "in the cloud" any time anywhere. It's not the discovery but the delivery that makes the difference. We have already seen that mobile academic library customers do not download fulltext articles to their mobile devices. But mobile customers will definitely be interested in the possibility of requesting a print item to be delivered to them in the nearest location. WorldCat Mobile, like "normal" WorldCat, for instance offers the option to select a library manually from a list in order to find the nearest location to obtain an item from. It would of course be nice if the delivery location would be automatically determined by the mobile request service, using the device's location awareness and the current opening hours of the library branches.
The funny thing here is that we have the paradoxical situation of state-of-the-art technology in a world of global online digital information being used to obtain "old fashioned" physical carriers of information (books) from the nearest physical location.
Augmented reality, as a link between the physical and virtual world, may be a valuable extension of mobile services. A frequently mentioned example is scanning a book cover or a barcode with the camera of a mobile phone and locating the item on Amazon. It would be helpful if your phone could automatically find and request the item in the nearest library branch. Personally I am not convinced that this is very valuable. Typing in ISBN or book title will do the job just as fast. Moreover, bookshop staff may not appreciate this behaviour.
A more common use of augmented reality would be to point the camera of your mobile device to a library building, after which a variety of information about the building is shown. The best known augmented reality app at the moment is Layar. This tool allows you to add a number of "layers", with which you can for instance find the nearest ATM's or museums, or Wikipedia information about physical objects or locations around you.
There is also a LibraryThing Local layer for Layar, with which you can find
information about all libraries, bookshops and book related events in the neighbourhood. It may even be possible to find a specific book in an open stack using this technology.
All these extended mobile applications suggest that users of apps may not just be a specific group of people (like library customers), but that mobile users will be interested in all kinds of useful information about their current location. Library information may be only a part of that. Maybe mobile apps should be targeted at a more general audience and include related information from other sources, making use of the linked data concept.
A search in a library catalog in this case may result in a list of books with links to related objects in a museum nearby or a historic location related to the subject of the book. Alternatively, an item in a museum website might have links to related literature in catalogs of nearby libraries. Anything is possible.
The question that remains is: should libraries take care of providing these generic location based services, or will others do that?
Mobile app or mobile web?Posted on February 21st, 2010 11 comments
Technology, users and business models
This is the second post in a series of three
[1. Mainframe to mobile – 2. Mobile app or mobile web? – 3. Mobile library services]
Mobile access to information on the internet is the latest step in the development of information systems technology, as described in the previous post in this series. The two main features that distinguish mobile devices from other devices are:
- Access to the web literally any time, anywhere
- Location awareness using GPS or the mobile network
Let's focus on web access first. There are two main ways in which information providers can provide access to their data: by a mobile web browser or by apps.
The easiest way to provide mobile access is: do nothing. Users of mobile internet devices can simply visit all existing websites with their mobile browser. However, in doing so they will experience a number of problems: performance is slow, pages are too large, navigation is difficult, certain parts of websites don't work. These problems are caused by the very physical characteristics of mobile technology that make mobile internet access possible: the small size of devices and displays, the wireless network, the limited features of dedicated mobile operating systems and browsers.
Fortunately, technological development is an interactive, reciprocal, cyclic process. Technology continuously needs to find solutions to problems that were caused by new uses of existing technology.
Many organisations have solved this problem by creating separate "dumbed down" mobile versions of their websites, containing mainly text only pages and textual links to their most important services and information. In the case of libraries for instance "locations and addresses", "opening hours", etc. See this list of examples (with thanks to Aaron Tay). Another example is LibraryThing Mobile, which also has a catalog search option. In these cases you have to manually point your browser to the dedicated mobile URL, unless the webserver is configured to automatically recognise mobile browsers and redirect them to the mobile site.
Of course this not the optimal solution for two reasons:
- On the front end: as an information provider you are complete ignoring all graphical, dynamic, interactive and web 2.0 functionality on the end user side. This means actually going back to the early days of the world wide web of static text pages.
- On the back end: duplicating system and content administration. In most cases it will come down to manually creating and editing HTML pages, because most website content management systems may not offer manual or automatic editing of pages for mobile access. Some systems offer automatic recognition of mobile browsers and display content in the appropriate format, like the WordPress plugin "WordPress Mobile Edition" that automatically shows a list of posts if mobile browsers are detected. This is what happens on this blog.
Because of this situation we are witnessing a re-enactment of the client-server alternative to static HTML that I described previously: mobile apps! "Apps" is short for "applications", apparently everything needs to be short in the mobile online web 2.0 age. Apps are installed on mobile devices, they run locally making use of the hardware, operating system and user friendly interface of the device, and they only connect to the internet for retrieving data from a database system in the cloud (on a remote server).
A disadvantage of this solution obviously is that you have to multiply development and maintenance in order to support all mobile platforms that your customers are using, or just support the most used platform (iPhone) and ignore the rest of your end users. Alternatively you can support one mobile platform with an app, and the rest with a mobile web site. Organisations have the choice of developing apps themselves from scratch, or using one of the commercial parties that offer library apps, such as Boopsie, Blackboard or the recently announced LibraryThing Anywhere, that is meant to offer both mobile web and apps for iPhone, Blackberry and Android.
Some examples:
- TU Delft mobile app for iPhone (powered by Blackboard). University wide, including library. Haven't been able to test this because I have an Android phone. An Android version will be developed. For other devices they offer a mobile website.
- Duke University mobile app for iPhone. University wide, including library. For other devices they offer a mobile website.
- Santa Clara County Library mobile apps for iPhone and Android (powered by Boopsie).
- WorldCat Mobile (powered by Boopsie).
An alternative solution to the client-server and "dumbed down" models would be to use the new HTML5 and CSS3 options to create websites that can easily be handled by all PC and mobile webbrowsers alike. HTML 5 has geolocation options, and browsers are made location aware this way too. The iWebKit Framework is a free and easy package to create web apps compatible for all mobile platforms. See this demo on PC, iPhone, Android, etc.
Some say that HTML5/CSS3 will make apps disappear, but I suspect performance may still be a problem, due to slow connections. But it's not only a technology issue. It's also a matter of business models, as Owen Stephens and Till Kinstler pointed out.
Apps can be distributed for free by organisations that want to draw traffic to their own data, ignoring the open web. This method fits their clasic business model, as Till remarked, mentioning the newspaper business as an example.
But there is also another side to this: apps can be created by anybody, making use of APIs to online systems and databases, and be shared with others for free or for a small fee, as is the case with the iPhone Apps Store, the Android Market, the Nokia Ovi Store, or the newly announced Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). This model will never be possible with web based apps (like HTML5), because nobody has access to a system's web server other than the system administrators. It is also much too complicated for developers and consumers of apps to host web apps on a server that mobile device users can connect too.
And there is more: independent developers are more likely to look beyond the boundaries of the classic model of giving access to your own data only. Third party apps have the opportunity to connect data from a number of data sources in the cloud in order to satisfy mobile user needs better. To take the newspaper business example, I mentioned this in my post "Mobile reading": general news apps vs dedicated newspaper apps. The rise of the open linked data movement will only boost the development and use of the mobile client server model.
In my view there will be a hybrid situation: HTML5/CSS3 based web apps and local mobile apps will coexist, depending on developer, audience, and objectives.
What services library mobile apps should offer, including location awareness and linking data, is the topic of another post.
Mainframe to mobilePosted on February 16th, 2010 11 comments
The connection between information technology and library information systems
This is the first post in a series of three
[1. Mainframe to mobile – 2. Mobile app or mobile web? – 3. Mobile library services]
The functions, services and audience of library information systems, as is the case with all information systems, have always been dependent on and determined by the existing level of information technology. Mobile devices are the latest step in this development.
In the beginning there was a computer, a mainframe. The only way to communicate with it was to feed it punchcards with holes that represented characters.
If you made a typo (puncho?), you were not informed until a day later when you collected the printout, and you could start again. System and data files could be stored externally on large tape reels or small tape cassettes, identical to music tapes. Tapes were also used for sharing and copying data between systems by means of physical transportation.
Suddenly there was a human operable terminal, consisting of a monitor and keyboard, connected to the central computer. Now you could type in your code and save it as a file on the remote server (no local processing or storage at all). If you were lucky you had a full screen editor, if not there was the line editor. No graphics. Output and errors were shown on screen almost immediately, depending on the capacity of the CPU (central processing unit) and the number of other batch jobs in the queue. The computer was a multi-user time sharing device, a bit like the "cloud", but every computer was a little cloud of its own.
There was no email. There were no end users other than systems administrators, programmers and some staff. Communication with customers was carried out by sending them printouts on paper by snail mail.
I guess this was the first time that some libraries, probably mainly in academic and scientific institutions, started creating digital catalogs, for staff use only of course.
Then came the PC (Personal Computer). Terminal and keyboard were now connected to the computer (or system unit) on your desk. You had the thing entirely to yourself! Input and output consisted of lines of text only, one colour (green or white on black), and still no graphics. Files could be stored on floppy disks, 5¼-inch magnetic things that you could twist and bend, but if you did that you lost your data. There was no internal storage. File sharing was accomplished by moving the floppy from one PC to another and/or copy files from one floppy to another (on the same floppy drive).
Later we got smaller disks, 3½-inch, in protective cases. The PC was mainly used for early word processing (WordStar, WordPerfect) and games. Finally there was a hard disk (as opposed to "floppy" disk) inside the PC system unit, which held the operating system (mainly MS-DOS), and on which you could store your files, which became larger. Time for stand-alone database applications (dBase).
Then there was Windows, a mouse, and graphics. And of course the Internet! You could connect your PC to the Internet with a modem that occupied your telephone line and made phone calls impossible during your online session. At first there was Gopher, a kind of text based web.
Then came the World Wide Web (web 0.0), consisting of static web pages with links to other static web pages that you could read on your PC. Not suitable for interactive systems. Libraries could publish addresses and opening hours.
But fortunately we got client-server architecture, combining the best of both worlds. Powerful servers were good at processing, storing and sharing data. PC's were good at presenting and collecting data in a "user friendly" graphical user interface (GUI), making use of local programming and scripting languages. So you had to install an application on the local PC which then connected to the remote server database engine. The only bad thing was that the application was tied to the specific PC, with local Windows configuration settings. And it was not possible to move the thing around.
Now we had multi-user digital catalogs with a shared central database and remote access points with the client application installed, available to staff and customers.
Luckily dynamic creation of HTML pages came along, so we were able to move the client part of client-server applications to the web as well. With web applications we were able to use the same applications anywhere on any computer linked to the world wide web. You only needed a browser to display the server side pages on the local PC.
Now everybody could browse through the library catalog any time, anywhere (where there was a computer with an internet connection and a web browser). The library OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) was born.
The only disadvantage was that every page change had to be generated by the server again, so performance was not optimal.
In the meantime the portable PC appeared, system unit, monitor and keyboard all in one. At first you needed some physical power to move the thing around, but later we got laptops, notebooks, netbooks, getting smaller, lighter and more powerful all the time. And wifi of course, no need to plug the device in to the physical network anymore. And USB-sticks.
Access to OPAC and online databases became available anytime, anywhere (where you carried your computer).
The latest development of course is the rise of mobile phones with wireless web access, or rather mobile web devices which can also be used for making phone calls. Mobile devices are small and light enough to carry with you in your pocket all the time. It's a tiny PC.
Finally you can access library related information literally any time, anywhere, even in your bedroom and bathroom.
It's getting boring, but yes, there is a drawback. Web applications are not really accommodated for use in mobile browsers: pages are too large, browser technology is not really compatible, connections are too slow.
Available options are:
- creating a special "dumbed down" version of a website for use on mobile devices only: smaller text based pages with links
- creating a new HTML5/CSS3 website, targeted at mobile devices and "traditional" PC's alike
- creating "apps", to be installed on mobile devices and connect to a database system in the cloud; basically this is the old client-server model all over again.
A comparison of mobile apps and mobile web architecture is the topic of another post.


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BORGER - Pipes and more pipes run up and down, back and forth, moving crude oil and the products that come from it. That's the new coker and vacuum units at the WRB Refining facility.
"It was such a massive exercise in logistics, we put together a war room. Every single unit in the refinery was impacted."
Brian Lever, refinery manager
It used to be referred to as the ConocoPhillips refinery, but since the partnership of ConocoPhillips and Canadian energy company EnCana, the name has changed. WRB is short for the locations where ConocoPhillips' refineries receive heavy sour oil from Alberta, Canada - Wind River Refinery in Roxana, Ill., and Borger.
The WRB partnership owns the assets. ConocoPhillips operates the Borger operation, and EnCana operates the two Canadian sites currently producing the oil.
Executives of the individual companies gathered in Borger on Sept. 14 to see the partnership's $500 million addition that covers four city blocks.
"It was such a massive exercise in logistics, we put together a war room," said Brian Lever, refinery manager. "Every single unit in the refinery was impacted."
The project required many hours of labor and a substantial amount of materials.
"Between Houston, Kansas City and my team, it took in excess of 400 engineers," said Randol Marzuola, project manager for ConocoPhillips. "We used over 30,000 (cubic) yards of concrete from Borger Redi-Mix. That's a lot of concrete for a small town. There were about 1,100 contract workers, a lot of out of town people. It made the town awfully busy for a few months."
The changes allow the production of ultra-low sulphur diesel, more gasoline and the reduction of sulphur dioxide released during refining.
The heavy oil used in the new unit comes from the Canadian oil sands through an involved process that basically melts the tar-like oil so it will flow.
The well is first drilled downward and then parallel to the surface below the oil deposits. Another horizontal well is drilled below that to capture the oil as the top pipe applies steam to thin the oil.
A processing plant then removes the water added by the steam and adds a lighter weight oil to allow the heavy oil, called bitumen, to move through a pipeline to the Wind River and Borger refineries, said John Brannon, an executive vice president of EnCana.
An independent estimate puts the recoverable bitumen at the two current production sites at more than 6.5 billion barrels, according to information from EnCana. The company reports a total reserve of more than 800 billion barrels, about the same amount Saudi Arabia has.
The partnership plans to increase production from the current 50,000 barrels per day to 400,000 barrels by 2015.
"We're going to be producing that bitumen for 40 to 50 years continuous," Brannon said. "It's just harder to develop."
At the end of processing with heat and high pressure, a tower holds the byproduct called coke, a coal-like substance.
Pressurized water cuts it into pieces, and workers load it into 15 to 20 rail cars daily after it is crushed, Lever said.
When 100 cars are ready, the train takes the coke to the Port of Houston to be shipped for use as a fuel and to make other products.
By the numbers
Largest concrete pour required 222 truckloads over 12 hours
Finished facility added 22 full-time jobs
Workers spent 4.6 million hours on construction
Equipment moved 30,000 cubic yards of dirt
Construction used 300,000 feet of pipe and more than 1 million feet of cable
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THE ROLE played by vasospasm in vascular disease is receiving increasing attention from surgeons dealing with peripheral circulatory disturbances. That cerebral vasospasm may be equally important in various intracranial pathologic states is not widely accepted,1 and as a consequence comparatively little attention has been directed toward an effective means of overcoming such spasm in instances in which it presumably is a causal factor of clinical importance.
It is probable that this lag in interest in cerebral vasopasm stems largely from the earlier physiologic concept that the cerebral circulation is influenced chiefly by extracranial factors such as the systemic blood pressure, the carotid sinus and other reflex mechanisms.2 It is now generally recognized, however, that in addition to these obviously important extracranial influences there are significant intracranial mechanisms which affect the cerebral circulation. In brief, these are the carbon dioxide and oxygen tension of the arterial blood supplying the
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Erie Times-News Breakout Spring Athlete of the Week: Tyler Walters, Saegertown baseball
Tyler Walters, Saegertown baseball
Walters accounted for more than half of the runs in the Panthers' 10-3 victory over Sharpsville on May 27 at Slippery Rock University. That Memorial Day victory clinched the District 10 Class AA title for the Panthers.
Walters homered for one of his three hits in that final. He drove in five runs and scored two others for Saegertown, which concluded its 2013 season with a record of 19-3.
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It is not uncommon that I go through 2 1/2 dozen in a week. I've never been healthier.
might want to watch the bacon ingredients, you probably don't want things like sugar, msg, or nitrates.
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning to dance in the rain."
My journal: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread36279.html
My "Program": doing my version of a 4:3 - 3 day fast diet with real food every day, with a little twist of anti-inflammatory mixed in.
It is not uncommon that I go through 2 1/2 dozen in a week. I've never been healthier.
No. Eggs are great for you. I eat 5-6 eggs a day. Yum!
--Trish (Bork)
FOOD PORN BLOG! http://theprimaljunkfoodie.blogspot.com
I love my eggs....3-5 most days.
I'm starting to get a reputation for my egg consumption, since I usually have between 4 and 8 eggs a day ("That can't be healthy"). Only argument against eggs I can see as possibly having some validity is the issue of lectins if you have leptin resistance. Which I haven't really looked into too much myself, honestly, but there seems to be a lot of info here in the forums if you're interested in that angle.
The way I see it, if you feel fine consuming a lot of eggs then go for it.
Don't go overboard on processed meats like bacon and ham, especially if they are made using nitrates, MSG, tons of sugar, etc. A lot of people around here just pound that stuff and I don't think that can be healthy.
I go through a ton of eggs like everyone else posting. Usually go 6 at a time and go through 2 dozen a week. I don't do a lot of bacon, personally. It is delicious, but I feel bacon is kinda expensive for what it is. If I cooked with bacon fat it would be a different story. I just use butter for my eggs and coconut oil everything else.


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Big books out this week--and big disagreements about them--make for a long installment of Old Media Monday:
New York Times:
- Sunday Book Review cover: Caroline Elkins on The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper: "At its heart, 'The House at Sugar Beach' is a coming-of-age story told with unremitting honesty. With her pedigree and her freedom from internalized racism, Cooper is liberated to enjoy a social universe that is a fluid mix of all things American and African.... While Cooper's memoir is mesmerizing in its portrayal of a Liberia rarely witnessed, its description of the psychological devastation — and coping mechanisms — brought on by profound loss is equally captivating."
- Kakutani on The War Within by Bob Woodward: "This volume contains less compelling news than Mr. Woodward's earlier Bush books and makes for considerably less gripping reading.... Much of 'The War Within' simply ratifies the picture that has already emerged from newspaper and magazine articles and dozens of books by journalists and former administration insiders. It's a picture of an administration riven by internal conflicts..., an administration in which the advice of experts was frequently ignored or dismissed, traditional policy-making channels were routinely circumvented, policy often took a backseat to electoral politics, accountability was repeatedly evaded, and few advisers dared speak truth to power."
- Kakutani's knives are busy this week. Here she is on Home by Marilynne Robinson: "Whereas Ms. Robinson used her remarkable descriptive powers and pointillist prose in 'Gilead' to give the reader a keen sense of that small, Midwestern town and to conjure up the history of John Ames's uncommon family, she focuses in this novel on the unhappy emotional mathematics of Jack's relationship with his father, a task unsuited to her strongest gifts as a writer.... This results in a static, even suffocating narrative in which very little is dramatized, and much is recalled secondhand."
- Ron Carlson on Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx: "All but one of the stories in 'Fine Just the Way It Is' range from the 19th century to the modern day and offer a world in which the natural elements are murderous and folks aren't much better.... From time to time, you glimpse an Eden in Proulx's world, and when you see it, you'd better take a photograph, because it won't last long."
- S. Kirk Walsh on A Better Angel by Chris Adrian: "In 'A Better Angel' Chris Adrian creates his own lexicon of grief that moves from quiet moments of anguish to sharp fits of rage. The stories in this collection feature fatal car crashes, attempted suicides, incurable illnesses and the tragic events of 9/11. But don't be deterred by the dismal subject matter. Mr. Adrian is a gifted, courageous writer ... and with this collection he continues to take far-reaching risks. Unspeakable grief and the innate will to survive create opposing forces in these stories, producing a universe bursting with humor and life."
Washington Post:
- Joseph S. Nye Jr. on Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman: "Like it or not, we need Tom Friedman. The peripatetic columnist has made himself a major interpreter of the confusing world we inhabit. He travels to the farthest reaches, interviews everyone from peasants to chief executives and expresses big ideas in clear and memorable prose. While pettifogging academics (a select few of whom he favors) complain that his catchy phrases and anecdotes sometimes obscure deeper analysis, by and large Friedman gets the big issues right."
- Ron Charles on Robinson's Home: "Even more than their stylistic beauty, what's miraculous about Gilead and Home is their explicit focus on spiritual affliction, discussed in the hard terms of Protestant theology. Robinson uses the words 'grace,' 'salvation' and 'prayer' frequently and without embarrassment and without drifting into the gassy lingo of ecumenical spirituality. Her characters cower in the shadow of perdition."
- Michael Dirda on Anathem by Neal Stephenson: "Everyone has gone all out for Anathem. I fully expected to join the stampede. Alas, I can't even lope slowly alongside the herd. Oh, Anathem will certainly be admired for its intelligence, ambition, control and ingenuity. But loved? Enjoyed? The book reminds me of Harold Brodkey's The Runaway Soul from 17 years ago -- much anticipated, in places quite brilliant, but ultimately grandiose, overwrought and pretty damn dull. That's an awful thing to say about a novel as formidable as Anathem, but there's no getting around it."
Los Angeles Times:
- Laura Miller on Stephenson's Anathem: "'Anathem' is massive ... with a steep initial learning curve, but worth the effort all the same. Fiction that expertly ranges from social satire to adventure yarn to lucid explications of concepts such as configuration space is rare indeed. If Indiana Jones turned quantum physicist and took over Jostein Gaarder's bestselling novel-cum-philosophy-primer 'Sophie's World,' well, that might come close."
- Emily Barton on Robinson's Home: "Robinson has chosen to revisit certain scenes in her new novel, 'Home,' this time writing from the perspective of Glory Boughton, one of 'Gilead's' minor characters. Yet this co-quel has a beauty all its own.... The two volumes belong together because they complement each other in so many ways. They fit with and around each other perfectly, each complete on its own, yet enriching and enlivening the other. But both are books of such beauty and power that they ultimately beggar description. If I cannot do 'Home' justice in describing it, I can, at least, commend it to you with my whole heart."
- Susan Salter Reynolds on An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken: "This is an intimate book -- McCracken does not spare us her anger, fear, frustration or despondency. It is also a wildly important book -- we do not live alongside the dead the way we ought to: We sweep them off to the margins as quickly as possible."
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For somebody who loved Gilead so much, its painful to see such a harsh review by Kakutani for The Home.
Posted by: Sanjuro | Tuesday September 9, 2008 at 8:19 AM
I cannot say it better than William McGurn does:
By WILLIAM MCGURN
Generals Behaving Badly
September 9, 2008; Page A23
When Abraham Lincoln famously sent word to Gen. George McClellan that he'd like to "borrow" the army if the general wasn't planning on using it, the commander of Union forces likely did not take it kindly. McClellan, after all, was a man whose letters home referred to Lincoln as an "idiot," "a well-meaning baboon" and other colorful language.
In the first few pages of "The War Within," Bob Woodward opens with another presidential remark that offended another wartime general. This time the recipient was the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. George Casey. During a videoconference with Baghdad, the president said, "George, we're not playing for a tie. I want to make sure we all understand this." Gen. Casey, Mr. Woodward writes, took this as "an affront to his dignity that he would long remember."
Whether or not Gen. Casey long remembered, "The War Within" makes clear his disdain for his commander in chief. If the views and remarks attributed to Gen. Casey are not accurate, Mr. Woodward has done him a grave injustice. If they are accurate, they come as further evidence of the obstacles President George W. Bush had to overcome to get his commanders to start winning in Iraq.
Opening with Gen. Casey also says something about Mr. Woodward. There's a case, I suppose, for using the general who opposed the surge to open what is hailed as the definitive account of that surge (not to mention using Robert McNamara, the Defense secretary who helped lose Vietnam to end the book). Surely, however, that would be the same case for wrapping the definitive account of the strategy that brought Robert E. Lee to Appomattox around Gen. McClellan.
Gen. Casey, after all, was the commander who all along maintained that the solution in Iraq was for America to draw down its forces -- even after the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. He was the commander who later that year was given his own chance to secure Baghdad with Operations Together Forward I and II, and failed. Most of all, he is the commander who was wrong when the president was right to insist that Baghdad could be secured and al Qaeda dealt a harsh blow with more troops.
Gen. Casey's continued adherence to a failed strategy does not make him a dishonorable man. It does make him an odd choice to serve as the foundation for the charge that the president was out of touch with the war. As evidence, both the general and the journalist point to questions about how many of the enemy we were killing as a sign that "the president did not get it."
Then again, maybe it's Gen. Casey and Mr. Woodward who did not get it. The questions the president asked were driven by something everyone in the West Wing worried about. Every night for years, Americans tuning into the evening news were greeted by the same image from Iraq: a burning car or Humvee, accompanied by a fresh report about soldiers or Marines who'd been blown up by an improvised explosive device or suicide bomb.
Nor did these images exist in a vacuum. A media obsessed with body counts featured grim roll calls of the dead, marking each macabre "milestone" -- 1,500 war dead, 2,000 war dead -- along the way. In this context, was it really unreasonable for a president to ask his commander on the ground if we were fighting back, when it sure didn't look that way to the American people?
The same might be said of the one truly original take offered by Mr. Woodward. This is his curious assertion that it's not the surge that has produced the great reduction in violence in Iraq. The reduced violence, he says, is the result of the increased lethality of covert operations against terrorist leaders and operatives.
Which brings up two interesting points. First, we are led to find fault with a president allegedly obsessed with a "kill the bastards" approach to Iraq. But then we are asked to accept that the reason we're now seeing success in Iraq because we're . . . killing the bastards.
Second, the surge was a shift in mission, not simply an addition of five brigades. Until the surge, we had pursued a political solution, hoping that the answer to Iraq was the rise of a democratic government that would persuade Iraqis to come together for their future. The surge, by contrast, finally recognized the obvious: Until Iraqis started feeling safe in their own homes and neighborhoods, there would be no compromise or rebuilding.
Sophisticates have never liked Mr. Bush for his preference for words like "win" and "victory" to describe what America is trying to do in Iraq. And if Mr. Woodward's latest contribution is any clue, they'll never forgive him for doing something even worse: proving it can be done.
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Irene Becomes Major Hurricane, Heads Toward U.S. Northeast
Irene strengthened to a Category 3 major hurricane as it churned through the Bahamas today on a path forecast to take it to North Carolina's Outer Banks and into New England.
The storm, with winds of 115 miles per hour (185 kilometers per hour), may cause "devastating damage," the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 11 a.m. Eastern time. Evacuations began today on the Outer Banks.
Rain, beach erosion and tidal surge "will be in play from the Mid-Atlantic all the way up to New England as the storm progresses," center director Bill Read said in a conference call today.
The Bahamas "are going through a really tough time here in the next 24 to 36 hours," Read said.
Irene, 285 miles southeast of Nassau in the Bahamas, is forecast to pass near the North Carolina coast on Aug. 27 and then strike Long Island and Rhode Island on a path toward Boston early on Aug. 28, according to the center's projections.
"It looks like it will make landfall as a Category 2 near the eastern tip of Long Island and then impact New England," said Chris Hyde, a meteorologist with MDA EarthSat Weather in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Hyde said there is a 60 percent to 70 percent chance this track will be accurate. A Category 2 storm has winds of 96 to 110 mph.
Ocracoke Evacuation
Residents and visitors to Ocracoke Island off the North Carolina coast started to evacuate early today, the Charlotte Observer reported. Governor Bev Perdue urged residents yesterday to have three days of food, water and supplies in case Irene comes ashore there.
In New York, the most populous U.S. city with 8.2 million residents, officials plan open the emergency operations center in Brooklyn today, said Chris Gilbride, spokesman for the Office of Emergency Management.
Based on information received from the National Weather Service, city officials assume a "strong possibility" the storm "could impact New York City or Long Island directly." It has tracked slightly to the east during the past 24 hours, Gilbride said in an interview.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also ordered the state's emergency response team to prepare.
Storm Surges
Irene is moving northwest at 12 mph, according to the NHC. Hurricane conditions with high winds, heavy rain and deadly surf are occurring over parts of the southeastern Bahamas, and an "extremely dangerous" storm surge will raise water as much as 7 to 11 feet above normal tide levels in parts of the island chain, it said.
Irene's top winds are forecast to reach 135 mph, or Category 4 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, the NHC said.
Tropical-storm-force winds and flooding may affect the New York City region once Irene moves north, said Kristina Pydynowski, a senior meteorologist with State College, Pennsylvania-based AccuWeather Inc.
As the storm passes along the East Coast, it is forecast to bring heavy rains from Maine to North Carolina, according to the U.S. Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Maryland.
If Irene stays out to sea on its current track, the coast regions of the Middle Atlantic states will be on the weaker side of the storm, Hyde said. However, because Irene is expected to be a large, powerful storm at that point, there is a possibility high winds may accompany rain.
Tracking Storms
Forecasts of where a storm may strike are often inaccurate. The five-year average margin of error for predicting an event four days away is 200 miles, and for a five-day forecast, it's 250 miles, according to the NHC.
Since Irene became a named storm late last week, its potential track has shifted slightly to the east every day. The current track has the storm moving over Long Island and through New England just west of Boston, Hyde said. This is a change from yesterday, when forecasters believed the storm would strike near Cape May, New Jersey.
Hyde said the more time that passes and the more information forecasters can gather about the storm, the better the accuracy of the track becomes. By the day after tomorrow, forecasters should be able to say with 90 percent to 100 percent certainty where Irene will strike, he said.
Total losses from Irene may reach $3.1 billion across the Caribbean and along the U.S. coastline, according to estimates from Kinetic Analysis Corp.
The last hurricane to strike the U.S. was Ike in 2008, a Category 2 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale when it went ashore near Galveston, Texas. The last major hurricane, one with winds of at least 111 mph, was Wilma in 2005.


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Midnight's Children
First edition
|Salman Rushdie
|Cover artist
|Bill Botten
|United Kingdom
|Magic Realism; Historiographic metafiction
|Jonathan Cape
Publication date
|Media type
|Print (hardback and paperback)
|446 pp
Midnight's Children is a 1981 book by Salman Rushdie that deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of British India. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events as with historical fiction.
Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981.[1] It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.[2][3] In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read.[4] It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books.
Background and plot summary[edit]
The novel has a multitude of named characters; see the List of Midnight's Children characters.
Midnight's Children is a loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinai, born at the exact moment when India became an independent country. He was born with telepathic powers, as well as an enormous and constantly dripping nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. The novel is divided into three books.
The book begins with the story of the Sinai family, particularly with events leading up to India's Independence and Partition. Saleem is born precisely at midnight, 15 August 1947, therefore, exactly as old as independent India. He later discovers that all children born in India between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m. on that date are imbued with special powers. Saleem, using his telepathic powers, assembles a Midnight Children's Conference, reflective of the issues India faced in its early statehood concerning the cultural, linguistic, religious, and political differences faced by a vastly diverse nation. Saleem acts as a telepathic conduit, bringing hundreds of geographically disparate children into contact while also attempting to discover the meaning of their gifts. In particular, those children born closest to the stroke of midnight wield more powerful gifts than the others. Shiva "of the Knees", Saleem's nemesis, and Parvati, called "Parvati-the-witch," are two of these children with notable gifts and roles in Saleem's story.
Meanwhile, Saleem's family begin a number of migrations and endure the numerous wars which plague the subcontinent. During this period he also suffers amnesia until he enters a quasi-mythological exile in the jungle of Sundarban, where he is re-endowed with his memory. In doing so, he reconnects with his childhood friends. Saleem later becomes involved with the Indira Gandhi-proclaimed Emergency and her son Sanjay's "cleansing" of the Jama Masjid slum. For a time Saleem is held as a political prisoner; these passages contain scathing criticisms of Indira Gandhi's over-reach during the Emergency as well as a personal lust for power bordering on godhood. The Emergency signals the end of the potency of the Midnight Children, and there is little left for Saleem to do but pick up the few pieces of his life he may still find and write the chronicle that encompasses both his personal history and that of his still-young nation; a chronicle written for his son, who, like his father, is both chained and supernaturally endowed by history.
Major themes[edit]
The technique of magical realism finds liberal expression throughout the novel and is crucial to constructing the parallel to the country's history.[5] The story moves in different parts of Indian Subcontinent – from Kashmir to Agra and then to Bombay (now, Mumbai), Lahore, Dhaka. Nicholas Stewart in his essay, "Magic realism in relation to the post-colonial and Midnight's Children," argues that the "narrative framework of Midnight's Children consists of a tale – comprising his life story – which Saleem Sinai recounts orally to his wife-to-be Padma. This self-referential narrative (within a single paragraph Saleem refers to himself in the first person: ″And I, wishing upon myself the curse of Nadir Khan." and the third: "'I tell you,' Saleem cried, 'it is true. ...'") recalls indigenous Indian culture, particularly the similarly orally recounted Arabian Nights. The events in Salman Rushdie's text also parallel the magical nature of the narratives recounted in Arabian Nights (consider the attempt to electrocute Saleem at the latrine (p. 353), or his journey in the 'basket of invisibility' (p. 383))."[5] He also notes that, "the narrative comprises and compresses Indian cultural history. 'Once upon a time,' Saleem muses, 'there were Radha and Krishna, and Rama and Sita, and Laila and Majnun; also (because we are not unaffected by the West) Romeo and Juliet, and Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn," (259). Stewart (citing Hutcheon) suggests that Midnight's Children chronologically entwines characters from both India and the West, "with post-colonial Indian history to examine both the effect of these indigenous and non-indigenous cultures on the Indian mind and in the light of Indian independence."[5]
Midnight's Children was awarded the 1981 Booker Prize, the English Speaking Union Literary Award, and the James Tait Prize. It also was awarded The Best of the Booker prize twice, in 1993 and 2008 (this was an award given out by the Booker committee to celebrate the 25th and 40th anniversary of the award).[3]
In 1984 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by his accusing her of contributing to his father's Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect. The case was settled out of court when Salman Rushdie agreed to remove the offending sentence.[6]
In the late 1990s the BBC was planning to film a five-part mini-series of the novel with Rahul Bose in the lead, but due to pressure from the Muslim community in Sri Lanka, the filming permit was revoked and the project was cancelled.[7] Later in 2003, the novel was adapted for the stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company.[8]
Director Deepa Mehta collaborated with Salman Rushdie on a new version of the story, the film Midnight's Children.[9][10] British-Indian actor Satya Bhabha played the role of Saleem Sinai[11] while other roles were played by Shriya Saran, Seema Biswas, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Siddharth Narayan, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan,[12] Shahana Goswami, Anita Majumdar[13] and Darsheel Safary.[14] The film was premiered in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival (2012-09-09)[15] and the Vancouver International Film Festival (2012-09-27).[16][17]
See also[edit]
- ^ Mullan, John. "Salman Rushdie on the writing of Midnight's Children." Guardian. 26 July 2008.
- ^ "Midnight's Children wins the Best of the Booker". The Man Booker Prizes.
- ^ a b "Rushdie wins Best of Booker prize". BBC News. 10 July 2008.
- ^ "The Big Read". BBC. April 2003. Retrieved 26 October 2012
- ^ a b c Stewart, N. Magic realism as postcolonialist device in Midnight's Children
- ^ This is reported by Salman Rushdie himself in his introduction to the 2006 25th Anniversary special edition, Vintage books, dated 25 December 2005 ISBN 978-0-09-957851-2
- ^ Rushdie, Salman (2002). Step across this line: collected nonfiction 1992–2002. Random House. p. 77. ISBN 0-679-46334-8.
- ^ "Literary Encyclopedia – Midnight's Children". litencyc.com.
- ^ "Rushdie visits Mumbai for 'Midnight's Children' film". The Times of India.
- ^ I'm a film buff: Rushdie
- ^ "Deepa finds Midnight's Children lead". The Times of India. 21 August 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
- ^ "Dreaming of Midnight's Children". The Indian Express.
- ^ Irrfan moves from Mira Nair to Deepa Mehta
- ^ Jha, Subhash K. (31 March 2011). "Darsheel Safary Darsheel Safary in Midnight's Children". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
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- ^ Nolen, Stephanie (15 May 2011). "Mehta at midnight". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- Santiago, Juan-Navarro. "The Dialogic Imagination of Salman Rushdie and Carlos Fuentes: National Allegories and the Scene of Writing in Midnight's Children and Cristóbal Nonato." Neohelicon 20.2 (1993): 257–312.
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Pictures of the premium Samsung Galaxy F leak
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The Samsung Galaxy F is expected to be the "premium" version of the Samsung Galaxy S5, with features that include a 5.3 inch 1440 x 2560 QHD screen, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor, 3GB of RAM, and a 16MP rear camera with OIS. Instead of a plastic body, the Galaxy F employs a metal casing. What gives this rumor some bite, is that prior to the unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S5 at MWC, there was speculation about a QHD screened Samsung Galaxy F...
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1. DEATHSTROKE9 (Posts: 399; Member since: 09 Nov 2013)
Oh my God samsung! I wanna puke already!
6. sipha (Posts: 434; Member since: 12 May 2012)
I realy dont get why samsung likes that design so much.. It was a disapoint 3 years ago and still is today..
15. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
Lets look at it this way samsung makes how much a year? How much do you make a year? Thats why.
30. ArtSim98 (Posts: 3535; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)
You're a customer. You don't have to care how much money companies get. Only thing you have to care is that you can get the best possible product.
44. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
Well said...I agree.
57. Tizen007 (Posts: 575; Member since: 07 Jan 2014)
I respect the troll's views on the Sammy devices. But why don't you try and step back and have a neutral eye for once? This time I think you guys should retreat from the (Sammy phone = ugly^2) equation and actually look at this phone without any bias feelings.
You will find this phone very attractive. And the majority of the other customers will.
132. marcski07 (Posts: 598; Member since: 25 Apr 2014)
I followed your suggestions, but still I find samsung design ugly... :/
120. rehanmustafa90 (Posts: 11; Member since: 13 May 2014)
!!!As usual, we suggest that you take these images with a grain of salt. It is always healthy to be cynical to a certain degree when dealing with leaks. !!!
26. nothingmuch (Posts: 194; Member since: 03 May 2013)
OMG! Its a candy bar design! How many different ways can they make a rectangle look better?
35. sipha (Posts: 434; Member since: 12 May 2012)
HTC One M8, iPhone 5s and Xperia Z2 are 3 completely different looking desings(or rectangle) and also manage to look AMAZING.. & the was also this samsung patent:
39. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
90. nothingmuch (Posts: 194; Member since: 03 May 2013)
Think about it for a minute. .. wait for it.... thats right other companies, not Samsung, do you want the SG5 to impose other company designs traits onto their flagship? Its called signature designs like iphone uses for all their undogly amount of silicon they've released in the past half decade. before you open your qwerty keyboard and comment next time, please realize the structure of design patents and why each of those other companies look the way they do.
36. wedjat (Posts: 5; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
HTC SONY Huaweii ask them
its a soup design no candy bar for samsung
38. zuckerboy (banned) (Posts: 898; Member since: 22 Dec 2011)
look at other flagships and you will get your answer
87. nothingmuch (Posts: 194; Member since: 03 May 2013)
each have their signature look without imposing rival oem's design traits. Thats why they are other flagships. Do you want Samsung to look like other flagships? Samsung is using what works for them! And you ask if I LOOK at other flagships, I owned other flagships and still came back to Samsung . Sent from my Galaxy Note 3
46. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
Samsung will keep this design till Galaxy S-Googolplex
61. cncrim (Posts: 826; Member since: 15 Aug 2011)
You probably heard "if it is not broken, dont fix it" right? Look at HTC they are learn the hard way..... Htc used to be the king of android before 2009 what happen they try to change.
People love the look the pure flat rectangle look on the phone and every time company try curve round odd shape etc the phone just doesnt sale. Look back begin of time of the cell phone to today all the flat rectangle phone sale like hot cake..... The only company maintain that stream line make money, the example is Apple and Samsung.
128. MINDoSOUL (Posts: 149; Member since: 28 Feb 2014)
That is one narrative of the story, the reason HTC went down hill was because of many reasons ( price, battery life, ....). The main reason was the competition offered better devices than HTC with lower prices and bigger competitors such Samsung had more resources to push their products around the world not like in the case of HTC and not due to design language only, the period since 2009 was so asperous every other smartphone manufacturer was changing their design and playing with it, Samsung since S2 was on an incline in terms of growth especially after the Note series and grew even more popular with it and that was all great until now were they reached maturity and i believe they are stepping to the decline phase if they continue with the same tweaks they do to their devices since S3, they need to offer a new fresh design at least as a prototype like what S2 was back in the days and see how the market reacts to it. the main reason they sticked with the design language was because it was favored back then but now a lot of the customers are bored and tired with the old design they need something new something which will start another growth cycle for Samsung. That is simply what everyone is asking for.
115. The13thKing (banned) (Posts: 849; Member since: 26 Feb 2014)
What disappointment? with all these sales and all the costumers and all the billions they made/are making out of it. I find it a success, and lmao yes no one cares about your opinion
137. RuiBacelar (Posts: 153; Member since: 25 Feb 2014)
Relax bro!
Earning billions doesnt mean good services.
They have some good tablets and the trully awsome Note series, apart from that they just SPAM the market with lots of Galaxy's.
But this Galaxy F could be something worth considering
13. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
Your puke and samsung makes money
28. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Looks a bit better than regular Samsung Galaxy S5 but still not good. LG G3 design looks much better to me.
49. wrm2013 (Posts: 203; Member since: 28 Mar 2013)
Please explain how this looks different than the phone I'm currently typing this message with?
51. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Sorry but I'm unable to explain it since I don't know what phone you used to wrote this message.
84. wrm2013 (Posts: 203; Member since: 28 Mar 2013)
An s5
88. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
1) There is no "band aid" texture on the back cover.
2) There is no speaker grills on the back cover.
116. The13thKing (banned) (Posts: 849; Member since: 26 Feb 2014)
LMAO. I own a Gold Edition GS5. and yes the color is GOLD, and it's AMAZING, plus it's an eye catcher as when there are people next to me the GS5 goes from hand to hand. and hey, the band aid joke is now kinda old. you iphone old grandpa htc/sony dudes from the 80s need to find something else
127. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
First of all what your comment has to do with my comment #88?
Also by saying "band aid" I was not joking, using this I just described texture of Samsung Galaxy S5 back cover.
89. SuperMaoriBro (Posts: 526; Member since: 23 Jun 2012)
I own an s5 and i think it is fugly, but i prefer amoled so there aint much choice.
45. teerex42 (Posts: 211; Member since: 14 Jun 2012)
Dude what crack r u on!!!! This is what the S5 should have been!! Take my money sammy!
50. shuaibhere (Posts: 1986; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)
Well... what do see through that water mark????
I literally see nothing...
Ah these f**king water marks???
56. Ashoaib (Posts: 3229; Member since: 15 Nov 2013)
Wow... seems like this time samsung is going to make a beautiful phone
117. The13thKing (banned) (Posts: 849; Member since: 26 Feb 2014)
like they always did. in fact, the opinion of the 0.0001% buutthurt internet group doesn't matter.
134. RuiBacelar (Posts: 153; Member since: 25 Feb 2014)
Dude, with the ammount of trash you state, the only butthurt around here is you!
If you like your S5 that's great, enjoy it.
I for once prefer the engineer masterpiece wich is Xperia Z2, gotta love those front speakers, while not being as loud as M8's, that's due to waterprofing.
Anyway, this Galaxy F looks good, that alright, but now Sammy had the costumers buying a lot of band aids, and now they want you to buy a decent device. Money Money money.
About the band aid...that texture looks and feels good on the Black version, the white one is hard plastic! WTF??? it looks and feels cheap, the gold and blue...toy'ish....but eyecatchy yes.
64. rd_nest (Posts: 1593; Member since: 06 Jun 2010)
Please go outside and puke to your heart's content.
Why do you assume that all those thousands of Samsung employees working tirelessly to satisfy your bloated ego? You act as if they are going to be doomed if they don;t satisfy your so-called aesthetics sense?
People (read as trolls) have been saying the same thing for last 3/4 years. And look how many people in reality purchase Samsung products. They sell more devices than next 5 vendors combined.
They must be doing something right to be that successful. Don't over estimate yourself. Like any other troll, you are irrelevant and useless.
71. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
Most users put cases on their devices anyway so only the look of the front matters.
If you don't use a case on an aluminum phone like the M8 your going to have a bad time.
118. The13thKing (banned) (Posts: 849; Member since: 26 Feb 2014)
MY GS5 LOOKS AMAZING FRONT AND BACK, EVERYONE WHO HAS SEEN IT HAS BEEN WOWED. And I hate cases and covers.
135. RuiBacelar (Posts: 153; Member since: 25 Feb 2014)
ok ok....chill broh....guess you're needing a baind-aid for your "auchie".
Mad chicken strikes =D
82. Cicero (Posts: 870; Member since: 22 Jan 2014)
Well said. And looking at this render I see less surrounding bezels and a better proportion.
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68. mmmanuuu (Posts: 400; Member since: 05 Nov 2013)
Galaxy Fleak
70. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
I doubt you even looked at the pictures, you just saw the title and skipped straight to the comments.
80. tahirk (Posts: 25; Member since: 10 Apr 2014)
Don't know why but Samsung won't know how to design better looking phones, HTC won't learn how to get the best camera phone and Sony won't learn how to utilize the best camera hardware with equally good software so that we didn't have to settle for 8 mega pixels to get great looking shots.
114. The13thKing (banned) (Posts: 849; Member since: 26 Feb 2014)
lmao. Like Samsung with it's hundreds of millions in sales and billions in profit cares about your opinion.
136. RuiBacelar (Posts: 153; Member since: 25 Feb 2014)
They make billions out of ignorant buyers such as.....hum....you maybe?
why the hell are you defending sammy like that, you must be getting paid!
126. cuzed (Posts: 2; Member since: 18 Mar 2014)
i think what samsung needs to do is just to make the faux metal sides to be a real metal.. i think this will make a great difference. A back plastic is okay.
131. Nabil2511 (Posts: 152; Member since: 27 Jan 2014)
so changing the back, makes it look premium? thats the only effort theyre gonna do?
2. Basharhd99 (Posts: 77; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
This is what the GS5 was supposed to be in the first place
31. fzacek (Posts: 2486; Member since: 26 Jan 2014)
Yeah, this is a bad move on Samsung's part. Screwing S5 owners and deviating from their yearly flagship cycle...
72. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
This is a premium phone, it is going to cost $200 more than the S5.
3. DaftPunk (Posts: 22; Member since: 24 Apr 2014)
Thank you PA we see everything with your logo !
16. NokiaFTW (Posts: 2071; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
Are you the REAL Daft Punk? OMG OMG OMG I'm such a HUGE fan!
24. zuckerboy (banned) (Posts: 898; Member since: 22 Dec 2011)
Im a big fan of daft punk too waiting for alive 2017
4. DEATHSTROKE9 (Posts: 399; Member since: 09 Nov 2013)
That ain't metal!
5. baldilocks (Posts: 746; Member since: 14 Dec 2008)
Neither is the LG G3.
9. shead202 (Posts: 50; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
No one mentioned the G3. Why do Samsung fans always have to bring up the G3? Does it make them feel uncomfortable?
40. MINDoSOUL (Posts: 149; Member since: 28 Feb 2014)
Nope but because we like the LG design for one and second because we wish well for SAMSUNG and want it to prosper but the way they are doing things it looks like they are going down hill.
42. DEATHSTROKE9 (Posts: 399; Member since: 09 Nov 2013)
I hate the G3. I think it's an experiment on customers. The real Quad HD smartphones are not here yet. They will have SD 805
47. teerex42 (Posts: 211; Member since: 14 Jun 2012)
This prime line will be the true qhd. Super amoled..qhd ftw and I mean fck the world wooooo!!!! Screw the LG lcd qhd super amoled is the best!!
60. wargreymon (Posts: 712; Member since: 05 Nov 2013)
Sorry to say, but even Qualcomm said you need a large enough phone to fit a snapdragon 805 and separate modem. It's not pin to pin compatible with 801, so very small chance galaxy f will have it. Maybe note 4 since that is larger.


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