World of Leion

Today I witnessed a very disappointing scene on the train.

I boarded the train but could not find a seat. The train was not very crowded, but I noticed a pregnant lady standing near the side seats. She seemed to be in an advanced stage of pregnancy. Usually the side seats have stickers requesting people to give up their seats. All the seats were occupied. I looked at the person on the side seat. She was another lady with baby bump – smaller but surely one. I was getting annoyed with the next nearest person for not giving up his seat. He was a youngster at most in his twenties. How could he have just ignored the poor mother to be?

Just while I was still fighting my internal struggle to request the young man to give up his seat, the seated pregnant lady have up her seat! The bigger lady said you are pregnant too! She replied nvm and walked towards the other cabins. I saw her found another seat which was good. The bigger lady took the seat. All the while, all the other seated passengers appeared not to have saw them.

I was really angry and ashamed of myself for not acting what I should. How would the 2 ladies think?

Much have happened over the past one month. My mood cycles between sorrow and hope. I hope all will turn out fine..

I have just traded by HTC Hero for Samsung Galaxy S 2 or 3 weeks ago. So far it is still easy to adapt to the new interface. In fact, I do not miss the Sense interface much. There are pros and cons from both vendors but I am still loving SGS. All the more now that the official Froyo Android 2.2 upgrade has been delivered to this phone.

I received news last night near midnight that Froyo was available and wasted no time. Boot into windows and looked for Samsung Kies to download and install. Downloading a 135mb file at 800kB to 1Mb per second still took a considerable 2 or 3 minutes. The wait was unbearable… When I finally fired up the installation, the installation got stuck at a .NET 4.0 framework part. The good thing is that there was a warning message stating that this part may take a long time. It took like forever before the KIES was properly installed.

The good thing is that detecting my SGS and installing the firmware was a breeze.  Well, 30 minutes is a breeze compared to the .NET part.

The new firmware is I900DXJPA.

The upgrade did not mess up my installed applications, contacts, sms or call logs. The bad thing is that some of my installed apps are not 2.2 ready. I have thought that there was something wrong with the upgrade and did a full reset and I realised this halfway when I am reinstalling my apps. Not a big issue. Just some save games got resetted. Not really a big deal here. The one thing I am not happy is that the linking of my google contacts with the facebook contacts was not saved. This is the part where HTC has done better.

I notice there is an new app called Press Reader. I assume this is a Samsung app as I do not recall having saw this in 2.2 Hero roms before. It does not launch, only say Service will be available first. I guess can only wait to see what is does.  There is a similar app like this for iphone. Seems like this is a port over from iphone.