Lenovo V360 with Wimax-Inside Test Drive On The Road

It’s always exciting to have a product (no one has yet) to review. I still remember the day I got my iPhone 2G for review. It was awesome! Though the Lenovo V360 with Wimax-inside isn’t as small, I’m slowly but surely falling in love with it. Plus, it feels very light. Nearly made me want to do the Acer slim notebook ad. LOL!

Just like the iPhone reviews I’ve written, I’m not going to go technical because I’m not an engineer either. Instead, I’ll share with you my experience using the Lenovo V360 with Wimax-inside as any common user. So here’s the first experience.

Traveling with the Lenovo V360 and Wimax-inside

Today I had to travel to somewhere in Puchong to meet a potential client for my website design company; Simpleet. Normally if I had to drive to unfamiliar territory, I’d bring along my Garmin but not this time. And, I’m also any data plan yet. And GPRS or EDGE is just too f*cking expensive in Malaysia. So, no access to Google Maps too.

This was an ideal test for the Lenovo V360 with Wimax-inside since it was the only thing I could rely on, besides the crappy or non-existent road signs in Puchong.

Anyway, I plotted my course using Google Maps and loaded the directions up. I also preloaded it into my iPhone, though there’s no zooming into the map to double-check the roads I used or passed – no 3G, remember. So, off I went cruising to the person’s office.

Wimax on the go, baby!

I made my 1st pit stop nearby the Tractors Malaysia building to verify the road I needed to take. Right there and then, I was overjoyed to find the Wimax coverage right where I was. Plus, it had an excellent signal! So, I naturally fired up Tweetdeck to start tweeting.

Safe to say, I made it to the person’s office. And there was even Wimax coverage in Puchong Utama! Woohoo! I had to squeeze the few minutes while I was there for a SpeedTest and this was the results.

Not bad. Not bad, at all. But seriously, thanks to Wimax and the coverage it had in Puchong, I made it safely and punctually to the person’s office.

My Intel What’s Inside Contest Entries

The guesses for the contest though made easy, is really challenging. Because you only know it’s a Wimax-based product. However, you don’t know what’s the actual answer. Was it to guess:

• The product?
• The chip?
• The name?

So many possibilities. Which I guess why its made it fun to participate. Oh, not forgetting, you could’ve submitted as many times as you wanted!

Anyway, my guesses were:

• Intel wimax mini card
• Wimax-enabled notebook/netbook
• Kilmer Peak (why I guessed this?)
• Montevina (why I guessed this?)
• Huron River (why I guessed this?)

Along with many other possibilities from Cougar Point to Sandy Bridge. However, these codenames were more about the chipset and platforms used. And all the answers were from the effort of digging with Google and researching from Intel to the web.

When it came to the slogan, I had a sudden inspiration to write a story instead. But I held back the desire and was a little more practical. So I submitted a more conventional slogan first.

I deserve to win prizes up to RM 2599 because…

it’s Intel inside and it’s a leap ahead to the future.

And since I could submit more guesses, I finally came up with the storyline.

there lived a meticulous one called; Wifi. And Wifi was like the goddess of compassion, sharing her love with anyone and everyone. Irregardless, poor or rich, Wifi always made it her best effort to please everyone.

However, Wifi’s partner was the Router. One who’s big and horrendous. Not to mention, the Router’s horns protruding out like it wanted to stab someone.

Many claimed Wifi and Router would live happily ever after. This was true, until the dashing Wimax visited the kingdom of Internet.

In honesty, I don’t dread slogans or the part of the contest which says “Tell us why in less than 15 words…” because it gives me the opportunity to be creative and playful with my words.

What were your guesses or slogans like?

Intel: What’s Inside Bloggers Event

Last night, bloggers stormed the Intel office to find out what’s inside. Though we still had to register ourselves at the reception for a pass and get another pass when we reached the Intel office. At the same time, we were asked to sign our souls away to an NDA. However, I’m not sure what we’re not suppose to disclose here. LOL!

So anyway, the event kicked off with food – as usual. As bloggers, we’d always like to ask if there’s free food or drinks as part of the parcel attending an event. Hmm, not sure if that’s a good thing.

After dining in the lovely conference room, we then adjourned to the training room – I think. In here, we sat in comfortable office chairs, resting our tummy filled bodies and the emcee introduced the 1st speaker.

Vanessa Ng, Intel Malaysia Marketing Manager

The speaker following that I definitely know. We hung out at LOL cafe over some great food. And hopefully, I’ll be dining with them again soon.

Kenny Wong, CMO from P1 Network

After hearing how Intel and P1 are doing their part in moving technology forward, we had another Intel speaker cover technical benefits of using Wimax on the go. Let’s call him…

The Intel techie

After all the talking and listening, we got our hands dirty on the Wimax-enabled notebooks. Seriously, I’m not sure what information can’t be disclosed so on the safe side I’ll say, Wimax-powered notebooks are going to be accessible and affordable.

Once play time was over, it was back to our seats for some Q&A with the Intel lady, Kenny, Intel techie and joined by them was also the Intel sales/marketing guy (if I’m not mistaken, again).

There were various questions posed from the floor. Notable ones I remembered are:

• How’s energy and battery consumption?
• How’s the signal receiver?
• Is multiple account support possible?
• Is the wave transmission hackable? (don’t ask LOL!)

Before wrapping up the event, emcee gave the bloggers a photo opportunity and I was quite surprised by this. Because normally, bloggers aren’t treated similarly as media. Well, very rarely I’d say. So, hurray!

Well, that’s what went down at the event. And I don’t believe I’ve revealed too much which could cost me the NDA. But I would like to share a tip, if you’re joining the What’s Inside contest, they may be looking for this answer; what’s the name of the Wimax chip?

By the way, do you think Wimax notebooks and netbooks will increase the Internet subscribers in Malaysia?

Is the Website Designer Responsible for Search Engine Optimization?

I just finished reading the article titled; Effective Search Engine Optimization for Web Designers, and it inspired me to write about the responsibility of a website designer in Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Is the web designer responsible for a client’s SEO?

I was thinking this because SEO is about content. It’s about the copywriting and context of your website in relation to your company, products and services. How can the website designer be responsible for the content of the website? Or, can he?

Shouldn’t the website designer be concentrating more on how to visually communicate the client’s company, products or services more effectively?

What is the website designer’s responsibility in SEO?

Education

A website designer needs to educate the client about effective SEO. Not so much telling how you can position the client but how SEO works – though Malaysia clients only think of Google’s page #1. Educate the client about the basics from keywords to internal linking or more, if they insist.

User Experience (UX)

If you’re wondering how UX helps in SEO, I believe it’s because a great website user experience means you’re communicating your message across very effectively. So effectively, you’d most likely have repeat traffic and visitors because your website consistently delivers the best experience. In short, visitors understand what you’re telling them.

Semantic Markup

Website design, done. Doesn’t make a visitor think, done. Time to develop the website semantically according to healthy practices. Such as; proper heading levels, correct list types, alternative image text, link titles and more. If you’re a website designer, I don’t have to tell you why this is done. If you’re not a website designer, buy a copy of Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition).

And, there you have it.

In my humble opinion, those are the tasks a web designer should be responsible for when it came to SEO. Unless the website designer held a copywriter’s position or had a hidden talent to craft effective SEO content, I’d reserve my decision to write copy for my client.

But, do you think a website designer is responsible for SEO?

Astro B.yond Bloggers Night

I may have not announced it yet but I recently restarted another personal blog. Ladies and gents, I give you; I am Danny Foo. It’s my space to rant, vent and share my personal thoughts of my life.

The latest article published there is about the Astro B.yond Bloggers Night. Here’s a teaser photo taken at the event.

My blogs now are divided into 3 categories; websites, photography and personal or some like to call it, lifestyle. Each has it’s own focus but similar writing style because I’m blogging for myself.

Well, do enjoy reading my blogs. As a recap, they are:

• Websites Made Simple
• Cameranoob
• I am Danny Foo

I look forward to writing more content. And if this blog isn’t updated frequently, you can bet the lifestyle blog probably would be.