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In-Review: Samsung Galaxy S II

As some of you know I have taken the leap in joining the Android world. I bought the Samsung Galaxy S II and I left my iPhone 3GS. I felt like I needed to play around for a few months or so with another phone (Android) before fully committing to being a "iPhoner".

So far the phone is fantastic! Im not gonna bore you with the details of the processor or the storage capacity. If you're interested to know go here.

Anyway, back to the phone. Its actually surprisingly good compared to my brothers experience with the Nexius-Andriod phone. 

Here is some of the points I like about the Phone:

**There is going to be a lot of iPhone-Samsung comparing so bare with me if don't have one or the other**

I was lucky enough to observe an Amazon App Store, which puts up a free app to download (that usually costs a lot) to be a free download for a day.  Hard to scrutinize the Amazon app for Android when it places legit free apps for every Amazon consumer (and in this day and age its probably 80% of the world's population).

The android Ginger Bread UI is extraordinary. Its very friendly and rarely has glitches or sudden freezes. It resembles the iPhone or iPod Touch's UI, if you are familiar with them. 

The media part of the phone is definitely a competitor to the iPhone, but unfortunately the Samsung Galaxy S II does not have great software to cater to the phone like iTunes caters to the iPhone. Making the iPhone the superior media player. Although, an up side to that would be that you have the Amazon music store on the Galaxy S II and you are able to download any music from the world wide web, which trumps the iPhone which is only exclusive with the Apple iTunes music store and no other music resource. For some people its enough but for other's it may restrict them making the Galaxy S II a superior choice to the iPhone. Since the iPad, I have been browsing creating media involving art (Photography, Sketching, Graphic Design, Writing) on it. I haven't been using the iPhone for such things unless I am away from my iPad. So, if you plan to edit or create (and you dont have an iPod Touch/iPad) stick to the iPhone. But if you only write, view images, and capture (for fun only) images then go ahead and experiment with the Samsung Galaxy S II.

The gaming aspect is similar to any other mobile device these days, or more specifically the iPhone. 3D gaming is actually superior because of the larger screen. Also, there is a Gaming app that lets you try the app first before buying, unlike the iPhone were you have to be bothered by trying the "lite" version then downloading the real one. 

All in all its an amazing phone and it's definitely a competitor for the iPhone and other advanced mobile phone's. Most of the apps that I like are available in both the Android and Amazon app stores. 

P.S. The Samsung Galaxy S II is limited with languages, excluding many valuable languages.

P.P.S I will post some more picks as soon as I have time to edit them :).

Old Building

Old Buildings Never Die Young

Coffee

Coffee: Why is so important? from Dalal AL Mudhaf on Vimeo.

This is just a short video about coffee and it's importance in the life. 

As always leave some comments

Sands of Time

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To notice the beauty in the world means
to look through a lens and capture something
nobody thought to capture 

A dm Sketch

I've told you over and over again that I like to sketch but I rarely post my sketches but you can view them here. Sketching is something I love to do as well as other forms of media. My sister taught me when I was young and I was hooked ever since but it definitely was a on again and off again relationship. Regardless I love sketching, and I've experimented with a lot of other things like painting, but nothing comes close to sketching. I am strictly pencil, with a few colors every now and again but I also sketch on my iPad but I will leave that for another post.

For the sake of avoiding any more ramblings let cut to the chase, this is a time-lapse of me sketching, well finalizing, a sketch of a guy that I do not know but it does look like someone I know. It didn't occur to me to capture all of the process from the beginning, it only occurred to me during the end. Anyway, this is the first time I release I time-lapse on Masked Photography please leave me any feedback.

Thank you,

DM

Sketch from Dalal AL Mudhaf on Vimeo.

Rain

Rain from Dalal AL Mudhaf on Vimeo.

This is a video I did a few months ago when it was a rainy season in Kuwait. The first rainy season in a few years, and now when the temperatures are reaching 49.9 degrees we regret not running in the rain. Staying out in the cool breeze. Well, what can I say during the sweltering heat we miss the cold breeze, and when its freezing cold we miss the warmth of the heat. ;/

Patience is what the world nurtures in every soul, but the patient are like ants, small and easily crushed.

-DM