Nuffnang Youth Credit Card Design Contest Part 2 - Pinswipe

Click here for the part 1 if you havent see. I just can't help it but keep thinking it would be cool if I had good looking credit card and also have alot benefits for me.

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Again, I am heading toward some futuristic feel on the design. Blue color are commonly seen in hologram - You know it when you watch Iron Man movie which is the reason why I am including some hologram and also circuit design on it. Instead of shiny and reflective like my part 1 design, the hologram design will glow in dark! This will make your credit card easily spot in the dark :P Such futuristic design, youth will like it.

Like part 1, I would like to sell features too beside design. If you notice, there is another small LCD panel on the card also also numbers from 0-9. You should be easily guess that the numbers are actually for someone to key in pin code. Yup! Carrying a credit card is very convenient but it could be a problem when your credit was stolen and people could easily use ur card to swipe.

So, here explain why this card is called Pinswipe! The credit card is build with capacitive touch button for user to set their 6 pin code. Meaning to say, each time before user swipe their card to purchase swipe, just key in the 6 pin code and you can proceed the payment. With this security, user can easily feel safe eventhough their credit card is lose or get stolen. Like most of the security code, 3 chances will be given to key in the pin and failure will result the card disable until you contacted the bank.

So what ya think about Pinswipe? Just key in your pin and you're good to go to swipe to purchase your items. Easy to use and secure!

* Wouldn't worry even my card get stolen! *

Nuffnang Youth Credit Card Design Contest Part 1 - Cardometer

Credit card is one of a must in our daily life. Thanks to credit card, we don't need to bring a luggage of cash when buying stuff. Without noticing, credit card has slowly become our lifestyle. Thus, an attractive design is a must! Here, I would like to introduce a credit card designed by me specially for youth. I name it as Cardometer.

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Three gradient color was used in the card to reflect mysterious yet elegant style because dark color easily bring out other color to shine. The circuit design on the card will be shiny and reflective to bring out the premium feel and also feel futuristic.

So why it is called cardometer? Lemme explain. Do note that the next explanation indirectly related with the circuit theme design too. If you notice, the card has a value reading on it. In that case it is RM3000 on my picture above. What is that actually? Beside introduce new design for the youth credit card, I actually would like to introduce a new function on the credit card. The credit will be build with simple electronic circuit inside to display the value on the small screen. The value is actually show your current credit spending.

So each time a user buying something and swipe Cardometer, the amount will increase on the LCD screen accordingly. This function will be very important to everyone especially youth to prevent them over spending their credit card and also easily reminding them how much they had spend. It also can train youth to be more discipline on their spending. To match with this revolutionary features in the credit card, this explain why circuit design was chosen as well.

So what ya think? Will you get Cardometer and begin your self discipline training? ;)

* Wouldn't hurt to have one for myself and keep reminding how much had I spend in this month *

Samsung Galaxy S IV vs. HTC One vs. Sony Xperia Z

Holy mama predactor cow! In this Q1 of year 2013, we had 3 runner that going to fight and kill each other to grab the champion throne! Ok just kidding. Nevertheless, Samsung Galaxy S IV just unpacked and I am not sure it created alot WOW or SIGH to you all. Definitely a SIGH to me though I am not a huge fans of Samsung. Well, hater gonna hate right. I will still continue laughing on the ugly design in S4 *blow whistle*

So here we are, a comparison in terms of spec for this 3 flagship phones from each company!

As usual, I would love to compare 1 by 1 by category. All this are based on personal preference, you can agree and disagree with me with your argument, I don't give a damn.

Design

Samsung Galaxy S4 : Not a huge fans of curvy corner phone and I must said, Galaxy S4 is fugly. Did anyone know it is plastic?

HTC One : Front design similar to Blackberry Z10 (or maybe a little but iphone) and back look like Sony Xperia P. Doesn't matter since I like iPhone design. Covered up with Aluminum material, HTC One is one of the awesome and badass phone.

Sony Xperia Z : Square! Totally in love with it! When iPhone 4 just announced and it was made by glass, I started to like it. Now Sony Xperia Z is pretty much followed the footstep and I gotta admit, I love it very much! Not to mention, it came with purple color!!

Display

Samsung Galaxy S4 : 5 inch, super AMOLED HD, 1080p resolution, 441 ppi. Sound awesome. Sound normal and common too for year 2013. Still hate the AMOLED scren as you guys know because I prefer looking something more natural and true.

HTC One : 4.7 inch, Super LCD 3, 1080p resolution, 469 ppi. Not a huge fans of huge screen phone but hey look, HTC One just 4.7 inch. Perhaps will be nice for me (need hands on it to feel it). Super LCD 3 is no doubt 1 of the most praises screen after Retina and IPS.

Sony Xperia Z : 5 inch, TFT with Bravia 2, 1080p resolution, 441 ppi. Sony still love TFT screen too much that giving bad viewing angle which I actually don't give a damn. Don't understand why so many people complain on viewing angle. Do you view your phone on 90 degree all the time or straight look on it? I am huge fans of Bravia display because the color look natural and nice.

User Interface

Samsung Galaxy S4 : Touch Wiz still look the same. Still hate it.

HTC One : Using latest Sense 5 which simplify alot. Somehow Sense evolve to more simple and maybe look too basic.

Sony Xperia Z : Using the latest Timescape UI. Got extra animation when scrolling page which I dislike. Love none animation more on previous ICS or Gingerbread.

Thickness and Weight

Samsung Galaxy S4 : 7.9mm thickness with 130g. Fair enough.

HTC One : 9.3mm thickness with 143g. The thickness among the three but I actually like thick phone. Thin phone is not comfortable on my hand.

Sony Xperia Z : 7.9mm thickness with 146g. Same thickenss with Galaxy S4 but heavier. Might love to hold this more than S4.

Processor

Samsung Galaxy S4 : Screw US version. Our version should be come with Exynos 5 Octa chipset. If you dunno what is it, it is 8 core processor. Don't too happy. To be precise it is 4 + 4 core processor. It built with 1.6GHz quad core Cortex-A15 processor for heavy task and 1.2GHz quad core Cortex-A7 processor for light usage. All this are for battery saving purposes. How powerful is Exynos 5 Octa chipset? Gotta wait the benchmark.

HTC One : 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 600. Pretty said it not using S800 instead and basically it is overclocked version of S4 pro. Nothing impressive but won't hurt to have it.

Sony Xperia Z : 1.5GHz Quad Core Krait Snapdragon S4 Pro processor. Slower than Snapdragon™ 600 by 0.2GHz. Will this actually bothered in real life usage? Nop, not for me.

Camera

I bet camera has been most concerned features in all user nowdays. Trust me, nothing still able to beat Nokia Pureview 808 unless they decided to go same sensor size and carl zeiss lens :P

Samsung Galaxy S4 : 13MP camera. Not sure is the sensor by Sony or not. Waiting for picture sample from other reviewer.

HTC One : 4MP ultrapixel. Ultrapixel is just a gimmick and the pics doesnt seem any much better than Sony Xperia Z.

Sony Xperia Z : 13MP with the latest EXMOR RS sensor. Sound good but when I look at picture sample it look not much difference from the previous EXMOR R sensor. Sad Sony had lie to me.

Battery

Samsung Galaxy S4 : 2600 mAh. No doubt Samsung is the generous type that willing to boost up the camera capacity. Kudos to Samsung.

HTC One : 2300 mAh. Bigger than HTC Butterfly battery at least and get praised in alot review for the long battery life. Not sure how it is when come to my usage.

Sony Xperia Z : 2330 mAh. More 30 mAh than HTC One. Mehhh

Speaker

Samsung Galaxy S4 : Mono speaker. From previous S III and Note II that their speaker are loud enough. So I have no doubt on this.

HTC One : Stereo speaker baby! Enchant with Beat this is one of the best and loudest speaker for phone at the moment.

Sony Xperia Z : Mono speaker. Speaker too soft as mentioned by all reviewers.

Extra Features

Samsung Galaxy S4 : Come with alot gesture features which I doubt I will use it often. Not to mention the camera features such as Sound and Shot, Drama Shot and also Cinema Photo are copied features from HTC One and Nokia Cinemagraph. But I do like the S Translator that work for text to speech and vice versa.

HTC One : HTC Blinkfeed that copy from flipboard for all news feed. Convenience but not sure I will be using it or not. HTC Zoe will be the 1 attracted me most. How? Why not watch it yourself and trust it?

Sony Xperia Z : Water and dust proof rated at IP57. Swim while playing your phone anyone?

Overall : Love it, hate it, this are the flagship phones released by them for this Q1. I doesn't feel much excitement on Samsung Galaxy S IV compare to HTC One and Sony Xperia Z. If I would choose to change phone now, I will go for HTC One. I like HTC Zoe. It is stuff that I need especially when I use it for travel, party, friends birthday or wedding. It is a software that can create moment for me.

Django Unchained Premier Screening

Courtesy to Nuffnang I get to watch Django Unchained Premier Screening before it release in cinema.

A freed slave named Django is trained as a bounty hunter by a German dentist named Schultz, and the two men set out to find Django's captive wife.

For the past 165 minutes watching this movie, it never fail to make my eye away from the cinema screen. No doubt, Django Unchained is really well written script and detailed. There is a part I thought it gonna be end of the movie since it looks like climax but the director proved me wrong.. holymama cow such a long ass winded film but hey, it is nice! The actors, the character development, the song in the movie plus the awesome gun fight are perfect. The only thing I feel fake is the exaggerated blood splash.

If you guy's dunno, Django Unchained was nominated in few categories in Oscar 2013 and won 2 awards -

• Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz
• Original Screenplay - Written by Quentin Tarantino

Very quickly Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz is my favourite character in the movie and his performance quite overshadow Jamie Fox as Django. Django only started to shine after his death - after killed Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie. They are some humor and funny scene in the movie as well make it feel less tense. Deary said it is very comical.

Overall, thumb up to Django Unchained! I have nothing much to complained on the movie. Very satisfying ;)

Love is in the air

No, Not mine. Still long way to go for me to have courage and commitment to propose to le gf. Ok just jk. She gonna rip off my head if she see this. Nevertheless, just in 2 days I get news from friends that they are getting married! Nothing else to describe my feeling beside HAPPY :D One of them would be April & Charmaine and another 1 is my friend since childhood.

April proposed to Charmaine on her own birthday last 2 days. How sweet is it? She getting iPad mini and wedding as her birthday lolol. I guess this page gonna stay for more than a year :P So it is never too late for those who know them and comment in the page ;) GoGo!

Another childhood friend who currently at Sabah gonna marry next year too! Honestly everyone in the chat group are happy about it and spam none stop last night. He will be the first among us to give "red bomb". If you're wondering, everyone in the whatsapp groupchat are my childhood friends since primary school. Yea, I mentioned them alot time in my past blog post whenever we went vacation, birthday celebration or even yumcha.

* haha our old photo! Spot me? :P *

* 1 of the guy I mentioned is getting marry next year. The rest will be heng dai. Guess who? *

* One of our latest photo. I grow fat LOL *

I am really happy for him :) All of us now planning to fly to Sabah next year to attend his wedding. Once a lifetime, gotta create awesome moment and memories for everyone!

Anyway, really all the best and blessed to they all :) Guess entering this quarter life crisis means getting hit by more red bombs. Just joking :P