Fasten your seatbelts!

Welcome to the Jét Propulsion Lab blog. Firstly it should be mentioned that this blog is not in any way related to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They are the real rocket scientists, here is the right place for some work on a smaller (Jét)engine.

Samsung is not shy about it's new GT-S8000 phone. They market it as "smarter than smartphone". This however was not the reason why I could not get past this phone. Mainly I was very convinced by the dimensions, by some features and by the undoubtedly brilliant Amoled Display.

Just after using this masterpiece of Korean engineering for some days it becomes clear that there is a reason why Samsung did not stick the label smartphone on this one. Shortcomings like a limit of 15 characters for the title of a calendar entry made me wish I would have made my choice for some less smart phone.

The conclusion would have been easy: Get rid of this crap and by something else ... If there was not my passion for this hardware that made my choice in the first place. So, why not keep the phone and just get rid of the software. Alternative phone operating systems like Android are available. Sounds like fun to me. Let's start to work on the engine to make the Jét fly ...