Monday, December 21, 2009

Going to be a long hop

                                    As the title brief, finally its time to change my mobile device but what is that hop?? i am talking about. Yes, the OS which the phone runs, my current device Nokia N73 Music edition runs on S60 3rd edition intial release and my new phone which is going to be Nokia 5800 XM runs on S60 5th edition. For better understanding please read this 

                                 Between the S60 3rd intial release and S60 5th edition there were S60 3rd edition Feature pack1(Nokia N82,E71,E63 etc..), S60 3rd edition Feature pack2 (Nokia N96, N79, N78,N86, E72 etc), i found N73 music edition was good for my purpose and didnt update to any of those devices and now i found it to be so outdated and boring also Nokia have stopped support for this device and releasing firmware updates 

Why Nokia 5800XM ??


Being a Nokia fanboy i was disappointed when other mobile phone makers like Samsung, LG etc releasing touchscreen phones well ahead of Nokia. Finally they broke the shackles out and released 5800XM full touchscreen device and the first to run S60 5th edition symbian OSv9.4 there were lot of problems with both hardware and software of this device which made it unstable and well known earpiece problem volume too low, worst case not working is the most annoying one, and since the OS version was new there were less third party apps for the device. Now the story is entirely different and every problem is addressed and there are plethora of apps available many are freeware, you can get some here

                          Till date this device is the only value for money phone packing all the features one would expect in a smartphone, the intial firmware of the device was very buggy and the recently released v31 seems to be stable overall the phone is zippy also Nokia have drastically reduced the price of this device. This phone was a bit of disappointment for those who bought it when it was launched and many of them were expecting Nokia to release a firmware update to make it stable and now it is stable and running great i am not going to waste any more time getting this one 

Secondary device :

                        It doesnt imply that i am going to dump my N73ME and get this one, i am going to use it as my secondary device it is still rock solid with no problems and the camera in it is one of the best 3.2MP ever fitted on a mobile device

I will post my 5800XM experience after playing around with it for sometime so watch out for this space

Thank you

Full specifications of Nokia 5800XM , 5800XM
                 
                      

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Misunderstanding the Word "Speed breaker"


Look at this pic its a speed breaker opposite to my office building and each and every time when i see someone mostly two wheelers passby this one their face turns red and they curse it like anything and the brain behind this speed breaker has understood the word "speed breaker" very severely and has laid this one with such efforts.Users of this road are avoiding it completely for the sake they should cross this disturbance. Yes speed breakers are essential and needed but that should not make one not use that particular road this is a prime example of it

Its not a Speed breaker its a Speed stopper.

What do you call this... fate???

              One Friday when I woke up it was 2pm in the afternoon don’t blame me for sleeeeping that long that’s because I slept after night shift at work adding to my frustration there was no power in our area and there was less amount of rice too, so took my bike and went out to buy rice so at least I can manage with curd rice to fill my starving stomach to my surprise rice shops nearby my house were closed due to lunch time only disadvantage in my area is you don’t have hotels, mess or any kaiyendhi bhavans.
                    Guess what my next idea was let us have Pizza for lunch today (en nenapula theeya vaikka). Nearest pizza shop from my place is about 3 to 4kms that wasn’t a great deal for me since I was ready go there considering my starvation at that moment, found the pizza shop it was Dominos' Pizza saw the list and found they are having veg pizzas from Rs39 onwards, in the billing counter i just told the lady give me a small size pizza pointing this Rs39 one of the chart, I don’t know what she understood and billed me for a 107Rs pizza again considering my starvation I gave the money and got it and something made me to take it home and eat.
                    
                           I was heading back home and met with an accident with another two wheeler (don’t panic its a mild one)and my right leg got bruised and it led to a severe damage to my bike left handle bar got dislocated, mud guard broke and controls on the left side including indicators, horn didn’t function OMG look at the chain of events here, what next at around 4.15 pm I entered my house with this pizza but hats off to dominos' pizza packing it was rock solid inside and that didn’t even move an inch from its place, thinking it will satisfy my stomach I had a bite, I was totally disappointed it was so horrible to eat and I felt why did I decide to get this one I have eaten pizzas sometime back in bakery shops for Rs30 and it kicks dirt on this one from a familiar pizza shop.


Bottom-line: A lunch which could have got over by 25rs had I found a rice shop ended spending more than 650Rs , Yes doctor consultation, medicine, bike repair and this crap pizza cost. I show less interest towards fate, Raghukalam, Yemagandam but incidents like these really make me wonder, do these virtual things make changes in our day today activities, I admit the fact that it was a horrible decision from me, there could be two reasons for this when I would have opted against my instincts saying nothing will happen secondly I have no other go to doubt these virtual things


So with what can I conclude????


  1. Never ever in your lifetime have pizza that too for lunch.
  2. Don’t sleep long even after night shifts.
  3. Drive slowly.
  4. Don’t believe these virtual things.

Thanks for reading comments welcome