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Posted on 24 June '10 by Prasanth, under Photos. No Comments.
HTC hero gets update in India
HTC hero gets OAU (over the air update) in India. This evening I got a pop up on my HTC hero android phone. It said system update and asked me to connect to wi-fi for faster download. But I went ahead and updated it on gprs connection.
It took about 5 minutes, so I am guessing it’s around 10 mb download. So what are they offering in this update, nothing much.
They say it has some you tube and system updates. But once it downloaded and installed the update. It restarted, I backed all my stuff expecting the update to wipe my apps.
But nothing changed, the only thing they are adding is a software update link. Which checks for new updates regularly.
I heard that this is how they roll their firmware. In a couple of weeks time the 2.1 update should arrive for HTC hero in India.
The firmware update will be 100 mb or bigger download, so use wi-fi when it comes.
Eagerly waiting for 2.1 update, it would be cool if they skip 2.1 and directly go to 2.2 update which is the latest version of Android.
Posted on 22 June '10 by Prasanth, under Mobiles. No Comments.
Cameras
Casio QV10 – My first Digital Camera
This was digital camera with a color screen. it’s so old that I don’t even remember when I bought it.
It should be way before 2000. It cost me 15000 Rs and is made by Casio.
It wasn’t even a 1 mega pixel camera.
Having this was special remember, this was the time when you had to take a picture and wait for a week or so to get the photo developed. So compared to that this was magical.
Posted on 20 June '10 by Prasanth, under Gadgets I Own. No Comments.
iPad hands on impression
Today I played with an iPad of a friend for a while and here are my impressions.
First of all its quite small than I imagined. I was expecting something as big as or close to my 13 inch Macbook. But its small like a digital photo frame a bit bigger than that. Only a little bigger than that.
Second thing is how heavy it is, I don’t think people will enjoy playing on it holding it in their hand for a long time.
But you can easily use it on your lap or arm rest etc.
As soon as I turned it on it showed connect to iTunes message. So had to connect it to iTunes and register before I could start using the iPad.
The screen, I own an iPhone so that was not such a big deal. But such a big screen with capacitive touch is wonderful to use.
Browsing on it looks wonderful, I surfed to quite a few sites on safari and they all look wonderful. And pinch and zoom makes it wonderful to read websites and use internet.
I was using this on a wi-fi so pages were loading quite fast. It was a 3G iPad, but we didn’t have a sim so used wi-fi.
Photos on this thing look wonderful, so do videos.
Even though its hard to get any videos to fill the screen because of the screen size. You will have black bands on top and bottom of the video, but still video looks quite good.
Music player on it is quite nice. The sound from the speakers was also quite loud, louder than the iPhone.
Music and videos take a couple of touches more on the iPad than the iPhone. Which was quite strange, when you compare how good they are on iPhone. You have to select a video and then go to a page about the video info and then click play. On iPhone you just click a video and it plays.
Games look really fun to play on iPad, its made for games especially board games.
Over all its a fun experience using it, and the hardware is solid apple build. If you have seen a unibody Macbook it looks quite similar to that.
Will I buy one at least not this version, I am excited about iPhone 4 though.
I would recommend this to anyone who uses internet a lot and doesn’t type much.
My friend got it from overseas, you can buy it in India anywhere from 35000 – 40000 Rs. Apple has not yet officially launched iPad in India. If they price it around 25000 Rs which is what it sells for in USA. I might think about it, but I know they will not sell it for less than 35000 Rs.
Posted on 17 June '10 by Prasanth, under Computers & Internet, Gadgets, Opinions, Product Testing. No Comments.
Fifa World Cup 2010 theme songs
This is the official song Wavin’ Flag by K’naan for 2010 Fifa World Cup. This is once of the best theme songs for any games in recent times after La copa de la vida by Ricky Martin.
This is a song by Shakira, sounds good and come on people its time for Africa.
Posted on 11 June '10 by Prasanth, under Sports & Games. No Comments.
11 Billion US dollars or 677 billion rupees for 3G in India
This was the amount Indian Government earned by selling 3G spectrum in India.
12 Service providers bought the licenses.
580 million mobile users in india at the moment.
20 million new subscribers were added in the month of march.
Since it will take at least four months for the companies to roll out 3G, it will be 660 million mobile users in India by then.
660 million users will have to pay 700 Rs each, for the mobile companies to just get the licencing fees back. We have not added the price of marketing, equipment and other expenses they need to start providing 3G.
As you know only few people take data packages on their mobiles, out of my 5 friends only two have activated the gprs service on their mobiles. I am expecting the same rate of up take in 3G service, only may be about 40% will take the data service.
Now its 264000000 mobile users even that number is extravagant. Even then it will take 2000 Rs each.
There is another problem too, there are people with more than one sim. In fact in the last two years i have changed 4 different carriers and 4 different sims. I will be taking up another sim in a few days time. This time it will be bsnl 3G sim. So that make it five connections out which only one i will be using. So that 40% i talked about could be even smaller.
So it will be long time before these companies start making profit. How many will perish and how many will succeed only time will tell…
Hope Indian government put this money to good use.
Posted on 26 May '10 by Prasanth, under Mobiles, Opinions. No Comments.
The top 6 best-selling cars in India
These are the top 6 cars sold in India. All of them are good value for money.
Maruti Alto
Maruti WagonR
Tata Indica
Maruti Swift
Hyundai i10
Hyundai Santro
With new cars like Maruti Ritz, Maruti Astar, Volkswagen Polo, Ford Figo, Fiat Punto, Chevrolet Spark, Chevrolet Beat etc. The coming year will be a good one for car buyers in India. All the above cars are below 5 lakh rupees and with good milage.
Posted on 13 March '10 by Prasanth, under News & politics. 1 Comment.
Hayden unveils new bats for T20 cricket
After a long time we see some innovation on cricket pitch. Is it for the good or bad, only coming days will tell.
Its a bat called Mangoose, its is being sold for 20000 Rs. Manufactures say its being made special for T20 game.
It looks funny, how effective will it be, we have to wait and see. Mathew Hayden will be using this bat in this years IPL.
Its good to see some innovation finally make it on to the pitch. What’s next, can’t wait to see in this every changing game.
Posted on 13 March '10 by Prasanth, under Sports & Games. No Comments.
Google Buzz is what i was looking for
I had a strange problem, i am guessing others also had.
No matter what i do i can’t get my friends to join, twitter or face-book etc. But all of them have GMail.
I want to share information about what i am doing or what i find online with them.
This could be very useful for all your family members and friends, who don’t know how to see you on twitter or face-book.
One less thing they have to sign in to keep track of me now.
Posted on 10 February '10 by Prasanth, under Computers & Internet. No Comments.
Ustad Zakir Hussains full concerts online
You can find full concerts of renowned Indian musicians on you tube. Its really nice that they are putting the old concerts online.
Ustad Zakir Hussains full concerts online.
Even some of the old movies are online in full, legally. It would have been nice if it was just one file rather than divided into 14 videos.
Posted on 9 February '10 by Prasanth, under Computers & Internet, Television & Movies. No Comments.
