Just when I thought that I was doomed, my luck changed abruptly for the better. We went and pleaded with the service centre guy and convinced him to overlook the evidence of water/vodka in the motherboard and replace it under warranty. Anyways, he seemed like a nice guy because he agreed and will replace the motherboard for free.. As for me, I am so happy that I am gonna celebrate tonight… See ya..
Song of the day:-Run to you(Bryan Adams)
Category Archives: Technology
Pink Floyd+Vodka=Disaster (I am screwed big time…)
Seemed like the perfect evening. Pink Floyd Pulse concert on DVD on my friend’s laptop. Me and my friend were having Fuel Vodka. Pink Floyd music and Vodka really combined have a really interesting effect. Couple with that the spectacular Visual Effects and the Psychedelic nature of the music and your head will surely start reeling. Anyways, We watched the whole concert when “Comfortably Numb” started playing. Eager to show off my guitaring skills, as I could play that song well, I picked up my guitar from the bed and accidentally hit over the vodka glass lying on the table and spilled vodka all over the laptop. Dried it off the best we could at that time but in the morning it won’t turn ON, so we took it to the service centre. Seems that the motherboard is shot to hell and I have to get a new one. A new HP laptop motherboard costs around 35,000 and I have to pay that so I am screwed. Don’t know where to arrange so much money. Meanwhile I am really depressed while I look for ways to arrange the money.. 🙁
My Latest Mobile Phone…
A Motorola C350
No, this is not the picture of my handset, it’s a picture from the website. The theft of my phone had left me penniless so, somehow after conjuring up around 2000 bucks, I went off to the second hand mobile shop to search for a cheap phone with USB Modem capabilities. What I wanted was a samsung C100 but I couldn’t find that in any of the shops so I decided to settle for a Motorola C350. As I had already used my friend’s handset for a week, I knew that it had a decent modem with USB connectivity. Anyways, I have tried to list the Pros and Cons of this wonderful handset(not the original one but the second hand piece that I have) below.
Pros:-
- Decent modem with USB pop port.
Cons:-
- Pathetic display with huge dots forming up the tiny screen.
- Screen conveys a feeling of depression.
- 256 color screen.
- Pathetic menus.
- Disgusting text entry mechanism.
- Extremely bad ringtone quality.
- Body looks like the handset fell off a moving vehicle and a few trucks ran over it.
- Poor battery life.
- Crashes whenever some memory operation is performed.
- Lack of profiles.
- * key of the keypad broken in 3 places.
- Switches off automatically
- Vibrator louder than the ringtone.
- Maximum 2 lines of text on the screen at a time.
- After a message has been typed, you have to press atleast another 6 buttons to send it.
- Poor phonebook.
- Doesnt support picture messages, sms ringtones.
One month review of O2 XPhone II
It’s more than a month I have been using my new phone. So I thought it’s time I wrote a fair review about it. Following are the pros and cons of this smartphone.
Pros.:-
- Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition
- 64 Mb integrated storage
- 32 Mb Ram
- Mini-SD card support upto 4 gb
- Fast processor
- Large and very clear display with exceptional clarity
- Speakerphone
- Sleek and suave
- Keypad Light Sensor
- Long battery life
- Above average camera quality
- Runs .exe files and installs software directly out of .cab files
- Bluetooth/Infrared Connectivity
- Great Multimedia Album with zoom in videos
- Great mp3 quality in Windows Media Player 9 and other applications.
- Mirror on back for self-portrait
- Great t9 dictionary with intuitive suggestions while typing.
- Good volume
- Wma/wav ringtones
Cons.:-
- File explorer software has to be downloaded from official website.
- Maybe hard to use for newbies.
- Lack of mp3 ringtones(Can be rectified by 3rd party software)
- Sub megapixel camera
- Office apps not bundled
- Windows Media Player 10 not present
- Memory Card not hot swappable