Chillpilgrim

Twitterberry Picture 1

Twitter Berry 2

For those of you twitterbugs, wanting to twitter from your mobile devices - Now you can do so with TwitterBerry, without all the SMS setting up hassle. Just download it over the air, install and twitter away. Nice!

I’ve never held a blackberry device in my hand even though I worked in the the telecom industry for more than 2-3 years. But many of my colleagues have had it and they’ve never been able to put it down. My last phone, a Sony Ericsson K850i was giving me innumerable problems which to my knowledge was not fixable due to the fact that the problems were inherent and not software dependant( in which case, I would have flashed the phone and it should work like new). It came to a point where things became highly annoying and I decided to get a new phone. I sat down a made a list of all the things I needed from my phone. I divided my requirements into two categories namely Definite( The phone must have these features), Maybe( It would be nice if the phone has these, but I can get by without as well).

RIM’s Blackberry does not seem too eager to let go of the half a million Indian Subscriber Base as yet. In the talks they had today with the Indian Government, they seem to have agreed to move some servers to India to enable Indian Government’s Department of Telecom monitor messages passed on between RIM Devices.

If they could install their servers, spend a calculated budget on advertisements in India and release their devices in India with atleast a third party support provider whom they’ll find dime a dozen in India, they can easily scale up their customer base to atleast 2 million in a single year.

Yeah! That pretty much keeps happening to my phone for the past 6 months. Well, for a while I decided to bear with it till it got to a point that it became unbearable. I just had to do something about it. Here’s what I did…

To the occasional phone user, the Apple Iphone might look and sound great, but to the avid texter, gadget lover, data user IPhone is a HUGE pain in the ASS. It is a commonly known fact that Apple hired paid actors to create a HYPE in the UK and the plan fell flat when a local newspaper interviewed one of them standing in a que to buy an Iphone, who had NO IDEA what the godforsaken thing was or why HE was there… Apple just wants to push its failure gadget into a Raw Market andhopes to find a few takers among a few billion, in the process making some huge revenue.

Well… I sure hope they sort out their differences. I understand that not being able to intercept messages from Blackberry Devices in India might amount to security concerns but I’m sure a lot of countries come across this problem. So there must be a way out. 

Safari upgrade happened and suddenly the quality of my browsing experience is much better. And… double clicking to open a new tab is now ON in Safari. That was one feature I used to miss.

It seems that the 85W Magsafe Adapter reads output levels of both 18.5V - 4.6A and 16.5V - 3.65A. Since there are NO switches, it automatically detects the power levels for the appropriate laptop.

The phone sucks worser than a kid sucking on a toffee

I’ve had the Sony Ericsson K850i for the past 6 months now and I’m not a happy customer. I’ve had the Sony K610i, Sony Ericsson K700i, Sony Ericsson D750i, Sony Ericsson P910i and still have the Sony Ericsson P990i as my business phone. So far the worst phone is the K850i.