New house

Been very busy last 10-15 days but the good news is I've shifted to my new house in Mira Road.
Traveling is a pain but otherwise I am really happy over there. The best thing about it is that I get a lake view from my windows and the whole place is surrounded with trees.

The other good news is my N95-8GB has arrived. Even upgraded to the new firmware (v11.0.026). The phone came with Spiderman 3 preloaded and I watched it twice on TV with the TV out cable as the cable guy of my new building was holidaying out of station.

8GB is good but its slow. I thought that from now on I would not need to carry my Transcend 2GB USB stick to carry files home, but copying on the N958GB is verrrrry slow.

Will blog regularly once broadband connection is installed at my new place.

QIK : Cant get it quick enough :(

I've been trying to get this app on my phone for 1/2 an hour now but in vain, the signup process sends an SMS to the phone which I have not got as yet :( . Have tried friends number too but :(

Its Live streaming your video and sharing it to the world, doesn't it sound nice.
No need to upload , and its fast. Thats what I've learnt from the Scobles blog.

Here's the website.

How google maps locates you without GPS?

This is a nice article by Maximiliano Firtman, talks about Location based services (LBS) and also how google maps shows you the current location without using GPS.

I have demonstrated GPS on my N95 to all my friends here and they really liked that feature. Most of them have GPRS subscriptions but no GPS enabled phones. But now they come to me and show me their java phones doing the same stuff that too indoors ;)

Check it out here.

Mobiles help to flirt

It had to be on mobiles, social networking. This is one such service which allows you to flirt using your mobile phone.
Its called Lime Juice.
Check out more about it here.

OpenC Challenge winners announced

Nokia World 2007 has kicked off in Amsterdam and the winners of the OpenC challenge have been announced.

Read more here.

5310 : Amazingly slim

My friend, Chinmay, bought a 5310 XpressMusic phone for 10.5K . I'd seen the phone in ad's and sites but was really impressed to see this phone in real. The phone is extremely slim and sexy. The music quality was great its got a 2MP camera too.
I know its not on Symbian but now for those who always ask me recommendations on phone with a 10K budget, I would surely suggest this one. May be in a couple of months the price would be within 10K.
Chinmay is a music lover and is quiet satisfied with the phones battery, he's even bought a 2GB stick for it.

I've had problems with my headset that I got with my N95 (AD-43), i.e. all of a sudden while listening to the radio the left or right ear piece would stop working. A restart would fix. I've started using any simple ear phone where I have to actually use the phones button to change the radio channel.
The 5310's AD-57 seems to be a better option as it's working perfectly with the N95 ;)