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Copy Text from Windows Smartphone
I use a Windows Smartphone (HTC s710). A few weeks back while attending a professional presentation I took down some notes and saved it in the SMS “Draft” folder. Today I wanted the text available in my PC so that I can use the contents, I didn’t want to retype the whole text (it was few SMS messages long). SMSing to my same number won’t work & Windows Smartphone OS doesn’t have a copy-paste option – had it got that I could copy and pasted it as an email. Finally, I found a way, I have a PCMCIA Internet Data Card in my laptop from Tata Indicom. I sent the…
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My new phone – HTC S710
I am unashamed to say I am a fan of Nokia phones, especially the communicator series. For last 18 months I have been using Nokia 9300 which is a fantastic phone. In between briefly I used Nokia Communicator 9500, when my 9300 was taken by our mobile team for testing. Both 9300 and 9500 (which is heavy) are great phones and if you are used to them its very difficult to move to another phone. My experience with Windows Mobiles have not been pleasant (read this earlier post on Benq P50) so I am skeptical about buying one. Anyways, both my 9300, 9500 were taken away from me for testing, so I was left shopping for…
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Birthday gift to my Wife – a Nokia N76
If you are a married man you can’t afford to forget your marriage anniversary & your wife’s birthday. To prove that you remembered you need to have planned for it and present a good gift on the day. I honestly do believe that for the wife the gift as material/money doesn’t matter, but the thought is what counts for them (I have to say this as my wife reads my blog once in a while and you know…). After a few misses in the previous years, this time I went shopping a few days in advance, bought the gift and hide it from her. On her Birthday I presented her…
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Marketing in Connected Enterprises
In end of Day 2 of Mix ’07 there was this keynote by Robbie Bach – President, Entertainment & Mobile Division Microsoft. He highlighted on the following: Connected Entertainment is all about Personal, Interactive & Social He talked about how to Attract, Engage and Excite to do a sale with your customer XBox has over 10 Million Boxes sold, XBox Live has over 6 million users – primarily because they want to socialize. Windows Media PCs are over 30 Million out there He showed some cool demos like On how Burger King decided to build 3 specific branded games on XBox and sold it for $3.99 over 3 Million copies. This helped…
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Live Mobile Search in Hutch
Yesterday Hutch-Microsoft soft launched Mobile Search in their PlanetHutch Portal. PlanetHutch (www.planethutch.in) is a web portal accessible only by Hutch Mobile Subscribers in India who have a GPRS capable handset and Data Services enabled. Though Google-Airtel have announced a similar service, the Live Search from Microsoft is the first to market in India. To quote from Jaspreet Bindra, MSN India Country Manager “What this means is that the default search bar on the Hutch WAP portal is branded Live. The service is both on-deck and off-deck search: If you type ‘Aishwarya’ the search results will give you Aishwarya related content (music, wallpapers, etc.) on the PlanetHutch portal, as well as Web…
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My new Mobile
After weeks of suffering with Benq P50 and several hours of deliberations over the phone models – I have finally bought my new phone. It is “Nokia 9300i” at Rs.28,000/- with a standard Nokia India Warranty. This phone though a little heavy compared to normal Nokia Phones has got a perfect form factor. This is the first phone where I could do with ease a meaningful SMS or a full email. The phone has everything you wish for: Qwerty keyboard inside and outside a regular Nokia Mobile Numerical keypad – best of both worlds Excellent full-colour interface Connectivity – GPRS, Edge, Wi-Fi Great battery live even while using Edge browsing (or) Wi-Fi…
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Peaceful Skies
Nowadays with Mobile Phones proliferating everywhere, there seems to be a severe lack of Etiquette on how people use them in Public Places. Many don’t keep their phones in Silent mode during musical concerts, films or even business meetings. If you are travelling by Bus, Train or waiting somewhere the person next to you invariably keeps talking very loudly disturbing your peace. The only peaceful place you get is when you are travelling by aeroplane. For many years, few engineers were saying that more than the security aspect of using mobile phones on board – the reason it is banned is due to the chaos they can cause by connecting…
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My Experiences with Benq P50
Recently I bought myself a Benq P50 (Read here the earlier post). After spending time to set everything up – ActiveSync, Contacts, etc. using it for a few weeks. I realised the following: The phone is lovely, the colours are brilliant Decent Browsing and usable Wi-Fi speed The phone is very heavy in your pocket, you got to use the belt clip to carry it The keyboard keys are too small – but you can get used to them after a few weeks of usage. First few weeks, you will end up pressing two keys at once The documentation sucks big time. It leaves much to be desired. It is…
