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Me Impressed with HTC Touch Diamond? NO, I'm not

I went to my local store to check out the latest Gadgets available there. I saw a Touch Diamond and used it for a while.

My impressions:

  • VGA is beautiful on the 2.8″ screen
  • It is sexy. No doubt. Makes the Touch(original) look ugly
  • Very thin
  • Touchflo 3D is slow, but impressive
  • Takes a while to boot(more than a minute)

But, I won’t be buying it. Why?

  • Not Quad-band. I need a world phone
  • Poor battery life
  • Slow interface
  • Less available RAM(just 55MB from 192MB of RAM. 64MB is pre-reserved for GPU. Out of the rest 128MB of RAM, you get 55MB in the end)

Looks like, I’ll be buying a TYTN II or a Touch Cruise in the end then. What do you say guys?

*excuse the poor camera quality. I did not have my camera with me. Picture taken with my friend’s SE P990i

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Italian Eco Development by Fosters

Italian coastal town of Rimini is soon going to be famous for its magnificent architecture as it is for its beaches, thanks to Fosters. The project is made to attaract tourists from all over the world. At the same time, steps will be taken to keep the surroundings as green as possible.

Talk about eco-friendliness!

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Intel Classmate PC for £239-comes to UK

Small, Cheap Computer is based on a 900MHz Intel Celeron Mobile processor and the chip giant’s 915GMS chipset. It has 512MB of DDR 2 memory on board and 2GB of Flash storage – though you can select a 30GB HDD instead.

The unit has an Eee PC-style 7in, 800 x 480 display; two USB ports; 10/100Mb/s Ethernet and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. There’s a webcam too.

via reghardware

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Gmail Contact Manager updated

Gmail’s auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter. One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts is that all of the addresses you email subsequently show up in auto-complete. We wanted to preserve this benefit while giving you the ability to have a clean, uncluttered contact list, and we’ve come up with a solution that’s rolling out this week. It separates your contacts into two groups: “My Contacts” and “Suggested Contacts.”


My Contacts contains the contacts you explicitly put in your address book (via manual entry, import or sync) as well as any address you’ve emailed a lot (we’re using five or more times as the threshold for now).

Suggested Contacts is where Gmail puts its auto-created contacts. By default, Suggested Contacts you email frequently are automatically added to My Contacts, but for those of you who prefer tighter control of your address books, you can choose to disable usage-based addition of contacts to My Contacts (see the checkbox in the screenshot above). Once you do this, no matter how many times you email an auto-added email address it won’t move to My Contacts Continue reading “Gmail Contact Manager updated”

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Another week, Another EEE PC announcement?

Chinese Asus site is showing a new EEE PC 900 with a 30GB HDD. I guess, they are learning something from the competition. But, I have a question for the ASUS. Are they crazy? They are going to confuse the potential customers with so many variations between the models! I took a screenshot from the chinese asus website:

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Acer unveils 7 new Notebooks!

Well, I knew Acer won’t be left behind when all other companies are popping out new notebooks. Acer has unveiled 7 new notebooks.

  1. Aspire 2930, a new consumer notebook based on the most recent Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology designed for the advanced home entertainment user looking for an ultraportable notebook without wanting to compromise on performance.

    Based on the successful Gemstone design the Aspire 2930 shows soft and reassuring curves; the LCD cover, shaped to resemble a finely-cut gem, provides a comfortable touch and hints at the quality of the entertainment hidden within. The sapphire blue Empowering Key is the quick-access gateway to the world of Acer Empowering Technology. Despite its small form factor the new Aspire 2930 offers an amazing multimedia and home entertainment experience as it comes packed with all the latest features.

  2. Aspire 5930. Equipped with the latest Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology and complete with a wealth of expansion ports and features, it offers a full home entertainment solution to advanced, multimedia users that want to use their notebook at home and on the move.Clothed in Acer’s eye-catching Gemstone design, the Aspire 5930 presents a cool, confident look and delivers functionality, enduring style and superb usability. The notebook is shaped to resemble a finely cut gem, providing a comfortable touch and hinting at the quality of the entertainment held within. The sapphire blue Empowering Key is the quick-access gateway to the world of Acer Empowering Technology, while the Enlightener media flow visually links the keyboard’s multimedia functions. Style and performance go hand in hand in the new Aspire 5930 making it the perfect multimedia companion for all your entertainment needs. Continue reading “Acer unveils 7 new Notebooks!”
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Quick look at Opera Mobile 9.5 beta

The 9.51 beta 1 was released yesterday. I installed it on my device and here is a quick small review of it.

The Cab file weighs a whopping 8689kb!(8.9MB)

It takes a while to install it, approximately 2-3mins

As soon as you type the first letter, it searches your Bookmarks and displays them. You type in second letter and they will go away. Also, it automatically fetches your IE favorites

Ok ok! My website sure looks weird in Opera Mobile. I notice that the columns are auto-configured to display only a certain amount of text that would fit in once you zoom-in.

zoomed in
zoomed in

It certainly looks better in landscape and is recommened to be used to landscape as it lets it to fit more.

..and it did not take me long to get this message :( ..and I’m using single tab!

uh oh! this is what happens when you are using a device with 64mb of RAM
uh oh! this is what happens when you are using a device with 64mb of RAM

Settings page screenshot

Overall:

  • Not too impressed
  • Speed is ok
  • Rendering is great
  • Devices with 64MB of RAM may face ‘out of memory‘ errors
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You can Twit via Skype too!

Twitter fans, there is now one more way to do twit-ing. Via Skype!

All you have to do is:

  • log-in to your Skype
  • add twitter4skype as contact
  • start a text chat and type /account (press shift+enter) YourSkypeName (press shift+enter) YourSkypePassword
  • you’ll get a confirmation message after that

Here is a screenshot to help you :)