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I finally bought an iPhone, I bought it two days after it’s launch in India. People had already started asking me about plan to change my last cell phone because it’d already been 6 months since I did that.
I am loving it, it does not have a few basic features, I am missing the copy-paste and the message forward, but it’s a marble, hardware and usability are simply awesome. Now when I have a Official Mac, I love the marriage of an iPhone and a MacBook Pro.
I spent 750 buck and bought a rubber cover but ended up not using it, I use a sticky screen guard though.
WiFi, GPS, EDGE, 3G (Not available in India) are faster and better then all my earlier cell phones, then best in this thing is the iPod.
I am lovin’ it.

Here is my new Phone, HTC Artemis (P3300). dump of specifications:

- HTC Artemis platform
- 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- Announced 2006, September
- Dimensions: 108 x 58 x 16.8 mm
- Weight 127 g
- Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
- Size 240 x 320 pixels, 58 x 42 mm
- Handwriting recognition
- Ringtones Type Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
- Vibration - Yes
- Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries, Photocall
- Call records Practically unlimited
- Card slot microSD (TransFlash),
- 64 MB RAM, 128 MB ROM
- Texas Instruments OMAP850 200 MHz processor
- Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
- EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
- WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
- USB - Yes
- Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 PocketPC
- Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
- Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE)
- Games Yes, order now
- Colors Silver
- Camera 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video(QCIF)
- Built-in GPS receiver
- TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software
- Pocket Office(Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Java MIDP 2.0
- FM radio
- Voice memo
- MP3/AAC player
- Video/audio album
- Built-in handsfree
- Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1250 mAh
- Stand-by Up to 200 h
- Talk time Up to 4 h

When you buy in India you ger one of the Asian Maps free with MapKING GPS Navigator Software Free, I got the Bangalore one registered, working beautifully.

Tags: HTC, Artemis, P3300, PDA, Pocket PC

Brindavan Garden, originally uploaded by abgpt.

Brindavan Garden (near Mysore in Karnataka, India) is amazingly awe-inspiring specially in the night. This photo is of the colourful fountains which are an integral part of the beautiful garden, taken at aperture f/5.6, 10 sec shutter speed and 6 mm focal length by my Canon S3 IS.

Free Fallin’ Down, originally uploaded by abgpt.

Falling down like hell, that was horrible… It was the Jurassic Park Roller Coaster in Universal Studios, Los Angeles, CA. The faces tell the story…

Today I went to watch Night at the Museum and to my surprise I found Dick Van Dyke in that, was really happy to see him in a movie after a long time and he really did dance like how he danced in Mary Poppins (1964) in the end of the movie. He is also giving his voice in Curious George (2006).

Dick in Mary Poppins:

Dick in Night at the Museum:

Night at the Museum is a B+ according to me and worth watching at least once.