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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

The Cube Revamped, pic self explanatory…

How do I change my Bluetooth ID of my Moto phone, how do I sync data using SyncML, how do I increase the loudspeaker volume beyond the default maximun, how do I flash my phone with latest/custom made firmware, how do I telnet to my Linux Moto Phone, how do I telnet/ssh from my phone, what games are fully compatible with my Moto? And all the answers of all your queries… get it on motorolafans.com’s forums.

Today I installed FC6 on my Compaq Presario V2000, had to do some tweaks to get the WiFi running. Here is what I did:

1) Install Livna RPM Repository information:

$ rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

2) Install ipw2200 firmware:

$ yum install ipw2200-firmware

3) Add following to /etc/modprobe.conf:

options ipw2200 hwcrypto=1 associate=0

4) Add ESSID and CHANNEL in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:


ESSID=
CHANNEL=


5) Add the KEY (WEP or WPA etc.) to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-eth1.

6) Start:

$ ifup eth1

It starting working for me, did less struggle as compared to FC5.

I never took a look at any of the Live CDs, but today Ubuntu  Live CD helped me write this post. I don’t know what heppened to the OSs installed on my Lappy. Trying to figure that out.

Ubuntu Live CD Works.

I always thought, only AIR and a few private music broadcasting companies own the public radio channels in India but after reading this…

http://www.asiawaves.net/india-fm-radio.htm

There are 11 FM Radio Stations in Bangalore and 12 in Delhi, can anybody believe that?

Linux powered Moto Ming (Motorola A1200) was launched in India two weeks back. It’s one of the latest Linux based Moto phones. Phone looks awesome and is too delicate to handle. After beeing in my hands for two weeks it has already got a few scratches :(. 2 MP camera, Smooth rubber coated body, translucent cover, bussiness card reader, touch screen and really great sound quality make this phone even more must to have. Ming in chinese means crystal clear and bright, this phone proves the meaning. J2ME applications are easily installable, and Yahoo! has promised to launch “Y! Go” for Motorola phones too.

When I bought a Linksys WRT54G Version 5 around 10 months back I was hittng my head against the wall after learning that it runs on VxWorks instead of Linux. The playground I expected was lost. But Thanks to Jeremy who has written a VxWorks Killer and nicely documented it, I flashed my unit’s firmware with Linux based dd-wrt micro. Kudos to him, there is so much to look inside.

Nokia 3230 is the latest contribution of the gadget bazaar to my pockets. I exchanged this with my old Nokia 6610 and got a pretty nice exchange price. This phone has almost every feature which one can think of, though it misses some. Blue-tooth, GPRS, MP3 Player, FM Radio, 1.3 Mega Pixel (Effectively 1.23 Mega Pixels) camera with night mode, excellent themes’ support to name a few. It’s got nice sound quality with ultra high volume of the hands-free. Nokia has improved the FM sound output quality with this handset, it’s simply amazing, stereo with pretty good bass also. Comes with 32 MB memory card which can be extended up to 1 Gigs. Low picture quality in darker sites, mono mp3 player output, slow animation rendering are the cons.
If you can live with the mono mp3 output, small crappy keypad and a bit slow rendering then this Nokia thingy can be a nice option for you.