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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

It’s become a common question right now that why FireFox 2 is not available on the Fedora Core 6 default package repositories? The answer seems to be on the FireFox 2 page of the Fedora Project Wiki. A small quote from this page:

For a variety of reasons, we are not planning to update to Firefox 2.0. We are instead focusing resources on Firefox 3.0, which will provide much more substantial benefits. We understand that some users will be willing to accept the risk of running Firefox 2.0 to gain compatibility with new extensions (e.g., Zotero and Halfnote). We have made available an experimental version of Firefox 2.0. However, we must stress that we believe the best experience for Fedora users will be to stay with Firefox 1.5 and wait for the Firefox 3.0 update. The experimental development version is available here:

http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/fc7/

You can also install the development version. Warning: This might result in instability.

$ yum --enablerepo=development install firefox

There are alternative ways posted over the Internet to install FireFox 2 onto Fedora Core 6, Jason Burns writes about one of them.

After giving some respite to Orkut I am back on it again, hope the scrappy thingi is not so crappy anymore. Really missed the connections with my oldies-goldies and couldn’t resist coming back.