VC’s Techie CockTail

This months of dose of SMS’s just for all you Techies out there,

• Life is like having a cup of coffee. You sit by the window, lift the cup, take a careless sip and find no sugar. Too lazy to go for the sugar, u somehow manage with that sugarless cup. On finishing u discover undissolved sugar crystals settled at the bottom. Thats how life is.. We do not make any effort to value what is around or within us.
  So look around, may be the sweetness you are looking for is closer than u think…

• G- ghost
  I- in
  R- real
  L- life
  So avoid girls in ur life. Now forward all girl’s name and numbers to me to save ur life.
  Give me a chance to help U…
• Some Flowers Grow Best in the Sun,
  Some Flowers do well in the Shadow.

  God Knows What is Best For us & Puts us Where We can Grow Best…!

• It might be Funny but its very True..

  “Good boys get heaven And Bad boys get Women..

written by Vignesh

A word of caution to my readers, I have had no previous knowledge on Blackberry phones or haven’t used them before. By luck I got to play around with a Blackberry Pearl (Model No: 8100) provided by AirTel . So these are some of my own impressions formed from a ” Blackberry Ignorant Brain “

• I have never been a fan of flat wide bodied device with QWERTY keypad , even though it has its own advantages, the Sony Ericsson M600i was a exception. But the Pearl with its sleek looks really amazed me. For a smart phone its absolutely a svelte chic

• The 240 x 320 display was nice and the grid based iconic interface was nice & easy to use
• I think this is one of the first blackberry phones with a camera & media player functionality. The 1.3 megapixel camera is quite OK and the music quality was good. The demo video of avi format was quite exceptional in sharpness and smoothness of playback
• The internet browser was average as it wasnt able to handle pages with Javascript
• Whats a blackberry without “E-Mail” - The e-mail delivered is read well in the big display and all attachments like doc, xls, ppt, jpg, pdf files were easily opened and viewed. Images cam be zoomed in and out. But typing in the keypad what they call as SureType keypad was a struggle as I couldnt come to grips with keypad
• The best thing to me about the Pearl is the Pearl (trackball) itself which sits under the display. It was a dream to navigate with it.

written by Vignesh

A week back i was on the Net as well as the Streets on the lookout for a basic phone with a FM to gift my sister. This part of the mobile market has lots of options with the likes on Nokia 2310, 2610, 2626, 6030 , Motorola C168, W209, Samsung C160 etc…. Partial as I am to Sony Ericsson Phones I zeroed in on J230i even though its a comparatively older model with the likes ok 2610, 2626. But for around a budget of 65 US$ (2,600 INR)….i was making up my mind between 2310 and J230i. J230 won because of its bigger screen with better resolution and good phonebook.

Now for its Pros :

• Cute & handy weighing just 84 grams
• Call quality is good with a nice speakerphone
• Handy shortcuts with Grid / List based menus
• SMS typing is easy with nice keys and a excellent T9 dictionary
• Polyphonic ringtones / wallpapers can be downloaded through GPRS
• Personalized pictures and ringtones for callers
• Ringer volume is loud and melodious (For a person like my sis, who keeps it in her handbag this is a MUST)
• 300 contacts in phone memory as well as extra contacts can be stored in SIM
• Nice PIM features like To-Do list, Alarm, Stopwatch
• FM Radio is good with excellent sound

And for its Cons

• The 128 x 128 CSTN screen even though 65K colors is almost completely dark in sunlight
• Only 3 themes are present and no option to download more
• There is no USB connectivity ( As far as i Know ???)
• Orange color keypad lights ( I am a sucker for white or blue keypad lights)
• Costly style-up covers ( Style-up covers can be used to change the look of your phone but for a price of 20$ its way out of my league)

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Sony Ericsson

For people who are interested in getting their name (or any text for that matter) on cool animated wallpapers, the site Red Dodo offers them for free. Wallpaper size according to your phone can be selected and a text of length till 16 characters can be entered. Here is a sample of what I’ve done,

Just click on the banner to start making your own customized wallpapers.

written by Vignesh