Watching NDTV’s Gadget Guru program in TV, I came across a CoolPad 288 mobilephone which is supposed to work with a GSM & CDMA connection at the same time . I have been a lifelong user of GSM phones, but people who are interested in switching but considering keeping the old connection too can try this phone. Not only does the phone supports two connections at the same time but it has a plethora of features and it is supposed to be available in India.
In India, AirTel, Hutch, BSNL, Idea are the main GSM Players whereas Reliance Mobile, Tata Indicom are CDMA providers. That program was almost two weeks ago, now recently Tata Indicom has launched a Samsung DUO which is supposed to do the same. And Spice Mobile (Indian Mobile company) has come out with CDMA + GSM & GSM + GSM phone.
So Techies who have more than one SIM card can have a Single Phone to Talk & Connect. And anybody who has used this phone and care to write a review please post a comment here I will be glad to put up your review in my TECHIE COCKTAIL
One of my favourite feature on my mobile is Bluetooth , an excellent piece of technology which rids us of from the ever growing tangle of wires. In a mobilephone bluetooth is used for various purposes such as sync, remote control, file sharing etc …and Personal Area Networking (PAN) is one of the profiles supported by my SE K550i. Check your phone manual , spec sheet to clarify whether your phone supports this or not.
Actually I was inspired by this thread @ Esato whereby you can access your PC’s broadband internet connection to browse in your mobile / smart phone. First you need to check whether your bluetooth drive is properly installed or not. Default windows bluetooth driver in a windows XP machine wont work, you need to install the driver which came with your bluetooth device.
First I paired my K550i with my Acer TravelMate
Then using the bluetooth wizard I selected network access as a service I wanted to use my laptop and phone for.
Then in the network connections window, I enabled “bluetooth network”
In ‘My Bluetooth Places’, I went to the ‘Properties of Network Access’ and i ticked the ‘connect automatically’ checkbox and underneath that in the list i selected “Allow other devices to access internet / LAN ” (see the picture)
Then in network connections in the properties of my broadband connection i checked the option to share this net connection and underneath that in the list select “Bluetooth Network”
Then in my phone i went to the “Bluetooth->My Devices” section and in the More section of my laptop name i checked Allow Network access -> Always Allow
Then in the Data Comm section check whether a profile with bluetooth icon and your PC name has been created (in my case there was a profile with my laptop name)
Go to Internet profile -> Create a new profile with the account using my laptop name data account.
Thats all !! Connected my laptop with the internet. Connected my phone with the laptop thru bluetooth. Opened my phone browser and started browsing like YouTube Mobile, Yahoo Mobile. And also tried to the new Opera Mini Beta.
Before I tell my first little experience with my K550i, I would like to tell in this world of Gadgets & Gizmos a term called “FIRMWARE” plays a very important part. Without these firmwares all you have is a paperweight instead of your mobilephone , mp3 player etc …..Lets say these are the brains of our gizmos….
Many of you might have come across glitches in your gadgets, so companies nowadays releases new firmwares to rectify those ‘bugs’ and improve your hardware’s performance.
I have tried updating my Creative ZEN V Plus without a hitch, a small downloadable file. Just plug in your player run the update file viola !!! in 2 minutes you are done. As far as I know in the mobile phone arena Sony Ericsson and Nokia are the ones who give control to the users to update the firmware for their phones. Sony Ericsson gives you two options ,
FOTA - Firmware Over The Air -> You can update the phone’s firmware through either your GPRS / EDGE / 3G service provided by your telecom service provider
Even though I had gone through a host of SE mobiles I have never dared to update the firmware as I have read a lots of horror stories resulting in Dead Phones. Anyway everything new is a risk, so two days back downloaded the SEUS software plugged in my phone through USB cable and started the update. Even though I followed instructions there were few glitches to make the PC recognize my phone but finally did it and after a download of almost 30 MB and a update time of 10 minutes I got my K550 updated from R1JD001 to R6BC002 (firmware version no’s). Using FOTA, has one advantage that the doanload package will be small (in my case it was around only 3 MB but due to my crappy GPRS connection I didnt take this route)
Note : While updating firmware please read and follow the instructions properly so that you wont end up with a costly paperweight .
This month I am going to jot down some interesting things I did with my Sony Ericsson K550i. Meanwhile Sony Ericsson has started a campaign called ” Capturing it Live”…check it out here.
And here is the K550i ad which you might have seen in TV courtesy of YouTube,
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