Demystification: GPS and GPRS
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 Posted in Mobile | 1 Comment »[This post talks about the difference between GPS and GPRS. If you already know the difference you may skip it.] As an engineer, I would like to apologize to everyone for confusing acronyms being shoved down normal people's throats. GPS and ...
… I love you … Please Repeat?
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 Posted in Mobile, Technical | No Comments »Me: What time is it? She: It's 10:48 pm Me: What day is it? She: The date is Tuesday, December fifth two thousand and six. Me: When is my next appointment? She: Tomorrow at 4:30 pm in 2260 USB Me: Play music She: Do you want to ...
GPS track of Flight from Mumbai to Rajkot
Thursday, June 1st, 2006 Posted in Mobile | 1 Comment »I recently flew to Rajkot from Mumbai. I had my GPS receiver on and captured the raw NMEA data of the entire flight. Here is the take-off part of the flight-path. The plane took-off in the South-East direction, looped over South ...
Motorola SLVR
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 Posted in Gadgets, Mobile | 10 Comments »Motorola's new phone. The SLVR The RAZR sucks. You realize it when you open it. It's just too big. And the interface sucks. This new phone leaves behind the clamshell of RAZR and offers a nice CandyBar phone. Nice is a big understatement. ...
Philips presents Rollable display
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005 Posted in Mobile | No Comments »Rollable display. Sorta like a strip of paper rollled up, and you can un-roll it and read it. like a scroll. You can even make your own electronic paper display.
unlock an audiovox 5600 for free
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in Mobile | No Comments »I didn't know you could do this, but seems like you can unlock an Audiovox SMT 5600 for free. Don't know if the same thing works for SPV C500. I don't need to find out. Am already unlocked.
Applied the Orange French ROM update
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005 Posted in Mobile, Technical, Tutorials, Tips & Tricks | No Comments »After much pain and deliberation, the "keeda" in me made me run the French update on the Orange UK phone. Ofcourse, it can't be done directly, so had to downlod ths tool called Typhoon, changed the Header, reclaculted hash, and went ...
Lappy Bag
Saturday, January 22nd, 2005 Posted in Bought, General, Gumption, Mobile, Technical | 2 Comments »Wanted something small. something compact. and most importantly, something that could let me use the lappy without requiring me to remove the lappy from it. This bag is an exact fit for my lappyhas enough room for the adaptor, mouse ...
Mobile data revenue to surge
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004 Posted in General, Mobile, Technical | No Comments »A new study by Research and Markets expects the market for mobile data to grow dramatically from $16.7 billion USD in 2003 to nearly $78 billion USD in 2007. The majority of that revenue will go not to the content ...
OQO handtop just around the bend
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004 Posted in Buy Me This, Mobile, Technical | 2 Comments »http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5374.html OQO confirms its Windows XP-powered handtop, the OQO 01, is slated to go on sale on October 14th, featuring a WVGA touch screen, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 20 GB of storage - and more. Buy me this!
To use the wireless village
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004 Posted in Mobile | No Comments »For the Wireless Village service you need a IMPS compliant presence-enabled phone chat client. The following phones come with an embedded manufacturer chat/presence client: * Nokia 3220 * Nokia 6220 * ...
I am on the Mobile Village!!
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004 Posted in Mobile | No Comments »Just yesterday I was wondering how exactly does Wireless Village work. And here I am, chatting away on my cell phone with my friends on MSN & Yahoo messenger!! If your phone supports Wireless Village, go on to Yamigo Not many people ...
Wireless Village
Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 Posted in Mobile, Technical | 1 Comment »http://www.pcquest.com/content/technology/2004/104010501.asp Imagine if you could use your mobile phone to chat with others, either on their cell phones or even computers. Sounds interesting? Enter the wireless village. The wireless village is a part of the Mobile IMPS (instant messaging and presence ...
