Nokia N96 on a Trip to Jaipur

With Nokia N96 to Jaipur

No, I have not forgotten Mumbai but if people are willing to travel to India and Mumbai, I am willing to blog about travel.

I have to say that it was the offer of using the Nokia N96 by Blogger's Mind that spurred me to go to Jaipur. Now all I was asked to do a review of it. So in this post, I am posting my experience against the features of the phone.

1. Keeps you connected with the world, take calls, send messages, check mails, browse the internet, geotag pictures.

My Experience- Yes, of course I could make calls on my Jaipur trip, take calls and use internet partially. I posted a few lines on my blog using N96 from Delhi-Jaipur Shatabdi Express train. For email, whenever I tired, the Vodaphone connection would ask me if they should open a secure connection and somehow most if the time it would say could not find a secure connection. Now I am not most tech savvy person, but I wonder what a more informed person like Shrinidhi would find the experience?

2. Want to travel light and not carry too many equipments. Can substitute Digi cams with its 5 MP camera and Carl Zeiss Lens for great pictures.

My experience- For people like me who travel with multiple cameras, yes a 5 MP camera and video recording in the same equipment is a great help. If this phone was mine, I would have traveled just with my SLR and this phone. As of now I carry a Nikon point and shoot, Canon SLR and if I wish I can carry a Sony handycam apart from a cell phone! That way in future I think I can invest in a good phone.

Ipods, walkman, with so much of storage content, 100 english and 100 hindi music videos and space to store more and more for all the long journey trains rides.

My experience- Not really for me, I prefer to look out of the window rather than listen to music. But my nephew was really interested in loading songs if we take it on another trip.

Plethora of Cd’s with FM Transmitter that can blare out your favorite playlists in mobile through your car speakers and woofers, for those long car drives on open highways.

Once again I can think of Shrinidi and his rental cars and long drives!

Laptops with access to internet and mailbox, if in case you want to shoot out an important mail while on your trip.

This definitely is possible and of great help, but depends on your connection and getting used to it.

Sportstracker or Lifevine to share your travel stories live with the world.

I have to try this feature. One has to go to the Nokia site to post it but it definitely feels interesting.

3. Watch a whole movie Om Shanti Om, and other 50 preloaded music videos, for a long boring flight in an offline mode. With 24 GB of memory space, you can also download and have the latest bolly and holly flicks on the handset. What’s more if u happen to be traveling at a time of a really important India Pakistan cricket match, you can catch it with Mobile TV available in N96. (Currently it gets only Doordarshan but wondering how cool will it be to have other channels coming in)

My experience- Umm once again I like to look outside the window, even on a plane at night but I have seen one person using that N96 stand and watching something on his handset in the Shatabdi while coming back from Jaipur.

Incase one is traveller who likes to stay connected with the nature and not with the world so much. There is a application for that too Wavesecure helps you to access Emails, documents, camera and call logs, even if u r 10,000 miles away from your phone. So you can leave your phone at home and still be carefree of connecting with the outside world in a time of emergency. This is also a great application for a wildlife photographer. If u want to see a lion in action and get him in your lens. No hassles just place your phone as near as possible to the animal and then sit back in your room to enjoy live action from the animal world.

No idea how this one works.

New Camera Phone, Nokia 6275

New Nokia 6275

I bought the Nokia 6275 for the 2 megapixel camera, without any research and too much thought. I was hankering after a camera in my cell phone because it is very inconvenient to drag a camera everywhere I go. And I just love to click pictures! I know there must be many better camera phones available in the same range as Nokia 6275 but my connection is Reliance CDMA and this seemed to be the best buy. So here are some pictures (below) that I took at night without using the night mode (had not figured the phone out quite well), but I promise you I would improve. Also they did not include a data cable with the basic kit of Nokia 6275a nd I thought I would borrow it from someone I knew but then I wanted to post pictures immediatley! So I bought the data cale too.

Momos, the Mouthwatering Tibetan dish

Moms are now common across every nook and corener in the Delhi region. These pictures are from my local market. I just love Momos. The picture above was taken by my nephew Dilip.

The vessel in which they keep the Momo

Steaming Momos, Simply Mouthwatering!

The picture qualities would improve over time. Oh! I forgot to mention, for quite sometime my old cell phone had refused transmitting voice from my end to another and there were people who would protest! Hence the new Nokia 6275.

My Gadgets Have a Will of Their Own

After a looooong time I got to know that my laptop has finally started working today. I had actually given up on it. Also got my camera (the new one) back. Thought it was my lucky day, the gadgets are coming to their senses. Only to find that my camera CF card is giving Error 99 whatever it means. Google search reveals that this error could be due to anything, lens dirt, contact points, card itself, battery contact ... Well, the camera goes back to the Canon service center.

Two New Things on the Card: A Canon Digital Rebel and a Trip to Sikkim

Well, my computer at home is slowly limping back to normal but the problem is we were so dependent on the laptop that we never really bothered much about its power backup. Now, with the laptop in the 'maybe not repairable' category we realize how bad the power scene in Gurgaon is. Every day they shut off the power from 8.00 to 9.00 pm. I come home around 7.00, have a cup of tea, and then rush to the computer edging out Sesha and my naughty nephew (who magically develop an urgent need for the till then neglected computer) only to find it being shut off midway because there is no power, the inverter does not support the computer and the UPS of the computer supports it for at the most 10 seconds before blarring the most horrible beeps which we don't know how to stop other than by shutting the whole thing down.

Meanwhile, let me tell you two good things that are on the card. One, I have bought a new camera, Canon Digital Rebel, or rather a friend bought it for me and I get it by the end of the November. Oh! I can't wait to put my hands on it.

Two, the tickets for Sikkim in December are booked, we only have to see what we want to do there and where to go beyond New Jalpaiguri!

And maybe three, if we do not get a power backup for the computer soon, I am tempted to buy another laptop. But the problem is I do not want to keep changing the damn thing every two years, they are way too expensive for that. So, blogging will still be erratic.

Conked Laptop and Computer means very little blogging

Both my coumputer systems at home have conked as of now. They are under repair. And at office I am drowned in work. Let me see when can I blog regularly again. It may take two to three days or even more.