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PLEASE READ THIS FIRST This thread contains the review of Choispad 110 but it in no way favours or disapproves the product. The review is based on only my opinion and may or may not be exactly same as the product i'm using. There are a lot of things that i've still not explored and reader discretion is advised regarding the contents of the posts and the actual product. the review is in no way official by any agency.

hey all... i wanna buy a data cable for my n191 fone but am unable to decide on the orignal or duplicate piece. i'm getting the duplicate for rs 175 n orig for rs 1200 but then i'll be using my priviledged customer coupons worth rs 1000 in it so its effictively rs 200 for the original one the biggest question is that how much does the speed of rconnect vary in the 2 types of cables?? has ne one used both the types of cables?? esp for n191 or otherwise??

well i'm getting hbo at my place. n the movie starts instantly for me.. no buffering time needed. i rarely get the msg 'download data rate is very slow'... r u able to see intolerable cruelity??? search is a badly needed feature.. n more than 1 playlists are reqd.

hey city02... nice to have a person who could share the experiences... btw what version of the netway software u use... i mean the no on the right hand bottom part of the start screen. also did u feel the difference between normal cable tv and that thru choispad... the clarity here is amazing. once again i checked my internet speeds on pc... test by cnet gave me 212kbps

haha.... atleast i found one person doing the same dumb thing that i did once.... rebuilding the eeprom... there is only one option left... goto the service center n get it sorted... will take about 10 mins to download the new s/w on the phone n as u said the warranty is over it'll cost abt 270 bucks.... thats what i was asked to pay... but my incedent took place on the 366th day of my phone n the asc man was a good person so he didnt charge me a penny. ne ways try n persuade him not to charge

hi...those netway guys came to my home n put up a STB. its good but the internet on the PC is still unavailable . i'm writing this on my TV with a crammed remote.so its short .best thing is that it has got 250+ movies. i'll write more from a cafe someday. or gimme a call for more detaails.

some one really nice gave me this doc. read it guys to know whats in store for India's future!!! believe me there is a lot of stuff mentioned that is already operational.....and hold ur breath for more as mentioned in the document. netway.doc

hi guys.. i wanted to know which is a better data cable a serial or a USB one... seeing the following criteria: 1.Speed of connection 2.Durability 3.Cost 4.Provision for charging the battery i read a few posts in the other topic but i could not get a clear picture. pls rep bk.

so niket u say that i have a samsung then i have the option of usb only?? no serial even in the duplicate market?? neways which one is better serial or usb? which is cheaper??

Hi guys... has any one seen led light stickers or led light antennas which glow up whenever u make or receive a call/SMS for CDMA phones. Such accessiores are available for the GSM phones. Basically these leds light up from the strong EM signals of some specific frequency range during the call period. i've tried those antennas on my rim but they donot work. has any body seen such accessoires for the CDMA phones??

but then battery powered one would be bigger and clumsy. well samsung gsm phones support led stickers without battery. neways can u post the location where u find such stuff.

Choispad 110 is a new and improved version of the Choispad 101. There was no external difference between Choispad 100 and choispad101 but Choispad 110 is completely new and different. LOOKS: Choispad 110 mainly consists of 4 parts: 1. Choispad: this is less than half the size of previous Choispad. Its has got a moulded plastic body which is sleek and good to look. The color is black. Front panel contains a smart card slot, 2 lights( one for network and one for standby mode/remote sensor). The back side contains – audio in, audio out, video out, component video, digital audio, serial port, parallel port, plug for choisfone, charge point for choiser, Ethernet RJ45 plug, Choispower connection. 2. Choispower: this is a separate unit which goes into the 230V ac supply and the other end goes in the choispad perhaps after conversion to DC. It has got a reset button and also provides a 15 minute UPS backup. 3. Choiser: this the remote control of the Choispad. Though it needs to be charged (frustrating thing is that this charge remains for a very little time- about 15 mins - and one need to charge the remote very frequently). A good alternative is use the choisfone. Now the choiser is a remote control panel where we have the arrow keys, ok button, back, tab, delete, shift, symbols, a-z and 0-9, home, start, volume control, page control and a few more. The good thing is that there is a LCD panel with a 4 line display at the bottom where u can see what u have typed . At the back side of the remote is a button which has the function of a mouse ball (it’s a button not a ball tough). This helps while surfing the net. 4. Choisfone: this is exactly same as the choiser except a few differences. This is a phone. U can actually call the people those are connected to the netway network (this is the case now). It has got a speaker and a mic. Call and mute buttons etc. But the catch is that it is connected to the choispad by a wire ( abt 4-5 mtrs). Even this has got a LCD panel and all the buttons present in choiser. Theres a strap at the back of the choiser and the choisfone so that it remains intact in ur hand.

CHOISPAD 110: INTRODUCTION Choispad 110 has been put up by the infocomm people in my house in the 3rd week of May. Basically the development work is being done by innomedia technologies and the implementation and the field work is done by reliance infocomm. Before installation the following things were done…. Optical fibers were laid up to my building and a white colored box was put outside the house in which the fibers went. The house was then wired from inside (and the whole thing connected to the white box outside) where in RJ45 connections were given at several places to plug the Choispad and the computer. The Choispad is then connected to one of these ports and to the AV mode of the TV. as such there is now no need for the coaxial cables now as the Choispad also shows TV channels. Coming up soon: External looks and features of Choispad 110

nice list city02.... well there are quite a few features that are already present in the choispad 110 as u'll get to know from my reviews which are on their way. there is no helpline no for netway as of now.... but i do have access to their helpdesk as i'm a netway user..... SO I KINDLY REQUEST U TO POST ALL UR WISHES AND EXPECTATIONS FROM NETWAY IN THIS THREAD SO THAT I CAN FORWARD THE SAME TO THE CONCERNED AUTHORITIES.

sorry greens and emmi..... i cannot get u the pics of choispad 101 coz they took it away... some time back . hehe but they have put the new and improved chiospad 110 which is the actual netway product. i'm trying to get the pics but u c i don have a digicam as yet.

of course u can use the internet on the pc... as i mentioned that there is a RJ45 port at the back of the choispad ... this can be connected to the network card of ur PC using the normal grade UTP

well the pcpitstop shows 100Kbps(kilobits) in peak times which well crosses that in lean time. but while downloading i did get near to 100KBps(kilobytes-- ie in tune of 800 Kbps) at some of the servers that i downloaded from. but getting 50-65 KBps was normal while download. i dunno y the figures disagree a lot from the pcpitstop.com tests... may be the server of that site may be catering high traffic or something. neways i mentioned the figures of that site as a benchmark

Ok now… I continue my discussion with the choispad 101 !! Well after using the choispad 100 for about 2-2.5 years…. One day the innomedia people came up with choispad 101. Nothing new except VIDEO ON DEMAND. It had got 3 parts 1.hindi—all with hindi movie songs and most of them with videos and some 10-15 hit movies. 2.enslish—English songs and about 20 movies( most of them were animated ones). 3.Juke box: a juke box where in u can create your own playlist the songs in each lang were arranged neatly acc. Actor ,actress ,movie ,lyricist ,playback singer and all. Then there was this VAKI panel which showed whether the song was a Video/Audio/Karaoke/Instrumental. Or all of them. In hindi section was antakshari where in one could select a song and then a antakshari would automatically continue from the songs present in the server. The choispad 101 had a 20GB hard disk and the songs n movies were downloaded before playing. It took about 90 secs to download 60 secs worth of video. Sometimes it was faster/slower depending on the traffic. Nothing was available for the disk management. As new stuff was downloaded the old things got deleted…also had an option of explicitly deleting a video. Channels had a new feature of making a list of channels u see and thus surf them quickly without worrying to go into each of the sections. Kinda playlist of channels Internet had a option of checking the usage in each of the sections like channels, magazines, vod or internet. The list or top ten users could also be seen. The weekly monthly usage reports were also available. The internet speed on the computer also improved considerably. I used to get about 100kbps at the download test of www.pcpitstop.com in the peak time…. But lately it went down. Well it was fun downloading GBs of material from the net. I downloaded the whole ferdora project linux twice( about 2 Gb each time). The smart card slot was still not in use but the guys said that in the future it would be so advanced that u could do ur shopping from the shops registered with reliance from the choispad itself sitting at home and the amount will be charged to ur smart card. The heating problem of choispad 100 was reduced a bit but it was still not enough. The whole STB became heavier due to the HDD. Then in the 3rd week last month came the guys with choispad 110 (dunno where the versions 102 to 109 went) which had got even more to offer!!!

things i forgot to mention-- 1. the choispad was free to use then as it is today. but it was not owned by me. it was theirs n they had the right to remove it n put in someone else's house. 2. the front panel of the choispad: there were 2 notable things--- a set of 3 leds one for the network other two for the communication Tx and Rx. and a slot for inserting a smart card tough we didnt ever use it

Well this netway stuff is not a recent phenomena..... I’ve been using the STB of reliance since about June 2000. My Place: Well i'm a reliance employee relative and i live in colony of RIL. About 4 years back a few people came to my place and a several houses in my sector and installed a STB( hadn't heard of it before). our township has its own cable tv setup n coaxial cables run to all the houses. there were some changes made to the cabletv setup... some frequencies changed n voila the thing started. Brief history: The stb was called choispad( ver 100). this version was a white metallic box with hard disk in it. it was a bit heavy and had a lot of heating problems. it became too hot too early. the cable running to the home was split into 2 by the BNC-T connector--- one went to the tv and the other to the choispad. from chois pad the 3 AV wires were plugged in to the tv. the whole thing worked on the av mode of the tv which is the case now also. on the back of the chois pad were a serial port, a parallel port, a RJ45 plug for the connection with the computer. now the internet speed was good....certainly better than the 4 kbps i used to get on dialup.but still yeh dil maange more!!! This thing had 3 sections: 1. Channels: there were about 45-50 channels neatly arranged into categories of their content and each channel in front of it had a “now showing” TV guide. There were a set of 6-7 channels that had a facility of pausing( big thing again in those days) of about 30 mins. 2. Internet: then there was this option of internet on tv. again the most popular sites were arranged in sections like mail, news,family etc… n one could surf using a remote( size of a normal tv remote with all the 26 alphabets on it – and the remote had different settings for upto 4 users n the remote was given a name-- Choiser). But typing was cumbersome. 3. Magazines: the last option was of magazines where in there were songs(audio only)- both English n hindi… info about some tourist places… classifieds section… the telephone directory of our colony and a lot more stuff came in as the time went by. Say something like r-world world but on a very small scale n with out the identity of the user. Choispad was developed by Innomedia technologies in Bangalore n those ppl installed the choispad in several homes in Bangalore. All the servers were in Bangalore and the updation things were done from there itself. I think innomedia is a subsidiary of reliance ind. ( infocomm was still a dream then). The thing was working well until suddenly one day choispad 101 came in which I talk about later.

about 150+ channels..from every state n most of the major countries all with .5 hr pause delay.internet on TV is comparable to webworld in speed.i didnt call those ppl..they themselves came n put it n no charges as they r testing it.

hi city02.really liked ur report!!! could u mail me the whole report or post it on some site(hope u dont charge!!!)...please do it soon! mail me at: pjthevj@yahoo.com

well thats actually *288 which will take ur phone to the activation procedure...of course if ur phone is deactivated at the first place. other wise it gives an error message. generally u get ur phone activated when u got some number prob or n/w related prob n the *333 gal deactivates ur phone n asks u to dial *288

even i got a similar sms

hi today i visited one of the operational petrol pumps(though not fully operational) of reliance-- ie they at present are only selling petrol n deisel. but they have their plans ready for a lot more... n no prizes for guessing who will give the infotech support!! yes there was a complete seperate area for the bank atm which will be using either the CDMA wireless system as mentioned in the relianceinfo.com --media section or they could use the optical fibre n/w. this means that where ever there is a petrol pump there will b optical fibre . heres the really cool part...u buy a card from reliance (something like a debit card) ... go to the petrol pump.... go on the unmanned terminal... there is this machine where u insert ur card... punch in the pin no n stuff.....key in the amt of fuel required... pick up the nozzle n fill the petrol urself( the age of self service ) what more!!! newer cell phones are being developed which will be safe to use at the petrol pumps and then u can just pay the amount for the fuel u bought using r world. something similar to ur bill payment ( that if reliance assume that everyone pays their phone bills!!!) well dont take it very seriously coz its in very initial stages n is subject to change. also all this was told to me by a petrol filler man n hence the source is not reliable... the greatest news.. this is my guess that if there is a petrol pump on the highway then there has to be reliance n/w there and so cheer up u highway roamers!!