anujit

Happy Diwali Guys!

Not EDGE. EDGE & CDMA 1x are at par (and see how far behind EDGE implementation is). But certainly the competition is there between EVDO & wCDMA. Of course nobody knows when either will be implemented.

Its not really a question of technology (VHS & Beta wars comes to mind), but rather of which is best implemented to benefit me. Speed-wise EDGE is the same as CDMA 1x 2000 so theres nothing to choose there. Thing is Edge is just being implmented while CDMA is moving to EVDO (2 Mbps)! Besides if EDGE is available only in 2 cities in India (and service provider dependant) where as CDMA is extremely well supported both by RIM & Tatas the answer is really obvious!

Dude a 6600 is by no stretch of imagination (or the the wallet - its cheaper than a 6255) a smart phone. A smart phone will have a Symbian, Palm or Windows environment and allow you to run all sorts of apps on it including word, excel, email clients, pdf viewers and browsers. You maybe able to run some of them on the 6600 but unless you have a better input system you really cant email on it. A smart phone would be something on the level of a Treo or a Samsung i700 or Motorola MXP 2000 etc. And Dude the two phones are like apples & oranges. You cant compare them. They are in two different price/feature ranges. Compare the Razr with something similar like the Samsung D600 for features. And compare the 6255 with the 6600 for features!

It should read "Welcome Back VODAFONE"! They had invested in Airtel in the begining but exited a few years later when the saw the mobile phone market wasnt going anywhere. Now they're back since the market has really kicked of... and of course chuckling about the 74% FDI!

For a 20k pricetag I'd expect a Smart Phone. No less. The Razor isnt. It is sleek and made of titanium or something like that. But well not a smart phone. Therefore not productive for that price tag.

Try AVG. Its small, light & free.

Who's gonna develop a decent WAP browser? who who who!!!!

Abhay: M$ has never come up with an orignial idea. Be it Dos, Windows, IE, Media Players, Browsers, Tools, most s/w features etc etc etc etc etc etc etc. What they do is take an existing idea get customer feedback and try to improve it based on that feedback and then release it back to the public.

I differs from place to place. Unless theres an offer like Handset + 2 months talktime @ Rs. 2000! It differs from shop to shop too within a city. Webworlds are the most expensive. And smaller shops cheaper. And popular shops which sell GSM & CDMA phones are the cheapest.

I'm using Zone Labs Internet Suite 6 now. Its got a cool AV & Firewall. Its great. Oh and its got a good spam filter too that works with Outlook!

Dudes, Do you know about any decent media player that we can download for this phone? Something that has better controls like a playlist, ff, rw etc etc. I know that real media runs on series 60 phones. Do we have something similar for this one?

Uhuh. But who's selling?

So whats the SPC code for the 6255?

Ram speeds might be mismatched. Is your second computer of the same config? Best way to check if your second ram is compatible with your 1st system is to remove the ram from the first system and put the 2nd ram in its place. If that works clean both the contact points of both chips and insert them correctly.

Dude how do you know theres a virus?

COAI must have hired Ashok as their lawyer (hehehe its been so long since we've sparred)!! Since when has COAI been given the task on ensuring that Tata and everyone else give out correct subscriber base figures??? And is there an award for that that COAI members are trying to stop Tata from acheiving??? Of course not. Its the customers (who buy recharges of Rs. 50 & Rs. 10 etc etc who will run away to Tata) that they are really pis---sing in the their pants about.

Guys I think you're gettings stuck on the word "Treo" here. Read on. Its a 180. Ever heard of it? I haven't. Its been phased out years ago. It doesnt have any "features" to write home about. Though you would have 20 years back! It does have PDA capabilities but certainly not a "smartphone". Of course good luck getting spares & accesories. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reason for the above cynicisim - we dont have a single internet retailer who offers us VALUE for shopping on the internet! Check out the prices of phones, books you name it!!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh and good luck finding the 180 on the palm.com website! (Thats not to say it doesnt exist, just how much its favoured by Palm).

Yes its possible. For this you will need to buy a handset from Tata and duplicate its values to your NAM2 settings in your existing RIM handset. However this is "frowned upon" by Vishal here and both Tata & RIM. Though if you've purchased a handset and services from both you can pretty well go tell them to go **** themselves. Of course you will still face the problem of making/receiving calls. You CANNOT use both numbers at the same time. You will have to keep switching between them. Whenever you want to make/receive calls. That's not a very smart thing to do. What you actually need is number poratbility (i.e. using your RIM number on Tata or Airtel or wherever). This will be in India in the next 5-10 years so keep watching this space. So the ideal solution would be (and this is if you're very keen on changing to Tata), to use both for sometime and gradually phase out your RIM handset.

Well Ashok thanks to you theres loads of porn there now. And as for crashing I've seen machines (2k, XP etc etc) crash with far less software/data/info in them! So thats not what I meant. I was complimenting M$ - as they have now created a much more stable OS as compared to 95, 98 etc. Of course IMHO most BSODs do happen due to faulty memory chips!

Yes of course internet connections are exactly the same as water pipes. But hey guys I managed to get a copy of.... Sify's real notice as sent by their engineers to their PR dept: We are way to cheap to invest in new technologies. Not only that we really dont know the d-i-c-k-e-n-s about load and stress management. The above coupled with our extensive research --- a.k.a. our CFO scratching his privates while whistling the latest of the 5 hindi songs he's downloaded today --- we feel that people should not download more than 2 MB per day. But marketing somehow convinced us it should be 150 MB (don't ask where they got those figures from!). We are still staring at our telnet screens wondering how & why people need to look at more than 2MB of data in a day. We certainly cant!!! It interferes with our inter-office table tennis championships! Marketing also hatched up a cool scheme to make money out of this. Please find it in the attached excel sheet "scheminglikethedeviltomakemoremoney.xls". We can't understand their calculations or computations so we are going to continue as before generating random numbers for customer usage. Please add your usual spin to the above document and release it ASAP. Yours truly, Clueless as ever The Sify Team

Staying updated (on Windows, AVs etc), installing geniuine components & apps and not screwing it up too much helps keep BSODs away. I cant remember the last time I saw one on my machine!

Google office is already here as Open Office (Sun's open source office system). And it would be silly for Google to develop an OS within the next 3-5 years given the complexity of it, making drivers work, getting apps ported to it etc etc etc. A simpler option would be to just have an interface that covers Windows from head to toe. The desktop search bar, Gbrowser etc are the right steps in this direction.... ... Unless of course they can "reinvent" the concept of the network PC (free WiFi in SF is the right steps in this direction). In which case all hell might break loose!

Ok lets get some facts straight here. Google doesnt send a "crew" to click photos of sensitive nuclear installations of countries around the world. These maps are already available with various mapping companies!!! There are several thousand around the world. If a terrorist wants to get such information he can go buy the maps from the same place Google did. Boohoo. These maps have been around for decades. Google just makes them easier to search and retrieve. Why didnt the Indian Govt do a better job camoflaging the damn sites instead of labelling them "Nuke Weapons stored here, here and here..."

http://www.google.com/talk/ Enjoy. -------- Anujit Helping Google take over the world since 1999. -------------------------------------