Ramchi

I don't use Nokia nor planning to use Nokia in the future until they fix their MAPs correctly reflecting the World order. Just because Taliban is influencing and ruling most of the Western Pakistan you just can't mention Taliban Territory in the MAP unless Pakistan does not mind it because I dont' see any big difference.

Very dangerous to buy this in black market that too paying so much!!! Just imagine you end up having problems and there is no warranty or support. If it is around few thousand Rupees, you don't mind getting a phone without warranty. I have had a very bad experience with Locked iPhone and subsequently not able to use it for 6 months and I could only after shelling out nearly Rs8K to fix it. I feel this phone worth Rs 25K maximum. Nokia is coming out with N97 which has much more than what this phone delivers for Rs30K or so.

UPA Government will definitely deny Indians 3G connectivity for sure. They are siding with Mobile Cartel to block entries through various litigations between various bodies (GoI, TRAI, COAI, DOT etc...). I had predicted earlier that Indians will probably get 3G around 2010 if we are lucky. Mobile operators want to milk our money without sweating any extra money. 3G infrastructure cost will be so huge and with down-turn economic conditions, they would try to avoid it for another few more years. It is easy to purchase Babus & Ministers than competing in the market. Mittals, Ambanis & Tatas have been doing this for a century.

These are counter productive with respect to national safety. Some foreigner can sniff in to our country (vice-versa) and expose potential Nuclear Bombs installed in our country to our enemies (I mean, everyone in the world I presume considering the present situation). First of all, countries like US will definitely oppose such instruments.

Good for Individual business people not for common man though (obviously). For me any data plan (unlimited) should not be more than Rs 300 in India - considering we have not gone to 3G etc...

If you buy from some small shops claiming to be Mobile solution experts, this is what going to happen. One of my colleague got N95 fake did not realize until I pointed out! She got that phone from her closes friend who sells electronic goods! Just dont trust when it comes to business that I know my friend wont cheat and that shop will sell only original stuff etc.... Go to proper show room (Nokia, SE etc...) ask them to open the package infront of you, even if that person is known to you for 1000 years! Just don't trust anyone in Business.

Don't understand the purpose of this phone at Rs 35K plus Rs 1500 every month for availing BlackBerry services (unlimited). It looks ordinary compared to Nokia E71 which is half the price and has more capabilities. Only fake executives without proper knowledge thinking that BB is the ultimate device would buy at this rate.

If WiFi networks used to trigger bombs, I can understand the safety concerns. The risk here is sending emails which contains encrypted data (not visible for normal recipients but can be seen by the actual terrorists with the help of decryption). Some of the forwarded emails that are sent carries some invisible information which will help terrorists to act upon it when they receive it. And for normal law enforcement mechanisms, it will be difficult to trace the owner of the forwarded emails (with chains going to many recipients). During parliamentary attacks, security agency recovered laptops which carried an email with Ayshwarya Roy picture, upon investigating with the help of forens, the JPEG had specific instructions to strike parliament in a given date.

I am unable to change my BSNL WEP Key for somereason. Looks like it is hardwire yet the passkey looks silly which I wanted to change but will not work if I change. I am not sure what sort of Private Key is this, if I cant change it!

Finally the iPhone hype dusted down in India! Thanks to Vodafone & Airtel for making iPhone unreachable for common man in India which is a underdeveloped country but pricings are way beyond developed Western economies where the same were offered 4 times cheaper! Let us not bull**** ourselves by saying in Western world they pay premium for monthly plans etc….In India if you were to use phone for average 5000 national minutes, unlimited SMS, unlimited data plan, it would come close to Rs 1000-1200 PM (cheapest one). Indians would have paid Rs 1200 PM as fixed monthly rental (5000 National Minutes, Unlimited SMS and Unlimited Data) for two years if they were to offer iPhone 3G for Rs 10,000 – Rs 12,000 as a onetime fee. Now bringing them back to iPhone after their disappointment will be a difficult task since people would have already committed for other handsets already like HTC, Samsung, Nokia etc… iPhone can never be projected as niche market through mindless pricing alone! Indians are already using much better and capable phones by paying almost half of the price (Sony Ericsson P1i for example)

I have heard after the recent MTNL failure, Anil is planning to quit RCOM business. May be he wants all customers to voluntarily close their connections left with no one to serve which enable him to leave the business in grace.

It is plain and simple! Babus and Central Government missed out the great oppurtunity to make money! They thought only Mobile operators bound to pay their "tribute" to the Government servants (read Politicians and Babus). After so many years they woke up that they had missed the oppurtunity to make money and when TATAs enter the market they suddenly make it up an issue. Mr Raja sums up the whole thing by saying, "Talks at different levels take place" - which in Indian language means only one thing, Fund Transfer to secret Swiss Bank accounts! Security, encrypytion etc...are beyond the comprehensio of these jokers. Blackberry, Canadian operator has realized that they do not reserve the ONLY right to loot Indian customers and they are now sharing it with political masters.

Hard Disk will be thing of the past. Once the disk storage reaches 100-200 GB range even mediums like DVD, B-Ray will meet is end of the tunnel sooner than later. Hard Disk will be an external backup storage mechanism detached from work stations. Technology is moving away from deskstop centric storage mechanisms. With Cloud computing and centralized storages will ensure technologies like Yahoo/MSN Spaces/Google starget to gain momentum with people sharing their High-end processing power, with super charged server processors under clustured environments supported by Cashing replication mechanisms. People would simply carry a powerful processor which would simply take the information and process it from the server only for consumption but NOT for storing. Sony always carries Premium beyond the reach of common man in India. It is advisable to wait for more optimal solutions in this end than ending up buying the latest technology but at the entry level!

NDTV (& Jet Airways) is indirectly owned by Dawood kind of people to engineer opinion in favor. CNN-IBN has tons of money from Western countries which is primarily controlled by special interest groups!!!! You can issue ready made "traitor" certificate if you see someone even remotely associated anything with the tag "Times"!!!! Now a days anti-Indian interest groups are trying to exploit India only to invade further! I have a simple Trivia for anyone: Can you guess who is the second biggest Real Estate Owner in Country? To make your life easier let me answer who is the first biggest Real Estate Owner in the country - it is Indian Army!

It would be devastating to know the whole truth! It is indeed true that English Media and the primary players are being controlled by external interests. Pranoy Roy gets his bonus if he talks bad against Indian communities and Hindus in particular. Rajeev Paradesai, gets double bonus (because his wife also works) if he targets BJP more and more, Goswami gets his fat pay cheque if Indian culture is denigrated as trash. So there is nothing really surprising as such for those self-respecting individuals to see these caricatures in the media business bend their back too much and demean their stature and in turn look ridiculous infront of everyone.

My list as follows: 1. Very expensive Data plans 2. Disparities within the country/market/region in terms of Call rates and packages offered - Certain areas like TN are over charged with their data plans. 3. Do we really need the concept of roaming - unless the country is expected to be split in the near future! Entire charges associated with roaming is really unacceptable. The same network charges the customer when you cross the boundary just for the heck of it. 4. Since Indian providers do not subsidize handsets (unlike Western countries), the call rates must be really cheaper in terms of affordabilty for the normal people. 5. Number portability - Top Priority 6. Keep changing tarrif frequently and blackmailing the customer 7. For Postpaid connections - Airtel did not close my connection but kept sending fake bills even after taking my SIM card away! This way they cheat Insurance companies and claim these amount as bad debts (as though Customers failed to pay their bills). They make lots of money in this process. 8. Reliance Customer Care - Pathetic to say least. No response, arrogant and totally substandard. They should not be actually in the market with this attitude but strangely they make lots of money!

ICC & Australia cleverly put their coolies (Bucknor, Bawdon, Tufnal) as Umpires and ensure that they never lose first. Then thru corrupt practices, they ensure their victories thru Umpires supporting their ridiculous appeals and non-sportsmanship althrough. Indian team has been a continuos victim of 'biased' Umpiring NOT poor Umpiring. To diver the media (I mean, Indian) they have created stories such as racist abuse bla bla.... Unless Indian team is also part of this larger scam (like Match Fixing) they must immediately call-off this tour and return back to India.

Best Wishes to Indian team for winning the 3rd Test Match against Australian in Perth. Every team member contributed (may be Ganguly an exception!) to the success and I wish they continue this trend in Adelide as well. Indian media should not get gaga over this victory and let us not forget Australians have lost this only after 16 Wins! So we have the benchmark set and I wish our team plays their best everytime in true spirit of the game. Victory matters but so is our approach towards victory!

Mr Pawar is expecting to take over ICC Chairman post from Mr Speed. This Pawar would do anything including mortgaging Indian pride so long he gets his hot seat. He is eyeing big money when next World Cup happens in India around 2011! BCCI itself is a piece of $hiT - worthless. If it were in countries like China, they would have bombed the A$$es of big bosses in BCCI long back.

All decisions went against India were due to INHUMEN errors. Blatant and prejudiced. I feel Bucknor was mere executioner and I feel all 4 3 Umpires are not just incompetent but corrupt. It is not about bad Umpiring any more. You dont need Mr Ponting to declare Ganguly out!!!! To me either this series is rigged and BCCI is also part of it or Australians want to purchase victory at all costs.

No need for free SMS but I feel there is a need for affordable Email services (unlike Expensive blackberry services) which can be linked to your Mobile Number instead of separate email-id, will be more attracting. SMS are useful but if it is funded by ad industry, it will be counterproductive. You may keep getting unwanted spam messages and finally end up paying more to stop the scam!

In Western countries mobile market is dominated by the Operators not by handset manufacturers. Due to this reason, Handsets are subsidized by the Operators by signing up long term contracts. Reliance infact started their services like that by giving handsets at subsidized rates forcing customers to sign 3 years contract or so. In India GSM market is almost left it to the handset manufacturers. This is the main reason why we have attractive handsets coming out every 2-3 months time in India while it takes almost one year for a decent handsets in US kind of countries. Indian mobile market is no more underdeveloped in terms of experience or exposures. In India mobile density is around 20% or so (according to AT&T chairman). Even if there is an increase of 10%-15% rise in the customer base during next 3 years, our operators can easily reduce some of the tarriffs and make services affordable for common man. There must atleast 4 technology-neutral operators competing against each other with different backgrounds (foreign, local, blended). If we have such divergent competition then there is no need for any governing body to determine the price.

Welcome to the CLUB! I have been telling this all along. May be all of them playing together fooling the general public by clearly delaying the 3G deployment which is really an expensive one. All operators benefits due to delay in 3G deployment and customers like us are denied the best technology, as usual. Welcome to the era of 'Hamara Bajaj' where you have to wait 5 years to get your two wheeler and 10 years to get your phone line!

All Indian companies tag alone is not sufficient to sustain in competitive markets. Look at our legacy "all Indian" companies such as Bajaj, Godrej, Tatas, Birlas etc....(typically, marwari companies)....Indians never benefited from these companies until recently, either they are pushed out of the competition or forced to innovate new product lines - though they are nowhere near worldstandards in terms of features or quality, even today. What is the use of such all Indian companies ? They never invest in R&D because marwari type companies never believe in innovations simply because they cant innovate anything beyond profit, nothing but profits; It is time for Tatas, Ambanis to fightout with international players, otherwise they can only live in the past.

Even mobile phones have this capability; you may try E61i or P1i which supports VoIP Calls but it is bit expensive(around 18K-19K) if you just look for VOIP Calls alone. These are basically mobile phones with VoIP capability.