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Woes of a Reliance WiMax user:

Standing advice for people who are thinking off to shift to Reliance WiMax Broadband Connection-”Dont”. WiMax Connection is thought to be handled by experts in telecommunications and this makes out to nothing but pain in the a** for most of the subscribers. An IP address wouldnt be provided for the system with a connection, the IP address would be changing every time you log into your system.(Well, this can be understood, No ISP provideds a Stati IP address unless you pay more). But, wait for more woes.It is a common experience that you will face multiple timeouts due to which you can login to any of the mail acounts or Orkut. Sometimes, you need to wait for 10-20 minutes in order to get an IP and log on.

It is a common notion that Reliance wiMax BroadBand Connection is still under the beta face, but released onto the public to play with their money and emotions. And add to this, the pathetic Customer Care, which would always say that your complaint had been resolved. Many a users have a common opinion. How would your problem be resolved without checking on the Customer’s Feedback? And once the call is resolved, it cannot
be reopened with the same complaint number and the caller would loose the advantage of emphasizing the complaint. So, opening another ticket would mean, starting over again. The Customer care professionals ask you to do basics of checking the IP Address and flushdns, ipconfig and thats it. Your connection is up and running or We will send professionals who would arrive after again reminding them.

Add to this, getting a duplicate bill. A friend of mine expressed his problems in a simple manner. “Using for the past 3 months, 2 Complaints per week, no duplicate bill even after calling 5 times”. Most of the times when the so-called technical people arrive at your doorstep, you begin by helping them out in letting them understand the basics of setting up an internet connection.

Most of the people suggest that Reliance should be awarded “Worst Ever ISP Award”.

LG KU990 Viewty

The LG Viewty (LG-KU990) has been launched in India. It was unveiled by Bollywood’s latest hearthrob, Deepika Padukone. Within five weeks of the handset’s launch in Europe this year, LG Viewty has already sold over 310,000 units globally.

The LG Viewty has a 5 megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach lens and a Xenon flash. The ISO800 and SmartLight, and one-touch image stabilizer helps in clicking clear photos even in poor light or shaking conditions. The 3-inches LCD full-touch screen is enhanced with a touch signal to allow users confirm proper functioning of the touch-screen. Pictures once taken can be instantly viewed and edited on the LCD screen using the handwriting editing function.

The Viewty has a 120fps video recording function for shooting videos. The videos can be shared through single-click connection via HSDPA 3.6 high speed internet capability to YouTube.

The ‘ergonomic quotient’ of the handset is improved thanks to the jog wheel placed on the backside, which mainly makes for quick scrolling and searching, as also turning the volume up and down, fast-forwarding and rewinding, zooming- in and out, etc. In three steps, users can select modes, including camera, video, and album.

LG India Director (Sales and Marketing) V. Ramachandran added in a statement: “We want to consolidate our position in the Indian market and are targeting 8-10 per cent market share in a couple of years. We plan to launch around 20 more new handsets in the GSM segment where we have nine models. We want to be among the top three mobile handset vendors by next year. We will also focus on offering premium mobile phones in the GSM space.”

Specifications:
* Tri-band GSM/GPRS plus HSDPA support
* 5 megapixel autofocus camera with image stabilization
* Camera strobe flash and focus assist beam
* Secondary video camera for video calls
* 3″ 262K color TFT touchscreen display with 240×400 pixels resolution
* QVGA video recording at 120 fps
* VGA video recording at 30 fps
* TV-out support
* Original stylus dongle
* DivX video playback
* Haptic feedback when the screen is pressed

The LG Viewty is available at a price of Rs 21,900.

Record at awesome speeds: 120 fps

Pics Courtesy: GSMArena

It’s here, the XPERIA X1 QWERTY from Sony Ericsson. Yes, full QWERTY to make the most of that Windows Mobile 6 operating system. SE’s new XPERIA brand will focus on multimedia and mobile web communication. The X1 then, brings a 3-inch wide VGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera (with photo light), A2DP Bluetooth, aGPS, WiFi, and microSD — just 400MB on board. On the phone side you’ve got quad-band GSM/EDGE, and 900/1700/1900/2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (or 850/1700/1900/2100MHz in what must be a US-bound model). Navigation is accomplished via touch, arc-sliding QWERTY, 4-way key and optical joystick. Now just replace that Internet Explorer Mobile browser with Opera Mobile 9.5 or Skyfire and the 110 x 53 x 16.7-mm X1 is ready to live up to its potential. You know, when it ships in “select markets” in the second half of 2008. Full specs posted after the break.

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Sony Ericsson

Engadget

Unlike some Apple analysts, Apple management doesn’t sound too concerned with the “significant” number of iPhones that have been bought to be unlocked and used abroad.

“Of all the problems that I might face, this is one that I face looking at with a little bit of a smile,” Apple (AAPL) chief operating officer Tim Cook said yesterday at Goldman Sachs’ annual tech stock conference. “Because it means there’s great demand for the phone. To have people stepping over each other to get the phone isn’t a bad thing, I think.”

Why are analysts so agitated? Bernstein’s Toni Sacconaghi says Apple is missing out on more than $1 billion in lost revenue. Because those phones aren’t being activated on Apple-chosen wireless carriers like AT&T (T), Apple isn’t getting an estimated $10-$15 in revenue per subscriber, per month from its partners.

But that’s a tough sell. Most people aren’t unlocking the iPhone to escape Apple’s partners, Cook said. They’re buying them to take to countries that Apple isn’t selling its phones at all yet, like China. Apple rolled the iPhone out at a “chosen speed” — just four countries last year — on purpose, Cook reminds us.

ITaP (short for Information Technology at Purdue) is offering advice for potential buyers of the iPhone: Wait. According to Frank Wolf, Mac specialist and systems administrator for ITaP:

“The iPhone is still being considered by many to be a revision-one product when thinking about it in an enterprise. I recommend to the people we support that they hold off on getting an iPhone until the next revision is released.”

Here’s more of his reasoning as to why you should wait:

“Early adopters run a risk of getting left out of more enterprise-friendly features of future releases. The next version of the iPhone is rumored to be 3G-capable, which would bring faster cellular network speeds.”

And he’s not the only one from Purdue’s IT department saying to wait. Julie Kercher-Updike, associate vice president for ITaP, says, “If your primary use for a device is for a phone, Internet access on the go, and reading e-mail, then the iPhone is a pretty slick device. If you want to have up-to-the- minute calendar access, then the iPhone might not replace your Blackberry just yet.”

Apparently, synchronizing the iPhone with enterprise Outlook or Entourage calendars is a hassle and includes some manual processes: “Campus computer users who want to use a handheld device primarily to check and schedule meetings probably will want to continue using a device that synchronizes wirelessly like a Blackberry or other Windows-compatible mobile device.”

Another problem is that Apple has not yet implemented Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), which makes it so the iPhone doesn’t work with the latest client for accessing Purdue’s wireless network.

This shouldn’t be a big surprise to anyone used to new technology. It’s difficult enough to create a breakthrough product, let alone have it interface properly with existing infrastructures. But that isn’t to say that the trade off of having the latest gadget isn’t worth it to some people. It is. But for the rest of us, here’s to the second generation of tech products.

*Update* Coincidentally released the same day, check out this article called Apple: All signs point to a more business friendly iPhone.

*Update 2* Wow. Not sure what’s causing the next gen iPhone news today, but here’s another take that says the next gen iPhone could be here “mid-year.”

More about this here……..

Courtesy: Purdue