Two days back I bought W660i, a Walkman series mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. It features 2 MP Camera, Walkman 2.0, FM Radio, 512 MB card, Bluetooth, Video Call, Email/RSS, USB mass storage, Flight mode, Synchronization services, Stylish, … … all these in less than INR 9K.
In addition to those common features, this phone features something new. In this post I’m going to write those specifications which you won’t be able to know unless you buy the phone. Here are a few…
- Bright display! I can read text even in sun light. The phone comes with preloaded high contrast images, watching those you can see how much color contrast it delivers !!! - far from any other manufacturer in the same prize range.
- 3.5mm jack support. This allows any kind of head phones to be used with the phone.
- Text Copy/Paste feature. Handy for coping/writing SMS.
- J2ME with support of - Internet access, File system read/write access API, camera API, Messaging APIs, automatic start, local connectivity API, running Java apps in background.
- You can have at max 1000 Contacts, 1000 SMS memory and 380 events/tasks. (~26MB internal memory)
- 5 alarms, and you can also set FM alarm.
- Two kind of keypad lights. White for normal purpose and Orange when Walkman is running. The orange light blinks on the beats of the song.
- USB charging: When you connect this phone to PC it start charging from the USB cable.
- Flash Menu: The main menu in this phone is built using Flash Lite. You can switch the orientation and look of the menu. Menu items can be tiled, horizontally or vertical aligned, and can have cool animations.
- Synchronization is one of the most important service that we should use. In short taking backup of the phone data. I sync my phone regularly with PC. The phone supports synchronization via USB data cable, Blue-tooth, or internet server.
- Stereo Bluetooth, Picture Blogging, Voice Dial + Playing Caller’s name, Big Fonts, Video Ringtone, etc;
Go and get the phone… it’s a worth buy cellphone.
Note: The camera is not good as compared to ‘K’ series (remember it’s Walkman phone, and this is acceptable). Still it supports EXIF, Night Mode, Effects, Self Timer, No shutter sound (in silent mode), etc;
Ankit
Q: How many times in a day you wait for Adobe Acrobat Reader to load?
A: Almost 2-5 items a day, as I’m an avid Internet user. Let me list down where Acrobat Reader sucks:
- The Adobe Reader 8 installer a massive 20.8MB setup to download and time consuming setup.
- Version 5 was roughly fast whereas new versions are becoming more memory hungry and CPU intensive and version 7 is damn hungry. It takes almost 10-15 seconds to load!
- Frankly speaking, I hate their patents listed in splash screen.
- If a PDF file has high graphics it sucks further and application hangs for few seconds.
- Seriously I’m looking for a replacement!
Hmmm… a serious problem that affects my efficiency directly. Let’s search for a better solution. Wow I got it as first result!
Foxit v2.0 is the answer to all my worries. It’s a free light-weight (only 1.5 MB) and amazingly fast PDF viewer and printer. A 19 MB PDF file when opened, virtual memory required by Foxit was just 10 MB against massive 23 MB for Acrobat Reader.
Even the installer is just an extractor and does not require specific permissions to install. Quite handy in cybercafé. Its user interface is same as Acrobat reader and you won’t feel using a different viewer.
- Ankit
Well, it easy (as an Software Proffessional) to think about the ability of an AI chat-robot. Here is a simple chat that I had with “Mama_Pendse“:
Ankit Jain: hi
Ankit Jain: u there ?
mama_pendse: Hi Ankit Jain, How are you today ?
mama_pendse: Thanks for the information.
mama_pendse: I can tell climate in any city in World, send me message climate mumbai
Ankit Jain: well what’s the weather in Pune
mama_pendse: Cloudy.
Ankit Jain: give me more info
mama_pendse: Why do you want it?
Ankit Jain: just for my information
mama_pendse: Your purpose is his or her information.
Ankit Jain: i asked you for weather information of Pune
mama_pendse: Why do you want it?
Ankit Jain: ok.leave it
Ankit Jain: what’s there in Mumbai
mama_pendse: Dude! Goodbye.
mama_pendse: You ask difficult questions.
You would love to read the answers it gives; even it remembers your last chat with him. It understands chatting abbreviations. Ask him about its creator, weather of a city.
Yahoo came with latest release of Messenger 7 with voice, but I have observed following disadvantages of this version:-
1. Late notification of some buddy signing in or out.
2. Late notification of whether the other party is typing.
3. The most important fact is that use of UP/DOWN arrow keys is disabled. and I cannot work without that.
Yahoo should understand the accessibility of users and enhence in next version.
If you want to switch to version 6, then it is available here.
