Saturday, December 30, 2006

its a SONY ! .... my new year resolution (2048 x 1536)

fnially i made up my mind and bought new SONY Ericsson K790i its one of the best camera phones that exist today. it was also featured in Casin Royale (that was special edition K800i though). it has got SONY Cybershot digital camera with 3.2 megapixel ... picture quality is awesome. you can view some samples on my flickr stream. it has got almost all the functions of a (basic) digital camera like auto focus, macro mode, scenes, stabilizer, panaroma, red eye reduction and blah blah blah .... best of all it has real xenon flash (unlike LED flash with many mobile cams). it also comes with BestPic feature whereby it takes around 9 shots in 1 second and then you can pick the best picture (moment) it is useful when the object is moving. you can even moblog (publish on blog) the pictures instantly.

it also has e-mail , RSS feeds , good quality web browser and PlayNow (whereby you can download the track information given a piece of track). i am not too mobile savvy so i really havnt configured GPRS or any net connetcion ... i can simply manage with the bluetooth. Both USB and bluetooth are of version 2 which means lesser transfer time. it also comes with EDGE. its always better to get as many features as you can ;)

the display is quite cool and stylish as well. it comes with very vibrant colors. looks like i can market this thing easily ;) (if i had to). But on the downside, the menu is not very user friendly i guess that goes for most of the SONY phones. also i had heard that the earlier models had problems with the joystick in the long run (i just hope this one doesn't have any :) ) i miss my nokia badly. this was one of the main reasons why i was not very keen on buying SONY phones. they should seriously consider putting some time designing user-friendly menus. Nokia rocks in that area. another thins is it can certainly play music but it doesn't belong to the walkman series (alas) ... i wish it did. the sound quality is not all that great. when you put on the speakers the voice really cracks ... the maximum volume level is also quite low. you really dont feel the vibe whatsoever. but then its not that bad either. and you get decent sound with the earphones plugged in.

the memory stick is again unique M2 micro which is not so common / popular. also the size is very less just 64MB (of course it is expandable) but when you see the camera in action, it RULES.

so it basically is a digital camera with phone ;)

and with 3.2 MP, my new year resolution is gonna be 2048 x 1536 ;)
happy clicking.

wish you all a very happy and a prosperous new year.

DISCLAIMER NOTICE:
all these are my personal opinions / experience about the product. reader's discrimination required. (i should reduce watching discovery shows ;) )


cheers
-ameyas7

Sunday, December 17, 2006

its party time .........


alright now ... yet another late entry.
we had our (SYMHUNGAMA - Symantec event) annual day last sat .... n guess wot EUPHORIA had come. CAN U BEAT THAT? of course i had to stay there on saturday (but yeah i caught the next bus to mumbai just as the show ended :D )
the party was really good. it reminded me of last year's BASH by the JOSH (Tech Mahindra group) and there was obvious comparison. The scale of JOSH was really very BIG but this party ROCKED.
talking @ euphoria ... i have loved the band since the maeri song. it was just too good and the concert experience was just awesome. actually it was more like a corporate show than a concert and obviously you wouldn expect headbanging there :) but still it was good to see them on stage. Those guys r just fulllllllll of energy especially the lead singer Dr. Palash Sen. i got to experience some of their best collections LIVE.

the last song had a wonderful shayari
marne ke baad bhi meri aakhe khuli rahi,
aadat padi hui thi inhe intezaar ki ....
jab se tumhe dil se bhulane ki kasam khayi hai,
aur pehle se bhi jyada teri yaad aayi hai

awesome ...isnt it :) i could go on and on with euphoria but it is something which can't be expressed and one should experience on his own.

on the work front, life is pretty good. i am currently working with active directory ( i had no clue of that before few weeks and now im getting the hang of it) but its kool :) have pretty much finalized on my acco in pune. so so far soo good.

me, parag, deepak and sheetal met yday @ The Hub ... co-incidently we met tameshwar who had also come there for shopping with his wife. vaishali , gauri n prachi gave kalti as usual ;)
me and parag have been buddies @ MET, Xoriant, Tech Mahindra. others are my Xoriant buddies. Sheetal is going to US for MS, hence we all had planned to meet up.

and last but not least, my sis is coming here on 28th Dec. so its gonna be the best time of the year. Unfortunately Ill be in pune most of the time but will be here on weekends and will try for 2-3 leaves as well :D lets see. Unfortunately I could not order my laptop :( it was late alredy. but never mind Yash (my nephew) s gonna be here again :D Am I in the state of EUPHORIA already ;) ?



- siging off
ameyas7