Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Nokia E50 - Personal Review


I finally got my hands on a friend's E50 a couple of weeks back when he was transfering a few tracks. It seemed to be a slim,long candybar phone.
The S90 Operating system was easily noticable, with the default bluish green theme, and the toolbar. The interface was well laidout, much to the standards of Symbian. The processor speed was quick enough to get all my keystrokes. The inbuilt F-Secure antivirus might have slowed down the phone a bit, but still it was running quite fast. It had applications for GPS navigation,and creating music, something which makes time spending easy for guys like me when you are all alone and have nothing to do. But i found a couple of cons with it. The keys are very small, are almost inserted into each other. I tried to dial my Vodafone number with it, and found that it always typed some other digit,as the keys were very close and the space between them was vey less.Also, when i tried to execute few applications in small time, the phone slowed down - something which should not occur in a Business segment targeted phone. Well, i wont recommend this phone to people who need to do some work rapidly, or with people with large fingers. This phone, in my view, is good for college going students, and casual people,who are going to buy a smartphone for the first time. Else it is a waste pleothra of superb features in a phone having a concatenated keypad and a slow processor.

Travel Experience - Rajasthan Tourism

This time when i decided to return to New Delhi from Jaipur,i, being weak due to the Viral Hepititis i suffered during December last year, decided to take the Rajasthan Tourism Volvo, instead of the bumpy Roadways buses. It's ticket costed Rs460, about more than thrice of the Roadways buses fare. I took the 3pm bus from Jaipur's central bus stand 'Sindhi Camp'.The bus started off and after about 20minutes,stopped at 'Narayan Singh Circle', Jaipur's second biggest inter state bus stop. From there, a few more passengers boarded the bus. The bus conductor, then distributed small mineral water bottles. These bottles, which carried 400ml water, could have easily fitted the pocket of my jeans.From there, the bus started and after about 20more minutes, the conductor flipped the CARBON LCD's fitted at the roof, and started playing a movie DVD. Then flew away a couple of hours, watching the movie. The movies in the DVD were new,had released within the last couple of weeks. The movie was then pauseand the conductor announced a 15min break at the RTDC midway at Behror. The bus halted, and i went off the bus. I ordered 'Idli Sambar'- a low oil South Indian dish. I could have ordered from other cuisines too, but the medical restrictions restrained me from doing so. After i boarded the bus again, the movie continued. After about 30 minutes, the movie finished.Then a discussion started about the movie with the doctor on the next seat for the next couple of hours. I boarded off the bus at 'Dhaula Kuan' - The first interstate bus stop of New Delhi. Now looking back at that journey, i think that t would have been a value for money at around Rs 360, seeing that a normal journey costs 150 bucks, and so does a movie at a multiplex. Well, i enjoyed this journey a lot.
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