Ok, its been a month since I acquired the Nokia E72, and so far the phone has been a pleasure to use. The N70 finally had to be retired after over three years of meritorious service. (Btw, does it qualify for a Padma award too? :-p )
So once again, the deadlock for allocation of 3G spectrum continues… All those in India waiting for high-end services such as super fast internet, video-conferencing, interactive gaming, mobile TV and high-speed downloads of movie and music clips on mobile phones will now have to wait for almost another year.
I’ve been on the look out for a new handset for some time now. The one I’m using presently, the Nokia N70 seems to be giving way after superb service over the past 3-4 years. This was a phone that seemed to hit the sweet spot in terms of price and functionality and I’ve not [...]
India reportedly added 10.81 million mobile subscribers in Dec-08. This has left telecom operators scrambling as they are expecting to run out of 10-digit mobile numbers pretty soon.
Y2K revisited ?
Well, something similar, as several users realised they could not use their 30 GB Zune on New Year’s Eve. Apparently, there was a malfunction in the code due to which the internal clock could not handle the last day of 2008, a leap year which had 366 instead of 365 days.
For all those who can’t enough of their daily Gmail fix, say hello to Gmail for Mobile v2.0 for J2ME-supported and BlackBerry devices.
