You have a VM....

I have done Bhopal- Pune and Pune-Bhopal 8-10 months back....

Those 800-900kms are computed when you take into consideration the extra roads you take when you get lost....

It actually is, as you said, very close to 775 km...

And yes, I need those maps...

anybody got a hands on review of the Spice ka "projector phone' ? seems loads of fun for that price !

@GP_freak, antz.bin: I saw some sites quoting many new Symbian 3 phones&another phone (maybe N8-01) with 960x540 resolution&1GHz processor.
Three UK Chief also stated that something radical is gonna happen to Symbian on April 12th...I wonder what!

Anybody here has a 1st hand experience on the Galaxy 551? Any other phone in the same range?

Hmmm....I can sort of understand it. Since Windows phone 7 requires minimum of 1Ghz procy and 512 RAM, i think Nokia will release the same phone in Winows version and also in Symbian. It could very well be true. But the question for me is, will i buy a Nokia ?? The answer is No for a couple of years. More over, Symbian doesnt have a proper debugger to debug the OS( not sure, have read it a couple of time)

The Low end phones to have 800 Mhz Procy, Mid range phones to have 1Ghz and top end to have greater than 1Ghz or a Dual core .

So the Top Nokia phone wil after all be a Mid range phone. I love Symbian, But i hate Nokia for now.

PS: Wait till the end of this month for something to happen. BTW,Where are the links bro ?

Hmm, agree with you, but I'm somehow very enamored by the N8. Don't really know why!

Here are the links-donno how credible though!

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Nokia_T7-00_Images_Surface/551-115006-893.html

http://www.symbiantweet.com/nokia-n8-01-with-960%C3%97540-qhd-display-and-three-nokia-td-scdma-device-702t-601t-602t-leaked

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rumor-Mill-Nokia-N8-01-to-Land-with-qHD-Display-192924.shtml

http://www.cn-c114.net/578/a586819.html

http://www.cellphonezones.com/nokia_cellphone/nokia-n8-01-601t-602t-and-702t/

http://mynokiablog.com/2011/04/03/rumours-nokia-n8-01-may-have-960x540-qhd-display-vga-nokia-702t-and-nhd-nokia-601t602t/

Ohhhhhh.Thats a soooper fast reply. Let me check these Links. Btw,can you tell me which sides would you take 1) Exynos processor 2) Tegra 2.

Whenever I read something like ^^^ coming from Microsoft... All I remember is

Source: Windows Vista system requirements - Microsoft Windows

Try running Vista on such a machine and you will know what I mean.

For those who don't possess such archaic hardware and/or a copy of Windows Vista, on such a machine, The OS will barely be able to start and then any and all tasks you needed to do with it will take a horribly frustrating amount of time. And thats why, When we say that the Nokia Win7 Flagship of tomorrow (i.e. the Mid-Range Phone of today) is in fact the minimum configuration required for Win Phone 7 to work, I would think long and hard before I even give it a second look. I would rather stay with an underdeveloped "Smartphone for the masses" platform like Bada if I get a flagship (Which has 4 times the hardware prowess than required to run 'Just the OS') rather than going in for a half baked 'Minimum configuration fulfilled' phone with a MS OS.

That was the reason I went for the Wave S8500 (the first BADA device, still equivalent to the flagship model (Wave II S8530) 1 year after launch) instead of a midrange Android(like a HTC Wildfire / LG O1 P500 / Galaxy 3 / Pop / Mini / Moto-LotsaShit). At least I know for sure that everything on my App Store will work very very well because it was meant to work at least on my device. I will not rue the fact that some f'in game I can see on the app store (selling for $0) would never work on my phone because I bought 'mid-range'.

@Saravjit I am glad you didn't fall for the Nokia E7 and support what they have been trying to prove in the smartphone market. It is high time they realised that phones configurations evolve like those of Personal computers did. Manufacturers like Samsung, HTC and LG have given you more processing in your pocket than all of NASA had in 1969(when a sent a man on the moon). Why can't Nokia just follow the suit is totally beyond me.

And if they keep on selling 'good devices last year' phones to the masses, it won't take long before 99% of the phones they sell have S40(dumbphone OS), a torch light, and a 'fixed focus' 3 mpix camera as the 'ground breaking features' with an average selling price of Rs.2763 and a profit margin of 3.8% on sales. A giant will then be surely killed (somehow this reminded me of West Indies Cricket team).

Moral of the story: Put your money on the champion. Side with Samsung.

Edit:
I for one would side with the Tegra(not necessarily 2) since it is giving us a definite time-line for further upgrades.


But you can never undermine the telent working at Samsung Inc.. I mean just look at how much better Hummingbird was as compared to the Snapdragons employed by the HTCs.

Agreed on the Windows Vista Part, but its a completely diff OS and hardware comby. Those requirements were for the X86 instructions based procy.

There were systems running windows 98 with ~800Mhz and 128 Mb ram. Those days are over. MS has been very clever about setting the Minimum requirements. When Win phone 7 came out, 1Ghz and 512 Ram was the highest stable configuration out. Yes, the same OS could run in even a higher configuration and also in lower config with some hacks. If only Win7 phones have Video calls and add on storage facility, then i would surely buy a windows phone rather than an Android. But, as usual MS takes a long time to send updates on the OS. Win7 OS is far more fluid than android, but the limitations set on it are too hight from MS.

Before hating the Win7, pls try the Omnia 7 to get what i am talking about. Its totally mesmerising with hell a lot of limitataions.

In a couple of Years, it will mature in to a very stable OS with lots of features
But cant wait till the cookies gets baked. Will get a Dual core adroid form sammy( you end up seeing the screen every day and SAMOLED from sammy is the best in the business) and if required, can port windows 7 to it later some time.

Edit : The Hummingbird was good, but the exynos is not using the same line of GPU for the SGS2. More over i read Tegra doesnt support NEON. What is NEON, if you ask me, i will tell that i have to google it. But i still feel i will stick to exynos for the sole reason for the complete integrity of Sammys board and chip.

You guys are too techie man!
I can't take sides, but yes, I feel Samsung is the leader at present.

Samsung 's have very good Hardware ,but crappy buggy software they have in most of their line up.. If u are comfy with a little modding , then you can extract the max out of the phone..

OK I googled the NEON bit.. here is some info for everyone.

NEON - ARM

Impressive stuff... I said.. you can never underestimate the talent working at Samsung Inc

As for Windows Phone 7, If it is actually as good as you say it is, I would still want to wait for the cookie to bake properly and only give it a try when the limitations become more tolerable (maybe in WP7.5/8 ). Anyways what is it with new OSs and 'copy-paste'? How hard is it to implement a clipboard anyways.. (FYI Bada had copy-paste, flash support and USB / Wifi Tethering from v1.0)

And for upgrading OS.. Believe me, I had a 1st gen android (HTC Dream) and had flashed it with all sorts of updates (Thanks to 1 Cyanogen) all the way from Android 1.0 to 2.2. Believe me it is a game that gets uglier with each update.... And even with all the ugliness, there is not much that you stand to gain from it. In the end you are stuck with a piece of outdated hardware you wish you never had updated.

Originally posted by Sarvajit View Post

You guys are too techie man!

Ahh. We all agree to that.

Originally posted by santoosh View Post

Samsung 's have very good Hardware ,but crappy buggy software they have in most of their line up.. If u are comfy with a little modding , then you can extract the max out of the phone..

Originally posted by antz.bin View Post

OK I googled the NEON bit.. here is some info for everyone.

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I read some where that Samsung is having 4 diff teams working on display and procy tech and the best and efficient design is put in to mass production.

About WP7, Its actually MS, who have put on the restrictions its the way they have designed the OS. Most of these functions were present in the previous version of the Windows OS. I hope you get my point.
BTW,COPY PASTE updates for WP7 have been released looong back.

Actually what I really hate about android is the IOS like app screen. It looks so dull and boring and no live titles as WP7. Its like I have to keep scrolling the apps screen if we have numerous apps. I would be happy if we can create a folder and segregate the apps in to diff category.

Agreed about the Upgrade part on the older phones. Phones are getting out dated very soon. Say six months, the hardware config of the flagship phones gets surpassed by other manufacturer.

I know the 'copy-paste' update came a long time back.. But still.. why did it even need an update for a basic functionality like that? I mean did they not know that we all use it daily on our phones / computers? They are 'Microsoft' for heaven's sake!

I also understand that I have to at least give it a try before writing it off like that.. point taken. I do give everything a try.. My last few phones were Moto Rokr E6, HTC TYTN II, HTC Touch Pro, HTC Dream, Samsung Wave S8500.. The only thing missing from the list is iPhone.. which i frankly feel is too overpriced..

Edit:
Source:LG announces top end Android smartphones for India - ThinkDigit.com | Features in India


Told Ya ^^^ (On 14-March 2011 ) ^^^

Bought an Arc

Guys, purchased Xperia Arc 2 days ago, first experience with Android as my other fone is Wave with BADA OS. Timespace UI is amazing and features are good too. Haven't clicked pics yet and no recording yet, so will update later once I'm through the shots.

27.5k in Univercell Hyd., got a gold-coin, reebok ipl tee and a bluetooth headset free on occasion of Ugadi.