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One week with the Nexus S.

Posted on 2011/02/11 by Sanjay Mehta

I think I might like the iPhone 4, but since Jobs, in his infinite wisdom, refuses to sell it in India, or unlocked, or without a contract, I’ve done without one so far. I do have say that I did … Continue reading →

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Ovi Music: review. One word: Rubbish

Posted on 2010/08/21 by Sanjay Mehta

One of the attractions of the Nokia X6 was the free year’s subscription to Ovi Music Unlimited or whatever they’ve decided to call it this week. What a load of rubbish … downloads on the PC don’t work. No way … Continue reading →

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Cleaning an E71 screen

Posted on 2009/12/31 by Sanjay Mehta

I’ve had an E71 since it came out last year. Great phone in all aspects but it did annoy me that dust got into the screen pretty quickly. Finally now that the warranty’s run out, I got around to cleaning … Continue reading →

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PC Suite is truly awful

Posted on 2009/07/25 by Sanjay Mehta

Never really cared about PC Suite but a recent fiasco on my E71 showed me how bad it really is. Since I’m primarily on a Mac, I pretty much manage with iSync and Ovi Sync. Applications are the only ones … Continue reading →

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Symbian Botnet?

Posted on 2009/07/25 by Sanjay Mehta

Apparently some chinese company has successful managed to get Symbian to sign a trojan called Yxe. It’s claimed to form a mobile botnet. The recommended preventive measure of enabling online certificate checking doesn’t work for me. Guess I’ll just stick … Continue reading →

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Smartconnect from Birdstep

Posted on 2009/07/07 by Sanjay Mehta

Smartconnect has been updated. The version seems to much better at using a wifi signal rather than the cellular network compared to the older version. Posted by Wordmobi

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Nokia Messaging

Posted on 2009/07/07 by Sanjay Mehta

Just a list of what I’d like to see fixed or changed in Nokia Messaging: 1. The ability to configure POP/IMAP/SMTP servers/ports myself. Going by the multiple threads on the Nokia forums, I’m not alone in this. 2. Improvements to … Continue reading →

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Nokia Messaging

Posted on 2009/06/17 by Sanjay Mehta

Nokia Messaging went out of Beta in Dec. 2008 but it’s behaviour so far is pretty Beta. When it came out I was on vacation and therefore had a fair amount of time to play with service. Which really means … Continue reading →

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Quickoffice upgrade

Posted on 2009/06/16 by Sanjay Mehta

Quickoffice 6 upgrade free for Nokia E series. Not bad at all. Posted by Wordmobi

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Ovi Store

Posted on 2009/06/16 by Sanjay Mehta

Now that the Ovi Store is more than few days old, comparisons with the Apple App Store can and should be made. The one thing that Apple got right with the iPhone was the App Store. I know that millions … Continue reading →

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