July 16th, 2009. The last time I posted. About 5 months ago. I could make excuses and say I was busy, had a lot of work, and what not, but I know that’s not the case. Been a roller-coaster of a ride since July, a ride which has redefined the way I look at life. I stick with my policy of not discussing personal life on this blog, but hey guys, I’m back. Or something like that.

This is something I’ve wanted to blog about since eons now. I’m stumped as to why Nokia cannot correct this on their phones with a firmware update. All the v3 phones I’ve used from the N95 onwards have had this bug.

The first image shows the screenshot of a contact. Note the icon that appears next to the number, to denote a landline number. Now, if I go ahead and call this number, I’d obviously have this number in the call history. Navigate to the call history and now check the log. The contact now has a mobile phone icon! This IMO, is very irritating, and misleading to say the least.

Lets assume I get a missed call from a contact for whom I have multiple details, including a mobile phone number and a landline number. By looking at the call log, how am I supposed to figure out what number did I get the call from? The different icons are there to identify the type of number, in the first place. This bug totally defeats the purpose.

I wonder if Nokia is listening?

The Bandra Worli Sea Link opened last week, and now that they charge a toll, there is really not much traffic. End result? A drive on the Sea Link with a couple of friends, captured on video end to end on my Nokia N82. Its sad that only 4 lanes are open, when the intention is to have 8. A night video has also been shot on my friend’s Nokia 5800XM, will upload that shortly. In the meanwhile, enjoy…

Right, Nokia seems to be doing a boatload of firmware updates this week. The N97, E71, E66, E51 and what not. Tried my luck yesterday, and sure enough, the Nokia E63 had an updated v200.21.012 posted. Duly upgraded, here is what I’ve observed, yet.

Looks like quite a bit of Ovi integration is happening, with Ovi Contacts being added to the already present FIles on Ovi. Ovi contacts is now integrated within the contacts application, and there are a few new widgets for Facebook, MySpace and Youtube. There seem to be a few updates to the themes, with ‘Black Personal’, “Black Business’, ‘White Personal’ and ‘White Business’ being added.

Keep in mind that the E63 does not support user data preservation, so please backup your phone before updating.

Its hard to believe three months have passed by since I last posted. Been stuck with work, and there’s been a awful lot of progress on that front. An eventful three months it has been! .

Spent a month and a half in the US on a company project in April-May 2009, and quite a a lot happened on the tech front, revolving around the US trip. Here is a chronological account of what transpired on the tech front.

I was pondering over buying a music player, that could have a backup of my music collection. Thought about the Creative Zen Vision, and even the Ipod, momentarily, but then had a brainwave. I really liked the Nokia 5800 for its music capabilities, and for the screen. The money I would invest in a standalone MP3 player would be better invested in a device that has GPS + Video + Audio + Internet connectvity + a touch screen, all for around Rs.5000 lesser than an Ipod Touch. True, I’d lose out on disk capacity, but then the prices of memory cards are falling like mad. Keeping this in mind, the Nokia 5800 was duly purchased, before I flew off to the States.

I was casually looking up Amazon one day, when I came across a Western Digital 2.5″ 400GB external HDD on offer, for $70 only. Needless to say, it was purchased. With that, my storage has finally exceeded 1TB.

The latest addition to my computing arsenal is an IBM (Lenovo?) Thinkpad T400, which technically is not owned by me, but by my company. Nevertheless, work now happens on the Thinkpad T400, with the Dell XPS primarily used only on weekends, and is a strictly personal laptop now.

Windows 7 has been preordered, the $50 and all, so I’m really looking forward to the October 22nd, and cannot wait to get there.

June 14th happened to be my birthday, and all I had was my ‘trusty’ Nokia 5800 for taking pictures. Turned out crappy. Very crappy. I really rued not carrying my Olympus FE-20, which would have for sure given me good pics. A couple of weeks later, the Nokia 5800 was duly exchanged with my brother for his Nokia N82, and that seems to have done the trick. I’m back on a top-notch camera phone, the phone features of which I’m hardly using, leaving my Nokia E63 to do that job.

I guess this is a good enough post to announce my return to the blogging world. More to come, hopefully.