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You know this site is all about great affordable stuff right?. So you want a new mobile phone you can throw away when you get your PMS tantrums (if you are a girl) or you favorite football team loses and you put all your savings to your bookie (if you are a stupid moron)?
If you got 100 USD left in your pocket, then this would be the absolute phone for you. The All New Nokia 2630. I busted my Xpress Music phone 2 months after I bought it, I got it serviced but the week in between was hard thinking I couldn’t Txt (sms) all I want. Although i have my business phone with me, my personal phone is the busier one. So I got up and hunted for a phone. Price wasn’t my main concern at first.
Nokia 2630
So I went to a local Nokia Dealer and asked for their selections, they pointed me to the N-Series phones and the SuperNova lineup. I was sold on them and I was trying out some of them which I found amazing. Then I thought, why splurge on something I don’t essentially need? My other mobile will get replaced anyway.
Still the N-Series phones were quite tempting. That is when I sort of do my “take a leak” routine as a reason to think ten times before purchasing anything. I found this a good way to minimize impulse buying.
When I got out of the Mens room, I saw this pretty girl looking at lanyards in one section of the shop. Well I guess I have time to strike up a conversation, so I actually looked at lanyards my self and said “My phone is so heavy for these things, I think it’s nice for ID cards though”. The pretty girl which I got the name later as Jenny looked up and said, “Well you can always get a lighter phone”. What a nice idea I thought, so I talked to her some more and asked what phone she is using. That’s when she pulled out a bright white version of the Nokia 2630. So i said what a nice phone she has, she said thanks and quipped that it was affordable too. She then attached Read more
Gamers are Astronauts Too
Whoa! Remember those Sci-fi films about space where in astronauts eat foods as a pill or energy bars with specific flavors like fried chicken, lasagna, pizza and cheese burger? Yeah our current Astronauts, Cosmonaut or what ever other countries call their Spacemen have some kind of energy-bar rations. Guess What? So does our current gaming freaks!
They aren’t lazy enough and addicted enough for gaming that a no-spill, no breadcrumbs food was developer for them, introducing Gamer Grub.
Eat you Lazy Gamer!
Gamer Grub is said to be and I quote the “performance snack formulated especially for gamers.” It is currently available if flavors like Action Pizza, Racing Wasabi, Strategy Chocolate and Sports PB&J. Fortified with vitamins and minerals, it will make your mouse-clicking faster, your keyboard crunching quicker and your concentration steeper, which you can also get from good exercise and a healthy diet however. They are also specially engineered to be crumb and grease free to protect your precious desk area especially your keyboard from the occasional dirt you throw in there. Now go get some and tell us how it tastes like.
Obama: iPhone Savvy
No Offense to the McCain Tech and Campaign guys, but Obama’s got you owned! Obama always speak of CHANGE, and then McCain started chanting it too. But who actually goes with the time and change? Well I modestly say Obama. Although I am not biased to either one of them, this discovery made me lean a little to the Obama side. Obama has got his own iPhone App!
Obama iPhone App
There is a bunch of features there like current events, daily schedules for the Obama Campaign, Statistics and other Election related features like News and Videos which is a bit buggy sometimes.
Donate to Obama
I however dig the little green button at the button that says “Donate” with the countdown to the elections. It is nice way to get Donations, making it easy for the user to just click and go. The target crowd here are the techie and younger crowds, as your grandma couldn’t even squint to see the texts on the iPhone. Here is a thought however, what if Palin started taking some Model Shots of herself and make it availiable for download as an iPhone Wallpaper, would you Donate to her?
Another Reason to get Drunk
Aren’t you tired of Beer? No I am not, I will always love beer. Now for all of you beer lovers out there, there is one thing that can tickle the fancy of your Beer Chucking and Keyboard Crunching side all at the same time… The Beer-filled USB Flash Drive.
Mmmmm... Beer
Say that again? Yes, it’s beer-filled, I don’t know the manufacturer of this device, I guess they have the whole collection of these beer-filled Flash Drives. They might even have the whiskey-filled, vodka-filled, Dr. Pepper filled or Piss-Filled Flash Drives, but I still pick this one, because I love Beer. Ziggy zaggy ziggy zaggy, oi oi oi!
Google Chrome: Not Shiny enough
Google Chrome, an alternative browser from Google has finally been released, albeit in beta stage. Does this mean Google stopped it’s support for Mozilla Firefox? It might be the case since Firefox ads are blatantly flashed at Yahoo’s home page now.
Polish it up Google
What it means to a lot of users however is that they have another reason not to use IE (Internet Explorer) Anymore(or use IE to download Google chrome). On my tests, the Chrome is pretty fast, but you might need to get accustomed to it’s user interface to use it’s full potential. I won’t stay away from Firefox yet however, since I find it’s webmaster plugins more useful than anything else…
Beijing Olympics Show
The Amazing Historic Scroll
If you watched yesterdays opening of the Beijing Olympics, you won’t be disappointed with the light shows and the artistic presentations. If I can personally applaud the overall creative director of the show, I’ll applaud him and all the people who in one way or another contributed to that wonderful presentation to the world, and the thousands of participants which to me is a logistics nightmare. What especially send chills down my spine was watching the Giant Sky Footprints timed and properly aligned towards the Birds Nest Stadium. Well you have to find a copy of the show to appreciate it your self.
If you are the kind of person like me, you would probably think right now how they made the Amazing scroll on the walls and the floor of the stadium, Or why are the fireworks properly timed. Everything is synced including the lights and sound. The only glitch I Read more
Philips Xenium: Simply Wow
It’s all I can say for this less than 150USD mobile phone. It’s looks is pretty ok, it’s specs are pretty so-so, but the battery life is the premium here.
The best feature I found was the auto turn-on and turn-off at a desired time you set, not that it needs this feature to save power, it is just an added plus. The power bar is the common 5 bar type, which I wish would have been better with an actual figure and percentage numbers. That 5 bars signify 12 days of standby. Now divide 12 by 5 and that is roughly how you figure out how much time you have left.
Philips Xenium 9@9
It has a VGA camera which takes average shots, although it doesn’t look pretty nice on the Xenium’s colored screen since the screen is an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED). Transfer the pictures on a computer and it looks pretty fine for modest use.
One of the actual stories connected to the Philips Xenium 9@9 is when a bunch of backpakers in China, in the Jinggang mountains last October 2001 were lost for 80 hours. One of them had a Xenium phone (I guess the older models), twenty hours later they were rescued thanks to an SMS exchange of the lost group with the rescue team.
Specifications:
SCREEN VGA, CMOS sensor
DATA Triband, GPRS, Bluetooth, micro USB (data and charging), WAP
MEMORY 2MB user memory with microSD slot
BATTERY Li-Ion 1790 mAh with up to 1,440 standby time and 17 hours talk time
DISPLAY 128×160-pixel, 65K-color, 1.8-inch TFT screen
SIZE 42×18.7×104.3mm, 108g
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