Perks of the new job: renewed respect from the watchman, other drivers, beggars etc. Disclaimer: Experience-wise, I am a new driver with all of two months of suicide-inducing, insane Mumbai traffic and one Mumbai-Pune roundtrip under my right foot. Naive impressions are my own and probably have nothing in common with the official line. On [...]
And so we have the third bug-fix update since the big 2.0. Minor changes to the iPod app and a relatively faster SMS experience. It’s been a year since I had a real chat application on my phone and my patience is running wafer-thin. At this point, the Nokia E71 is looking like an increasingly [...]
I’ll be brief: try it. I’m loving it so far. How is it this fast? Even Safari 3.1 doesn’t compare. Link
Turn to page 5 of today’s Economic Times for the most ridiculous, puerile, poorly-researched coverage of the new iPhone, what it means for consumers and the usual spec countdown. Of particular note, the box item mentions that OS X is vulnerable to virii and malicious attacks, much like Symbian and WinMo. BlackBerry OS is, “of [...]
I have no idea how many people are buying, but the newspapers are full of stories about the pre-emptive grey market and its better pricing. For first-gen users, Apple released a carrier update sometime post-midnight today. I have no idea what it does, since the 2.0.2 update still doesn’t fix the caller ID issue for [...]