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July 3, 2009

Samsung Marine aka Samsung Xplorer B2100 – Full Specification and Review

Samsung Marine B2100 Xplorer - Rough and Tough outdoor phone

Samsung India unveiled its new phone ‘Samsung Marine’ a phone built for standing the abuse just like US marine corps. It is touted to pass the standards set by US Dept of Defence and Military.

Samsung showcased this phone in the recently concluded Mobile world, where onlookers were allowed to through the phone from a height of few feet into water. The phone also boasts shock proof, dust proof and water proof packing. It is first of its kind in the mobile market especially for India. This phone could find use in many walks of life and also for those who carelessly drop their phone.

The phone also has USB support, Music Player , 1.3 Mega Pixel camera and expandable Memory support upto 8GB and the phone will be available for a retail price of around Rs 7000 ( 140$).

Download User manual of Samsung Marine aka Samsung B2100 Xplorer aka Samsung Outdoor phone here.

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GENERAL 2G Network
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced 2009, March
Dimensions in L x W x H – 113 x 48.9 x 17.4 mm
Weight 102.8 g
DISPLAY Type TFT, 256K colors
Size 120 x 160 pixels, 1.77 inches

Ring Tone/Music – Vibration; Polyphonic(64), MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
Phonebook 1000 entries
Inbuilt Memory 7 MB
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 8 GB
DATA GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
No 3G and WLAN.
Bluetooth – v2.1 with A2DP(music)
No Infrared
USB v2.0
Camera -1.3 MP, 1280 x 1024 pixels, flash
Video – 15fps
SMS and MMS support.
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Red, Black
GPS No
Java Yes, MIDP 2.0
– Shock, water and dust resistant (IP57, MIL-STD-810F)
– Water proof up to 1 meter and 30 minutes
– Anti-shock materials (urethane)
– Noise cancellation with dedicated microphone
– Flashlight with dedicated key
– MP3/e-AAC+/WMA/WAV player
– MPEG4/3GP/M4V player
– Voice memo
– Stopwatch
– T9
BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh
Stand-by Up to 600 h
Talk time Up to 9 h

July 1, 2009

Death of The Pirate Bay

After all the struggle The Pirate Bay team went through over the years trying to run the world’s most popular Torrent Tracker (Most notorius among Media studios), the surrender seemed very meak and unexpected.

There were dozen times I expected the eventual death, once their servers were raided a few years back and recently after the verdict, but the TPB team still vowed to fight back. But to dismay of millions of users, Swedish media brought out the news of sales of the TPB to swedish Gaming company ‘Global Gaming Factory’.

Though the blog entry in Pirate Bay said this is a way to make the company legal, everyone knows the TPB users arent there for legal content. It would be interesting to see if Hollywood studios are really behind the acquisition or if the Global Gaming Factory is really independant.

The end of the TPB doesn’t put an end to piracy as this will bring other sites like mininova, ISOHunt ,demonoid and local torrent sites in different parts of the world into fore.

To know more about the history of ‘ The Pirate Bay’ please visit wikipedia page on Pirate Bay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay .

June 23, 2009

TATA Nano allotment status links- check if you have got your Nano

TATA Motors announced today the allotment results and when we tried to find the delivery dates almost 60% people had delivery dates from October 2010 to December 2010 and 30-40% in the July 2010 to Septembet 2010 ranges. There were customers who have to wait even longer. The website TATA Motors has setup is not exactly secure if you know just one UIN number (especially if you ordered online) , you can just increment or decrement from your number and check status of many would be NANOers.

I did check almost 50 such numbers and most of them were for delivery between Oct 2010 – Dec 2010. Many were also for Jul 2010-Sep 2010. So dont expect a Nano attack on roads anytime soon.

You can check whether you are lucky or not by entering your UIN number in the following link

Check TATA Nano allotment status

http://tatanano.inservices.tatamotors.com/tatamotors/index.php?option=com_allotment&Itemid=303

You will start getting the TATA Nano allotment letters through Postal service but, checking online is much faster. Also its estimated that very few people will get TATA Nano this year. Most of the first one lakh will get the Nano in Jul-Sep 2010 or Oct-Dec 2010.

Checkout my allotment letter – Name Hidden to protect privacy.

There was little surprise in terms of the allotments and as I had written earlier in the previous post TATA was prompt in announcing the allotments.