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Friday, April 2, 2010

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It was just a few days ago that we had carried a report saying that, the Motorola Milestone (or the Droid) is all set to make its debut in India. Just a week later, we have conformation form Motorola regarding the same.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Motorola Droid has indeed landed in India and will be known as the Milestone here. The latter is really an apt name for the phone primarily because it has been a milestone device for Motorola who was on the verge of shutting down its entire handsets manufacturing department. This was owing to poor sales and continuous drop in profits. With the Droid, Motorola has sprung back to life and the phone has been a bestseller in U.S. where it has to ward of threats like the Google Nexus One and the all powerful iPhone.

We have talked about the Droid in detail earlier too. However, lets take a brief look at the phone in its Milestone Avatar as well.
The Milestone is claimed to be the one of the world's thinnest QWERTY sliders (13.7mm or 1.37cm). It has a hi-resolution (480*854), TFT display capable of pinch and zoom gestures. Being an Android device, it comes loaded with a suite of Google mobile applications including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. This is apart from the tonnes of apps and widgets from Android Market. In its Indian avatar, the Milestone also packs in a lifetime free access to fully voice-guided street-level navigable maps of 401 Indian cities. This offers voice-guided navigation and routing in the cities and across major national and state highways.

Lets now take a look at the hardware specs of the device. It is powered by a very powerful ARM Cortex A8 processor. This is the same processor that powers the iPhone 3GS and the multimedia
powerhouse that is the Omnia HD. It has a 5-megapixel camera at the rear with dual-LED flash, AutoFocus, and image stabilization. It supports Stereo Bluetooth / BT 2.1, USB 2.0 High Speed and comes with a 3.5mm jack as well. Motorola's proprietary Crystaltalk technology too finds its way in. It comes preloaded with an 8GB memory card - which can be replaced by a higher capacity one should the need arise.

Additional functionality and apps include:

    * Full suite of the Google applications: Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Talk,
    * Unified Google, Microsoft Office and Facebook Contacts
    * Navigation: GPS, MOTONAV turn-by-turn navigation with India maps1 & 6
    * Email Support: IMAP, POP3, Gmail and Exchange
    * IM Support: Google Talk
    * Calendar: Exchange, syncs with Google Calendar

The Milestone is undoubtedly one of the best smartphones money can buy right now. It can be yours for Rs.32,990. A good price to pay for the first Android 2.1 device in the country? You decide!

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750GB Hard disk for Laptops 750GB Hard disk for Laptops

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Just after Toshiba announced high-density hard drives for laptops last week, Western Digital also joins the game with the new 2.5-inch WD Scorpio Blue 750GB hard disk drive for laptops. With 750GB capacity new WD Scorpio Blue 750GB has two 375GB-per-platter areal density and also features Advanced Format Technology. WD has also added WhisperDrive technology for quieter operation of these HDDs which are listed at $149 (Rs. 7,200 approx.) online and come with a three-year warranty. We'll update this space as soon as we get India-specific price and availability.

New WD Scorpio Blue 750GB HDD joins the league of industry's first 1TB laptop drives. This 750GB HDD comes with 12.5mm height form factor. New Scorpio Blue HDD is almost similar to Toshiba's recently unveiled MK1059GSM HDD in terms of specifications. The HDDs from both companies have 8MB buffer size and make best of 3Gb/s SATA interface. Just like Toshiba's HDD, the Scorpio Blue has read seek time of 12 milliseconds and consumes 1.6Watts during read/write operations.

Main features of the WD Scorpio Blue 750GB HDD for laptops include:

    * Advanced Format technology - Technology being pioneered by WD and adopted by other drive manufacturers to increase media format efficiencies, thus enabling larger drive capacities.
    * WhisperDrive - WD's exclusive WhisperDrive technology combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. These algorithms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption.
    * ShockGuard - Leading-edge ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks.
    * SecurePark - SecurePark technology parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance.

Besides laptops, this new Scorpio Blue 750GB HDD is ideal digital media players/recorders, and even PlayStation 3. However, please note whether your laptop supports 12.5mm drive since new breed laptops support 9.5mm drives only.

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PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.21 PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.21

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Sony has made firmware 3.21 available for PlayStation 3 game consoles. This update removes the "Install Other OS" feature from PlayStation 3 consoles which were released before PS 3 Slim. Basically, you won't be able to run other operating systems
like Linux kernel based OS on your PS 3. The new firmware 3.21 update brings new features and improvements. It is crucial for connecting the console with PlayStation Network and play games that require firmware 3.21 or higher.

Apparently, George Hotz, the guy who found PS 3 hack, had noted on his blog that the PS 3 owners should resist updating their consoles with official 3.21 firmware. Hotz said he will look into a safe way of updating with official firmware 3.21 and also retain the "Other OS" support. Hotz noted, "It'll just be a custom version of 3.21 that doesn't lose OtherOS support."

Sony cited security reasons for which they'll be removing the 'Other OS' support. We just don't know how soon will the hack with Custom Firmware for PS 3 is due. Those who choose to wait won't be able to sign-in to the PlayStation Network. The PS 3 remained unhackable for a few years and now, the action to remove one of the distinct features has ticked the hackers.

If Hotz is successful in finding out a hack for installing custom firmware, a whole new community of PS 3 hackers will arise.

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Airtel 50Mbps plan Airtel 50Mbps plan Airtel 50Mbps plan

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India has been consistently lagging behind other countries when it comes to the availability of bandwidth and the overall Internet speed. While the situation is way better than what it use to be during our dial up days, even the best mainstream broadband connections
averaged around 2 to 4Mbps in the country. This, at a time when countries like South Korea and Japan boast of average download speeds ranging from 60 to 100Mbps, told a sorry state of affairs.

However, in a change of some sorts of late we have been hearing of ultra high-speed broadband speeds in the country with increasing frequency of late. Back in 2009, Tata had announced its 100Mbps service in the country. It was followed by MTNL who launched a 20Mbps VDSL (Very High Bitrate DSL) service. Now, it's Airtel's turn to launch its VDSL service in select regions of the country. Currently available only Delhi and Gurgaon, Airtel's new VDSL service boasts of speeds of up to 50Mbps!

Airtel has informed that it would, in due course, bring the new service to the cities of Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore.

VDSL technology is capable of providing 12 times the speed of the now fairly common ADSL technology. While these speeds are certainly great, it is believed that unless you are a very high usage power user, a much slower connection should actually suffice home users. However, nothing beats the kind of speeds you get with VDSL if you happen to be a download junkie. Just to entice you and to let you know what these speeds can possibly achieve, you can actually download a full length movie in about three minutes and a full song in a few seconds or even lesser.

As expected, services of this kind would never be light on the pocket. This 50Mbps Broadband plan comes at Rs. 8,999 per month rental with 200 GB free data transfer. It also offers you other added services like a Website Builder (Basic), PC Secure (Anti-Virus software) and even an On line Storage option. For games, there is a Games on Demand (GoD) service as well.

If you live in the NCR region, you might want to call up your nearest Airtel office ASAP!