Price of Nokia 5800 to be announced today

It is said that the widely awaited Nokia 5800 will be launched today and the price will be announced.

The price is expected to be around 20k mark. But like all new device launches, the price many hover higher than that for a few days or weeks and after the market has settled down, the price will come to more realistic levels.

I am looking to buy the mobile phone if its anywhere near 18k as I feel that is the ideal price for this mobile. I think I remember Nokia said this is mid-range phone and will be priced well below the 20k mark.

Only after today will anyone know about the actual price of the phone in the market.

I feel this is a important product for Nokia as this the most awaited and a good touch screen phone from Nokia. They will aim to make it a huge success to cut down on the other manufacturers of touch screen who have created a niche for themselves.

Buying Christmas gifts and toys for children

With Christmas right around the corner, the shopping mood among us has reached an all new level and I am pretty excited about this too. It’s all going to be gifts and presents in the coming weeks combines with a great feeling of happiness and peace in our minds. And talking about gifts, in this economic recession, the cost of the presents has been a major factor and the search for better prices ones has just intensified.

As usual, I started my search online for the best deals available. There were many shops giving many attractive deals and offers. It was hard to focus on several products at different shops. It was then that I found this site savebuckets that contains the best deals for toys from shops all over and puts them in one place thereby making my job a lot easier and consuming a lot less time.

The site finds the prices of a particular product from all over the web and puts them together along with the best price available for the product. I this way, I no longer have to browse through hundreds of websites to see which of them offer the best price for the product. There were lots and lots of toys available and kids would especially love them. I was looking to buy either the polar bear or the remote controlled helicopter for the kids in my home. Some gadgets for adults too such as the Wii and the popular Wii Fit are also available.

Using the site, one can not only find the best price for a product, but also save a lot of time from searching around the web for the cheaper price.

DC Ranch real estate

DC Ranch has been a very popular and desired destination site for buying a home. The reason of its fame is the nationally acclaimed private golf and residential community in Scottsdale. The development of DC Ranch has been made with important consideration given to the integrity of the land and preservation of open desert space at the base of McDowell Mountains from which provides a panoramic view of Scottsdale and Phoenix. Purchases in this destination can be made easily through DC Ranch Realtor.

There are four distinctive village neighborhoods which are centered on neighborhood parks and offer a variety of attached villas, single family homes, luxury apartments and condominiums. Remarkable amenities such as lighted tennis and basketball courts, swimming pool, playground, exercise and fitness rooms are shared by the residents. There is even a community-wide intranet, meeting rooms and year around events and activities. Two private clubs – DC Ranch country club and Silverleaf are located within DC Ranch.

At the doorstep of DC Ranch there are lots of unique buildings, shops, boutiques, restaurants and offices closely tied with each other. The Holm group represents buyers and sellers and ensures a smooth and successful transaction.

New Apple MacBooks

Apple is all set to launch its new set of MacBooks very soon. Rumors say that these new laptops have some changes in its design and components.

• First of all is the rumored all new aluminium casing carved from a single piece that will be used in the these new ones.
• Slot loading DVD ROMs are said to be used.
• Keyboard like the MacBook Air.
• And probably the most important of the changes is the new chipset produced by Nvidia. Apple will continue to use Intel processors but will stop using their chipsets and instead use ones from Nvidia. 

The advantages of moving over to Nvidia chipset are many. Important consideration should the lackluster performance of Intel integrated graphics compared to competitors. Then the single chip design should save valuable space and power requirements. Hybrid SLI feature should provide better performance and lower power consumption.

Airtel DTH launched

Adding to the already 3 DTH service providers, Airtel has recently launched its own service. It also like big tv, runs on MPEG4 technology.

The additional benefits in Airtel DTH are

• worldspace radio channels
• single remote for both TV and set top box.
• supposedly better set top box configuration in terms of hardware.
• better interactive applications
• uniform audio levels over all channels
• larger dish diameter for better signal reception during bad weather.

and a few more minor additions.

The costs of this service seems to be a bit on the higher side compared to other service providers but with better quality and better customer care, it can be overlooked.

My Ubuntu experience part 3 :

The experience of using legal stuffs from the OS to the apps was alone satisfying for me to completely transfer to linux.After I got used to it and the features it provided,usage of the OS had become indispensable to me.But still then i had been going to XP occasionally to play some games.

The bad parts about Ubuntu that i found was :

1) Lack of OpenGL based games and onyl for windows.

2) Audio driver (realtek) was not properly implemented i think.Was not able to use headphones and dint have audio configurations.

The best parts are that 

1) Both the OS and the apps are completely FREE

2) Great user interface transitions and easy usability.(I still hate to learn those command line interface though i know it has some advantages too)

Recruited but unemployed

As of today,a lot of young Engineers and IT graduates have been recruited by the IT firms but have not been offered to join the respective company yet.

The students claim that in addition to making them wait for several months,the firms have not even communicated to them about the delay and expected joining date.

Call it global recession or cost cutting measure or just lack of resources to provide training and lack of projects.By all means it is a bad practice by the industry.

As a result some students have opted for higher education and preparation for competitive exams like CAT,while a few others are looking for part time job offers like BPO.But a majority of them are just sitting idle waiting indefinitely for call letters to arrive from the repective company.

This has lead to bad company image,employee turnover and wastage of resources.

Only a few companys like iFlex,HP and Hexaware have called their recruited candidates.Other firms and IT majors like Infy,TCS,CTS,etc are yet to inform the joining dates which are expected to be delayed even upto next year.

New Honda City :

Ever since its introduction,the honda city has completely dominated its position in its range.Now after a long gap the new version is to hit the streets next month.

So far the honda city has not opted to give features like ABS,airbags and many other useful features.The Maruti SX4 intended to fulfill these features and give the city a run for its money.Now Honda is replying with some serious answers.

The exterior seems to be very sporty following the trend seen in Civic first.The rear also looks good.The new version is said to offer a vtec engine with 120 bhp in petrol.

The dynamic styling along with the powerful engine and the well known Honda reliability seem to be a run away success.However a lack of diesel engine from Honda may be exploited by some other manufacturer.

Big TV DTH service from Reliance :

This is the third DTH offer for India and it will be four soon with Airtel launching its own DTH very soon.Reliance has just launched this service throughout India.

Obviously the most important improvement from tatasky and dish TV is the inclusion of MPEG-4 technology whereas the others are using MPEG-2 tech.Its essentially a better compression technology where more data can be sent in the same bandwidth.It may be used to launch HD channels or just more channels in comparatively lesser bandwidth.The down side of this tech is that it takes higher processing power(high cost of instrument).

The initial offer for south Indians is that for Rs.1990 they offer free installation along with 12 months subscription.A slighty better offer is for Rs.2190 which includes additional sports,radio and movie channels.

Customers have already reported on DVD quality video and audio and comparatively cheaper price.

The important negative is that the logo for big tv is shown at a very large size along side the channels logo.This may interrupt the pleasant viewing of channels.Another thing is that Reliance is yet to provide better service and customer care support.

With still a majority of people on local cable,many are yet to transition to DTH.However the safe bet is to wait for Airtel to launch their own DTH service and then decide which is the best DTH provider.

My Ubuntu experience part II :

Later I felt that i was fine working in the new OS though it was only a few hours working in it.Although it was upto the windows experience and even surpassed it in some things,the only thing that i felt the need was in gaming.All the latest games were made only for windows and so i had no option rather than to play the builtin games or do nothing at all while i download stuffs or for time pass.

Then was the time when i stumbled upon wine.It was a windows emulation tool.I installed some of my favourite windows apps in it.Unfortunately the games that i tried would not work.

Then i found virtual box which is a virtualization software and installed XP in it.It was just ok for me working in windows inside linux.For some reason i dint like it - the main thing being taking up my precious RAM.

In the mean time,my friend had been using Open SUSE (remembered its name now),and he too had been having some great time.He said about the YAST thing that can control all the things in OS.I wanted to try that linux distro too but i was unwilling to start all over again.I had been using GNOME while he prefered using KDE.

I had mixed opinions about having to type the password for each and every system access.While it offered security,it was not convenient.

Then i thought about updating my OS through automatic updates as i dont do it for windows.It had about 300 MB worth downlaods ready for me.I downloaded only those things that i would use.

My experience with Ubuntu :

As I got tired of windows XP and Windows was very good for my taste but costs additional money also,i decided to spend my free time messing around with linux distros.I went through many distros and ultimately decided on 2 of them - Ubuntu and ....oops i forgot its name..it was in version 11.My friend and I decided to try one each.I tried Ubuntu probably because of its lesser size download.

So i booted up the CD.Installation was quite simple except for the partitioning stage.The default option was to erase all hard disk partitions and install ubuntu which is very bad indeed.I then tried manual partitioning and created a linux ext 3 partition.But it said that some root partition was missing or something.So the only way i could try it was to delete a partition and choose 'continuous free space' option.So installation was successful.

Then I was simply amazed by the desktop experience it provided.For a free OS,it was indeed great.I had some problems installing ATi video drivers but then got it working and turned on compiz fusion.The eye candy provided was exceptional.

Then i thought of installing some softwares.It had almost a ton of free apps that corresponds to all the softwares that i use in windows.I had a great time using legal stuffs rather than pirating softwares in windows.The synaptic install manager was very useful in installation purposes.

In no time i was up and working.Using all of the OS features was a breeze.

Corolla Altis

The next generation Corolla from Toyota is all set to launch on the 5th of september in India.

This gen looks a lot like a mini camry which is not bad at all,as i personally loved the camry.It looks quite executive and deviats from the Civic which is more sporty in nature,which should infact appeal to a lot of professionals and managers.

The interiors are expected to be quite spiced up and the gadgets to be offered are expected to be more than that of Civic.

I think Toyota decided to offer a diesel variant,it would out run the Civic completely as Honda still has to get a diesel engine into the market.

But as usual i think i will be disappointed with the pricing just like the new camry was priced outrageously and i dont think Toyota will offer a diesel version.

Any way will update after its launch on 5th next month

Too much hype ?



It all started with the apple campaign about the iPod integration with the iPhone and the fabulous interface with awesome transition effects.Many people were just attracted towards the wonderful touch screen and its interface.

While macboys do argue that its the best phone in the market,many others are put off by the basic things that it cant do things like video recording,MMS,forwarding SMS,etc.

But the iPhone has indeed brought a fresh product in the mobile phone market.With its awesome 3.5" screen and multi-touch feedback,mobile browsing with its safari browser has been revolutionary.The sexy looking phone and its interface transition effects add to the already unique device.

Recently the price for iphone has been announced in India to be Rs.31000 for 8GB version and that too along with monthly higher plans.This could mean that those who dreamed of owning the device would most be disappointed.However this could reserve the exclusivity of the device,as not every one will be able to afford it.

Going just by the exclusivity factor also has its risks.There are already a bunch of iPhone clones in the market and the impending launch by many mobile phone makers also pose a serious threat to Apple's gadget.

Everything will depend on how other manufacturers place their touch screen phones in the market to decide who wins this market.

Integrated graphics update :

While a majority of the PCs being sold are used only with integrated graphics,the integrated graphics market hasnt been living upto its expectations.They can indeed handle web browsing,word,etc but they suck really great when it comes to gaming and some 3D stuffs.

Intel has been commenting on its next big IGP ever since the Extreme graphics days.But till now upto the G45 they havent yet delivered upto the performance level of AMD/ATi and nvidia IGPs.AMD has made great strides recently with its 780G chipset and recently released 790GX one.These can atleast play any latest game at low details.

Thigs change a lot when it comes to the future.AMD is planning on its fusion processors where the graphic chip is integrated into the processor itself.Intel on the ohter hand is working on the Larrabee graphics chipset to compete with stand alone graphic cards.

While many may argue that going to graphic card is the way to go for 3D stuffs,IGPs do offer minimal power consumption and heat production that cant even be matched by stand alone ones.

So the future of graphics may unfold a major turn with fusion or something from intel.

The start of the core race :



Earlier the processors from both Intel and AMD used to be rated based on the clock speeds.The higher the clock speed,the better.While this strategy has been very simple both on hardware and software terms,the heat,energy and size factors have been a major impact on the increase on the clock speeds.

This has started with dual cores and now the quads and octals in the near future.And some intermediate ones such as tri cores have also been launched.This approach requires the software side to support multiple threads so as to scale accordingly with the number of cores and make efficient use of the available resources.

But even now the number of applications that make use of 2 cores is negligible,let alone quad and octal cores.While AMD had spoke about reverse hyperthreading where many cores appear as a single core,it hasnt implemented much in this field.

We are seeing a similar scenario in the GPU market where games fail to utilize more than one GPU efficiently.So this is where the software market has to make up for the performance enhancements.

Back after a long time

Sorry guys for the really long delay.i am back again to post more reviews and my views on the latest technology items in news.Hope that you will all like my blog.