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  5. Posted · Report reply

    Thanks for the link Dhiraj ji, read many posts on the WP blog of NI. Seems they have a good product but cannot help but feel commercial success will be limited.

    Operational reasons:

    1. lack of PR and an effective shopping/delivery model. They have not tied up with PayPal/Amazon etc. and were taking prebooking on CCAvenue from Visa cardholders only. Mastercard holders could not place orders and seems many people trying to preorder failed due to site down/US banks rejecting as fraud. Preorder E-Mail was sent to people based on who commented earliest on their wordpress blog. Weird.

    2. they did not have FCC clearance for US sale. Have got now. Preorders have been massively delayed.

    3. selling at same price all over the world means high shipping charges for US/Europe customers, and high customs for India customers.

    4. startup so does not have big finances. Rumors of tieup with MDA but not confirmed.

    Technical reasons:

    1. have invested 1 year which is whopping delay in just developing their custom OS called Eden. Is based on 2.2 close to 2.3 but has many advanced features, but because of so much customization they lost long time which has allowed iPad to rule. The hardware for this exact tablet was shown 1 year back at CES, they missed massive opportunity to launch then, instead focused on custom OS/UI.

    2. Honeycomb has been shown in CES and this will not get 3.0 till Google releases source, as they have no tieup with Google unlike Motorola for Xoom.

    3. no android market, they are developing separate market called Genesis. People are wary why market is not there, reason is Android does not support market for tablets till 3.0. But they are not clearly addressing the customer's concerns through PR.

    4. too many variants, no clear details of pricing, pricing does not include S&H, no clear website offering information/specifications/videos. It is all geeky and for tech enthusiasts at the moment, updates are being given via a wordpress blog, which is not very formal and effective way.

    5. seen interview with CEO and it seems he is a geek with no clear business blueprint. NI did not have any booth at CES or tieup with partners like AMD to give demo at CES.

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    I am looking for a second laptop to keep at home as the desktop is acting up. It will be used sparely and by parents for light browsing so no need of snazzy specifications, mobility is not a big requisite however am looking for a laptop as it occupies less space.

    My budget is around 10-11K, the lesser the better to be honest, and in this budget I can find only netbooks which I do not want due to smaller display. Please can someone recommend any medium featured laptop around/near this price. Thanks.

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    The Omnia 7 is Samsung's Super AMOLED entry into the Windows Phone 7 line up. It holds its own against HTC's lovely HD7, and one of the main reasons for this is the handset's screen, with its high contrast ratio and rich colours doing justice to the slick tile-based UI of Windows Phone 7. I found that even in bright sunlight the screen coped extremely well and that it put relatively little strain on the battery.

    The majority of other Windows Phone 7 entries don't have anywhere near as good a screen as the Omnia 7, although the HD7 does boast a large display. The touchscreen proves responsive, with few problems faced when zooming and panning on websites. I did find that the operating system itself had the occasional unexplained mishap, but freezes did occur despite multiple screen presses.

    Given the relatively strict set of rules phone designers were given by Microsoft for Windows Phone 7, few of the handsets appear drastically different. The Omnia 7 follows a very similar approach to its competitors bar the useful home button found below the screen. Many opted for a touch sensitive icon, but the inclusion of a physical button on the Omnia 7 brings the handset closer in design terms to the iPhone. The phone itself doesn't carry quite the weight of its competitors; it feels light in the hand and not quite as tight a package as other offerings. Samsung did decide to add all sorts of seams and buttons on the handset in unusual places; I don't like them, and I think it makes the phone feel more like the budget Samsung Wave than their high quality Galaxy S.

    The phone comes with an HD-capable five-megapixel camera which turns out relatively sharp and saturated images. The handset has a dedicated shutter button situated confusingly below the handset's on/off/hold switch. It makes opening the camera app quick and easy, but also means you often launch by accident when you simply want to lock the phone.

    Included with the handset is a tiny wall charger and set of earbud headphones as well as a standard issue USB cable. Audio quality was a bit better than the bundled headphones you find with the iPhone but nothing so significant that they are a major bonus. Getting music on and off the phone was pretty easy; one sync to the Zune software on the PC and then after that everything could be done wirelessly. The Zune marketplace had plenty to choose from and being able to search music at any time using the dedicated search button was a bonus. However initially I found it difficult to figure out how to stream music, frequently being asked if I wanted to purchase a track, rather than take advantage of my Zune Pass.

    Samsung has included one piece of software unique to the phone; the "Now" hub. This essentially pulls RSS feeds and information from Reuters, Yahoo! Finance and AccuWeather in to a single screen. Given the relative lack of nice news and weather applications at launch, this is a welcome addition, rapidly becoming my "go to" app when checking the phone in the morning.

    At launch Windows Phone 7 itself feels relatively sparse, it certainly looks nice, but after a week or so with the handset I found myself struggling to know what to do with it. Samsung has done a great job of producing a high quality piece of hardware to go with a slick OS, But until applications add increased functionality it is difficult to know whether taking the Windows Phone 7 plunge will be worth it. For those keen to adopt the OS early, the Omnia 7 is not a bad move, but consider the larger screened HTC HD7; it feels more like the handset the OS was designed for.

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    General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

    3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100

    Announced 2010, October

    Status Available. Released 2010, October

    Size Dimensions 122.4 x 64.2 x 11 mm

    Weight 138.2 g

    Display Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

    Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches

    - Multi-touch input method

    - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

    - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off

    Sound Alert types Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones

    Speakerphone Yes

    - 3.5 mm audio jack

    Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

    Call records Practically unlimited

    Internal 8GB/16GB storage

    Card slot No

    Data GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

    EDGE Class 12

    3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps

    WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

    Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP

    Infrared port No

    USB Yes, microUSB v2.0

    Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality

    Features Geo-tagging, image stabilization

    Video Yes, 720p@25fps

    Secondary No

    Features OS Microsoft Windows Phone 7

    CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor

    Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

    Browser HTML

    Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS

    Games Yes + downloadable

    Colors Black

    GPS Yes, with A-GPS support

    Java No

    - Digital compass

    - Microsoft office document viewer/editor

    - MP4/WMV player

    - MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player

    - Facebook integration

    - Organizer

    - Voice memo

    - Predictive text input

    Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh

    Stand-by Up to 390 h (2G) / Up to 330 h (3G)

    Talk time Up to 5 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 10 min (3G)

    Misc SAR US 0.78 W/kg (head) 0.41 W/kg (body)

    SAR EU 0.65 W/kg (head)

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    Two things which i never knew before... :NOTriste:

    I say this inspite of being from same state as the minister.

    .....That Bangalore is in West Bengal :Riendo:

    PS Kesav please edit the bankrupt spelling in the header.

    .....And Kesav has become Moderator, Otherwise how can he edit the header... :Riendo:

    BTW otherwise very correct observations, Dipan...:)

    Rajan bhai, good spot. I am from Kolkata but now staying in Bangalore. And yes my bad, I forgot only mods can edit the header.

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    We are all wrong in slating Lalu for this mess. Infact the operating profit increased manifold under his tenure due to one single reason - focus on freight. Freight is the single largest contributor to revenue in India because passenger revenues are low due to 1) political compulsion of keeping ticket prices low/unchanged and 2) significant loss of revenue due to ticketless passengers.

    The railways were in black under Lalu. They are in red under the current railway minister. I say this inspite of being from same state as the minister. There has been no focus on freight corridor, only focusing on cheap politics. Launching hundreds of trains and inaugurating new projects each day because assembly elections are near in WB.

    Just go and see what shambles Calcutta Metro is in under her tenure. The next railway minster will have tough job, but will get that job soon as present railway minister will become chief minister.

    PS Kesav please edit the bankrupt spelling in the header.

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    ^

    CDMA is code division multiple access where the network assigns a pseudocode to all traffic on the channel. This is why CDMA channel utilization is better than FDM/TDM on which GSM is based, because in CDMA all traffic theoretically has access to entire channel at all time. Because of usage of pseudocode, security is inherent in CDMA, anyone without the code for particular traffic will just get noise not data. CDMA is the primary technology used in army etc. sensitive communications.

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