I’m installing Lubuntu 12.04 LTS on my cousin’s laptop. I must say im kinda impressed by the installer.
It offered to import the Windows XP accounts. This includes the documents, IE and Firefox bookmarks. Still haven’t finished installation. Seems to be awesome 🙂
I did 😀
We were going camping at Perebere to a place i’m totally unfamiliar. I located the place on my Google Maps and pre-cached the area before leaving home as Internet won’t be available there.
Once this is done, i could find my location wherever i was during the travel on the map. I took the screenshot below when i was at Port-Louis going to Immigration square
Using this method, we managed to go to the camping at night to a location we were totally unfamiliar. 😀
Well, I can say I am more than satisfied with my cheap Samsung Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300. 😛
As soon as i finished sending a 720p .mkv movie sample on my Samsung Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300, my phone was vibrating every 5 secs.
When i deleted the file, it stopped vibrating. I guess it’s a bug in Android.
And the file plays in MX Player. It also recognized the subtitle. However the movie was laggy a lot. You definitely CANNOT watch a movie like this.
It all happened suddenly. My dad joined us at Bagatelle and we decided to buy a phone. I had very little time to reflect. The 3 candidates i found the most alright were:-
Samsung Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300 @ Rs 4500
Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360 @ Rs 4900
Samsung Galaxy Y Duos GT-S6102 @ Rs 6000
I was initially going to buy the Galaxy Y Duos because of it’s camera being 3.15MP and it had the largest screen of all.
However the internal storage is very less compared to the Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300 which has 3GB internal memory. This matters a lot to me as internal storage is faster. It would allow my apps to run more smoothly and hence have a more awesome Android experience 🙂
All the three phones have the same processor and other internal specs. I finally opted for the cheapest phone i.e. Samsung Galaxy Pocket S5300 which i find is awesome 😉
It has almost everything a high-end mobile has:-
– Capacitive touch screen
– 830 mhz CPU which is quite good for a low-end phone.
– GPS with google maps (accurate to 3m) 😛
and much more.
Conclusion
I am more than satisfied with this mobile phone as my first Android phone. I’ll be posting tiny reviews about the individual features Insha Allah 🙂
I’m really enjoying my Android phone at home using internet from the Orange livebox.
A mobile phone is supposed to be used outdoors. I know Emtel is the best when coming to mobile internet due to both their technologies and tariffs (haven’t inquired about MTML services yet). Anyways, when you buy a new phone, you are gifted with either Emtel or Orange sims.
Now, i have to see if the move to Emtel is really profitable. I don’t know how much data Androids eat normally. Emtel might be cheaper but to what extent will it be cheap?
I’ve enabled:-
Google: Contacts, gmail, Calendar
Facebook: Contacts, Status updates of my contacts, Calender
Twitter: Contacts , Tweets of my contacts.
Wordpress: Comments notifications.
I wonder what would happen if i would be on a paid data plan.
Maybe i can just forget about getting mobile internet and hope WiFi will be made available around the country. The University of Mauritius has already implemented WiFi on it’s campus and I’ve heard that municipalities also provide it to the public.
For now, i’m putting my phone on 2G mode to save energy 🙂