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The Nokia Lumia 800 - First hand review
Since the time Microsoft showed off glimpses of their new windows mobile os
sometime back, I've been wanting to get my hands on one of them. Well, I
got a Nokia Lumia 800 and have been playing with it for the last few
days,thought I'll pitch in my first impressions. The Screen
The screen is awesome to the power 2!!! The brightness and the clarity
simply blows me away! The Touch
Nokia had a problem with touch in some of their earlier models, so I was a
bit worried. But rest assured, the touch experience is good and I have no
reason to complain so far. Its very responsive and accurate. Hope it stays
that way after a year as well. Typing
The typing experience has been very good so far. I typed some stuff pretty
fast and there are hardly any errors. The intelligence is good, and auto
corrections have been spot-on so far. The on screen keyboard takes up most
of the screen real estate, so what you can see while you type, is pretty
less, but the typing experience has improved considerably due to that, so i
shouldn't complain. The OS
I simple love this os. Its not 100% perfect yet, but I wanna support this
guy, cos' this one's cool in more ways than one. It has totally changed the
user interface for a phone and brought in some fresh changes. I'm sure this
will spur the others to make their OS more beautiful.
I had my share of gripes in the first few days, the main irritant being
WiFi. It wouldn't connect to my home WiFi, and there was nothing to do on
the phone without a net connection. I searched online and found that this
was a problem for many lumia 800 users. After a while, found a few
solutions but nothing seemed to work. I had to even remove the security
password for the network but it didn't budge from its stubborn stand. The
next morning however, i just tried once and it connected instantly! I had
connectivity problems a few more times, but it seems to be working fine now. The Apps
I checked out the windows marketplace, which is the app store for windows
phone. Its good and growing. Found a number of interesting apps, and trying
them out now. Not too many apps as on the iTunes or android market, but
still enough to get by, I suppose. Whatever I searched for was there, so
its alright. Summary
The Nokia Lumia 800 is an awesome phone with the latest Windows Phone OS in
it. As the OS gets further updates in the next few months, I expect it to
become more awesome than now.
sometime back, I've been wanting to get my hands on one of them. Well, I
got a Nokia Lumia 800 and have been playing with it for the last few
days,thought I'll pitch in my first impressions. The Screen
The screen is awesome to the power 2!!! The brightness and the clarity
simply blows me away! The Touch
Nokia had a problem with touch in some of their earlier models, so I was a
bit worried. But rest assured, the touch experience is good and I have no
reason to complain so far. Its very responsive and accurate. Hope it stays
that way after a year as well. Typing
The typing experience has been very good so far. I typed some stuff pretty
fast and there are hardly any errors. The intelligence is good, and auto
corrections have been spot-on so far. The on screen keyboard takes up most
of the screen real estate, so what you can see while you type, is pretty
less, but the typing experience has improved considerably due to that, so i
shouldn't complain. The OS
I simple love this os. Its not 100% perfect yet, but I wanna support this
guy, cos' this one's cool in more ways than one. It has totally changed the
user interface for a phone and brought in some fresh changes. I'm sure this
will spur the others to make their OS more beautiful.
I had my share of gripes in the first few days, the main irritant being
WiFi. It wouldn't connect to my home WiFi, and there was nothing to do on
the phone without a net connection. I searched online and found that this
was a problem for many lumia 800 users. After a while, found a few
solutions but nothing seemed to work. I had to even remove the security
password for the network but it didn't budge from its stubborn stand. The
next morning however, i just tried once and it connected instantly! I had
connectivity problems a few more times, but it seems to be working fine now. The Apps
I checked out the windows marketplace, which is the app store for windows
phone. Its good and growing. Found a number of interesting apps, and trying
them out now. Not too many apps as on the iTunes or android market, but
still enough to get by, I suppose. Whatever I searched for was there, so
its alright. Summary
The Nokia Lumia 800 is an awesome phone with the latest Windows Phone OS in
it. As the OS gets further updates in the next few months, I expect it to
become more awesome than now.
Light Experiments - 3
Continuing my series on light experiments, I tried out a number of techniques on these.
One was to take out of focus photographs of light; I was sitting in the car at night, waiting for someone. Tried a few shots and got these. Not too good, but a start, nevertheless.
The next experiment was with a candle. Lighted and placed a candle, and moved the camera around with a long exposure time. I tried to draw some figures, but found that i was getting the inverse image of what I was trying. This was because the light source was constant while the camera was moving. So I had to draw everything inversely. Got some interesting patterns, and a few hearts.
Next I kept the camera on the table, set a long exposure time and set the self-timer to 10 seconds. I switched on the light on my mobile, which became my light source. Once the camera was clicked, I would move the mobile around to get some interesting shapes and letters.
My latest light experiment was by using the moon as the light source; I have already published those snaps in the previous post.
The main difficulty I encountered in light-drawing is that the hand would shake while trying to draw something. Not being a good artist is also not helping. Hmm, having said that, I should try some help from my artist cousin – let us see if he can draw better.
Moon writing
I have been experimenting with light for some time now. Here’s some ‘Moon Writing’.
Sunset
Love love and more love with light
Happy valentines day
Happy valentines day
Aslam
#son #love
My darlings
Ameen
Smile
Mishaal @ Kovalam
The Foot Chronicles
Chronicling the activities of some busy feet
This is the feet of ibru, after playing for a while on mud, obviously.
This one shows another niece of mine playing with toys. More like improvised footwear. Probably the fashion of the future!
And this is my son at the beach. He doesn't seem to like the sea water, or the sand and dirt associated with it.
Chinese nets
Chinese nets are traditional fishing equipments, used for centuries in Kerala. The giant net is immersed into sea (or lake, backwaters etc) and pulled up after a while with its catch. The name suggests it might have had its origins from China, (though I can't confirm that). They are still found all over Kerala.
Vintage
Skyline
Mish
