It seems only recently that Samsung released the Galaxy SII, the successor to the very popular Galaxy S. But lo and behold, here comes the new Galaxy R. The main differences is that it comes with a Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor, and it runs Android Gingerbread 2.3 to boot. The only downside is that it does not come with the same AMOLED screen that can be found on the SII. According to this CNET Asia article, it comes with a 4.2-inch Super Clear LCD touchscreen instead. It was first released in Sweden where for some funny reason, it is called the Galaxy Z there! Hmmm…maybe an upgrade for me but this Motorola Defy suits me fine now.
In a previous post, I was talking about this rather novel emergency mobile charger that I bought in Japan. I decided that I needed some rechargeable batteries to charge it and in yet another article, I was waxing lyrical about Sanyo Eneloops. Well, I got them today, for the princely sum of $39 which includes a charger. These Eneloops were ready to use right out of the box and what can I say, so far they are charging my Motorola Defy with no issues. True, it is not charging as fast as when it is plugged into an electrical socket but in an emergency, when you need power when your smartphone runs out of juice, these Eneloops should be strong candidates
Ever have one of those days when your mobile phone just runs out of juice? Well, it happened to me today. What we normally do in situations like this is to make sure your phone battery is well and truly charged before you leave home. But what about those times when you just forget to plug your phone in the charger? Well, that happened to me last night. So I am glad I had this thing handy. I bought it in Japan for about 1000 yen, which works pout to be about $15. It came with three disposable batteries in it but I think I will go and get myself a few of those Sanyo Eneloop rechargeable batteries because I have exhausted these.
Hands up, all you people that had a pager at least once in your life. Then again, hands up those of you who had THIS pager above, a Motorola Bravo 16. I still remember when I got it in 1989. It coast me $300 then, a princely sum for a pager, but was one that would be with me for almost ten years. One of the reasons why I liked it is because it was hardy and strong…and it was out before cellphones were even available to the masses. This was the inexpensive way of keeping in touch, but one had to rely on pay-phones being handy when paged. All this disappeared when the mobile-phone appeared and I got my very first one in 1997, but that is a different story. But I still remember this pager and how it served me well.. I hope my Motorola Defy serves me as well as this Motorola Bravo did!
I was hankering for the Blackberry model in the picture above, a Blackberry 3G. I have tried many of the Blackberry devices available but somehow, this model eluded Singapore.I would have happily paid for this instead of my Motorola Defy. It has everything I want in a Blackberry…size, shape, special keypad with SureType® technology…everything. I had a Blackberry Pearl 8110 but the Achilles heel was its trackball…it kept getting dirty and tracking was off as a result.
According to this article, Microsoft has released Windows Phone OS 7, codenamed “Mango” has been released to manufacturers and looks like it will be ready in a few months time. Looks like there will be three dominant operating systems for phones in the market now, after this release, the three of course being Apple iOS, Google Android and now Windows Phone OS 7. Does this mean that Nokia will now be able to get their market dominance back, now that they said that Windows is going to be the OS of choice on their new phones? Time will tell. A three horse race. This should be interesting.
Well, I have been using this phone for more than a year now and I am quite happy to report that it is a great phone. The only issue that I have with it is that it will reboot by itself sometimes but so far, not while I was making a call. I think a firmware upgrade will take care of that but I am a bit wary of firmware upgrades after one of them totally hose my Nokia 6233. This baby allows you to do a re-direct on one SIM card while the other is normal. Plus, two cards standby at the same time so you can receive a call with no issues. Will I get Samsung mobile phones again? You bet!
