How dearly I missed this black gem of mine which succumbed to the desert heat of Abu Dhabi some two months ago. The feeling of envy whenever I saw the same piece in someone else’s hand (and the feeling to grab it by force!) is now placated for sure.
The good guys at Nokia have replaced my faulty N95 8GB with a brand new one In this interim period, I used an N95 (borrowed from my dad) which is almost identical in functionalities, looks, size and weight but there is …

Just when I was blabbering about the lack of temperature sensor in cell phones, my N95 8gb succumbed to extreme heat, high humidity and started malfunctioning. The handheld device began to restart abruptly and most of the keys were performing all other functions than those which they were supposed to perform. Basically, it got screwed up.
Ironically, while riding outside earlier in the day I, along with my dad, spotted a new Nokia Care Center in Abu Dhabi. My dad immediately commented that now it’ll be easier to get the phone …

In this age of rapid cell phone advancement, the users are struggling to keep apace with the burgeoning mobile technology. Yet it often surprises me when I’m walking out in this Middle Eastern heat dumbfounded; trying to guess the temperature with which the sun is burning my face. I’m unable to comprehend why the mobile phones which are packed with features such as accelerometer (motion sensor), GPS receiver, FM receiver and transmitter, high-end camera, xenon flash, WLAN, etc. lack a simple sensor which can detect the atmospheric temperature. I’m aware …

A couple of ringtones, as promised, extracted from the song Aisi Taisi by Azal have been added on the ringtones page. The catchy tune does sound extremely nice on my phone! The link to the Ringtones page is now located in the main navigation menu on the top.

With the release of the latest firmware (v20.0.016), the good guys at Nokia have officially added the Automatic Screen Rotation (ASR) feature to N95 8gb phone. It is located in Tools->Settings->Personalisation->Display->Rotate Screen. This feature uses the built-in accelerometer on the phone, which Samir used earlier in his software RotateMe for the same functionality. The update is available for all unlocked phones via NSU.
Other updates include bug fixes and stability issues, but frankly I never experienced any bugs before. So for me highlight of the update is the ASR and it …

The first three tones that I posted were greatly appreciated which motivated me to put some more effort in this business. I have uploaded four new ringtones, and I am pretty sure that they will be liked by everyone. The new tones include:
Dard-e-Disco (Om Shanti Om)
Deewangi Deewangi (Om Shanti Om)
Jashn-e-Baharan (Jodha Akbar)
Yeh Pehli Mulaqat (Sonu Nigam)
Check out the updated ringtones page here, for the new tones.

I did a comprehensive Google search trying to find the ringtone of the song ‘Woh Larki Hai Kahan’ from the movie Dil Chahta Hai. The starting music of the song would have made a brilliant ringtone. But unfortunately, that specific part was not found in isolation. The only way remaining ahead of me was creating/editing it myself which I did successfully.
Therefore, I proudly present a beautiful ringtone after editing a part of the mentioned song. Its in high quality mp3 format. Do check it out!
Meanwhile, most of us remember the …

An accelerometer is a device used to measure the vibration or acceleration of a structure. It is a micro elctro-mechanical system device available in a wide variety of ranges. For more information about it, refer to Wikipedia’s article on accelerometer.
Recently, it has been used in sports watches, Nintendo Wii and more famously (and pertinent here) in Apple’s iPhone. People have been fascinated by the advertisements of iPhone in which the screen auto-rotates when the user turns the phone by 90 degrees (landscape). This, sensing of rotation, is performed by a …

I traded my good ol’ N73 for a new N95 and this multimedia computer by Nokia is a gem. The top notch features include:

GPS: not much use in karachi due to the lack of maps, but still it does work giving coordinates fairly quickly (with the new firmware, v20). I do intend to use it in some other mysterious way at a later stage.
WLAN: yes! it hooks up pretty easily
5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Optics
some other great features….which are advertised on nseries.com
oh and not to forget, TV out option
and …