Why I am a Hondamentalist?

Ok, I know that most of you are not THAT much interested in Cars but I am. What men like more than cars? The sound of the engine, the smell of Diesel or Petrol. Purring along on a very long journey or dodging the limitless supplies of potholes in daily roads. Have to admit, I love cars!

When it comes to a car for normal man that "just works". You can beat two champions. Honda and Toyota. They are the best of the best.

People call them silly names like appliances, or car's with hair dryer engines, but let me tell you, these two are way better than those huge chunks of junks you see from other Manufacturers. Yes, I am talking to you GM.

No matter how expensive your car is no matter how cool it looks, if it gets you stuck in a traffic due to blown gasket or any other technical fault, then its not worth even a dime.

The best cars are those who get you there, who you know will start with the first turn of the key and save you lots of cost in fuel and parts.

None can do all this except these two giants, Toyota and Honda. While Toyota is still number 1, Honda is fast catching up and is one of my favorite company when it comes to cars.

In the next post, I will talk about why I prefer Honda over Toyota and what are the best qualities and drawbacks of these two Automotive giants..

Sorry!

I am sorry for not posting anything anytime soon But I am coming up with some more blogging in the next few days. So Keep visiting!

Blackberry or Nokia. Which is best for Emails?

Ok, If you're like me, you will love to email your friends, families and keep up with work related email. Email is a must have now and it has replaced fax and old mobile tech like sms. I prefer to email more than sms.

But which is the best phone for Email? What I know, the market leaders are Blackberry and Nokia with Windows Mobiles stuck somewhere in between.

Blackberry was untouchable a few years ago, but times have changed and lots of companies are making phones with pretty good email features. One of them is Nokia.

Nokia almost nailed it when the started their E-Series of Business phones. These phones were clunky but had really good email features and the best of all, some models of E-Series having full QWERTY keyboard (Physical Keyboard, not the software type like iPhone, ugh!)

These are the best Models which really made Blackberry stand up and take notice.

Nokia E61

Nokia E61i


Nokia E71


This is probably the best Nokia phone with email features, love the size and love the slimness and build quality is out of this world. You have to hold it to know its built quality. No wonder it won the best mobile phone of the year two times, against iPhone and others.

But Blackberry has responded pretty well, with their awesome release of Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Storm.

I am becoming a big fan of Blackberry Bold. You see what Nokia misses is that the email features are like so the 90's. Old and slow! While Nokia does have pretty good phones with keyboards but either they're waaayyy too tiny or are hard to see what are your pressing.

While on the other hand, Blackberry does two things which makes me respect them more, killer Email features (quick Access etc) and the most awesome keyboard keys, e.g Blackberry Bold. I Love that.

Nokia wins on the number of software you can get while blackberry is a little dull on the software side but excellent on email features.

SO which one should I get as a business phone the next time? I am giving 55% of my votes to Blackberry now if Nokia can improve the next E-Series phone then that will be another story...

"Gone too soon".....

I dont need to do any introductions here. We are talking about the KING OF POP.

I was a big fan of this dude, my childhood hero, a guy , an artist which can never be replaced for many many many years to come. I mean how many artists you know who has left crying fans from the Palaces of Princes in the Middle East to a common, poor man in Africa. Now this is what I call a real hero...

RIP MJ, cuz you really needed it in the end. :(

Symbian OS needs a facelift...

If you have followed up or even used the latest smartphones in the last few months, you might have see how smooth, flashy and hip they look. I don't mean all of them are reliable OS for the phones but they do look good for current times. Yes, I am talking about iPhone OS and also the awesome and my fav Palm's WebOS. Not to forget about Google's Android too which is quite good looking too.

What about the King of the Mobile phones? The Rock star called Nokia? What about its Symbian OS? Well Sadly, its looking quite ugly now. Sorry Nokia, you make excellent hardware but on the software side, you still live in the early 2000 era.

All of your latest expensive phones have the same old Symbian OS which is looking quite stale now.

Lets Look at iPhone's OS,



Looks pretty slick but the visual effects are also stunning...ahem!

Here is Palm Pre's WebOS... the new kid on the block.



Again, the touch and Visual experience is awesome and it can do Multitasking, unlike the iphone.

Just look at Symbian OS....horrible lines of icons which brings us back to Windows 98 era.Blech!



Horrible if you ask me. I mean i expect more from a big champ like Nokia. They are trying to jump on to touch phone OS but its very anti-user. Its hard to navigate, the main settings for the phones are hidden under a cave maze type of folders, folders within a folder within a folder and so on...

Nokia really has to come up with something good looking , something new for the current user's demands and something which is different, not a copy of iPhone and Palm Pre.

They have to think fast as recent reports say Nokia lost quite some market share.

Before Nokia, its was Motorola, and i read somewhere the Motorola phones were so hard to use that if you wanted to send an sms to some user, you actually had to memorise the number of the user as there was no option to select the number from the contact list and then send the sms to it. Eeek!

When Nokia came, they changed all that. It hurts to see them falling considering they were the pioneers of usability for mobile phones.

Mobile browsers for your mobile...

Since I was talking about mobile browsers in my previous post, I decided to provide some info and links to some of the best Mobile browsers on the internet.

1- Opera Mobile

This is a paid version of Opera and according to recent reports, it has over taken Safari browser of iPhone on the number of users surfing through it.

2- Mini Opera

The best browser for simple, fast and efficient browsing. If you want to keep your data charges low and under control, this is the best one. The best feature is that when you go back to the previous page, it will instantly go back without downloading it again. This is the best feature i like.
Also its free so you cant complain. :)

3- Skyfire

Sound like something from Firefox but its not. Its a small company which has proven that Flash Websites can work on your phone no matter what Steve jobs said before about Flash not suitable for phone.

Its a must get for full browsing experience and its free. Just go to get.firefox.com from your phone's browser and enjoy.

4- Teashark

Another not so well known browser which has good features and it works. It has multitabs browsing. Didn't use it much but really worth a try as its free.

5- UCWeb

A nice web browser from a Chinese company, well worth a try but needs some more updating.

This is not the Final list for Mobile browsers as new ones are coming every few months, but they are well worth a try as most of them are free and cost you nothing. Just be sure that you have to pay for the data usage to your carrier.

iPhone...iSheeps

iPhone 3G S will be launched soon in Saudi Arabia. Especially in August it will be here according to Apple. Thats not the reason I am blogging here about iPhone, I am blogging here cause I am surprised on how Apple is making fool of its followers and stealing them from their money.

As we all (especially the smart techies) know that Apple products having basic functionality but sold at an enormous amounts. Apple is all about Hype! nothing more nothing less.

What Steve Jobs says, the iSheeps follow. Just picture this, normal phone users have been using Copy, Cut , Paste features for many years and Apple's iSheeps have been able to use this feature just right now through 3.0 software update.

iPhone has no support for MMS until now, no video recording before until now and the most biggest fault with iPhone is that there is no support for Flash websites.

This i consider as a joke, I mean you can view Flash websites on all latest smart phones now days but not on iPhone.


Why? because the Apple guru Steve jobs says Flash is not possible on phones and it makes the phones work slower. Right after he said that, Nokia and other big manufacturers released phones with built in support for Flash Websites. Shame on you Steve Jobs...

Even if your phone doesn't support's flash, you can download a Free web browser and enjoy Desktop quality web browsing.

My favorite is Skyfire, an excellent mobile browser wich gives you full Desktop quality web browsing with the ability to play Flash games also. Wow!

Opera is cool for quick and low bandwidth browsing while Skyfire is great for full features browsing.

So next time you go and buy an over hyped Apple (or any other product), just check the alternatives also...