A week ago I ordered myself an expensive protection for my expensive phone. A leather case that looks nice and also protects the phone well.

The Easecase is sold on eBay and is made to order. You can choose the design, leather, inner lining, strap, and personalized it with your own initials. Here’s some picture to show you the pouch I have now.

Easecase Pouch

HTC Touch HD aka Blackstone

It has been almost a month now since I first own this phone. I promised another review and here it is.

So far I had flashed 4 different ROMs from different developers. They’re all competitively good but I decided to stick with Dutty’s Xtreme ROM. There is great potential in the phone, but sadly there’re limited support to it, therefore community developers are really appreciated on the xda-developers.com.

Every guy has his own toys, and this is one of mine. The HTC Touch HD, arrived at my doorstep a week ago. This is the most expensive purchase I ever done on the Internet.

FEDEX Package arrived

It cost me a bomb though, but it’s well worth it. It’s not just any ordinary phone, it’s a smartphone, the iPhone-killer, the Blackstone, whatever you want to name it.

HTC Touch HD Box

HTC Touch HD Unboxing

It’s been 4 days since the launch of the iPhone 3G. As announced, only Telstra, Optus and Vodafone made the cool gadget available. All the anticipation is over and reviews are flooding papers, magazines and Internet.

From what I’ve come across, its reviews have made me lost interest on the Iphone. It’s not yet the ideal smart phone as I imagined, beautifully designed but built impractically.

I’ve been using my Dopod D810/HTC P3600 for more than a year now and I’m very convinced that HTC produces the best smart phone in the market. I will list out some of the new features highlighted by the iPhone 3G compared to my current phone:

GPS:
One of the essentials when you’re on a trip with lots of driving to do. This US-funded service is made available for anyone to use for free, as long as you have the device to detect it. iPhone can do! With integrated GPS in the iPhone 3G let you have an idea where you are in Google maps. That means its useless if Google maps has yet visited your location. Driving without audible turn-by-turn instruction causes frustration. You wouldn’t want to drive and switch your attention onto the screens of your phone to know when to turn left or make a drift when possible.

Warning: Auto route recalculation not included! One wrong turn and your iPhone 3G is only as good as a conventional paper map. If you’re really driving using the Iphone 3G as a GPS unit, make sure you have a co-driver helping you to navigate with it. (What’s the difference by holding a map)

3G:
Having a smart phone in your palm means fast connectivity. With the iPhone 3G, Internet browsing using Apple’s Safari over the HSDPA network is faster than most phones out there. On top of that, if you’re hogging the wifi at your favourite hotspot, because it’s FOC, be concern that the iPhone will automatically switch the data connection to use HSDPA when the phone goes to sleep to save battery life. Means more data fees for your montly bill.

These 2 major features have impact the phone’s practicallity greatly. I rather stick to my old-yet-practical Dopod than hop to the prematurely built smart phone.

wow…. haha

It’s been more than a year since I have this phone. The Dopod D810 is one of the first PDA phones which integrates all the functions that I desire. It is a PDA, which able to install alot of useful applications, a mobile phone, a notepad, a Global Positioning System (GPS) device, a music player, an Internet Browser and many more.

My white Dopod D810

Finally, after so long everyone has waited, the inspiring phone has emerged into the market.

Despite having all the cool factors and great features on a single handheld device, people around the world who are bothered with the fact that enormous amount of people queuing up in front of Apple and AT&T stores. People willing to queue up to FIVE DAYS just to get themselves a hand of the keypad-less and even miraculously stylus free device.

Some quotes from theage.com.au:

“…teenagers said they were paid up to $US300 to queue for the device on behalf of others and many buyers were hoping to sell their iPhones for a handsome profit.”

“One New Yorker was even offered $US4500 to sell his place in an iPhone queue.”

“I’m keeping one and selling the other two, I’m trying to get $US1,200 ($A1,400) for them,” said Johnson, who had queued up for 25 hours. “I haven’t slept in a day and a half,” he said. “I need a nice hot shower and a bath.”

$US4,500!! That’s SEVEN iPhones you can buy in total!! The other fella is smart to ask the girl in front of him to get another unit for himself as they limit only 2 units for every purchase.

I just came back from few good games of badminton, and of course dinner as well. I miss those time that I played with my friends. Learned a lot from them back then.

Back to the topic, yea… couple days ago I got myself the very first PDA phone in my life!! I’ve been patience for more than 4 years to have this phone!! I wanted a PDA phone so much but it’s too pricey and I can’t afford it, and it always doesn’t not have ALL the function I expected.

My previous dream phone was actually O2 XDAII, but the time when I can afford one of those, 3G is hitting the network and I feel pointless to get it.

I don’t know why I always wanted a PDA phone, it always been the ultimate gadget to me, nothing else, not computers, not graphic cards, nope.. it’s this.

…a Dopod D810

This is the third day I’m using it now, the new Sony Ericsson K610i. This phone is relatively simple to use, but it lack of customizations. Nowadays users like us do not like to adapt to using a new device. We more likey to tweak or customize the phone to what how we want it to be. E.g. The K610i doesn’t let you rearrange your menus, it is hard to get to the menu you frequently use, in that case they had decided to add a shortcut key to access your most frequently used menus.

Again about customization, Sony Ericsson doesn’t let you to set different ringtones for different profile, it only let you choose one ringtone for all the profiles regardless of where you are. Comon’ it’s ridiculous!! If you are a teenager who want’s to brag your friends that you have the newest ringtone by Akon – I wanna Fuck you, you can’t possibly use that same ringtone while you’re at dinner with your parents, right??

First of all, no doubt that the phone has the looks, really like it, which is the culprit that made me chose it. The reason why I’m saying this is because of the lousy camera. It’s really far from what I expected from a Sony Ericsson camera phone. It really disappoints me. I compared it with my Motorola V3x, it might not be at the same range of phones but these are what I own, a new and an old phone. I really don’t know how to describe the lousiness of the picture quality produced. A picture worth a thousand words, see for yourself.

Both camera phones does not have auto focus and it’s 2.0 mega pixels. This is why I always tell my friends, high mega pixels doesn’t mean the camera is good. The Motorola V3x comes with macro mode and flash which the SEK610i lacked of. I have nothing more to say, I’m already very disappointed and have no mood to test other features anymore, maybe some other time. Can’t complain much though, this is what you get when it’s FREE!