Mobiles
The case of the expanding, exploding iPhone 3GS battery
· ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ Sathyajith Bhat
Mugen Extended Battery for the Nexus S Review
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ Sathyajith Bhat
It’s been about 7 months now since I purchased the Nexus S, and overall I’ve been very pleased about the phone (yeah, yeah detailed review soon. Promise!). However a point of bother has been the battery life- or the lack of it. While it’s better than my better than previous iPhone 3G, the stock Nexus S battery lasts just about a business day. By business day I mean about ~ 12-14hours (though I I do use it heavily - on an average ~3hours of music, about hour and half or so of browsing on 3G, checking mail, facebook, twitter every half hour or so). And my addiction to the phone means that the low battery life generally becomes a problem when I’m travelling.
Mugen Power Batteries, one of the most popular aftermarket battery manufacturers have brought out some high capacity batteries for quite a few mobile devices, including the Nexus S. Mugen were kind enough to send me a review sample of the Mugen Power Nexus S Extended Capacity 3300mAH Batteries, and I’ve been testing them for the past 3 weeks and have been quite pleased.
My Nexus S homescreens
· ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ Sathyajith Bhat
Since I’m taking my sweet time in composing a blog post on my Nexus S, here’s some screencaps of my Nexus S homescreens
Nexus S on stock firmware + circle launcher
Configure Airtel GPRS / Mobile Office for Android
· ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ Sathyajith Bhat
Upgrading to iPhone 3G to iPhone OS 3.1.2, with keeping the baseband at 04.26
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ Sathyajith Bhat
I think this is my first post on iPhone ( barring the rant). o_O. Surprising, since I purchased the iPhone from eBay close to a year ago. Anyhow, being the computer freak enthusiast that I am, I keep a track of most of the latest software that appears on the tech scene. I generally have a zero-day update policy - any new version/update that arrives for a software I generally update it. I’m probably amongst the few folks who also read the release notes and change logs prior to upgrading, to find out if there’s some new functionality or enhancement that has been added to the software which isn’t so obvious. (Of course, some say if the new feature isn’t obvious in the UI, it is unlikely to get noticed, to which I agree. That said, do read the release notes. It will contain some good information). With the iPhone purchased, however I had to break this habit.
Get your iPhone in India for $99 ( ~ Rs 4500 ) Only!
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Sathyajith Bhat
That got your attention ? Well, brace up, this is a rant.
The case of the Neverending SMS Series
· ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ Sathyajith Bhat
Most of the Ruby gang are very well aware of the “Stupid SMS series”. For the uninitiated, it was Nitin’s way of…. umm… timepass ? by sending SMS to all of the Ruby gang which made absolutely no sense whatsoever ( I hate to admit it, but it’s true, Nitin is a version of “The Amit").
Anyways back to the post, couple of days ago, as I was spending time in morning, my iPhone started to buzz away. It wasn’t very surprising, since getting a message in morning isn’t something out of the ordinary. Opened the message only to see it was a blank SMS from an unknown number. Ignored it at first, but then the buzzing went on continuously. In a matter of few minutes my inbox looked like this:
A guide to Airtel GPRS And Airtel GPRS Configuration Settings
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Sathyajith Bhat
I get quite a lot of mails asking about Airtel’s GPRS services and their settings, so I thought I’ll post this here.
First things, you should know that Airtel provides 3 types of GPRS services:
- Airtel Live
- Airtel NOP (or Net On Phone)
- Airtel Mobile Office
So what’s the differences between them ?