My newest posession

After the incident with my sony ericsson, I was facing a few problems with the phone so i had to get myself a new one. It took me a whole week to decide which phone to go for, I wanted a phone that wasn't too bulky, which had decent multimedia capabilities , A GPS receiver to help on all those bike trips and more importantly, it had to fit in my budget of 10k. I had shortlisted the Nokia 6210 navigator and the new samsung star. I visited a couple of shops to look for any other good phones that fits my budget. At one of the shops i found the Asus p320, it had all the options i was looking for, and that made the decision even more difficult. I was forced to resort to the oldest method of problem solving - the pros and cons list

Nokia 6210
Pros

• GPS

Cons

• Same old boring nokia interface
• A little bulky
• It was out of production
  

Samsung star
Pros

• Very good interface with touch screen
• comes with an accelerometer which makes it more fun to use
• memory expandable upto 8gb

Cons

• No GPS
• Audio quality not that good

Asus p320
Pros

• supports GPS and WLAN
• Touchscreen

Cons

• Very bad reviews
• Not a multimedia phone, so music quality won't be good

After a lot of debating against myself, i finally fell for the samsung Touchwiz UI and got myself the samsung star. I must say that I don't regret the decision at all. I brought an 8gb card along with it and loaded it with my favorite music.

From Random Thoughts Of An Idle Mind

The output from the earphones are not that good compared to my sony walkman phone, but i read that there are adapters available in the market that let you connect the standard 3.5mm earphones, I need to get myself one of those. The Touchwiz UI that the phone comes with is a delight to use and I can't stop myself from playing around with the menu and applications every now and then. The camera is good in day light, but it's of no use in low light situations. I am not complaining about the camera because i already have a cannon camera that i use for photography. The panorama mode of the camera simply blew me away by it's simplicity of use. All you need to do is set it to panorama mode, click the first pic, and then as you move the phone around, it automatically detects when the alignment is right and it clicks the next set of pics for you. The music player has decent output, Although i wish it came with a feature to search for a particular track since it gets difficult to scroll through your entire collection when you have 8gb of music. The phone also comes with google maps pre-installed. It can show you your location based on the cell tower you are connected to, this makes up for the lack of GPS to some extent. I found it to be very accurate within the city, I still have to test it during one of my trips. The phone also comes with an innovative tracking feature. It lets you store 2 numbers to which it will automatically send an sms if someone puts in a new simcard, This will help in tracking the phone incase it gets stolen. these 2 numbers are protected by a pincode so that no one else can change them. It will send the number of the new card and a few more details of the number. It also comes with a fake call feature that can help you get out of a tricky situation. I am still exploring the different features of this phone and will update this post if I find anything new.