Back with a new toy

I've been longing to write for a long tine now. Finally took the time out! Lots of updates on my front, got a new job at a start-up, shifted to an new apartment in the happening part of the suburbs, but what's the most exciting for me, is that now I also have a new phone. Its weird, y'know... a grown up guy like me would actually be excited about a new toy he's got rather than an improvement in his overall quality of life. Whoever said that thing about boys and their toys should've copyrighted it - he/she'd be rolling in the greenbacks :)

Anyways, back to my toy. It’s a shiny, not-so-brand-new (second hand, you see) Nokia N95! Previously I had a Sony Ericsson P990i - which by no means was a bad phone, mind you! Its just that a technophile like me gets bored of stuff very quickly and to tell you the truth, the whole two-handed operation was getting to me (touch screen, Symbian UIQ3 device). On top of that, third party application availability was a fraction of what it is on the Symbian Series60 OS. And the games are better too! (N-Gage is back! Yeah Baby!)

Over the months, I had gotten used to UIQ operation and also came to start loving it. Sure, it had its sore points but then which OS is perfect? But what got me truly miffed was Sony Ericsson's apathy - once they announced that support and development for the p990i was halted. Sure, they wanted to concentrate on the P1i (successor to the mighty p990i) but then, the p1i was just the p990i with more ram, a newer version of the OS (UIQ 3.1 vs. UIQ 3) and a different keypad. That's a primary reason I never considered upgrading to the P1i - it wasn't that much of an upgrade for the dough!

Coming to the N95 was not difficult at all. As a previous owner of the legendary N-Gage QD (before I trawled through the murky waters of Win Mo, then UIQ), the interface picked up on me from right where I had left it. Sure, there are 6 little icons and a coupla lines lookin back at me from the standby screen, but apart from that, the basic operation remains the same - very intuitive.

As I get to know this little beauty better and try out stuff on it (tell me, which buffoon buys an N95 to use the way it came outta the box?) I'll keep posting it here. Apart from that, I'll most definitely have takes on the various tech/gadget/automotive/general-guy-interest stories I keep reading on various blogs that I'll keep posting here. Blogosphere watch out! I'm back with a vengeance...