November 12th, 2011 
vishki I purchased Joikuspot premium from Nokia store on my E71. The app turns the phone into a wifi hotspot and lets us share the phones gprs/3g connection with other devices via wifi. I installed this on E71 and it works great.
When I logged into the OVI store on my new Nokia 500, the Joikuspot premium is still present under “My Stuff” with status “Not Installed”. I clicked on “Install”, it installed on 500 too and works perfectly. (more…)
October 25th, 2011 vishki 
After a long relation with Airtel, it’s finally time to move out to a new operator and I’m moving to Idea Cellular. I’m currently a post paid customer in Airtel and will be taking a post paid plan in Idea.
Whats the reason? There is a serious signal issue with Airtel at the place where I spend most part of my life. Every single call, drops. This is not a remote place, this is happening at a prime location, at the centre of Hyderabad. I hardly have any call without a drop. Though airtel is my primary number, I’m using a second BSNL number currently to make and receive calls. I do not want to use multiple numbers, so decided to move to Idea with the same number. (more…)
October 12th, 2011 vishki Introduction
Nokia 500 is Nokias new mantra for regaining its position in the entry level smartphone market. Priced at Rs.10,000/-(Euro 150 approximately) and sporting a fast 1 gig processor there seems to be a big market awaiting this phone. I was personally waiting for the phone from the day it was announced. I was waiting for a low cost capacitive Nokia to replace the good old Nokia 5800 XM. I posted 5800 in classifieds the very same day 500 was announced and unfortunately someone picked it up immediately and we were using an intermediate basic phone for weeks before getting the 500. (more…)
March 26th, 2011 vishki Yup, you have read it right. Unwanted SMS is free with every BSNL connection, 
, or atleast I have got them for free for three connections I have taken recently.
For those of you who do not know(I know everyone from India knows BSNL), BSNL(Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited) is the state owned telecom company. It is the oldest and the largest of telecom companies in India. They offer services from basic landline to highspeed broadband services, 2g gsm/cdma to evdo/3g, wimax to 3g data connections, essentially they offer all telecom services.
Recently they have auctioned vanity numbers (more…)
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