Sony Ericsson P1i….Pros and Cons August 25, 2009

I have a Sony Ericsson P1i phone which i bought last year april. After losing my fav Nokia N73 which was my most expensive mobile(spent 22K…really crazy ), i interested in touch screen mobile. My N73 was lost in pickpocketing. So i researched and bought the P1i mobile. It was more of a interest of carying a touch screen mobile phone which led me to go for this mobile. I liked its features of having qwerty key pad, 3.2 MP camera, 3G, WLAN, Videocall camera,  etc.

Sony Ericsson P1i

However less features are useful boz of availibility to service provided in India. Well being this is a PDA phone, the radio quality and music player are relly good. This phone size is very handy, not so bulk to use. The LCD screen is 2.6 inch with a resolution of 240×320 displaying 262k colours.Its beautiful to say the very least and is quite readable in bright sunlight as well. Its processor 128MB of RAM alongwith 256MB of ROM are pretty good. This is being a big probwelm in N-series phone, loading of application are really slow. The Li-ion battery is good enough for your use, also consumes less…also takes less time(1hr) to get fully charged. Quickoffice has very good capability of viewing .doc, excel, PDF and PPT. And the best part of it is blackberry connectivity(which offcourse i never used). After 1-2 months i found my J key was not workign, which i ignored as i used the on-screen keyboard. After using it for 1 yr and 2 months, i got issues with the screen. My touch screen is now dead, its some time tapping the right side even you tapped on left side. Its very difficult to use the scroll all the time. Its started with affecting part of the screen, but now its the whole screen not working. There is no shortcuts to the access the favorites, all the time uses the scroll to navigate to the required application, which is completely bizarre. Need to consult the sony sricsson service centre for repairing. Lets c how it goes. This is being a lesson learned for using a touch screen mobile for me, not sure if this is big issue or not…but irritating to use the scroll all the time…also not all options cant select, only default option are getting selected when ever selected. Also the stylus is so bony, even a simple force would break it(i had once). Just wondering, if a complete touch screen phone faced the similar issue then the use of mobile would be a complete full stop!!!

2nd nastiest trip 2 goA July 22, 2009

 

a fresh morning at Raichur

Well my 2nd trip to goa within a year. This time the plan and mates were different. and the experience was too likely.Thrusday…6:00 PM…My colleague Aseem stop by my desk and shared about the Goa trip on coming weekend. It was somewhat strange to me, even I suggested other nearby places. But Goa was the winner after the vote within 4 Pravin, Praveen, Aseem and me. So that’s final, we will go by rented Car(Avis Car Rentals), self drive(Aseem) and 800 KM …wow. Here we go, Friday night I started from office at 12:00AM…got the booked car(Swift D) from Avis office. Left room at 2:00AM, it took ONLY 2 hrs  to go out of city. NH7..simply fantastic..Aseem was driving on 120KM avg. I got all the route maps and Google map was on in my SE P1i. At around 9 in the morning at Raichur.

relaxing on d way 2 Bagalkot

We halted there, just relaxed for 10 mins.  On the way to Bagalkot, we got problems in the car. Brake shoes was having a lot of noise, also the threads from front tire was exposed. We had to call many time to Avis to solve this, at Bagalkot we repair the brake and tire got changed with stepney. Moving on we reached at Belgaum, where we went on asking the good route to Goa. Most of localities advised a route via Tilari. We took their word, went on that route.

Here comes my life’s terrible journey. It was around 3 afternoon, raining out..no traffic…black clouds really made darkness everywhere. Initially we liked the road as it was no traffic, beautiful greenery outside with some Jungle. But after 1 hrs, god punished us for taking this road I believe….completely dark…no one was there…narrow bad road. Thankfully a gov bus came , and we followed that bus. Everyone were really frustrated, in fear(it was not at all safety road). Moving on slowly we reached at Tilari after 4 hrs where the bus reached its destination.

bus...guiding us on the awful road

 We stopped there, inquired about the way 2 Goa. But we received really panic response, that…you cant go alone, its very dangerous….wait for a Tata Sumo in 1 hrs 4 partner….your swift cant cross the ghat roads…. might face some land slide due 2 rain . We started trembling..prayed god to get us out 4m here. requested the bus conductor to guide us till Goa, but he denied. A shopkeeper helped us, nonstop we drove till goa. On the way it was full of Mist, unable to see 1 meter in front even. Car speed was 5-10 KM/hr. After a lot of fear, frustration, panic, blah blah blah we reached at a hotel in Mapusa at 10:00PM. Got the dinner from the same hotel, I got my fav KF beer. I slept after 36 hrs, My special thanks to Aseem drove for 20 hr at a stretch, amazing!!!!

 

 Nxt day morning, at 10, went to Hotel Fidalgo after some sightseeing on the way. Hotel was good, 4 starred hotel, owned by Sunil Shetty.

my Companions...

We went to the Goan food section, having the pool beside with some embellishment.  Chk Vindaloo, Motton Xacuti, Prawn Xeque Xeque and Fish Xitt Codi are the goan food we njoyed  along with a couple of drinks…that was fantastic food. So then we travelled to Calungute beach, spent nearly 1 hrs on the beach. Beach guard requested to come out of water bCoz of the bad weather and  tide conditions. What to do now, spent some time in less water.  

at the world famous Besilica Church

And next headed to Aguada Fort. I believe everyone liked this place, xlent scenic view. Took few photos, in different pose..in different places. Finally the Baga beach, played on the beach. And watched the sunset. Good scenic view with cloudy over the sea…took beer at the beach restaurants. Aseem wanted to have the body massage, so headed to Fidalgo for the massage. Me and Pravin had a good time at the restaurant..had some nice food with heavy drinks. Before that we booked the hotel nearby for that night.

 

 

thanks Aseem..d Punjab da Puttar

 Monday morning everyone woke up at 9. Me and Aseem went to Avis Goa division for replacing the tires, it was done by 11. By that time we had some brunch, and also got the Schaffer for our return travel till Bijapur.

We started Goa at 12, this time we interested for Bijapur-Gulburga-Zaheerabad route. It took just 15 hrs to return..good at least. We reached HYD at 3:30 AM. Nextday morning we returned the car, surprisingly everyone was waiting for us as we spent a lot on Car. On average it was neither good nor bad trip. I experienced my life’s panic travel!!!Never the less thanks to my colleagues for a memorable trip to GOA.

body of st. Francis @Basilica

white mists on our way back

sunset behind the clouds