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Blackberry Playbook Review

Where recently Vodaphone Australia  took out a new scheme under which they gave away a Blackberry Bold 9780 and a Blackberry Playbook for a very very cheap price of $49 for two years.

Now my reviews. TO be very fair i do not need a tablet, I did not need a tablet. My work involves me typing a lot of stuff and some good processing power. This tablet comes very close to replacing my laptop. I can practically watch online movies, download videos, copy them to the playbook and play them. I am very impressed.

Vodaphone gives me 1.5gb of browsing data. I hardly use mobile internet on the go. Probably to locate a address some time.

 

I would recommend this tablet to people who are looking for one. It is pretty good. It has games too….”Need for speed” Playbook version. And I hear in a few days blackberry will bring out an app which will be able to run all the android apps on it.

I am pretty satisfied with my Blackberry Playbook. Its fast responsive and its QNX operating system never hangs. Now being a Blackberry addict I love email. The Playbook unfortunately does not have any native email client. You will have to bridge it with your Blackberry phone via bluetooth.

 

What this essentially means is that, you will connect your blackberry phone and the playbook via bluetooth and then you will be able to access your email and internet on playbook. This is a little bit of a down side but hey…. its not that bad. Where ever my Playbook goes my my Bold 9780 goes so it kind of makes sense.

It has 16 gb of memory which is pretty much 4 seasons of the big bang theory and one Alice in wonderland.

2 cameras, One front and one side facing. There is not no Skype client for BB but there is one for Android. When the Android player is out you will be able to skype with it….I am hoping. (Waiting for Firefox)

Pinch and zoom, nice  tab browsing, can play flash, megavideo, rapid video etc, Native PDF reader etc.

(yes you can watch the big bang theory in megavideo on this player9

Its light and small enough to fit in your bag but big enough to have your entire attention when watching a movie or reading a book.

Wifi, book reader and what not. To top it off it is very cheap too, I come to hear that the price of the playbook will be dropped to $250.I am not to sure about that but I would definatly recommend the playbook to any one of you.

Battery life is pretty good. It goes 5 days with moderate using for me

 

Its the best of Android and QNX.

If you are on a long drive, you can use this tablet as your GPS, Just bridge it with your Bold 9780 and you are good to go with a GPS, Fill it up with games and give it to your kids in the car or put a nice movie for them to watch or a book perhaps for your wify to read. Many possibilites. And with the android player coming up very soon all the apps available in in android will be available to you.

The Android App Player is in beta testing. Link 1

If you have any questions please shoot away

 

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Making the Minister Smile By Anurag Mathur, A book Review

Now this book has been out for 10 years now so my review will be a little hard.

This book has an hangover of the inscrutable Americans. This involves an American coming to India for a business deal which has gone wrong due to the local  worker troubles.

The rest of the story involves the American working around India trying to learn the language and adapting to the conditions. A lot of Indian American hangover.

Although the book is a little pro BJP, but 10 years on it has lost its flavor and touch.

Avoidable

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Mithya By Devdutt Pattnaik, A book review

Mithya starts out to be what it expects to be. A collection of short stories from Hinduism. Many of which you may have heard and many that you many not have heard.

For example

Very less is written and said about Bhrama, the hindu god who created the universe, why so?

The Story of Sati, the wife of Sita

The Barat Of Shiva

Many many more such stories. Some of the stories are contradicting amongst themselfs, but that is the whole nature of Mythology I guess.

I found this to be a very enjoyable short read. I will recommend this book to you. I am pretty sure there will be a couple of stories in it that you might not have heard

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More Salt than Pepper by Karan Thaper, A Book Review

More Salt than Pepper

An enjoyable read into the life of a journalist.
I happen to be a great admirer of Karan Thaper, I had read one of his earlier books, The Sunday sentiments.
This book followes in the same lines as the previous one.
It follows around the personal life of Karan Thaper and how screwed up a interviews with prominent personalities like Amma for instance and he recollects some fun facts of the interviews. Not too personal not too political
A delightful quick read.

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Watch TV over internet for free

For people who know me ,they can say that i hardly watch TV.

The only time i watch tv is if India is playing some finals or a couple of times  here and there to watch news or watch watch karan thaper kick the congress ass

Well now that I am in Australia and do  not have access to Indian new channels I have found a s/w which allows me to watch India play final and cnn ibn when ever I want.

here is the s/w link.

it is called TVU player and it works

you download it install it and open it and type the name of the channel  you want to watch

for example

Cnn ibn

Star tv (Saas bahu)

Telugu

Oriya

Punjabi,

Well virtually all the news channels available in the indian subcontinent

and the best part it is free.

If you are in your office and want to watch TV using the free office internet…then here is your solution

A few screen shots to convince you that i am not lying

Watch TV over internet

Watch TV over internet for free

The side bar in the left will help you search for channels …you name it they have it

And one more in the full screen mode

CNNIBNin full screen mode

CNNIBNin full screen mode

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