Gadget Gossip: The iPhone is here!!

Hi- I know, I know looooong delay but still, (I have college you know),

We will be taking a ride through the iPhone 3G now. First of all the iphone has released all over the world in 22 countries today (July 11th) and the rest of the 48 countries in the waiting list including India will have to wait- not for very long. Apple director, Tim Cook, says that the iPhone will be "there and about"in the rest of the 48 countries as promised by the end of Fall and Winter 2008. When asked about India he said that he was "happy to bring Apple's iPhone to more and more hands around the globe". Apple signed a partnership with world's largest telecom giant Vodafone India and Bharti Airtel, a branch of Singtel (Singapore), earlier this month. Vodafone and Airtel have started pre-registering for the smart phone. One can send an SMS 'IPHONE' to 56789 for Vodafone and 54321 for Airtel. Although both companies are tight-lipped about the event, sources say that Vodafone will go ahead and launch it first by August end. We could expect it anywhere by August 20-25th. If not, latest by September, said the source. Unfortunately, the buzz around the price seems to be going on the down side- iPhone will not be subsidised in India owing to the already low call rates. The 8GB version of the phone should cost around 11000-16000 INR and the 16GB version around 19000-22000 INR. There are a lot of Pro's when compared to Iphone 1.0 like, 3G has A-GPS, App Store, a black metallic finish plastic body with white option, greatly improved stereo sound, common head phone jack, and many more software tweaks although the Cons do hurt the ears- there is no Message Forwarding, Battery Life is max 5 hours and gets juiced out by 7-8 hours at 3G otherwise, 13-15 hours, Bluetooth syncing is not user-friendly, camera has no flash, no auto focus etc. But it still makes it worth the wait for this wonderful beauty- It has got multi-touch, accelerometer, proximity sensors, light sensor, brilliant 3.5" gorgious hi-res display, geo-tagging, and oh! forgot the most important point when 3G networks operate in India it will be 2.5x faster than Edge- 3G will enter India by January 2009- until then use Edge. So, great phone, great looks- go buy it!!!!

The Elite Window rating: 9.8/10

Aditya CR

The Elite Window

P.S. For those who want some other news, look at my blog tomorrow at 3:00 pm IST.

The Elite Window: The Changed Window!

Ok, now I know this is ridiculous but Elite Window has changed its looks and this time- for good (at least for now).

The new Elite Window features a completely new makeover in terms of Font colours and the logo again! The Elite Window is still green (See the Go Green post) as well as starry with a glittering background and cool header; and new font colours have been added (as I pointed out earlier). What's more, Elite Window has got a classy "PC-made" logo with a superb Blackladder 'E' and 'W' amidst checkered red and white windows giving it a modern look. There are new sections added towards the sides (observe the new left hand banner) too. There is the new ADi Tube for video updates, a slideshow of new photos every month, a flash news section to keep you updated on the latest news, the fav links section remains, there is a poll where you all must vote as it is your right to do so! Also there are the google ads you should click on to keep TEW running!!! Please click as I get 20 cents for every valuable click on each ad! Look out for a brand new season this July for The Window, you and me.

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Aditya CR
"Shut up when it comes to shutting up"
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Options: What (How) to Blog?

Hi!

Incidently, I heard that many of you have not created a blog, so, a wonderful opportunity for those of you who have not- The Elite Window will accept your articles confined to the topics I mentioned in the first post, and it will be minimally edited and posted on the blog with your name!!! Send in you articles to aditya.cr@gmail.com and get your voices heard. They say that practice makes it perfect- you can do so here. The first 3 articles recieved will be posted this month on the blog. This process will repeat every month. Consider this for the month of July. Send your entries quick!!!

Aditya C.R
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The New Elite Window!

The new Elite Window features a completely new makeover in terms of Font colours and the logo itself! This time around, The Elite Window goes green- the web page remaining black (See the Go Green post) and new font colours have been added (as I pointed out earlier). What's more, Elite Window has got a classy "PC-made" logo with a superb Blackladder 'E' and 'W' amidst a splash of citrus colours.

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"Change is for the better"
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Go Green: Blackle.com

As posted on Blackle:

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

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Try and do keep web pages black- you'll save energy in a deficient world. Be conservative! Support Blackle- Blackle Support Link

My blog background stays black.

Aditya CR
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