Apple’s press conference – Nokia and RIM unhappy

Posted by BA on Jul 18, 2010 in Apple, BlackBerry, Competition, iPhone 4, Nokia | 4 comments

Apple on Friday released the video of their press conference. Steve Jobs has presented his case and made some good point and then demonstrated how other popular phones also loose signal when held tight in the user’s hand.

RIM and Nokia have objected the way their phones have been mentioned in this session. The press conference video shows three different phones that loose signal when held tight in the user’s hand, one of them was BlackBerry Bold 9700. Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, founders and co-CEO of RIM have objected by saying that Apple is dragging RIM into their self made debacle.

Jobs also mentioned in the session that you can find pictures all over the internet of Nokia phones saying “Dont touch here”. Nokia has responded to that by saying that Nokia has spent thousands of man hours researching the way people hold their phones and they have been pioneer in making internal antenna featuring phones.

In addition to leg pulling and dragging, there were some concrete announcements in the press conference as well. Apple has announced free bumper cases to solve the antenna problem so that nobody gets to touch the metal border on iPhone 4. Moreover, Apple has also waived the return fees for unsatisfied iPhone 4 customers. These two measures are good enough, why on earth they had to be drag other phones into the scene? They’ve sold all of their phones already, haven’t they?

You can watch the Apple’s press conference video by hitting this link.

Using a Bluetooth Headset

Posted by BA on Nov 5, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Another item out of my goody bag is a Nokia BH-902 Bluetooth Headset. I’ve always been using headsets especially while driving with all my cell-phones, but this time its different because:

• I’ve always used a stereo head-set that serves both for music and calls and fits in both my ears
• I’ve always used a wired headset that keeps tangling while driving
• I’ve been using smart-phones all the time, they need more attention when used, so they’ve been complicating things when being used while driving.

This new headset is great because:

• One of my ear is free and I’m more in touch with the voices around me while driving
• There are no wires messing things up. (I wont accidentally pull a wire to throw off my phone etc.)
• Things stay simple while driving. I dont have to dig down the menus on a cell phone to make a call, don’t have to look down to read something on the phone screen to reply to a missed call. This headset is more of a sub-phone in a sense. It provides recent calls on its own mini-screen and you can dial, reply even voice dial someone, right from the headset.
• Thankfully, as I am a user of 2 cell-phones at a time, this headset will connect to both (one at a time) and switching is as simple as a button press. So my phones stay away from my ear, I have both my hands free and my headset rests on my ear.

Well, what happened to the music and stereo? I cant listen to the music on this for sure, but I think its better for calling while driving, keeping your one ear open. (& yeah, i’ve got another toy for my music needs, I’ll write about it later).

I did not expect it to be that way, but I’m falling in love with BH-902