Budget Phones, is 3000 a good budget to buy a full featured cell phone

This year when the N95 was announced, it was one of the most expensive phones on the market (let alone the types of Vertu), but it made a lot of people sit up and say, he, a phone's a phone, and all I need it for is to make calls / maybe send an sms / on a bus / train ride, listen to the FM and that's about it. If it has a Camera, great, but if not, nothing lost.. I investigated the market, and over the last month, found a few phone models that work. In my article in Indian Express, this week, on Sunday 25th November, 2007. To read it, click here, or grab a copy of the Indian Express, across India.

GS

Film Fare - I love the Movies

Back in the Y2K, when I bought my first DVD Player, it cost me a bomb, and I wanted 5.1 surround sound, and that was going to cost me another bomb, so chose to stay away. A number of visits to major showrooms, and my love for movies, had me convinced of setting up a home theater, but how much would you spend, a few years down the road, and a number of email requests from people asking for help, this week in my Indian Express, article, on Sunday, November 18, 2007, I look at how to rig up the right sound for movies at home, without spending, overboard. To read the article, pick up the print copy across India, on Sunday, or click here to read it online.

GS

Digital Entertainers

This is a late post to a story that was printed on Sunday, 11th November 07 in the Indian Express, but I just forgot to link up this story this time around.

This week in Tech2, I looked at two options of Digital Network Players, Squeeze box now from Logitech and EVA 8000 from Netgear, this article, available here, compares both the players, and the features, head on to the Indian Express site, by clicking here, or if you can, grab a copy of the Sunday Express.

GS

Tech Toys for Today's Kids

I am what I am because I got a lot of leverage from my parents, my grand parents, to break a few things, i also got a lot of support from them in terms of buying me my first chemistry set, my first electronics kit, I remember the 555 timer drove me wild with imagination, and I built some great big projects, which you may have even seen if you were in Delhi around the later half of 1980's, these included flashing LED based hoardings to various other things. But anyway, whenever I meet someone, they ask me for advice, and one of the coolest things that everyone seems to want to know is, our child loves technology, now what.

Well this week in my Indian Express article, I look at some Tech toys in a lot of budgets. So grab a copy on Sunday, 4th November 2007 across India, or click here to read it online.

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