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BCB6, Moto-dead, life, twitter, et. al.

Catchup with life post…  Lotsa things… quick entries on all those!!!

Lots of things in the last 2 months… the most nerve wrecking thing being the loss of my mom… :( Something that none of us have been able to come out of…  It so happens that when someone shares a relationship with you thats deeper than being a friend, and suddenly, that person gets sucked out… the void is too hard to handle… neways life moves on… and so do have us…

The next topic of the post: the ever lovely and awesome BCB a.k.a. BarCampBangalore is back!!!  BCB-6 summer edition is happening on april 19th and 20th… The venue is IIM-Bangalore… Be there!!! I’ll be running around fixing up wifi for you peeps… Tats for sure…

The next most important topic of the post: Moto-dead… I’ve spoken about this for a very long time… And mentioned in my blog a couple of times too… This was bound to happen… Motorola Handsets Division being royally kicked out of the Motorola stable… atleast that’s how I choose to see it…

You cant be a blood-sucking leech in this age… you have to contribute or else you cease to exist.  I’d go by Motorola’s top brass’ move to do this… but it could have completely been averted.  They didn’t have to screw up. And screw up with so much perfection that nothing can correct it ever again…

Motorola is perhaps the only company thats been practising the jack of all trades in the mobile segment for quite a while. And guess what! It BACKFIRED!!! What else would you expect??? I may not be Trump but I can see through the lining to say that in today’s age where competing takes balls of steel, you had better not be playing around on the highway!!! You’d definitely get run over!!! Many a time..

And I’d say this with a lot of sadness that a Mobile giant simply went ahead and committed suicide!!! RIP Moto!!! The Razr was an awesome show… nothing else after that… Not one single mobile after that was even worth picking up and holding in my hands…

Coming to the next important topic, my conversation has actually changed places… Keeping in touch with poeple on twitter has become the in thing and the easiest thing in life now… A conversation, although asynchronous, is definitely conversation worth it when the whole discussion is available anywhere and althemore better when the participatory limits dont exist!

Twitter just takes chit-chat to the next level… The erstwhile Yahoo chat rooms concept with a bling from technology… converse from anywhere… anyhow…  Follow me on twitter to know more…

And there ends my hiatus…  Chao…

Google Search on Nokia Devices

Google’s native Search application for Nokia devices is out… And it is plain Uber-Kewl!!! Sense and Sensibility! With a couple of questions from my side!!! B-) The application needs to be downloaded from mobile.google.com.

I pulled it up and gave it a test run on my mobile and here are the screen-shots:

The app loads automatically and displays this beautiful image on the screen… Aaaah! bliss!!!

It opens up to the Ctrl key on the E61i / Pencil key on other S60 3rd edition devices.

By the time you enter the search text, the internet connection is initiated in the background. More on this later…

And voila! The search results are displayed using the S60 OSS web browser!

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Local Cinema search too!!! We cant book tickets using google yet!

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The app integrates maps too…

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Driving directions dint work for me though…

 Now that the screen-shots are done, I have my set of questions that I want answers for…

  1. The Google search application selects my internet access point all by itself.  It does not have any settings… and the application does not ask me about the access point.  How does it know that I use Mobile Office???
  2. Adding to point number 1, the search application basically opens the browser with a parameter being google.com/search?q=’search stringWhy does it need to have gprs / wifi running in the background???  The browser on opening proceeds to ask the user about the access point all again…
  3. Currently the google search app only searches google.com.  Is in-device search in the pipe???

With that ends a nice blog post after quite some time!!!…

Due credit to bhuwan for the info…  Thanx pal!

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