I was thinking about e61i from long time but was still not ready to let go my k750i. Prices at Dubai forced me to buy one.  After using for almost four months I am writing this review.

Screen, General Look n feel:
It looks like any other business phone. But it is lighter and slimmer than most of the business phone. It just weights 150gms for 320X240 pixel screen and full keyboard. Its a world phone with qudra band support. It looks good with silver finish at the back and black border in the front. Supports hot swappable MicroSD memory. You need to open the back cover to access MicroSD which is not use friendly.

Keyboard : I wanted QWERTY keyboard and E61i has it. The key board feels nice after two or three days. You can type fast using both thumbs. It has four special keys one each for contacts, menu, mail and configurable ( I have opera mini on it)

Camera: Nothing great just OK. But the video capturing is great. In fact myself and kv have done quite a few YAP episodes using mobile. It is better as video cam than as still camera.

Wireless LAN connection: Wow…Its dead easy to connect to any wifi network.

Audio/Video play back: Video looks good as screen is big. Audio playback is just OK.

Blogger’s Phone? : As a blogger I need big screen, good keyboard, great connectivity, decent multimedia capabilities. E61i excels in all those departments. Only let down is audio recording. E61i can’t record any audio for more than a minute. I have missed many great conversations due to this. Other wise I am a satisfied mobile blogger.

Update: BTW do you know any good audio recording application?

Yet another browser to code for? I guess it will obey ECMA-262 rev3 so don’t worry too much about incompatibilities as of now. Lets see the positive side

1. Its an open source, you get to participate and allows you to write plug-ins
2. Each tab is a separate process.so the effect of one tab is not seen in another tab.
3. Within each tab you have separate thread for JavaScript. So your JavaScript execution will be fast.
4. JavaScript now runs inside a virtual machine called V8. The JavaScript is compiled to machine code before running. Now that’s an advantage for heavy JavaScript applications like Gmail. Where most of the JS resides on client side and simply gets the JSON from server to show the data. You don’t have to re-interpret the JS every time. Compile once and keep running again and again. Your apps will be super fast now. Now GWT developers don’t have worry about JS performance.
5. Rendering is by webkit which is again open source.
6. Looks like they have better garbage collection algorithm for garbage collection. Which will again makes my work simple.
7. Gears is part of browser now. Your offline apps will have better performance now. Think -> Gears API is loaded as soon as browser is loaded, JavaScript is compiled to m/c code, runs in separate process and thread. What more you want? Your offline application might be as fast as any native application if not faster.

Anything else you want to add.

I and EventsBangalore have been nominated for the TATA NEN Hottest Startups awards. Brought to you by National Entrepreneurship Network and TATA Group, in association with Helion, Mint , Seedfund and Wadhwani Foundation, it is India’s only community-chosen awards for Indian start-ups.

We at EventsBangalore are trying to build community around the events and citizen of Bangalore.I hope we have been successful to an extent. I know our destination is far. Your vote can inspire us to build better service. Please vote and refer your friends too.

You can visit the url to vote online (you need to register) or you can vote on mobile HOT<space>48 and sms to 56767

I also take this opportunity to announce - new and better EventsBangalore is in the development mode. Its still on my hard-disk. It will be out in a month or two.

I did not expect myself to be on the front page(expected an inside story). I am yet to see the paper. Thanks for all those who sent messages and mails. I will write about the trip in detail later this week. Thanks a lot to all my readers, WOMWorld and BangaloreMirror. BTW article is online.

Thanks to Jairaj for the sketch below.

Update: Actual paper front page and page 4.

Continuing with our monthly series this month’s coffee project is  S3Fox - Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer. S3Fox allows you to manage your files on Amazon S3 in a friendly way. The interface is very much like an FTP client which makes it easy to use. You can upload/download/delete files using the interface.

Creating the buxkets and managing the ACL is also very easy. If you use S3 and if you have firefox on desktop thenS3Fox is a must. You can upload the files using drag and drop functionality too (drag n drop doesnt work on my ubuntu). Today if I am happy with S3 then  S3Fox is one of the reason.

It has syncronize folder feature which can be used for automatic backup. And you can manage multiple s3 accounts ( like business/personal etc).

S3Fox is developed by SuchiSoft. If you are a happy  user of S3Fox go there send them some coffee. Send your comments/feedback/coffee to rjonna at rjonna.com