Hey guys, I got my new phone after 8 months being phoneless. It’s a part of the 3-cellphone bundle (all Nokia 6230s) offered by one of Sun Cellular’s plan packages.

It’s a Nokia 6230! It is slim and lightweight. Uber-slim that it’s thickness scores at 9.9mm; not even touching the centimeter range. It weighs 66g; far lighter than laptops! But seriously, it’s feather-light especially without the battery pack.

I tried to get the most out of it’s precharged battery juice. I played with it; from its Bluetooth connectivity down to its camera. Too bad I haven’t tried using it’s xHTML web browser; I wonder how my blog will look with my new phone?

It’s VGA camera can shoot up to 640×480 pixels for images and 128×96 pixels for video. All the images in this post were taken using the phone (the phone on the pictures is a different phone; but same phone model). The rendered images are decent; not bad and not that good.

It boasts its basic PDA functions: to-do lists, alarm clocks, currency converter, stopwatch, reminders and calendar. The phone was not too serious that it even bothered to have games!

Audiophiles, this is not for you. It’s built-in loudspeakers doesn’t sound good, just at par for a normal phone. Good thing it has a standard 35mm audio jack on its side; near the USB and charger ports.

It supports polyphonic (MIDI) and MP3 ringtones; you can load it up with your HamburJer and Janina San Miguel ringtones but beware it only has 11MB user-usable disk space! Another bad would be it’s memory is NOT expandable; a music library is a NO NO.

I don’t have anything to say now. If you’re interested to talk to me, just drop your SUN CELLULAR cellphone numbers on the comments and I’ll gladly meet someone on the phone.

This is my first cellphone review so please understand if it sucks! (offtopic: DreamHost coupon codes)

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I’m now half-finished in brewing up my very own Sony PlayStation Portable. I used a PIC16F873 microcontroller courtesy of the super-kind and generous kuya Butch Tabios.

I’m not done yet programming my very own handheld device yet but I have tried putting a sample program in it. And yeah, it worked. The single green LED blinked at a constant interval.

The blinking of the LED alone made me uber-happy, but I guess its still a long way to go before I get a game work.

Many techie people have iPhone (Time Magazine’s 2007 Invention of the Year) on the top of their Christmas wishlist. But I, as a part of the specified group, find them not as techie as a real geek.

Personally, I don’t have iPhone on my wishlist. It does not pass my standards of an ideal mobile phone. Here’s a roundup of reasons why:

• iPhones released in the market are theoretically locked to a certain array of mobile networks. Their list is quite limited so there’s a need to hack the phone if your provider is not listed. Now, for the real downside: iPhone firmware updates blocks these hacks so their is a need to hack it all over again. Real geeks are lazy, right?
• iPhone does not support 3G. A real ouch for mobile Internet users. The fastest capable technology in the iPhone is the EDGE technology, which is far too slow from the industry-standard 3G.
• iPhone users say that they frequently expriences lags. No first hand experience for this. The worst, some units even freeze so there’s a need to restart the phone. (It doesn’t have a Ctrl+Alt+Delete button). ;D
• iPhone is Apple’s first gadget in the field of mobile phones. They’re not that experienced in the field yet.
• iPhone’s platform is something new. To date, there are only a few developers developing iPhones applications (lesser selection of apps). Would you develop something great when it can only ran in one phone?

I believe my points are already sufficient. Now, I’ll ask you is iPhone on your list?

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U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory funded a research which resulted to the invention of betavoltaic battery. This battery can supply a continuous power to a laptop for a span of 30 years, without a single recharge. Sounds crazy, right? But who’s keeping a laptop for 30 years? Even today’s latest laptop juiced by that battery’d outdated before the battery runs down. ;D Why didn’t they choose another subject, like an electric car? See the answer (hopefully) after this jump. (more…)